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Westley

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  1. THAT is exactly right. This sort of behaviour is nothing new. I have been retired over 20 years and, although not on this scale, similar things were occurring then. One elderly lady who had the audacity to report a gang of 'dog' men, got up one morning to find her 2 beloved cats, hanging on her front gate, with their guts hanging out. A Keeper on a local estate, raged war on these local dog men until he had a note pinned to his cottage door "We've poisoned you pheasant food" ! and the door to his food store forced. The estate had to scrap the lot, just in case. They are an evil breed and their answer to everything is violence and intimidation. I did once manage to 'move on' one illegal encampment on a local hospital grounds. I drove around their camp every hour with blues and two's on, all night and every night for 4 nights. They moved on ! They even 'closed' a motorway with 4 x 4 pick ups early one Sunday morning, whilst they raced pony and traps down the carriageway !
  2. Whenever I am shooting driven game, regardless of the gun being O/U or S x S, I always fire the 'choke' barrel first. I can never understand why most game shooters never do this ? Preferring to shoot the open choke first, then 'pluck' the bird using the choke barrel, when the bird is a lot closer. Most 'game' guns were set up to fire the open barrel first, followed by the choke barrel. Fine on walked up stuff, where the bird jumps, is shot at and is followed by the choke barrel as the range increases, but not a lot of use on an approaching target. With regards to clayshooting guns, I agree that the bottom barrel can recoil less.
  3. Item arrived and exactly as described. Thank you dogger. Sorry Button. W.
  4. Thank you. I am still awaiting some contact from 4 tackle suppliers, the annoying thing is, I gave away a similar rod bag last year. 🙄
  5. I have emailed Snowbee to see if they can supply one, I have sent a few similar emails to some tackle shops. My Wife works in a charity shop, I shall ask her to watch out for some trousers with a 36" leg. Mine at 30" are too short.
  6. Has anyone got a cloth fishing rod bag, they would like to sell ? It is for a 10 foot, 4 piece fly rod. It measured, 32" long (plus flap) by 6" wide. One of our club members must be 'minding' it for me ! Thanks.
  7. I have a front seat passenger that tells me where to go ! I just turn off my hearing aid 😊
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  9. Having checked, it will fit the Beretta 303 onwards.
  10. Does the 301 not have a knurled ring on the OUTSIDE of the barrel, the chokes are unthreaded and simply drop in ? IF that is the case, then the MOBIL choke will not fit.
  11. I have found that Briley standard Invector chokes, work very well in my CD.
  12. Even if they don't ! Road closures, investigation team, emergency teams, air ambulance etc. etc. etc. Autopsy, Coroners Courts, legal representation ? None of them are free. Not withstanding the devastating effect on relatives.
  13. I was fortunate enough to have met him a few times. He always did the presentations at Manchester Police clay pigeon shoots. At one of their shoots in 1981, he bought our 6 man team a drink each. He said we deserved it after the Liverpool riots. Of course he had the sphericals to sort the Manchester riots in 3 nights, very few arrests and very few rioters coming back for a second dose.........job done !
  14. There is usually a big difference in screen size between a built in Sat Nav and a phone screen. I will NOT operate my Sat Nav without stopping my vehicle completely. Using the Sat Nav on a phone must require more attention, due to the screen size. This must make the operation more dangerous surely. I see taxi drivers ( who are not the best of drivers anyway) with as many as 3 mobile phones stuck on their windscreens. This must put pedestrians at great risk of being flattened by the vehicle, due to the drivers lack of vision.
  15. They may only damage themselves, BUT, at huge cost to the rest of us in trying to piece them back together !
  16. I think Amazon beat you to it ! 😃
  17. Commit the Crime, Pay the Fine, Then you can justify your Whine !
  18. One of the funniest things that I have witnessed, was 2 'Eastern Ladies' ( I use the term loosely) in Superdrug, applying make up to each other, using stock off the shelves, and then leaving the store. Problem being there was not sufficient stock on the shelves to have made any significant improvements ! 🤣
  19. She got 6 months. Her, and her partner went on to another supermarket. She held Police and Security at bay with the needle, they gassed her. If it had been a serving Bobby that had been stuck, she would not have got a custodial sentence ! 🙄 Occupational Hazard. RESULT !
  20. I can vouch for that, I went to the assistance of a member of staff being attacked in Morrisons. Although she was uninjured and we recovered over £300 of booze, I got stuck in the hand with a hyperdermic needle. It was 6 months of blood tests and hospital visits before I got the 'all clear'. I was 72 at the time. Would I do the same again......... probably, I hate to see these people getting away with their crimes ?
  21. I think it is more to do with the cost of continuing with a prosecution. Each time the incident goes to Court, there could be several members of shop staff attending to give evidence. The court appearances can multiply several times, with Solicitors stretching things out, adjournment after adjournment. On each occasion all the witnesses will be in attendance, they will all be claiming expenses and will rightly expect their employer to pay for their time. It costs the shop more money to carry through a prosecution, rather than attempt to recover the stolen property and leave it at that. Of course trying to recover the stolen goods, can lead to staff being assaulted too. Hence the 'just let them go' attitude.
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