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8 shot

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  1. I too have had a nigh on hour telephone conversation with Conor when the proposed phasing out of Lead was released, he took the time to contact me by Email and phoned me at an agreed time. I can't praise Conor enough for the time and effort he made to speak to me for nearly an hour to explain the reasoning behind the BASC's decision to do what they've done, he also listened to my opinions to which we agreed on some and disagreed on others. He obviously believes in the BASC by looking the time he's served with them. We've had 3 if not 4 BASC reps shoot beat and pick up over the last 25 years on our shoot all very genuine sporting people. the problems seem to start when some high up the food chain forgets the reason member pay there subs.
  2. BASC are shootings equivalent of the NFU (National Farmers Union), start out with the best intentions for all it's membership but with voluntary and unnecessary regulations end up throwing pretty much there whole membership under the bus. They actually become puppets for you know who, very sad really as all there good genuine work dies with them.
  3. 🤣 what about the much relied on pigeon/pest shooter. Maybe the farmer will sub him a few £1000 a year
  4. I've still not been too or know of a shoot that has sign up to all this Red tape Bull.
  5. Oh.....for Winner 8s again, used them for everything, 32g brilliant on pigeons. Brought a new Miroku 7000 for £950.
  6. Boring ! these stories are just a waste of ink. There is not one person on in this country that hasn't littered at one time or another. I cut the grass verges around several villages in my area and you wouldn't believe the stuff people throw in ditches and roadside verges, even councils leave there rubbish in ditches after road works. Shooting doesn't really have much to answer for in the grand scheme of thing. I just wish people, shooting people wouldn't keep highlighting it.
  7. Change to 20" wheels, better selection of tyres and a hell of a lot cheaper. I've seen to many cracked 22" Alloys
  8. Anyone have any experience of how much fitting a S5 Tracker and immobiliser reduces your premium
  9. Won't happen nobody to police it, how will all the lead be replaced by steel at such short notice. There will be a fairly long transition period for manufactures to have enough stock to replace lead or they all go bankrupt.
  10. I can't get insurance with my current insurance company on the" Green Oval" brand if it's valued at £30,000 or more. Keyless entry is the problem.
  11. It's a real pity they don't take there own advise. Being a farmer I've pretty much seen it all.
  12. I'll bet your blood pressure wasn't as high as mine when i read this
  13. I have both 12 and 20 HP in 32" both purchased new and still unaltered, and using a level and ruler the drop on both are identical around the 35mm range but the 20 is 2mm or 3mm longer in stock length, the 12 stock is obviously a lot thicker around the pistol grip.
  14. The manufactures are going to have to pull there fingers out then if we're all going to need a new 22rf in 12 months time. Looking forward to the price of them too. Looked for some 243 non lead to try a week or two ago £48 a box was the cheapest
  15. Sako Ammunition is the worst i've ever used, or not, as the case may be. Bought three boxes in 243. for so unknown reason couldn't shut the bolt, shop had them back tried a different batch at random in the shop exactly the same. Shop return several hundred and i believe have never stocked them since
  16. Yep happens quite often, generally when there plenty of food in the area. Had one several years ago. 12 cubs and 5 adult foxes, 2 Vixens and 3 Dog all living in a stack of hay bales. They certainly had there work cut out feeding all them.
  17. Land permissions for "Pest control" will become even easier, if shotguns are put on S1, farmers will grant permission to anybody that asks and thus the authorities will not be able to refuse. ie possible loss of earning through crop damage again quote the "General Licence" as my S1 shotgun does. Once permission is granted apply for 22rl etc. Can of worms if you ask me may take years to sort out with law changes.
  18. I've 2 CZ's, 22lr and 17HMR 452s, both had the trigger kits fitted. The 22 has had well over 15,000 rounds through it in roughly 20 years use and is as accurate now as it ever was.
  19. My Fiocchi at JC have gone up £40/1000 from memory, looks like all European brands have all ready gone up. Your right it will slowly shut the door on shooting. Rifle ammo over £2 a shot now too
  20. Bag records show that the largest numbers were shot between 1870 and 1930, during which period around two million grey partridges were killed annually. The same bag records indicate that, after the Second World War, the numbers of grey partridges dropped by 80% in 40 years. Our research has established three main causes for the decline: Chick survival rates fell from an average of 45% to under 30% between 1952 and 1962. In the first weeks of life, grey partridge chicks feed almost exclusively on insects to obtain the proteins needed for rapid growth. The introduction of herbicides in the early 1950s eliminated many crop weeds that were insect food plants and, by the 1980s, the number of chick food insects in cereals had fallen by at least 75%. Although the drop in chick survival rates was partially compensated by lower over-winter losses, it reduced autumn stocks sufficiently to upset the economics of game management Many gamekeepers either lost their jobs or turned towards pheasant rearing, resulting in less predator control and an increase in predation during the nesting season, leading to more hen and nest losses. In some areas the situation was exacerbated by the removal of grassy nesting cover as fields were enlarged by removing hedgerows and field boundaries. These findings have been confirmed by separate experiments showing that where predators are controlled, chick food insects restored and nesting cover replanted, grey partridge density increases. From GWCT own Webpage. I presume all shot with lead shot and presume mostly all wild stock. So presumably Lead poisoning is a new modern phenomenon, over 100 years on and we're still trying to reinvent the wheel.
  21. It's pants down across the board i'm afraid......gas,diesel,petrol etc. Covid needs to be paid for..and it seems all in the next 3 to 4 years
  22. It's a sponsored film he's hardly going to chop of the hand that feeds him now is he, I watched the Hull Cartridge offering of a similar thing, same Bulls...t, not many clean kills there more about the Hydrawad really. We occasionally have a retired GP shoot with us and he says it's not necessarily the poision that kills you it's the dose. And as we know Lead has never killed anybody
  23. Absolutely no logic to it......
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