Wasabi
-
Posts
215 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Calendar
PW Shop
Posts posted by Wasabi
-
-
4 hours ago, shalfordninja33 said:
Yes, its good I’ve used those figures above along with a few other real world sources. I’m getting 48mpg out of the Vauxhall. If 43 out of a 330 is realistic the difference in fuel cost wouldn’t be noticeable, the uplift in performance would be!
First world problems eh! Head says 320, more economical, quick enough etc. Heart says 330!
Exactly. Then my head says with the amount of shooting I do I should get a 4x4 type vehicle. Been looking at Volvo XC60.
-
I'm currently having the same dilemma!
-
On 27/04/2019 at 19:13, mudpatten said:
Wasabi, my apologies if I`ve missed it, but are you actually a BASC member?
Yes I am. I've written to them to express my concerns and will give it a few months before I decide what to do regarding membership.
-
4 hours ago, 243deer said:
Like many folk who use social media I have spent more time reading than working the last couple of days and I believe Wasabi's post does highlight weaknesses that need urgently addressing.
I have seen a great deal of organisation bashing without the balance of ideas on how to change things for the better so here are just a few ideas that I have based on my current experience of working for a very long established company whose directors still ask "what is the benefit of social media?"
1. The protection of shooting should be treated as a war. It is no good simply being reactive. Each of our organisations need to employ strategists who can see where the next attack is coming from and prepare a suitable defence to all scenarios well in advance. I would have hoped that the chairperson of each of our organisations would be such a person but it appears not. The lack of this activity since January has shown a weakness in our organisations that needs addressing and I do not mean the sacking of anyone but rather acknowledging the weakness and acting upon it rapidly. Should they achieve this new way of thinking then this event could end up being the greatest own goal ever scored by the antis.
2. There is a clear lack of media personalities publicly supporting what we do. The funds are available to ensure that such folk in the public eye have their expenses covered to enable them to be available as a balancing voice in interviews. If no such voice is requested by the media company then our organisations need to have someone on the ball at all times raising official complaints both to the organisation concerned, their governing body and to MP's.
3. Communication - our organisations need to employ a public relations company to teach them how to communicate all the the good work that they are doing to their members and to the public. The old excuse often quoted to me when I have complained in writing is "a lot of work goes on behind the scenes". Well that is the way it used to be done. Our opponents do not do things this way at all anymore they do things very publicly - it is time we did the same. Our organisations publish magazines for their members, I think almost everyone would agree that the list of the activities per area seem disproportionately small - tell us everything that you are doing.
4. Our organisations really do need to start working together, sharing costs and resources. The challenge to all the current chairs is to achieve at least a broad outline of this in the next 3 months.
I would be interested to see other positive ideas and turn this thread into one that the PW massive could be proud to show to the chair of each organisation.
Brilliant post!
-
I'm not suggesting BASC morf into the NRA. What I'm suggesting is that they become more proactive. Why were they not pointing out the moorland fires on Ilkley potentially being caused by a lack of management by keepers. Why was it that the NFU was on radio 2 today rather than BASC. Why have I only ever seen Dig Haddoke and *********** on mainstream TV promoting the benefits of shooting. We need to be drowning out the whinge of Packham and co through a concerted media campaign on national levels and on social media. I honestly believe the old boys club at the helm of our organisations does not understand how to go about this.
-
45 minutes ago, Terry2016 said:
So NE temporary revoke the GL and you blame BASC?
Because they should have seen it coming ?
Seen it coming from a legal challenge put forwards by Wild justice to get changes to the way the licences were issued .. not to get them revoked,,,
But BASC should have had a crystal ball and seen that NL would revoke the GL.
Have you wondered why none of the other organisations didn't see it coming either? oh thats right..because everyone of them was unaware ........
STOP BASHING AND START SUPPORTING ... the divide will only make it worse
Stop bashing and start supporting a rather pointless organisation in its current incarnation. Support the old boys all the way to the extinction of our sport as they sit by the sidelines politely expressing their disdain.
-
8 minutes ago, panoma1 said:
It has been pointed out to BASC.
To BASC or by BASC?
-
10 minutes ago, Walker570 said:
Get to it then, nothing stopping you.
I didn't say I was capable of it, I said they need to employ people who are. I'm also a little bit busy mid week!
-
22 minutes ago, ShootingEgg said:
Exactly this, ive spoken with them, all orgs found out at the same time we did so aim you anger at NE. As that is who has done this.
I run young shots days with basc and have had complete novices, one lad who had never been on a shoot Before and got his first pheasant and duck. So I do see dirst hand what they do. If you don't engage with them then i guess you're jist spitting feathers at them because now the GL has been revoked by... Oh yes NE... not BASC, NGO, GWCT, CA...
And that is genuinely commendable but times have changed. We are facing a massive risk from a very media savvy man with huge TV exposure. We need to take the fight to the next level.
The average joe public probably has a slightly negative view of our sport meaning they will not stand in the way of future regulation or bans. We need to change the opinions of the masses and the organisations need to start thinking along those lines.
-
5 minutes ago, andrewluke said:
this where BASC spend our money(2017)
Tells a story, 4% on media and politics. Pathetic.
-
1 minute ago, bruno22rf said:
BASC AGM Minutes Jan 2018. Chairman Peter Glenser. "The association has never been so financially strong. Over the last 2 years we have recorded a surplus of over £1 million with this last year reaching £1.26 million. The balance sheet has never been so strong with assets of £9 million. This enables us to have a War Chest to protect our sport" makes you wonder where all this money is actually going - talk about being caught with your pants down, it's indefensible and unacceptable.
Exactly. My perception of the various organisations is of a group of old boys running a nice little shooting organisation. Run a few clay days for kids and ladies, write a polite letter rebuking the latest anti in a national rag etc etc. In reality we need people capable of planning and running successful national media campaigns and all that entails.
We need to be using big data to target the benefits of game meat to people with no connection to shooting. We need to be promoting clay shooting to people totally in connected with it.
We need to be lobbying parliament constantly and networking in the halls of Westminster so we don't get blindsided by events such as this.
-
8 minutes ago, ShootingEgg said:
Basc do young shots, work with taste of game to promote game meat and even in schools. How many shooters do anything but maon and bitch about the organisations. Yes they print a magazine, have media centre, put days on for kids, ladies days, work with wildfowlers(or atleast try too)
But yes they do cock all for the shooting community..
They have NO power when kt comes to things that our govt do, they can lobby and argue the toss but thats about as much power as they have.
I work in education covering a large number of schools and have yet to see anything about / from BASC. Young shots = mainly kids of people who already shoot.
Doing stuff for the shooting community does naff all to protect our sport. Where do they promote game meat? I'm yet to see anything in a mainstream publication or website.
We have a Tory Govt full of keen shooters and this happens. Where are their political lobbyists? Where are their social media campaigns? We are royally screwed if / when Corbyn and co gain power.
-
With all this publicity around the General Licence I am left wondering what BASC and the like actually do? By my sums BASC has an income around 12 million a year. Apart from printing a magazine, preaching to the converted and offering legal advice, what do they actually do?
Where is the media campaign promoting game meat? Where are the initiatives getting non shooters into clay shooting? The biggest social media presence I've seen today has been Guns on Pegs.
BASC was saying proudly on FB how they had been doing radio and TV all day. Brilliant, 20 years ago. Get with the times. Make use of big data and social media to promote our sport. Where is the counter campaign against the likes of Packham and Avery?
At this rate we will all be shooting clays with steel shot out of air powered shotguns in the not so distant future.
-
I remember buying a thousand from Patties of Dumfries, now closed, in 2001.
-
So bit of a long story.
My Miroku 6000 has a really decent bit of wood on it. When I bought it, from a retired gunsmith, he told me he had done a "proper oil finish" on it, not "Tru oil" and that tge stock was a special high grade order. Anyway, after a decade of me using it the finish was looking a bit lack lustre.
Without looking at any advice I knocked the finish back with 00000 wire wool and started rubbing in boiled linseed oil. I've been doing this every day for a week or so.
My question is... have I done the right thing? The stock is soaking up the oil. Will it start to form a gloss finish or is this not what boiled linseed does? When I bought the gun the finish looked like it was wet, which it wasn't. Will BLO produce this?
When I've applied a coat it looks matt after it has soaked in.
Advice gratefully accepted!
-
A few weeks ago I bought a batch of 400 rounds of .17 hmr. I re zeroed and got a 1.5" group at 100 metres. Normally I get .7" or so. I also missed some total sitters when out lamping.
I therefore decided to measure the overall length of each cartridge (I've got a bit of time on my hands)! Anyway, turns out they ranged from 1.355 to 1.342 inches.
Basically anything over 1.349 groups well, the shot er the length the wider tge group. Thankfully 356 out of the 380 left were over 1.350. It's now grouping back at .8 of an inch at 100 metres.
Thought this might be of use to anyone having similar problems. Ammo is hornady 17 grain and the rifle is a cz 455 16 inch varmint.
-
8 hours ago, bornfree said:
i shot a hare at 704 yards with one of those.
That's nothing. I had a hare at 356 yards with my GAT gun.
-
Thanks Continental Shooter! Think I'll be getting back out with it.
-
On 04/04/2019 at 13:37, Continental Shooter said:
The chrony alpha is good enough if set up correctly and the correct adjustments are made.
What adjustments do you make?
-
7 minutes ago, Perazzishot said:
he tried different distances, chokes etc to no avail. light/cloud conditions were the only thing that made a difference I seem to remember!
Do you know what male of chronny he was using?
-
It's an alpha chronny. Nothing fancy but seems accurate when compared to a friends expensive Oeler (spelling?).
It registers fibre wads fine if you back up 5 or so feet.
-
I've recently bought a chronograph and have put some shotgun cartridges over it. They were all fibre wad and apart from being a bit slower than expected they seemed to set the chronno off ok. I remember someone on here saying fibre cartridges were hard to chronograph. Why's that?
-
I'm laughing my head off at this whilst waiting for rabbits!
-
3 hours ago, mossy835 said:
just another knee jerk.the bad boys will still get them.
True but in my experience, through my line of work, the bad boys can get hold of guns we can't e.g. handguns etc but can't get the amount or quality of ammunition needed for a mass shooting.
Jo bad boy is more concerned with shooting rival gang / drug dealers than loads of innocent random people. The average mass shooting is carried out by deranged people who would stick out like a sore thumb trying to buy a gun illegally. If they get one legally they can then buy a lot of ammunition. A mass shooting would be more difficult with the sporting guns we have in the UK than the military weapons available in the US.
New GL licence for pigeon not fit for purpose
in General Licence Discussion
Posted
I work in Education! Gove really is as stupid as he looks. He ****ed our side of things up and then got shifted out tge way. We're all still trying to work out how to fix things.