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They tried, the Minsk Agreement, the Minsk 2 Agreement, the Istanbul agreement and every time Ukraine and the West went back on their word.

And this time around the successive UK Governments are supporting the Neo Nazi war machine of Ukraine....... Churchill must be spinning in his grave.......

If that research has been done on comparative scientific studies, why aren't BASC quoting it? Why isn't the headline switch over to "this" shot which does not cause birds deaths and here is the proof....... because all heavy metals used are toxic when ingested, especially in their oxide form. More birds are killed by bacterial contamination of water source causing poisoning caused by fetiliser and sewage pollution than lead poisoning and yet that one is completely ignored and is a larger threat to animal and human health than all the lead mined and shot in history. More birds are killed by cats annually than lead poisoning More birds are killed by cars annually than lead poisoning The truth is BASC has not performed it's function to protect shooting and to provide the evidence required to do so and with over 100,000 members and an annual income of over £12,000,000 per annum cannot somehow carry out or commission a study which would provide the definative answer for a few thousand pounds.

Was a good friendly shoot when used to go there in the 2000's before going back up to Scotland

Conor, The main problem is you have not established that lead pellets are a greater issue than iron, zinc, tungsten, copper and bismuth, all heavy metals and toxic when ingested by birds. As a result you and BASC are not being scientific, merely raising niche studies but with no comparable data to draw any conclusions from, but still moving forward in support of phasing lead out but with no proof any of the replacements would fare any better. So you need a study done where say chickens are individually fed on a grit diet of 1 oxidised iron pellet, 1 oxidised zinc coated iron pellet, 1 broken oxidised bismuth pellet, 1 oxidised copper pellet, 1 oxidised lead pellet and 1 oxidised tungsten pellet a day along with their normal grit, along with hard food which requires grit to break it up and then study the effects for at least 3 to 6 months to determine metal uptake, health effects etc. for each type of pellet and then come back and show us the results.

As can be noted from replies above the sub 12ftlbs 25 cal is a vastly underrated rated choice. If you gun shoots H&N FTT 25 pellets, well you have a winner that knocks the snot out of everything it hits. Ignore the comments on pedestrian and rainbow, understand the trajectory and you are fine. Zeroed at 25 yards, you are looking at a drop of 3.7inch in 25 v's a drop of 2.8inch in 22 with FTT's at 40 yards. Timewise your time on impact at 40 yards is 0.255sec, compared to 0.225 sec of the .22 and is not significant. You are also carrying 8.13ftlbs instead of 7.3ftlbs which is significant!

And the Iron levels, tungsten levels, uranium, aluminium, bismuth levels etc? This a study on lead and it appears 1 in 20 birds to 1 in 30 birds may be affected from lead 'notionally' from shotgun lead pellets as evidenced but not checked by say under taking silt analysis in the local water supplies to establish if there was any lead in the environment. The Yorkshire moor where there was extensive lead in the birds was clearly nearly all environmental and not so much shotgun pellets. Back to my first question, were there any other poisonous heavy metals in the birds? Iron in Scottish moors due to high iron content and acidic streams (everyone has seen the orange burns coming out of some bogs), peat hydrocarbons (natural oil slicks in bog water), etc Is lead a serious issue (sites being shot for 200 years and only 1 in 30 birds suggests not), or do other factors cause more issues. If you are just about to be hit with a 40t truck, worrying about a heart murmur being a cause of death is a bit irrelevant. Just whilst on alternatives, China responsible for 80% of tungsten, bismuth etc is limiting exports to the West and especially USA, so that is 2 alternatives gone even more expensive or potentially unobtainable. With closure of steel mills, no more home produced steel and again have to import at significant cost (not going to be cheap importing steel pellets from China), it can be easily argued that there is not a true replacement for lead and as such we should stick with it.

It's even worse than most think.... For instance the Army has 3 tank armoured regiments, most of which equipment is moth balled\in storage. The rotate each of the 3 regiments through the training range which has the only active equipment, so they get effectively 4 months per year on live training. UK deployable tanks in inventory are supposedly 142 at present but with no ideal on how many have been scavenged for parts to keep others running. We certainly don't have enough to deploy all 3 regiments and perhaps not even enough to deploy even 2 regiments. (56 tanks per regiment).

Keir Stammer is a globalist neocon technocrati Marxist doing what he is told by his masters. If he is stupid enough to put more troops on the ground (SBS, SAS and RAF technicians etc are already there) he really needs to be charged with treason.

They will never get fusion to work on Earth, they are trying to substitute heat for pressure. The fusion that takes place in the sun, occurs in semi metallic hydrogen isotopes, (hydrogen in it's ultra dense metallic form, rather than liquid or gaseous form) at about 100,000 to 150,000 kelvin. On earth they are heating hydrogen isotopes to 1.5million kelvin as a gaseous plasma at low pressure. At present they can supposedly sustain fusion (or more accurately the hot plasma) for up to 1066 seconds (Chinese East Tokamak) but only by inputting a lot more energy than they get out or alternativelyou can get more energy out than put in by putting the hydrogen in the centre of a fission bomb, using the fission explosion to recreate the pressures and density of the sun but that only lasts for micro seconds.

It states on website it is a pressure washer wand\nozzle.

Have a look at Russoms student section for a few ideas on what is needed https://www.russums-shop.co.uk/c/q/students

How do you determine afair profit? Tell us what an acceptable profit is in percentage terms before tax or after-tax?

Taiwan is part of China and always has been. Taiwan is where the rump of the previous government retreated to when the Communists took over the mainland. Taiwan is officially the Republic of China, they even still have invasion plans for the mainland to reclaim the People's Republic of China back from the ex-Communists. Both see themselves as the rightful rulers of China (both Taiwan and the mainland), and both see themselves as Chinese. Best idea would be to let them sort it out between themselves, but noooooo, West (mainly USA) can't help by meddling and arming Taiwan to the teeth,and where instead of a peaceful rejoining or perhaps a relatively bloodless one in event of Taiwan invasion, instead they are setting up for Ukraine 2.0.

A decent land agent such as Savills can give advice. Can also look at leases for let\sales of stretches on offer at present by looking at land agents websites.