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2 hours ago, hod said:
Imagine if we all went via a nature reserve on the way to the supermarket though....
It’ll all get stricter (see France) as long as folk are still doing stuff like this and more.
Always one to be more catholic that the pope obviously.
I didn't do *an extra trip* and I was also shopping for 4 vulnerable people on the same trip, I try to make them 'count'.
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Nice to catchup on this thread. I've been training my lab bitch a lot, especially since the end of the season, I've found a large patch of wood that is linked to a shoot with unused pens at one end. Basically there's still a lot of birds in the woods around, and I found out it's really good to train her to find the /occasional/ bird to flush, without being completely manic like on a shoot day!
The problem I had with mine is "good nose" she cruises around at ~15m or so all good, then can pick a scent and sometime was taking off into the distance, completely oblivious to recall at that point -- pretty much what was described a couple of pages back. It was most annoying as /normally/ she's pretty much bang on, it's really only the 'scent lust' that was sending her over. Also I discovered my stop whisle "power" was decreasing with the distance, so basically if she was 100m away, I might as well sit there and wait. I was pretty infuriated!
To be fair, she doesn't chase, she flushes, see the bird (or the deer!) away with a "get of my laaaaand" posture, have another bit of a sniff around then moves on. However sometime she was like 200m away from me, then toddles back to a fuming owner.
So one thing I did was give her a serious blocking on one walk. She came back, she could see my face, I definitely barked at her and then it was 'heel' and the way back to the car with a 'cross' dad. something like 1/2h or so, and she was /spotless/ glued to my boot. She knew /very/ well what had happened so there was not more to do there.
The following day we went back again, we were 'made up again' but not /completely/ I think she realised she had overstepped a boundary. What I did that day was to hide as soon as she was losing track of where I was. Tree, kneeling behind a bush, whatever, I soon as I saw she was getting a bit banana, I'd hid. And when she realised I was gone, it was back to finding /me/ and she had a big party when she did. We did that a lot (and I think I'll do that a lot, going forward!). I only 'lost' her once, when I was very nicely hidden and she couldn't find me so started going back the way we came. I whistled a 'hint' and she eventually found me, to amazing party and wagging of tail.
So what I think I did was break the "taken for granted" idea she had about me -- she's a bit of a princess so she has no balance for the 'praise' and treats she might get -- on that fateful day I think it gave her a bit of a balance that there IS a difference.
So we still continued that routine really, until actually yesterday, when I realised she WAS turning straight away on recall whistle -- even when ranging, we had a 2h walk, she flushed 12 pheasants (and one muntjac!), all (birds) but one would have been shootable so she was in the good 'range' and she was really amazing at turning, coming back, we had a few 'pause play' too where I have her sit and wait so she can recover (and I can make her drink).
Still, heaps of fun isn't it? I know she's no spaniel, but she loves her hunting -- I know she'll never be the "sit on flush" kind or the "pointer" but she's getting there to be a super dog for rough shooting -- she's super brave diving head first in heaps of cover (got a few cuts that way!).
The pickup bits are "easy" really, it's a lot harder to train for these situations where the dog is "blood" scent or just "scent"!
Heres the little princess, at 12 weeks with her very first pigeon
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It's a lot easier to catch people who aren't trying to hide. For one thing, they don't run, they rarely would fight back and hell, most of them are honest anyway. If on top of it you don't need to go outside, all the better. Thus the "social media" crackdown on "hate crime".
2 days ago I walked the dog for about 20 minutes at 12:30am -- for the 20 minutes, I had a police helicopter circling over my head. I know very well *I* was on their camera, and not someone else "doing crimy things" for one thing there was nobody, no cars and I'm /fairly/ sure if I was a crim, a friggin heli overhead would be a bit of a telltale that I should... tail it.
Now THAT was a good slice of tax money well spent protecting the country! I was mightily impressed.
Earlier I used my trip to the supermarket to stop at a nature reserve and give myself/dog a walk. I came back to find a "Police Notice" telling me I should'nt be there. Now I *swear* I've never seen a patrol car, /ever/ in that spot, and I'm fairly sure if my car was broken into in that same place, the RAC truck would be here long before any police. But now that we can "catch" such filthy crims who dare to park there, it's much more interesting!
I think everyone has a collection of stories like that, and that lead to people not trusting the police in the end. I spoke to 2 RFDs the last couple of weeks who told me they've been selling airguns/pistols/crossbows by the boatload lately, and I think a lot of people are worried they might have to protect themselves since the police is busy doing something else.
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@Dave given their operations, it's likely the gunsmith there will be able to work, as the other guys are not needed in the office anyway. So there's hope!
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I'm self employed thru a LTD too. I have to, I can't get jobs without that due to (mainly) liability insurance. Our two main clients shutdown completely last week, so no more work. As reported, there's no 'backup' for us at all; luckily we got a good buffer but basically it's just ******* money from now on. From reading here and there that situation (in various form) could last up to 2 years, until there is a vaccine/treatment.
We'll be on benefits LONG before that, but in way, it's now the surest way to get some income! Don't work or try to drive a business, just do **** all watching daytime TV and wait for the checks in the mail.
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How are these dogs stolen? From the back of their car? while walking (how ?!?!)
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You can also use these holsters gun closed too; close the gun and rest the butt of the gun in the holster, barrels up while holding the action. Relieves the weight of the gun quite a lot when waiting for the birds, according to my wife who uses one of these (a fancy one, not DIY).
Hers also has a few loops on the strap for a handful of cartridges, so it's quite handy when rough shooting.
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According to my dashboard here: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
The good news is that China seems to be controlling the situation up to the point they might get to the point where the number of cases /decreases/, showing that they are on their way to eradication (eventually!). So the extreme measure they took seems to be paying off. All we can hope is that it' is not propaganda.
The bad news is that the global death rate, all country together is still >3%
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@Baddaboom best bet for you is to have them stored at a shop/gun club. EJ Churchill will allow you to store guns there (but membership costs a bomb) -- I know a few people who store their gun at AC Sporting Target, about 1/2h away, might be your best bet if your new place doesn't have a safe/permission.
There's also Emmet & Stone, but I'm not sure they have the capacity at the moment as they are expanding.
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Perhaps this will trigger a huge wave of change in society, where the blokes are going to *really* wash their hands after going to the toilet in pubs etc, instead of 'faking it' and exit quickly.
I'm not holding my breath tho... I've been opening doors with my elbows in pubs for years anyway.
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On 20/02/2020 at 14:05, kevin55 said:
I must put up photos of my newly acquired Greener
30" damascus barrels, A&D, non ejector, 2 1/2. It won't compete with the stunning Dixon above though I can also miss stylishly
It came with a nice leg of mutton case, lining gone but soft leather not brittle, and a letter back from Greener in 1951 to the then officer owner saying they couldn't find the orginal records
Stop dithering and post pics instead Kevin, otherwise, it didn't happen :-) :-)
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Perhaps they are not 'marketed' to the right people, my wife bought a Winchester SxS 24" barrels and had it fitted for the last season, she was absolutely lethal on partridges, she loves the thing to bits.
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Retrievers will retrieve stuff I suppose. What I do with mine is have something for exchange. So she comes to me with whatever, give it to my hand, get praised, and get something else, like a wine bottle stopper or whatever other toy is at hand. Add some "value" to to exchange token for best effect.
That way it trains the delivery to hand, and she is never hoardy or possessive with stuff. Sometime he she nicks something of my wife, I take it, give it back to her and tell her to give it back to my wife, and off she goes trotting along to do that.
So yeah she gets a bit of attention, but on the other hand she never 'stole' anything to maul it
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Bisley is in fact quite impractical from Slough! EJ Churchill is nearer (but expensive), but the best/cheapest/closest clays are at AC Sporting Targets, just beyond West London Shooting School.
There's a very nice shop at Little Marlow (Emmet & Stone) well worth visiting, also Country Pursuits just inside the M25.
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What about... shooting them as is until in 5 years where they are worthless anyway, THEN trying to reproof them for steel? Many would pass and get a second life, and the one that don't well, they were doorstops anyway at that point?
Perhaps that 5 years gap will find a cart shot/wad combo that is more suitable to what we have right now...
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I think they had a 34" version at the shooting show. Well one of their gun definitely was!
I also shoot an Invictus V on clays (and on ducks, mostly due to the heavy loads), they are fantastic.
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Landed these tools, all seems in good nick, all of them used, some of them VERY used so must have been quite favourites... There seems to be 2 kinds, scoopy chisel like shapes, or "S shape" chisel like things.
I'm thinking leather carving; anyone has any idea?
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My main problem with Teslas isn't the electric bits really, it's the lack of radar/lidar. My X5 has one big radar and several microwave ones around, and the self driving is very very good, and getting better because the Update I got this november made it even better and smoother.
but tesla /insists/ their system is better, despite actually killing people. Sure the fanboys says the driver is expected to pay attention, but anyone who used that sort of driver assistance will KNOW that once you 'trust' the system, you do *not* pay the same level of attention as before you used it. So if the requirement for 'autopilot' (as they call it) is 100%, permanent driver input, what *use* is that anyway?
Turns out "AI" aka neural networks are easily foolable . I worked on "neural networks" for /years/ before it was trendy (I did the OCR systems in Apple Powerbooks in the mid-90's that used neural networks) and I know very well how easy they are to fool. There's no magic, and I THINK that the industry is starting to realize that. Which makes Tesla's 'camera only with AI" a frigging liability.
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Reminds me that when I needed some building work done, I tried to hire local companies. Most of them didn't even bother turning up. Or turn up but didn't even get a quote back to me.
Ultimately I hired a bunch of Romanian chaps, who worked 7am to 8pm, fed on pizza and ciggies, didn't complain at all about anything -- sure the work wasn't *masterclass* but at least it was done and I didn't have get calls from people calling me 'mate' who claimed they couldn't get to me because <insert whatever lie> they came up with at the time.
Personally I came to this country in 99, and I'd JUST ABOUT make the idiotic 70 points to get hired here, even tho their minimum current salary is like 29k, and in 99 I was hired at £45k. "doh" as one says.
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1 hour ago, JohnfromUK said:
The current AyA list prices are no longer the bargains they once were - A standard No 2 is over £8,500 list price (inc VAT) and a No 1 £10K more than that. I think the Spanish gun trade doesn't have the same ability to produce at the competitive prices they once did, because I think the trade struggles to prosper even at these prices. I won't speculate on why, other than to say that production volumes must be a fraction of what they were 20 or 30 years ago, but whether that is cause of effect (or more likely both), I can't say.
But then again, Boss, H&H and Purdey seems to be making money selling guns at 10+ times than than AYA #1 price! There seems to be a huge gap between the (roughtly) ~10k gun and... the ~100k gun.
Or perhaps the super-rich just impulse buy at any price, and the cheaper or "just barely rich" are a bit more "into" their guns and will pick a nice fit, finish,very high quality etc knowing they don't /need/ to spend 100k?
Ultimately I'm not complaining, seems Purdey and the like are training, and hiring, and paying gunsmith to continue the tradition; which is great. I can't afford them, but I love the idea that the tradition is "safe" for the time being.
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I worked for a few years at Renesas, making System on Chips for mostly the automotive industry, the stuff that goes into infotainment systems etc. I can tell you the stuff on the bench was top of the range. Sure, it's never the same part as the consumer one as it has to be hardened so you lose a bit of spec compared to say, a smartphone, and the tech on the bench wouldnt see a consumer in a car for a couple of years, but it was definitely not "years" behind
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2 minutes ago, Old farrier said:
Don’t upset him 🙄
its a round action 😊
not a boxlock 🤐
Heheh no I really think its a stonker, regardless of the action really.
Only problem with that gun if it was mine is that I would permanently feel underdressed carrying it around :-) :-) :-) I'd probably have to lose weight and have plastic surgery or something :-) :-)
Oh, and one extra problem would be all the eyes of everyone darting into my back to watch how I would miss the next bird :-) :-) Imagine it, everyone admired your gun and fondled it on the gun bus, you're on your peg and, a single, high, beautiful, curly pheasant cock arrive over your peg and.....
*shivers* :-)
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Blimey what a pretty gun, it's probably the loveliest "boxlock" style I've ever seen, well done! What an entry to "the club" :-)
For us nosey people, care to tell us how much it cost? :-) :-)
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I think people are wrong to assume that the other manufacturers are "years behind". I've got a new 'loaded' BMW X5' that has pretty much *everything* TESLA claims as 'autopilot' however none of them BMW has driven their car into the back of a lorry and killed the driver.
The level of tech in cars is mindblowing, and sure, Tesla has the electric car thing panned out, but the other manufacturers *are not sleeping* -- There are some other electric cars that don't have the 'twitter' effect which are amazing, and getting better.
I don't mind Musk, I'd be happy if he stuck to sending his cars into orbit :-)
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She's 16 months now, 12 weeks we were just playing around, now she's supposed to be a 'big girl' :-)
We've now stopped playing in the woods, some of the 'wild' birds there are nesting, and it's not very nice to have an enthusiastic dog ruining the bed.