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Really good layouts throughout at the moment. 4 people from 2 houses can now meet up outside. Travel from all over Fife for daily exercise no rules broken. Hawke Vantage

Had a fantastic day out at Cluny Clays today, and they had some tasty targets on show. We had some serious shooters out both Scottish and British team shooters. One target in particular was up there with the ultimate extreme on the FITASC layout set by a Scottish Champion. No-one had measured the target but for a a left to right crosser it was a challenge and providing much entertainment. It passed as a straight bird over a target marker post, and was shot from 5 hoops. All tricky in there own right. We had various guesstimates on the distance and many many breaks. The measured distance of the clay was 72 yards being destroyed with 28g of 8.5 shot or 7.5 shot. Choked at 1/2 and 1/4. Any pigeon would easily have been folded! Let the doubters start doubting!

They did not get his keys to his cabinet, and no indication they targeted him for his guns, they took cash and his car too.

Shot thousands of wild and reared ducks, and if reared correctly the vast majority of guns wouldn't know the difference when a pond is flushed.

It appears that the steel version are heat sealed at the crimp, but the copper/lead do not have a sealed crimp. Humidity, moisture exposure or even in an open pocket/cartridge bag in the rain could have this result!

A very good mate was found dead in his flat just before Christmas. I'd spoken to him 2 days before about being his referee for his impending coterminous renewal. He was 49 (same age as me) and had spent the last 15 years working in power stations around the country on refits, he worked every shift he could, bought a caravan to save on digs where he travelled. He lead a very solitary and basic lifestyle. His goal was to have enough money to retire before he was 50. He was set to start his last contract at the end of this month and be finished by April. His 50th Birthday was due to be July. He has literally worked himself to death as it was a silent heart attack that killed him. His ambition to travel the world shooting. He has no wife or children. Only a brother who has hardly lifted a finger in his life. We suspect he is about to become a very very rich man as I knew what he had set for his retirement goal!

I always thought this was going to be a risk using a PVA type material that reacts with dampness. I understand they are supposed to be gas tight at the wad, so is it a chemical reaction or not as tight on the seal as they think?

I have to say that is irresponsible. If your dog can get to it any non target animal can. But a tamper resistant bait station (around £3) peg it down in the the garden with the bait secured inside.

Jct 38 is the go to in that area. Will catch up with you one day at Matty's!

I put my Q7 in a couple of years ago to my local garage for a new headlight bulb. He phoned me up half an hour later and said the bulb itself is £135+vat. Couldn't believe it!

Manthing do you not remember when we were told the virus could remain on hard surfaces for 72 hours. We went almost 4 months without wearing a mask everywhere we went! The cases were coming down. Once we were told to start wearing masks the cases started going back up? Because face coverings we are wearing are useless, but they are causing a concentration of the virus at the inhalation and exhalation point, and we are touching them all the time then touching everything with our hands.

How is clay shooting or any outdoor shooting riskier than going into a supermarket? No-one sanitises the can of beans or packets that everyone touches to check the dates before putting back on the shelf! Transmission in the fresh air is very very low, so perfectly safe compared with lots of activities that are continuing!

I don't have any of the D12 in stock, we don't use them that often. Plenty of D8 and D4.

Doc do you not have any friends in the pest control business you could ask? If I was close by I would happily let you have them at trade price. Which I won't tell you what it is when you are buying 500 metres at a time.

check out https://www.birdspikesonline.co.uk Uk manufacturer!

I shoot with Dave a good few times a season, and I can assure he is one of the nicest gentleman to shoot with. He has come from a poor upbringing to his current position through hard graft and now has a very successful family business behind him that provides him a very comfortable lifestyle. He'll happily tell you of his childhood days with ferrets and air rifles and he has partook in every part of the fieldsports journey, very much like myself. As for being greedy, no he will shoot if the other gun is loading or aiming at a different bird, or in some situations we all know that long crosser to your right or left is a better bird for the next peg and it happens often with a good team of guns who know what each other will shoot at. He is an exceptional shot and challenges himself with almost every shot he takes on, but he is human and he also misses like the rest of us but like everyone on his days we will all shoot some absolute monsters that live with you. He does a lot to promote shooting to the marginal audience and remember he and Ian Botham are great friends and the 2 of them now have a combined voice in the house of Lords to help promote and protect shooting.

I had one, but sold it earlier this year. Do you need to make a comparison with something?

The reserve does have breeding Avocets. But strangely enough not a single mention on the reserves blog or forum! https://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves-and-events/reserves-a-z/northward-hill/

Watched it countless times on a big screen. Initially there are 2 buzzards in the film. When watching the flight of the shot bird it is a buzzard, when you watch it fall as it gets to the hedge line you can see it is brown not black. It is also dead in the air. I would suspect someone is on the other side of that hedge decoying pigeons as it appears both buzzards had come in to the decoys. The shooting is stupid and indefensible and the shooters should be easily found from the the list of people with permission to shoot the farmers ground. However the RSPB are up to something here, and it is sinister in its timing and credibility. To spin it on the other side this is an RSPB reserve and the RSPB do employ shooters to protect some of their most endangered species of birds. It could easily have been within the confines of the reserve and shot under licence for the protection of red listed species if they had come forward with evidence of predation. But that being witnessed by the public would not be good for their profile. Once more with the death of a BOP with the RSPB involved more questions, smoke and mirrors than answers!

Wondering what BASC intend to do to ensure shooting can continue? I have notice tonight that a sporting estate will launch legal action next week if it is told it can't continue. Surely that's what the millions of members cash in the BASC bank account should be getting used for? Supporting it's members!

who was the goose guide mate?

It's no longer deemed safe. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4579035/

You have been invited to shoot. As Scully has said you don't get asked to go beating. You are being welcomed to the area with a very kind gesture. Take a bottle of malt for the host and if you want to score extra brownie points a slab of beer for the beaters. If everyone at the end of the day is tipping join in and don't be shy to ask what the tipping amount is as it may include an extra to cover beaters. It might be £30 for the keeper and £20 to cover the beaters. Relax and enjoy the day as their guest they will be trying to make you have a great day!

It's a x4 increase on spending on cartridges. It would have a massive impact on most peoples level of shooting and for many making it unviable!

I think the one thing this shows and how relative my point on the other thread was. That if we were all squeezed on to Bismuth many people myself included would be forced into stopping doing the shooting you currently enjoy. How could you justify paying £1200/1000 cartridges? £1.20 a cartridge. It really is the easiest way to bring down gun ownership in the UK without actually banning anything or seemingly with very little resistance and so far the big shooting groups are going along with the plan of saving the environment to make us look like saints. If we don't fight to keep lead we will lose the right to shoot affordably.