Uilleachan
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1 hour ago, Scully said:
I find that very hard to believe. I have written countless letters over the years to the media, HO ministers, MPs and Chief Police Officers. Many of the MPs and HO ministers have often remarked that when individuals fail to respond the general consensus is that they don’t care.
The lady on twitter has spread her misleading info on social media. Are BASC the CA or the NGO on Twitter? If not, and no one puts the record right, then those reading it will assume it’s true.
Leaving it to someone else is easy.
Check out the OP link, the lady wrote a piece that was published by the BBC. The danger is if people start engaging with journalists directly, and they take fright, faux or otherwise, we the general shooting public pick up the flack and, if she herself is an anti we play into her hand, or the hands of those with an anti shooting agenda who'd willingly pick up her baton.
As to the record, having read the paper, linked on page one, her piece wasn't inaccurate because the paper states that of 100+ dead kites, six were found to have had lead poisoning and it does mention lead shot (and banning it as a potential solution to lead poisoning in kites). I'd contend that it's highly unlikely that lead shot was the culprit but thats for someone with a science background to contest and contest it with the people who wrote the paper, not the journalist who wrote the BBC piece
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8 minutes ago, Scully said:
But if you do nothing she’s got away with it! Ah well.
All it takes........
I'm not a pistol shooter and, I'm only relating what I've read; but I've read that some of the individual submissions sent in during the post Dunblane consultation had quite the opposite effect than that intended by the writers. Enough to tip the balance. All it takes is one dodgy communication to spoil it for the many. Hence why I badger my shooting body and have them deal with it.
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26 minutes ago, CaptainBeaky said:
Thanks.
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11 minutes ago, thepasty said:
probs best, I just hate the way the media go about their business of misleading people and no one does anythying. :(
You and me both, but when it's a case of a journalist who's perhaps simply sought a quote from an "expert", and therefore doesn't feel the need to cross reference, the quote came from someone who was apparently a contributor to the study, it's always best to caw canny and leave it to those who can suck butter without having it melt, by way of countering such claims, as in the way BASC have responded.
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It seems the report from "The European Journal of Wildlife Research" was published in 2010. I requested the full text but will have to wait on the outcome. There's a link here to the abstract page, which may or may not work for you. The abstract, all be it very short, makes no mention of lead shot.
There are a number of sources of lead emission into the environment most of them industrial. Here's a lead emissions map for the UK in 2015:
http://naei.beis.gov.uk/data/map-uk-das?pollutant_id=17
Note the north of the country, very low levels of lead shown. But where they are they just happen to coincide with the road network (and areas of high population density) e.g. I can see the A9 snaking through the central highlands from it's lead foot print.
Heavy metals, such as lead, are accumulative in organisms and found in higher concentrations the further up the food chain we look. Classic example is the plankton eating whale and lesser whales such as the killer whale dolphins etc.
I'm no red kite expert but I have spent a lot of time on the Black Isle, the local kite hot spot and as any casual easter ross observer will know; kites are seen in high numbers around roads scoping out road kill.
So in lue of actual shot being recovered from kite digestive systems, gradual accumulation from wider environmental emission affected prey animals seems more likely. To my mind.
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.... and where's the evidence that the lead found, in the liver i assume, came from shot and not other sources??? The Norwegians did a lot of work on this, including a study of lead affecting raptors. They lifted their blanket lead ban in 2015 (apart from over wet lands and clay grounds).
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Not aimed at shooting sports per se. Much shooting takes place on Mickey Mouse sized parcels, by scottish standards, and very many shoots don't actually make much money, most do well to cover costs and very many run at a loss. So it will very much depend on the ground let.
It looks as if very many shoots will fall outside the current small business threshold. Different for my neighbour whose 62,000ac/100 square miles will attract rate liability, that won't affect shooting, because he doesn't let any. I pay council tax, why should his holding be rates exempt?
Especially given the fact that he, and all non domestic landowners, receive support through agricultural grants paid per hectare on a considerably greater scale than the proposed rates (of course the grant scheme is likely to change and be less supportive for estates post brexit, you'll get an idea of the likely support for the continuation of the current system and the likely public sentiment here: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/648108/EU-farming-cash-squandered-wealthy-David-Cameron-wealthy-uncle ).
A little more clarity on the implications of the reintroduction of rates:
How effective it'll be and how it will work, if it works at all, remains to be seen. e.g. Will landowners, very many of whom hiked let costs post 95 on the abolition of rates (the tenant is liable for rates, so when rates were dropped many landowners simply gobbled up their tenants windfall by upping rents), adjust rents downwardly to keep them competitive?
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13 hours ago, walshie said:
Yeah, looking forward to getting a nice patina on it.
If you're into that sort of thing, try starting it off by wrapping the blade in kitchen roll placing it on a saucer onto which you've poured some vinegar, leave it soaking for a few hours.
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28 minutes ago, walshie said:
Oops! Just noticed you said O2. Knife only comes in O1, M2 or D2.
Meant O1
You won't go wrong with carbon tool steel, it just needs looking after-ish compared to stainless.
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O2 is pretty good steel, tool steel, takes and holds a ready edge and easy to sharpen. Only down side is that it'll rust if it's left wet in a bag for a fortnight. It'll clean up easily though. Stainless is good too, but harder to sharpen but otherwise lower maintenance, can be brittle if the heat treatment isn't spot on.
Personally, for a general purpose O2 works for me. I do have a couple of stainless bladed knives, laminate powder steel falkniven knives bought 2nd hand. One a folder kept in my pocket, the other fixed bladed knife lives in my fishing bag and doubles as a blade & priest.
There can be issues with carbon steel and food prep, however if one preps the blade; clean it shiny dry it and wipe it over with veg oil and it'll be good for making sandwiches through to butchering a beast.
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Aye, it's all nonsense until you see someone do it and have results time after time after time.
It works. There's a fellow on Skye who brought in a guy from somewhere in Aberdeenshire to prospect divine for deep volcanic spring water. The guy identified three or four spots and, the fellow from Skye spent £30k bringing in a contractor to drill case and cap the holes based on the diviners word. The result was 100% on the money.
A local fellow working for the waterboard was also renowned in his time for being accurate with the rods, saw him work myself, he could tell the difference between water pipes and buried metal, I know as I later dug the corroded steel rods up myself.
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WD40 evaporates very quickly, thats the main issue. Great for penetrating cleaning removing water dirt old-grease etc. However it's pants for metal protection. Not really a surprise that, as protecting metal isn't what it's intended for.
By all means use it to clean your gun, just remember that when you're done the gun still needs going over (and through) with an oily rag, to protect the surfaces from corrosion.
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What about all the chemicals, many in common with fag smoke, that are present and are emitted by new household furnishings and fittings?
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My .410's require a scrub with a bore cleaner and a stiff nylon brush, around the cones and chokes in particular, followed by a couple of cotton patch pull throughs, or more, until I pull a patch through clean.
My 12g gets a squirt of oil and a single pull through with a bore snake and a wipe over with an oily rag, after every use. So far on my browning, which I've had for a little over a year and shot several thousands of rounds through, the bores are still spotless showing no signs of leading. I do stick the snake in the washing machine every month or so.
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Vaping is now generally accepted as being "much safer than smoking" or "much less dangerous than smoking".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-41333537
Vaping is about to be recommended by health professionals as an effective and arguably more effective route, to quitting cigarettes.
It's not going to be good for you, but it isn't anywhere as bad as smoking. That said I wouldn't start vaping unless I was trying to quit the tabs. Nicotine isn't the problem per se, it's the 3900 other chemicals in fag smoke and the plethora of issues they cause.
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31 minutes ago, Hamster said:
I don't like the look of that fellow at all and I'm going to have trouble sleeping after watching that!!
Just looked in my notes and all though I didn't list it's name, the viper in question is only found in a small (sub 500kmsq) geographical location in the Lar National park of the alborz mountains and known, it transpires, from a quick search on google, as Latifi's Viper.
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38 minutes ago, Pistol p said:
Interesting. Sounds like you'd better get used to it. Alternatively you could leave, no one is making you stay.
Why? I don't drink super low cost Frosty Jack chemical cider
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11 minutes ago, poontang said:
It hasn't been squandered. It's been sat in a bank account since 2002 where apparently sanctions have prevented it being sent to Iran.
A friend of mine has just returned from a holiday in Iran, she says it's a lovely country and the people couldn't have been friendlier. She wasn't arrested at the airport as she has no links to Thompson Reuters or BBC Media Action, the journalist training 'charities' that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe worked for. Whether Mrs Z-R was in Iran on holiday or whether she was 'working' I guess we'll never know for sure, but at this moment in time I'm more inclined to believe the Iranians than the BBC or Thompson Reuters.
As an aside, do we actually owe the Iranian govt. the £450m claimed?
The tank deal was done before the Iranian revolution in 1979. After the revolution the country became an Islamic state, with a new constitution and government and became the Islamic Republic of Iran. In effect a new country. A bit like a company which closes down only to open again the next day under a different name. Whilst you can lose all your debts, so you can also lose all your assets.
Certainly Iran is an amazing place, it's not yet geared up for the regular package holiday mob but for the more adventurous it's certainly worth a visit. Well done your friend. The only westerners I met, in two visits, were a few Italian mountaineers come to climb Damavand and a German biologist studying some sort of horribly poisonous persian viper, which is understandably horribly endangered on account of it being rather unpopular with persian shepherds.
On the issue of UK debt liability, despite the board level reshuffle a change of mission statement and rebranding, it's still the same corporate body. We didn't deliver on a contract, therefore we're still liable for the balance of the monies paid, on goods we didn't supply.
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14 hours ago, Pistol p said:
A minimum price per unit of alcohol in Scotland. 4 million people. 20% are kids. 10% won't drink. So approx 3 million may be affected. A law to be written covering the British isles for 3 million people who may want to consume alcohol in Scotland. Interesting. If it happens then either a, you deserve it or b, are mugs for not seeing it coming.
There are 5.3 million people in Scotland. 20% is a good figure as that's the percentage that we Scots drink over and above that guzzled, per capita, in the rest of the country.
A law cannot be written covering the British Isles that isn't in turn ratified by the Isle of Mann, England & Wales and Scotland. Although I'm sure you actually meant the UK. The UK has 2 legal jurisdictions, one Scots the other English, both sets of Laws are independent of the Treaty of union (as are the church and education), so there's actually no such thing as UK law, we have Scots & English Law, which for the vast vast majority of the time are harmonised to work in concert. Whats illegal in one part of the UK is usually the same for the other.
What we're seeing here is a slight divergence between the two parts. A good example of similar is the tolerated level of alcohol for drivers being different between the parts. Another and much older, differences in the legalities surrounding wild fowling rights on the foreshore. More modern, but related, is the use of lead for wild fowl over non wetlands, again different.
There's no, "if it happens" it is happening, the moment it was referred to the supreme court opinion was that they'd find in favour of the Scots Parliament. What we await now is the, as some would see it "over due", implementation.
Didn't see it coming? It's been in the post since the bill was voted though 5 years ago. A fellow would have to have been purposely looking the other way not to see it!
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22 minutes ago, Mice! said:
Have a look at stick making, they steam them and straighten them and do voodoo black magic.
A hazel stick doesn't need much of a steam to straighten it, gentle warming the bit to straighten over a hot hob or just the steam from a kettle; is enough if working with the stick and provided there are no unbendable knuckles. All starts by selecting the straightest most likely knuckle fee lengths to begin with. Bending to create a crook or market stick is a bit more complicated as it needs a jig a good heavy steam and a sense of urgency. But you can make a good serviceable stick with very little effort, especially if you can find one thats mores or less pre made for you by the tree it's self. I can't walk past a hazel stand without inspecting it for likely candidates.
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Iran, having been in person more than once, doesn't live up to the rhetoric we hear in our press. An amazing country with very welcoming people and I can think of many more deserving candidates for the glass car park treatment than the Iranians.
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Can't say I'm a mail fan, however if there was going to be any press outrage over this payment, it would most likely be found in the mail or express. So a good acid test for my memory...
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Was under the impression the UK was holding (in which case I rather fancy we've already squandered it) £450 mil belonging to Iran from a pre 79 tank order, cancelled by us on account of the revolution. So, Iranian money being repatriated rather than our money being given.
Even the mail agrees:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5087177/Britain-ready-pay-450million-debt-Iran.html
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Never heard of these, until now. Just searched and found them, looking good and for that sort of money you can't go wrong. Now I've a Bob Parratt tweed shooting waistcoat in teal, winking at me
Now't wrong with a £500 jacket, but if I'm spending that sort of money, I want my tweed hand loom woven in the western isles, the pattern being something unique to the crofter's family rather than run of the mill mass-produced factory material, fitted and made to measure by a reputable tailor.
That said, you can find some good kit off the peg, harris tweed jackets off the peg are selling £200 to £300 at the moment, special offers even less.
Dare I Say It
in General Shooting Matters
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Yeah, saw that
I'll PM the fellow who told me and ask.