243deer
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Rarely have I seen so many inane comments in a thread on PW.
The snooker is covered by the BBC so all the guy had to do to protest was stand outside the theatre with a placard and he would undoubtedly have received the coverage he wanted. By acting in the way he has what he has achieved is a big discussion about his behaviour rather than the message he was trying to convey. He has failed.
Choosing to move into the criminal world by causing criminal damage was his personal choice and so he must take the consequences. If his family suffers that is his fault and not societies.
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2 hours ago, Vince Green said:
The question of smoking when driving is another issue. This time a safety one. I don't think it should be allowed, it's banned in many countries.
Vince, sorry, but I think this is cobblers fella. If smoking was a significant cause of accidents in any way the insurance companies would ask if you smoked and vary your quote accordingly, they do not, simples.
Personally I think banning anything should be banned, fed up with being dictated to by vocal minorities who often know - not a lot (to avoid swearing filter) - about not a lot
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Will hate speech by antis against the minority of country folk carrying out legal activities be treated with the same gravity by the police as a bunch of dolls on a windowsill? I think not as some hate speech is clearly more equal than other hate speech.
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2 hours ago, eddoakley said:
Mk1 (I think)
if it has a free floating barrel with no band then it is a mk 1
2 hours ago, bryan7162 said:what multi shot is it 5 or 10
AA only did a 10 shot conversion - works really well if you load the mags carefully and treat things gently - mine still going strong after 20+ years
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I have a small Sheppach, not very powerful, quite a bit of blade wobble and only has a 200mm throat depth but it is OK for small jobs that do not need high accuracy
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7 hours ago, NoBodyImportant said:
As a lower class American the four years under Trump was the best in my lifetime. Taxes went down, under his direction the EPA cut regulations that lowered food price. Business was booming. The small towns that had empty buildings field up with businesses again. Companies were competing to get employees. When Trump took office we were just getting by. My friends and I wages quadrupled, I had so much work that I had to turn it down.
Great to get some facts from a reporter on the ground rather than politically motivated sheep like opinions from folk who have never lived in the USA and rely on our mainstream media reporting for their information. Disappointing, but unsurprising, that no one has admitted that they might have things wrong.
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2 hours ago, islandgun said:
how would they administer the vaccine ? food or catch and release
Beyond my knowledge but if it could be via food you would think that would be the most effective.
I spoke to a friend today who grew up near Brandon. He tells me that when he were a lad they used to walk to the Forestry Commission at Santon Downham and shoot enough squirrels with air rifles on the way for the tails to pay for ciggies and chips. How times have changed, money (that the FC or whatever their modern name is, charge for shoots or deer stalking) of course, overriding good tree husbandry via vermin control.
I would love to be able to wander the FC woodland and control squirrels sadly I feel that this will now never happen
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6 minutes ago, TIGHTCHOKE said:
We continue to pander to all and sundry minorities.
Time to register cash use as a religion
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7 minutes ago, islandgun said:
stick a bounty on the tail of every grey
Whilst this certainly would not do any harm I think finding enough skilled squirrel hunters would now be difficult. Plenty of folk with an air rifle think they could pop off a few greys and they can to start with, assuming the land owners grant permission. Even assuming hunters can do a reasonable job of reducing numbers over say the first year or two, once numbers reduce it will then take a lot of time and dedication to finish off the last few greys in an area. They will probably need trapping as they will, by this time, be extremely wary. If just one estate, privately or publicly owned does not 'sign up' to the program and acts as a reservoir (RSPB and wildlife trusts are classic examples as cuddly squirrels = memberships) 100% physical removal in an area will be almost impossible.
Realistically I would see more hope in a live vaccine that allowed existing reds to build up immunity and hopefully pass resistance on to their progeny.
Whether after all this has been done the greys will simply kill the reds to stop food competition is another question that I do not have enough knowledge to answer.
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All this talk of power cuts and nothing working. I am glad to say that my local is cash only and has an old fashioned mechanical till. Even with a power cut the hand draw beer pumps will still work, the fire will still be burning, candles will provide light and beer will still be drunk.
Where appropriate cashless is fine by me but I object to it being imposed that is just too Orwellian.
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7 minutes ago, Old Boggy said:
You`re right, when grown for biofuel, the whole crop is harvested leaving none, or very few cobs on the surface.
Just an aside. The subsidy for this practice is now going to end. Subsidies for biofuel foodstock will be based on using 'waste' products only. I am sure there will be loopholes found but the premise is that we should be using land for growing food or for conservation. Approx 50 acres of land in front and behind my place are being sown with wild flowers at the end of this years crops as it pays better than renting out for cropping as mentioned above. These fields are right next to roost woods so it will be interesting to see how well they do.
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Just a normal day driving down the 16ft drain
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My Nan flew there a fair few years ago, she had always had trouble with her ears and had a miserable, painful experience on landing
Watch this if considering flying
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13 minutes ago, mgsontour said:
I was thinking I used to suffer from cramps from time to time so on a big day shoot + pub I take a magnesium tablet in the morning, dunno if its a placebo effect but it to works
I also have suffered from cramps when on my feet for 12 hour shifts on concrete, increasing hydration and decreasing caffeine worked for me (sorry to have partially hijacked thread)
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As you have tried many forms of deterrent that will obviously include gas bangers so I presume that noise is not really an issue. Out of the two I would use .17hmr however it is not a good round if it is too windy so your opportunities would be restricted.
Headshots - too much of a moving target in my view if they are feeding - geese with their beaks missing that are emaciated through starvation are not a good advertisement for pest control.
I would go .223 out of the mainstream calibres as it will knock them down very efficiently with body shots and if you have a lot to cull you can reload and reduce the ammo costs.
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1 hour ago, PeterHenry said:
it would seem a sensible belief
The thing is that the so called representative bodies of shooting who will have considerable weight in the consultation process continue to make unqualified generalised statements that will have the effect by their repetitive nature of being accepted as true when there is no unequivocal scientific evidence to support the claims.
If English courts ran on the basis of as you say 'it would seem a sensible belief' there would be far more convictions, especially for rape, but they run on evidence.
The 'evidence' being quoted by Conor is decades old so if a serious danger from lead shot was known to BASC and the other organisations why were they not calling for a phasing out of lead shot all those years ago on conservation grounds? Could we still have a decent population of grey partridge if our shooting organisations had been genuinely conservation minded? Now they trot out this 'evidence' when it is convenient for their current narrative.
It does not make sense to me, too much inconsistency.
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7 hours ago, Conor O'Gorman said:
Sure. Let's start with grey partridge.
A GWCT study published in 2005 found that 4.5% of discovered dead birds contained lead shot in their gizzards and estimated that 1.2% of living wild grey partridges contained ingested lead shot at any one time.
Potts, G.R. (2005). Incidence of ingested lead gunshot in wild grey partridges (Perdix perdix) from the UK. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 51:31–34.
All these studies have proved is that they have lead shot in their gizzards or have ingested it, not that they have died of lead poisoning.
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51 minutes ago, Conor O'Gorman said:
There is evidence this is happening in the UK.
Please may we have links to the published scientific papers?
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39 minutes ago, rellum said:
I’m surprised its given rubbish like this any time or air space.
Possibly because we are treated as adults, well able to see what is being written and make our own minds up as clearly shown by different, carefully worded, common sense, opinions being stated. It is not felt that overly heavy handed censorship is needed.
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I would just do the same as I would with any new rifle/round combination. Zero in at 100m on the flat either up or down wind then start with the elevation changes and cross wind practice as well as pushing out/ pulling in distance to judge hold over/under and find out where you are happy with your/the rifles grouping for consistent humane kills. By the time you have done all that and then gone back to 100m on the flat up or down wind to check your group (which is likely to tighten with the practice) you will have put enough rounds through to be pretty confident it will hit where you aim and will have smoothed any possible (but unlikely these days) imperfections.
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When your countries hotels are permanently full and migration is responsible for nearly 50% of your population growth common sense suggests that you need to slow down immigration drastically for the time it takes to accommodate those already here into our society. This will then give them a far better lifestyle than living in a hotel room and they will also start contributing to society via tax rather than being a drain on it. Then we can accommodate more migrants, if appropriate and preferably in a controlled manner to avoid the situation we are in occurring again.
Why the people who advocate unfettered migration want to be so cruel to immigrants as to condemn them to a life in a hotel room is beyond me.
I feel for the folk in Ireland who are part of the cruel system where it is illegal to limit migration to a sensible level appropriate to the needs of everyone in the country at the time.
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I think combining wild boar and venison could make some truly epic sausages
Been threatened with having my dog shot
in Dogs and Dog Training
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If you feel that everyone has a right to let their dog loose to run about in your garden then I understand why you think you have the right to let your dog run around on private land.
Under close control in my view is walking to heel on the footpath without a lead when you also have a 100% recall available - how many can say they have 100% recall? Would a judge agree if your dog had caused damage?
I would certainly never shoot a dog unless it was actually attacking livestock, I do not think a judge would see that as reasonable.
As well as the bird nesting season, lambing season there should also be consideration for late birth deer and when they arrive in the Autumn, weary woodcock, maybe only 5 paces off the footpath that goes through the wood.
If you let your dog off the footpath on private land that you do not have permission to be on with your dog I think you are in the wrong but most dog owners do not consider that they are.