ClemFandango

You may find it immature but you have yet to make a valid comment on this subject.

pendunculate oak. As said before, there is some varyation in the newly formed leaves amd the leaves of ypung trees

No. You don't get it. The decision not to Lockdown at the first sniffle was correct. We need people to catch the virus and in any case, it's inevitable. If the country followed your lead and was locked down from the first sniffle until a vaccine becomes available the country would be on it's knees. I don't care for Boris or Maggie, no one, even you oh all seeing oracle could have dealt with this in a way that mitigated all of the risks and balanced the negative effect on the country and it's economy.

Send your CV in. You'll be PM in no time. People are ****** off with lockdown now, how do you think they'd be doing if the whole country lockedown when you did? How do you think the economy would be doing?

Have a look at a map of all the passenger flights across the world... Truly amazing. Then remember that this is a small percentage of all the travel that goes on to move things like freight and doesn't include human travel by train, boat etc and then think how easy would it be to contain a virus that you don't even know exists. An then think what if I did know it existed. How long would it take to shut that all off completely (if you could). How many passengers can get on a boeing 747? it only takes one to have a virus and not even exhibit symptoms or know that they have it for the virus to circulate in the air. Potentially infect everyone on that plane... And then, unless the plane is completely sterilised everyone on the next flight. Then think of the onward journeys of all those now infected people. Where are they taking the virus to pass on to their families and friends? and that is just one flight of one plane in one day and this could all be before anyone even knows the virus exists.

It's times like those you count yourself lucky that you never wore ear defenders when shooting as a kid.

YES exactly!! This virus had almost certainly left China before anyone knew it existed. It was going to get here, if it wasn't already. The world's only hope from the start was to limit the damage.

No they ******* weren't!! Do you think that the first person that gets a brand new, unknown virus gets picked up every time? Of course not!! The odds are that it had already left China before anybody knew it existed. It doesn't matter how many people move about then, once it's out it's out. The difference of Covid-19 and SARS etc is the infection rate. One person with C-19 potentially infects more people than one person with flu or sars or whatever. You can't compare them.

There are so many knife making threads on this and some other forums I go on that make some really "nice" knives I decided I would only comment on the ones I found exceptional. I really like the handle detail, not seen much of that sort of design and it really works for me. Just personally for me I don't tend to use a dedicated filleting knife so the blade shape isn't that pracitcal for me but overall a really lovely knife.

The same arguments used against those firearms are used against ALL firearms. Be careful what you wish for.

Neither makes you more or less dead either eh? Complex argument but personally I am against the Canadian ruling. I bet there are tens or hundreds of thousands of totally law abiding canadians who enjoy using those firearms that have never, or will never use them to do any harm and now they are being penalised. Losing a sport or pass time that they enjoy because of the actions of the few and political pressure. Kind of sounds familiar? Anyone on here from the UK miss their pistol? Can't think of any practical application for a ruger redhawk other than killing people? Oddly mine never did. It just shot paper. Tin cans, skittles. I really enjoyed using it and it got taken away from me. The country is no safer for the fact either. I take no enjoyment whatsoever from motorsport of any kind. Noisy and boring if you ask me and there is no practical reason why anyone would want to own a trials bike or a fast car is there? A mini metro is just as good on the road as a ferrari, after all you can only legally travel at 70mph on our roads. The carbon dioxide, monoxide and other noxious fumes spewed by these vehicles which have very little regulation governing their emissions, people tinker with them in their garages to alter their performance. For what? Recreation? shame on them. That's not a valid reason to kill the planet is it? Ban formula one. Ban the Red Bull Air Race. Ban the Isle of man TT. Ban the sale of any vehicle that travels faster that 70mph. Any motocross or trials bike. We'll have an amnesty on all of these so called "sports" vehicles and give everyone two years to get them chopped up. By the end of it the planet will be a safer place, less polluted and we will be reserving the dwindling stock of petrochemicals, as an added bonus we can stick our fingers up to these stupid hicks who think that tearing around on a noisy polluting vehicle whooping and hollering and getting muddy is a responsible way to use valuable resources, pollute the planet and damage the countryside. sick individuals.

Or any understanding of viruses.

Exactly. I don't think the government has done a bad job. Do people think the virus is just going to disappear? It's here. It isn't going anywhere. The likelihood is you will get it. If not now later. Unless you get access to a vaccine. It doesn't matter how many people enter the country now legally or illegally. It doesn't matter when we started or finish lockdown it is here. Unless you grow all your own food, make your own clothes and goods you will catch it. 'Lockdown" is just delaying the inevitable. The purpose of it is to hang out the infection for long enough that it reduces the strain on the NHS so that if you do get it. They can care for you and it will be less likely to kill you.

Closing our borders would have been a waste of time. To be sure we would have had to stop EVERYTHING coming in including freight. The country wouldn't last very long without importing goods.

I didn't. I am more savvy these days so were it to occur again I certainly would take your advice.

Left looks like a roe doe. Right looks like a sheep.

Good point, and I have had similar. Which is why I raised the question. I was accused of raining shot on a bloke (who I have regular run ins with.) While he was eating his breakfast. Apparently he had caught some in his cornflake bowl. I had been shooting but at first light, so maybe two hours before he was even awake and I had been rabbiting, in a different direction nearly a kilometer away. He came to my house ranting and raving and I told him why it was impossible. I asked him to show me the shot he had found in his cornflakes and he told me he would be showing it to the police. I never got a visit or a phone call from the police. Most of my deer stalking is around houses etc but I have met or introduced myself to the owners so hopefully the situation won't raise itself there.

Well obviously. I just wondered. It would be easy for someone to make a malicious claim against an otherwise innocent shooter.

Have there ever been any prosecutions under this? Who would the burden of proof lie with? I imagine it would be nearly impossible to prove that shot from a shotgun had landed on your property and even more difficult to prove whose shotgun fired them. If you could find an airgun pellet then I guess they could link it to a rifle but would the police or the CPS bother getting the forensic evidence?

I can. I deal with the scumbags on an almost weekly basis. I have never met one that wasn't a total and utter crook.

If you were expecting any more than what you got. You're a pillock.

How long did you soak the skins before use? Sounds like they were too dry. This is gospel.

That's a bit less valid than putting an onion in your socks when you go to bed. At least that was funny.

Maybe I just got lucky and pulled the right racks out of the right ovens.

Oven racks work fine. I went to the local tip and got two oven racks for my home made barbecue for nowt and they have been totally fine. I think it's five maybe six years old now.