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  1. The Venice Biennale is a prestigious achievement in art and architecture 👍
  2. Closed for now. Meeting the prospective members on Saturday.
  3. One of the spaces is now gone, last one remaining.
  4. Thanks JDog and scobydog. My expectation is that the places will get filled quickly, one of the guns has a friend who is keen and we have only released them today. The AGM is on Saturday so we’ve only had final confirmation of numbers from the team this week, some of the members have been in for 15+ years but ill health forces a move to “emeritus” status.
  5. Having lost a couple of members to illness and Australia we can take on two guns to our long established syndicate in North Wales near Bylchau. Walked up shooting, with some driven. A reasonable level of fitness is required. The shoot has a quad and established pens so very little work is required to keep it ticking over. Returns 30% unkeepered and is not in a shoot catchment. Its a very sociable shoot. With a free clay day, big Christmas meal and lots of shared drinks and food. The Christmas meal was genuinely one of the funniest nights I have in memory. £475 releasing 500 pheasant. 13 shoot days so £37 per day per gun. There are 14 members of the syndicate (when full) and everyone is welcome to shoot all dates. However turn out generally averages 5-8 guns. My PB on this syndicate a few years ago was shooting 14 head of game in a day. Land is cleared for centre fire. Foxing etc encouraged. Message me for details. Ideal member would be fit, sociable, work a dog, be a keen shot and enjoy lamping. As long as you are a safe shot and enjoyable company then we would welcome you 👍
  6. South Africa at Easter shooting plains game with my three sons. To say that I am looking forward to it is an understatement.
  7. 🤣 Similar to the response when people ask me “how old is a dog when it is fully trained?” and I tell them that I wouldn’t know. Despite numerous awards, all of my dogs have died before reaching that stage 🤣
  8. I would go for single barrel for a 7 year old due to the forward weight with a short LOP.
  9. Feels like a tip to scale back the post shoot pints of port? 🤔
  10. Don't worry it's not me 😂 🤣🤣🤣 People are buying them as weapons because they are capable of extreme damage. I see half a dozen or more of these dogs a day. The people with them are the ones who don’t seem to be gainfully employed. They certainly have a ‘type’. My employee was in London this weekend and accidentally crossed through the anti ban protest, said you couldn’t have found a rougher bunch of people. The press published pictures of the only blonde young women there.
  11. https://metro.co.uk/2023/09/24/man-attacked-by-xl-bully-days-after-defending-the-dogs-on-social-media-19550051/?ico=trending-post-strip_item_2 “A man who urged people to ‘stop blaming the wrong end of the leash’ over a recent spate of dog attacks has been mauled by one of the very XL Bully dogs he defended online. Ben Cźyżyk, 38, from Wolverhampton, was left with puncture wounds and bruising to his face after the incident on Friday night. The father-of-three was walking in the Tettenhall area of the city when he spotted an XL Bully wandering along without a lead at about 10pm.”
  12. Wow that must be close to a record for two guns. When I shoot over 200 birds it takes a toll, just the collecting in, eyes burning bright all day, lifting the gun 1000 times etc. One to remember 👍
  13. One of the lads in my team used be the firearms training officer for a southern police force, as a three-tour veteran he said the police protocols and procedures were a mess. Just one example, in Helmand under enemy fire they travelled with a clear breach, only loading the gun upon exit. In civilian life (were 9,999 out of 10,000 incidents don’t result in a fire fight) his police force travel with loaded weapons. My pal lost limbs in battle yet still wouldn’t elect to travel with a loaded gun. He was pretty scathing about these battle ready civilians (police). I also know a female armed response officer up north.
  14. That was my experience when I was in in Chris Kaba’s position for an armed stop. The firearms team were ill disciplined and dangerous, all to do with poor training and poor selection.
  15. The internet is a great place for venting but it is always good to get a range of views to help oneself learn, a sort of post mortem or debrief analysis. In the discourse that follows there is a fine balance between a bear pit and an echo chamber, this forum does a good job of that. Challenging views in a supportive yet friendly manner. I appreciate all the opinions given.
  16. 🤣🤣🤣 Reminds me of this classic Jon Snow and Jacob Rees Mogg tussle:
  17. Lemn Sissay’s poetry has taught me an old word very relevant to our world… They have found the abature Gripped rips of torn moss Lined by spears of silver birch And a conspiracy of frost
  18. Killed, it is actually comparatively few. Whilst each one tragic, there were just 23 police deaths in the line of duty in the last two decades (rate of 1.15 per annum) in Great Britain. To put it into some perspective, the HSE work-related death rate in my industry, construction, was 45 last year for the UK. Injuries are likely to be even less frequent than other comparables.
  19. I tell my boys to put the decoys out whilst I build the hide, it is a mad, unorganised heap but I still get 100 bird days. 25 years ago I spent longer messing about with the pattern than actually shooting, though with an air rifle it was a smidge harder back then 🤣 If you look at George Digweed putting his pattern out you will learn a lot…. He makes my boys look like consummate professionals.
  20. IMO it should be the commanding officer taking the charge. When I was held at gun point by a police firearms unit I was unarmed and compliant, the guns were incorrectly in ‘high-ready’ pointed at my centre of mass, with painted fingers inside the trigger guards. Eventually a mistake will be made and it is likely more to do with poor training, poor intelligence or poor officer selection than an individual’s mistake or misdeed. I don’t know enough about the case to comment on the individual circumstances as I’ve only read what is in the press. Nonetheless it appears to be a sensible degree of awareness by his colleagues to hand their tickets back in if they as individuals face prosecution for organisational mistakes made by the force. I feel the same about prosecution of individual elderly veterans that were put in an inappropriate situation by politicians and high command.
  21. Hope he’s enjoying a good start to the lowland season.
  22. Looks like we have both had time to reflect (me with the Ranger, you with the deleted post) and can both give ourselves a wry smile at how we get so wound up over life’s trivialities.
  23. I was shooting walked up partridge over Belgian and Italian handled dogs last weekend. Their handling and control was superb. No dog is ever fully trained, every day is training, reinforcement and exposure to different environments etc.
  24. You don't half seem to have some dramas for someone who has well behaved dogs. I work dogs and have had a dog with me most days for getting towards two decades. Unfortunately if you put in those sorts of hours in the different environments I do then it’s going to happen.
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