LeedsZeppelin

Make sure there isn't a space after the email address, especially if it is auto fill or copy and pasted. I've fallen foul of that problem a couple of times.

If your into your phone apps, I've heard a few people having success with an app called 'Smoke Free'. Other than that, all I can offer is the best of luck.

Certain life lessons have taught me that this is a good idea in general.

I've heard a rumour that there is going to be simulated game days on the Harewood Estate in Yorkshire starting this year. The rumoured prices are around the £400 mark but will have a high standard of hospitality, and not your average pie and chips in a pub, straw bail shoot. Sounds like it's worth keeping your eyes open for.

Just out of interest, what type of stone are the fountains made from? Is it likely to discolour?

It looks like a thinly veiled attempt to pacify those that are upset by the legal cover being dropped. Will this 'legal fighting fund' be available to individual members who want to appeal against having their tickets revoked? It doesn't say, and because of that I suspect it won't. Only the gullible would believe that they are now under writing the members' legal cover with a rainy day fund.

I understand the logic, but isn't there a little more to it than simple figures? Such as reputation, and customer loyalty? I recently bought a used gun for £900. The dealer told me if I ever wanted to sell it or trade up, he would give me £900 for it, providing it is in decent condition of course. I was recommended to buy from this shop from a friend who owns several guns - mostly bought from the same RFD on a similar deal. If I want another gun, or wish to upgrade, I will be back to see this RFD before anyone else. And at the same time i will probably spend money on other stuff, such as the air rifle I bought from there as an impulse purchase.

Posting on the off chance someone has a spare Invector Plus choke key (Browning/Miroku) they are willing to sell. I've lost mine, and using a 20p coin is starting to get a little tedious.

I can see half a point in that letter. Consideration should be taken by shooters, and any birds should be retrieved and a humane death should be achieved. By not doing so, it does put shooting in a bad light. But claiming sundays should be reserved for tranquil afternoon tea in the garden? What gives him the right to state that? I agree that it sounds very much like snobbery, and certainly highlights a sense of self entitlement and selfishness. If it really is an issue for him and his neighbours, surely the best course of action would be a quiet word with the land owner. Not to whinge in the BASC magazine.

I wonder what percentage of their membership are people like myself who exclusively shoot clay targets and joined BASC for their insurance and legal cover? It would be interesting to see how much their membership drops by. A lot would be my guess as almost everyone I know who is a member is so purely for the insurance, and not too bothered about the rest. I'll be cancelling and looking at joining CPSA instead.

I'm not old enough to have served in the 70s, but I did used to serve rum and pep to a regular customer about 20 years ago. That would have been a ratio of 1:1 as they were a shot of each from 25ml (or maybe 35ml?) optics, and I distinctively remember it being Lambs Navy Rum and Schweppes brand peppermint cordial.

At 10,000 signatures a petition has a right to response from the government. This is usually a response that has already been heard, and means very little. At 100,000 signatures a petition is discussed at parliament. Again, the subject has usually been discussed by MPs at some point already, and is usually a bit of an anti climax for those that put the petition together. You can see all petitions in either category on the government website. Believe it or not, MPs usually know about whatever is being petitioned and would action it, or bring it up in parliament already, if they felt it was needed. Most petitions I see are biased viewpoints by ignorant people with too much time on their hands, fueled by their friends telling half truths on Facebook.

They should string the ******** up. Hopefully they will catch them due to the CCTV footage. https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/news/leeds-news/cctv-images-released-after-swans-18404517.amp

Never knew little kids exploded! 😆😆

Having seen a dripping hand sanitiser take away varnish and eat into a wooden surface at work, as well as having some clothes recently bleached with hand sanitiser, I'd be careful of letting it get near the metal and woodwork of your gun. I'm not using the hand sanitiser whilst shooting, but using gloves and common sense instead. I'll then sanitise my hands after the gun has gone away immediately after the round.

That's true, but if you have the facility to film 1080p HD video it soon chews through the memory.

The aimcam looks good enough for a video about shooting, but not as a training aid. I think the selling point of the Shotkam is the intimate view of the shot pattern as well as the crosshair showing your gun position at any given time. I believe there will be an offer for £100 off towards the end of this month. That will bring the price down to around £450.

I bought a Campark one from Amazon last year for around £40. It takes surprisingly clear pictures and video in the day and at night. The built in screen isn't the best, but can easily be hooked up to a laptop to view. You need an external memory card though, and it can't half eat the memory if you have a lot of activity. Mines been outside throughout the winter with no issues (apart from the bracket showing signs of rust) and had some great pictures of mice, rats, squirrels, hedgehogs, songbirds, redkites, the dog, and the missus hanging out the washing.

This is true. You'd be very unlucky to be ill, but the worse case would be the trots. You will have sampled bad beer if you have drank enough over the years. The two most common bacterial infections are acetobacter which gives a vinegar like taste and smell, and diacetyl which gives beer a buttery butterscotch taste and oily mouth feel. Both wont do you any harm. Beer is actually very good at fighting bacteria away, especially beers with active yeast in such as cask beer and bottle conditioned. The yeast will out compete bacteria to it's food source (fermentable sugars)whilst the fermentation process produces co2, effectively creating a barrier between the beer and oxygen. I'm not sure about additives though. Out of interest, which brewery is this? Is she sure they are fresh, and not just out of a warehouse? I've only just spoken to the brewery that supplies me. They have yet to restart production, and the large multinational conglomerate brewery across the road from them has just started gearing up to brew again.

Yes, is the simple answer. Cask goes a lot quicker than kegged beer. As a guideline, Keg beer will start turning in three or four months time after it was filled, cask is about half that. Once opened the rate of deterioration increases. There is more to it than that though. Pasturised beer lasts longer, as does stronger beer. Some stronger and darker beers actually get better with age - up until a certain point - but the risk of infection also increases.

There are a few half truths in your post. Every brewery in the country stopped brewing keg and cask beer when the lockdown happened - with the odd exception of some microbreweries selling 4.5g pins for consumption at home. Why would they be producing draught products when their market has disappeared? A lot of breweries, including the one that supplies my beer, did recall any unopened containers with the promise of replacements once the lock down was lifted. This was in everyones favour. The pubs get fresh beer upon reopening and the breweries get to reclaim the duty on the beer, giving a little bit of cash flow. As for those selling takeout beers, it has been sat in a cellar or warehouse since before the lockdown. It may be still within it's use by date, but it is far from fresh. If any publican is telling you he is getting fresh beer then he is telling you porkies.

A lot of the pubs are jumping the gun to open without the correct guidance. Two pubs in Harrogate opened at the weekend for takeout pints, and are now being threatened with their licenses for encouraging anti-social drinking. I wouldn't be drinking any draught beer at the minute anyway. When was the last time a brewery brewed beer not destined for cans or bottles? The likelihood is that any kegged or cask beer has been sat in a cellar with the cooling turned off since March.

I too have been thinking about a gun camera recently. Like the op, I cannot justify the £500+ price tag of Shotkam at the present. I'm wanting one to see where I'm actually missing. I've had 'expert shooters' watching over my shoulder and feel that a camera will be a far more valuable tool. Having compared youtube videos of Shotkams, GoPros, and other alternatives, it appears that nothing else compares to the Shotkam. All others seem prone to either lack of zoom clarity, too wide a field of view, issues with vibration from recoil, or all three. I'll keep an eye on this thread with keen interest.

I'm also a MacWet wearer. I cannot fault them in all but extreme cold weather. During the colder months I wear Sealskinz. Before MacWets, I wore cycling gloves. They give plenty of grip whilst being nice and thin. For those asking why we wear gloves all year round, I like the extra grip they provide and the protection against hot barrels (on occasions I will share a gun). It also now seems to be part of my mental preparation. Once my ear defenders, glasses and gloves are on I zone into my shooting mindset.

I've heard the same, or at least a very similar story. Ive also seen a shooter take someone else's gun from the rack by mistake. He didn't realise until a few weeks afterwards and sheepishly returned it back to the club. I always keep my gun within arms reach (or arms reach of someone I know and trust) when it isn't securely locked away. I cannot understand why someone would treat an expensive item any differently, especially one that could jeopardise your certificate if it disappeared. One of my local shooting grounds has removed the racks from outside the clubhouse after what happened at Orston. I understand why, but it was infuriating trying to sort all my kit out whilst holding my gun earlier this week!