Rob85

I know there are ones that can be bought but I meant has anyone tried to make there own at home out of paper/card etc? From what I see the clay game ones are some sort of tough fibre based thing. Was just wondering if it was possible for the home gamer to make something similar. With there being only a small number of manufacturers this will keep prices up. I haven't gotten into the reloading game as of yet but as a known tinkered I'm wondering if it would be worth experimenting with sometime

Nope very poor use of police resources. If people want to try there luck thats on them, but I don't think the farmers should have to drive around the long way, wasting expensive fuel when they usually have the vehicles designed to cross the ford. And in these days of emissions conscious people, its not a good look to sit all day with your engine running just blocking a road. From what I understand if you crash or come a cropper on a closed road your insurance doesn't have to pay out, so I say put up a road closed sign and let people make a tit of themselves. Maybe when word gets around of the consequences of wrecking the car people won't be so keen on trying to become Internet famous

I'm (un)lucky that I only have 2 guns and both are ordinary game guns so have to do everything but the ground i shoot has some wetland that I can take duck on so I always carry non toxic when I'm walking that part. on the way back I usually swap over for any pigeons/game I may happen to stumble across, but I'm never really laden down with much...ducks especially haha. On the subject of cartridge choice I did once manage to accidentally slip a 36g AAA foxing cartridge in instead of my normal 30g 6s and truly annihilated a pheasant, would have thought I had shot it down with a 223, one big hole through the back and out the neck 🤡

I actually do that with toast, straight out of the tin, into a slice of toast, fold over and get wired into it. Nice hot cuppa with it...lovely quick lunch/breakfast/wrong side of payday dinner

Exactly how I pick my pups, I get in among them and the mother and just watch for a while and then you start to see which one has that curiosity about you and wants to come and play and be with you. My current pup is coming along nicely but I don't think she's going to be the biggest Lab in the world. Bailey is a handsome wee beastie if I do say so myself

What about an innocent bystander who gets run over and killed by someone pursuing the scumbags. That would see the burglary victim facing somewhere in the region of 14 years inside for causing death by dangerous driving. Cases like this are very seldom straight forward. Quite often police will break off a chase because there's more risk to the public by continuing a pursuit. Also bear in mind that not all police officers that drive cars are pursuit trained. Crimes remain unsolved because there isn't enough evidence to bring it to a trial. Plenty of murders have went unsolved even though people know who done it. Bringng the required weight of evidence into a courtroom that proves to a jury who done it is another matter, alleged rapes and sexual assaults being the big one. Don't get me wrong I am all for protecting your property and if you catch someone in the act I believe you should be able to detain them, but that doesn't mean you should be allowed to involve yourself in a chase and ram them off the road.

Wasn't 2010 the year a lot of shoots ended up being called off due to the mad snowfalls we had?

They attempted to steal the dirt bike, were disturbed and ran off. In reality thats where it should have ended. With him jumping in his car and going after them it now just becomes about revenge for trying it, I can understand your bloods going to be up but its like punching back on a rugby pitch, the ref only sees the retribution and YOU get the red card. If he really wanted to pursue the scumbags he should have called the police on Bluetooth hands free and guided them to help make the arrest rather than being lucky in avoiding attempted murder charges

Regarding the wad situation, has anyone attempted to make their own biodegradable shot cup to handle steel shot rather than fork out the money for the market available ones?

Funny enough when I was looking for standard steel cartridges rather than HP ones, a local hardware store that sells cartridges was the only one that stocked a small selection. The store in question this time of year does a roaring trade in cartridges and boxes of clays and the prices are very reasonable.... that reminds me I need to buy a few boxes!

I think people would be surprised how many people still attend churches. There are 4 in the small town I live in and are all pretty well attended 3 of which have thriving youth programs/organisations which I'm also part of in a leadership role. Some churches with youth and outreach programs do a hell of a lot of good in their communities Church aside i agree there are quite a lot of serial spongers in society that need gripping. One of them lives up the street from me, I've known him for years, next to damn all wrong with him and somehow he qualifies for disability living allowance, he's in his 50s and hasn't worked a day in his life, yet has a car, social housing for free and top of the line benefits package. It is sickening. I've been bleating on forever that one of the big problems with people "can't afford to eat" is they don't know how to cook. Schools have fallen down here where they moved away from teaching people to properly cook family meals and learn to budget in home economics classes, to teaching them a class that is purely aimed to pass an exam and get a good grade so the school looks good in their yearly figures. No real substance to the learning. Hence a lot of these kids don't know what do do other than yap for money to go to the chippy or mcdonalds

A good long walk in that weather with the dogs and gun mooching around the hedges and a hot cuppa afterwards. Thats my kind of weather. Last week I had my first frozen windscreen of the season when I got up for work. Autumn, winter and spring do it for me. Summer heat be damned!

I see there is reports suggesting possible foul play, but I suspect that's probably coming from the family saying that he couldn't possibly have been negligent and he was always so safe. Bear in mind there's a picture of him there with a gun barrel pointing just to the side of the camera while holding the birds he shot...anything but safe. Still it is tragic that he has lost his life in this incident

How i do it on my phone is to bring the picture up, then take a screenshot of the photo, edit out any phone screen icons by cropping and upload the screenshot, makes the file size much smaller

I reckon its going to be a bit like the PPI claims, by the time you pay the company claiming on your behalf it won't be worth the bother

The advice i was given at the start was to always start with a bitch because they tend to be easier trained. Then I read one of the great books by Joe Irving where he states something like you get the odd dog who is gay and you can get a bitch who could break the heart of a wooden God....not quite PC but his words and not mine. Guess what kind of spaniel bitch I had as a first dog! 🤣 As Lloyd says do be wary of some of the trainers, when I sought help from one of the top guys in NI at the time he was adamant my dog wasn't "with" me and advised I sell her on and coincidentally a friend of his had a part trained bitch he was selling 🙄

The roads where I live are a shambles, in the last 2 years I've replaced 3 balljoints....finally replaced the full lower control arms and my anti rollbar bushes front and back are now shagged from all the rattling about. My younger brothers car had to have new springs on the front and new shocks on the back a couple of months ago. Its a combo of pee-poor Road surface, phoenix gas coming along and digging up the good road surfaces to lay a pipe line and leaving the good roads subsiding badly and speed bumps on parts of the road nobody wanted them on. The mechanics round my way are busier than ever... im sure anyone on the forum that lives in County Down will know all about it.

Its amazing what a little bit of elbow grease can do to a gun, just that little bit extra can be all it takes to make something ordinary into the extraordinary. Looking good so far, can't wait to see the end result

Just don't be tempted to rush out and spend a fortune on a hot headed field trial grade ferrari of a lab with a sea of red down both sides of its pedigree. Ideally you would be wanting to see the parents of the pups and at a minimum you will want to see the bitch. Everyone has a different formula when they go to choose a pup, some people want to pick that bold brash pup who is really confident and others prefer to choose a calmer one. Personally when I go to choose I will have decided if its a dog or bitch I'm after then ill spend at least half an hour to an hour watching the pups, how they interact with each other and how they move about, and then ill see how they behave around me, ill be picking one that is comfortable with me and wants to follow and play with me.... not the one that's trying to escape the kennel and rush off to do his/her own thing. Do you have any friends that have gundogs or have access to a local shoot where you can watch people working their labs. What ultimately are you expecting of your dog when you are working it? As far as prices go its hard to say, thankfully they have become sensible again though after the lockdown madness and good prices can be found

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-63569908 A 23 year old student chucks eggs at the king and shouts some rubbish about this country being built on the blood of slaves. He gets arrested and almost immediately bailed? I would like to hope he's going to get found guilty and sentenced for a public order offence and kicked out of his university. But no sadly I think he will get told by the judge that he was a bold boy and not to do it again or else.

That may be different to standard acupuncture. Was it a physio done it for you? They would do more dry needling where they use a long needle into the muscles rather than traditional acupuncture which is normally just jabbed into the skin. I had dry needling on my calf muscles after a tendon rupture, it wasn't much fun, but my goodness it worked!

The ones that are up on the gantries. Instead of climbing up and bringing them down, why don't they climb up and properly handcuff them there, arms and legs and just damn well leave them for a few days til they are begging to be let down. They will change their tune once starvation and cold and wet takes its toll. A bit like gibbetting without the prior hanging

Being honest I would be inclined to stop everything and start again, from the beginning. Treat him like a dog you've only just got, focus on recall, don't let him near any objects he can pick up and play with for a good few weeks to a month. If he wants something to beat boredom then it has to be pleasing you. I would be cautious taking it to a trainer to iron out issues with a dog whose a little older. The one I went to who was well known enough to be on television shows advised me straight off the bat that the dog "wasn't with me at all" and that I would be better selling her... oh and just by coincidence his friend had a pup that was ready for sale for a great price.

I would set a concrete pipe into the channel and then stone and soil it over

Actually I have tried that approach on a fella who turned up in the same fields that I use with his out of control barking at everything springer and his underweight but seemingly calm/doped pointer. His springer took a go at biting the stitched end of my cockers recently surgically docked tail. I pushed it away with my stick to keep it out of range and shouted at it to F'off before his manic shouting managed to get it to walk back towards him. He asked if it bit my dog and I explained what happened...although the fact he asked if it bit whenever he didn't see the incident would inform of the kind of mentality the dog had... I told him he would need to get a grip and control his dog or something terrible would happen. Man near flew into a rage of how dare I tell him his dog was out of control, I walked on and left him to it as I could sense things were going to escalate to him requiring dental treatment if the conversation continued.