Poor Shot

Its easy for these scumbag politicians to sell their soul to the devil knowing that in 4 years time they'll be away and not have to face the consequences. The single best thing we could do for politics in the UK is to make ministers accountable and responsible for the results of their policies for the rest of their life time. It would certainly open their eyes a bit being accountable for whatever ******** they sign the country up to. You want to sign up to some ridiculously impossible climate targets to show how in tune you are with the agenda? Then see it through to the end and face the consequences of your failure.

I was born in 93 so not a single thing in this thread is familiar apart from the coal man. We still have a coal man locally but he does deliver from the back of a lorry and not a horse and cart. Some on this thread will have children older than me or perhaps even grand children older than me. 🤣 I am old enough to remember penny sweets being a penny and getting 100 of them for £1, Cadburys Freddo bars being £0.05 and cans of coke in the local pub being £0.45. Last time I bought a coke in a pub it was £1.85. Imitation chocolate or chalk candy cigarettes were a thing and available in a 20 pack branded similarly to real cigarettes. Cap guns, banger darts, BB guns and snap pops were a thing your uncle gave to you on your birthday to annoy your parents with. In S. Wales at least, every village had a street or square with a butcher, monger, grocer, hardware shop, cobbler, clothes shop, (independent) bookies. In the village I was born, all of these are now houses with no clue that they were once shops. The foot and mouth pandemic and the stench of the burning of sheep and cow carcasses at the farm on the end of my parents street. Roughly the same time that Cheesy Dorito crisps were released and to this day I associate the smell of them with the mass burnings and can't stand to be in the same room as an open packet of them. My mother worked part time in the local corner shop and brought a pack from the first box they had delivered home for me. She must have been so disappointed that I didn't even finish the packet. I can remember the place being littered with abandoned mine works, washeries, rail sidings etc. Most of this has now been cleaned up and left to nature or are now ugly housing estates. CRT TVs with great huge boxes sticking out of the back of them. The less well off kids would have TVs with a £1 meter on the side, usually accompanied by a £1 with hole drilled and a string run through it to fool the meter. I believe they were Buy as You View or similar. A pub on near enough every street. They all looked the same, were decorated the same, smelled the same and even had almost an identical set of bar flies sat at the bar from lunchtime every day. They all had the nicotine patina on the walls and ceilings. Nearly all closed and converted into flats now. Being let into the pub at 12:00 on NYE to wish the elderly folk a happy new year and hold a hand out for spare change. I made a small fortune from drunken old ladies due to my baby face. Being able to wander about the place for miles as a child and not get molested, stabbed or beaten. Me and my mates used to walk everywhere. There's a not a scrap of land within 10 square miles of my parents old home that we didn't explore. A few younger relatives in the family haven't even explored past the end of the driveway. I'm also probably one of the last age of kids to have a proper (horrendously unhealthy) selection of foods at school. Turkey twizzlers were a Tuesday thing in primary school. Secondary school had a plethora of unhealthy options that you could buy using a card that you deposited money on using a machine. A plethora a ultra processed, lard laden foods from pies, pasties, sausage rolls, deep fried chicken and chips, cakes etc. Then that large tonged **** Oliver got involved in my later school years and ****ed the whole thing up. Probably the main reason why I ended up a fat **** and now spend two hours a day in the gym to maintain a figure that isn't fat ****.

That's very steep if true and puts a 1000 F Blacks at over £320. I pay that for Hull Pro Ones locally. Where does it say that? Only reference I can find is 'Shotgun Cartridges delivered nationwide'.

I also hope its legit. Travelling 30 minutes each way to my local RFD is a pain in the ***. Not quite worth paying the inflated prices and extortionate delivery charged by Just Cartridges though. How much was delivery for your 2000 cartridges?

Trying to keep a new car clean and fresh while using it for fieldsports you're just fighting a losing battle. The terrain, wet, mud and narrow, hedge lined country roads are hard on cars. A detail once a year keeps them in a reasonable shape. My next car will certainly be an older land rover of some description. At least the patina of hedge scratches will be considered character and not damage as it would with any other car. I'm done with new cars and trying to keep them in a reasonable shape. An excitable spaniel does not give a toss about carefully entering and exiting the boot without catching the bumper and plastics with its muddy paws. I'm as obsessive with my guns as I am with my cars but I do accept that accidents will happen.. In this case it was just some first day excitement mixed with being rushed by the shoot captain to get going. The contact between gun and car was so minimal you would struggle to believe that the damage that was caused was from the ever so slight 'Donk' between barrel and bumper. No damage to the gun and luckily it was a cheap Turkish 28 bore and not one of my better guns. I blame the unfinished nature of the Turkish barrel ends on the amount of damage caused. I believe that the more rounded and well finished barrel end of a more expensive gun would have simply bounced off the bumper and not gouged the paint out.

Are they a legitimate operation? Prices seem comparable to local RFDs but no confirmation that they provide a delivery service. The website is also very basic with any payments being by direct bank transfer. Very unlikely that you'd have any recourse should this be a scam page and you've just deposited £500+ into their bank. The Facebook link also links to an Indian cricket based page of the same name.

What concerns me is that those forces are acting outside of the relevant guidance for the issue of SGC/FACs which is a bit of slippery slope and ripe for abuse by those (both within and outside of) forces who wish to see an end to private gun ownership. If the process is being used with immediate partners and has now been opened onwards to immediate family, what is to stop it being used with extended family, neighbors, prominent members of your community? And now they have tied this in with domestic abuse, any resistance to it will be seen as pro domestic abuse and pro irresponsible gun ownership. What is to stop other forces employing more draconian methods in an attempt to weed out unsuitable potential gun users? Driving license style tests before license grant? Guns need to be stored at a police approved armory and police supervision while used for the first 5 years of ownership? My wife is quite an intelligent person, works a biomedical scientist but is as green as they come when anything shooting, guns, fieldsports or the countryside is concerned. I am quite worried that she could innocently answer what will quite likely be loaded questions incorrectly and see the end of my certificates unknowingly. IMO, this is what BASC is there for. They, along with all of the other national shooting orgs, should be putting up quite firm resistance to any further changes to process for the application of certificates before individual forces start running rampant with this sort of process abuse. Before we know it the application process could be very different from force to force through self imposed rules and processes.

Ceramic coating won't do much for you with regards to scratches. At best it makes the paint easier to clean, less prone to swirl marks and sun/ UV damage. A good PPF along the front and sides of the vehicle should do the trick and be self healing to a degree though you will need to get it replaced periodically as it will start to look tatty and sustain damage that it can't self heal. The paint on new vehicles is very soft compared to what it was like on older vehicles. I took delivery of a new VW SUV just prior to the shooting season two years ago and on the first day of the season just barely touched the bumper with the end of the gun barrels as I let the dog out the boot and it took a big gouge out the paint. Modern factory fresh paint stays quite soft and needs a good few months to 'cure'. I've just learnt not to be too bothered about it and schedule a paint correction and detail once a year to bring out the hedge rash and fill in the stone chips. Costs less than a full PPF and the car looks as new every year.

I'm not a subject matter expert but it's more than likely the amount of paperwork, process and licensing which puts a massive blocker in place for most small scale stalking or game shooting operations from selling game into the food chain. Why bother having £0000's of chiller and food handling facilities plus associated licensing, membership scheme fees and costs etc installed for 10 - 15 shot animals per week which are worth £80-£100 at most wholesale into the trade or large amount of relatively worthless birds which are seasonal only? Add in to this that a lot of game shooting or deer stalking takes place as a hobby (or that the meat production is secondary to the sporting aspect) and that most who take part will be living in a standard domestic property which likely won't comply with the requirements of the licensing or be able to house to required facilities then a commercial premises will be required at another huge cost. It's not surprising that a £0.15 pigeon/ £0.50 pheasant/ £30 deer carcass soon becomes a £40 starter when all of these costs are added up.

I shot the long range special day at Westfield shooting ground today and there was a guy in our squad using F Blu 7.5's. Some genuine 60m plus targets that were rocketing and he was breaking them with ease. There was one side on crosser at perhaps 40m and he broke it convincingly 3 out of 4 times. My go-to cartridges are F Blacks but I'm going to give the F Blus a go next time round.

Yes, a royal we. We all have a duty to show fieldsports in the best light whether that be via social media postings or even talking at the pub with mates. Also, you've no idea who wasted the birds. They could have been taken off the game cart by a beater after the keeper said 'help yourself to some birds', as is customary following a day's beating. They could have been purchased for that purpose. They could be the result of a failed chiller and not fit for human consumption. No, at the creator of the video.

Same here. I'm all for fieldsports based content but sometimes we need to think about what those who oppose fieldsports could make of the content we provide, even if it's edited or taken out of content. Hopefully the creator will think before he posts in the future.

Still tied in braces ***. He could have at least done what others do with left over shot birds and cut them up and put them into a stink tube or bucket. I'm not sure you could do much more damage with a 15 second video if you filmed yourself running hounds across the grounds of Richmond park.

True. In most cases it would separate people from their friendship groups and perhaps the only real interaction they have with people. A revocation would mean complete isolation for a lot of the older people I shoot with who have lost family, friends, wifes, husbands etc to age. I certainly spend more time with my 'shooting' mates than I do with people who I consider to be my best friends. I shoot several times a week but I may only see my 'mates' every few weeks due to kids, work etc. Thanks. Not the first time I've had the two mixed up.

This is a symptom of the whole Jake Davison/ Southampton incident. As the police aren't an expert in the field of ADHD and associated medications they have to side with caution rather than take the risk. As the medication is optional then (IMO only) I wouldn't take it stating that the potential side effects are undesirable and discuss that with your FEO. State that you were exploring the possibilities of the medication providing an increase to your quality of life and since the potential side effects outweigh the potential benefits you have decided against it. If your specialist is exactly that and not one just trying to sell a medication then they should also support you in that and be happy to adjust their recommendation to the FEO accordingly. ADHD is not depression or any other sort of mental illness which would preclude you from having a certificate. Its the potential depression side effect that the police are worried about. Though you do now have the added complication that the FEO has made a decision and will take some persuasion to change that and they'll likely stick to the 'give it a few years and try again' line regardless.