Poor Shot

I think the issue that really sticks with people on this is the fact that not too long ago the government asked us all to practise restraint in not asking for pay rises to help stem the rising inflation. This request was aimed at all from those working cleaning toilets and having to chose between heating and eating and those top earners including bankers. It seems to a lot of people that yet again, those at the bottom are forced to suffer while those at the top take the lions share. Trickle down economics doesn't work when the little that does actually trickle down is taken back in taxes and inflation. Why can that not apply wholesale? Surely millions of people earning a medium percentage more and paying more income tax as a result is far better than very few earning a lot more (while also likely having access to mechanisms to offshore or otherwise avoid income tax). As I just mentioned, not long ago we were all asked to practise restraint and not demand pay rises to help stem inflation. Why are bankers then being given a free pass to up their earnings in addition to the increased base wages they will have been awarded during the cap?

One can only assume that they know that they're on the way out so are busy doing their mates some favours in exchange for a cushy job when they lose the next election.

I meet these sorts quite often as a lot of my training is done in the back end of a country park where most cannot be ***** to go as it's quite far from the visitor center. I quite often find myself wanting to place the best part of a sized 9 Le Chameau into the dogs ribcage but realise that it's not the dog but the moron owner that needs a good kicking. There are some that think this behavior is acceptable and treat the whole park as their own personal dog park in which their dog has the right to run where it pleases and 'play' with the other dogs. 95% of people there are respectable, have their dogs under control and use common sense. I quite often see an older bloke and his Thai bride who walk a grossly overweight beagle, the dog is always on the lead but it's obviously in control and they go where it pulls them. I do laugh when I hear her trying to reason and plead with the dog to stop when it's pulling them across a muddy bog or toward a river. It's like something out of 00's comedy sketch show with Matt Lucas as the Thai bride and David Walliams as the older Jimmy Saville looking bloke.

Gutted for you lads.. A real shame that Marler and Cole had near dominated the scrum only to see it slip away in the hands of others in what will probably be their last ever England game.

I'm rooting for England in this one. I'm Welsh and it pains me but anything is better than another 4 years of Boks fans being absolute ***** in every rugby discussion. SB to put a sock in Owen Farrels mouth? Not sure the ref will take another ear bashing from him.

We still have tips collapsing every now and then. Only a few years back the tip above a small village called Tylorstown collapsed after some heavy rain. Fortunately this time it only trashed a cycle way and the rear car park of the leisure centre. It's since had a millions or so £'s spent stabilising it to ensure it stays put. Aberfan was the worst and most famous tip collapse but it's far from the only one. They are all ticking timebombs waiting to go off and I believe that councils still spend a lot of money every year monitoring them. At some point someone will need to stomach the bill to remove them completely. The village I grew up in had a whole street destroyed by a coal tip collapsing back in the 60's. Luckily it resulted in no deaths and only required the compulsory purchase of the whole street and subsequent demolition by the council. Same village that the The Crown television series recreation of the disaster was filmed. It was filmed in the same primary school I attended.

I would walk down a country lane from one peg to another with an unsleeved gun while out on a shoot providing that I was well out of town and only a very short distance. Last years DIY shoot, all of the drives were within 150 yards of base so It wasn't uncommon for people to walk out to a drive without slips. With that said, we did have a visit from plod on one of last years shoots as some ramblers had reported the guns walking down a lane (out of one farm gate and into another) with guns out of the slip. It's likely they would have done so even if the guns were slipped. Local plod turned up in a panda car, gave the vehicles a once over while we were on break and had a word with one of the guns who went over to investigate.

Not that 30 Y/O is really considered as young but I certainly wouldn't turn my nose up at that. I would also have had 5-6 rounds of wholemeal bread for haddock and mash sandwiches and mop up the sauce afterwards. My mother used to make similar dishes every week, scratch cooked from fresh. All while working a 40 hour week in a supermarket. Scratch cooked food is something that you rarely see these days.

Box is still here. I will take £285. These are well over £400 new and this box is as new.

Crazy price for a relatively modern multi choke sporting gun considering most RFDs are looking for £750+ for a completely shagged 525 or silver pigeon.

Yes, please learn from our misfortune. Despite the words of one single Labor MP, they are not your friend and will certainly have the destruction of fieldsports, farming and any other country based pastime/hobby/pursuit very near to the top of the agenda. Like it or not, Labor are in at the next GE so you'd better buckle up and keep your Org subs up to date. Fieldsports will be an easy win for a party desperate to prove that they didn't just win by default.

To add to the OP question. Does your workplace, workmates etc know you shoot? Personally, the only person who knows I shoot is my immediate line manager, who has competed at international level at his sport and is great source of advice for competing under pressure at a top level, confidence boosts etc. I work for an international company with over 450k employees world wide. I'm at at a lower/ middle management level and It would only take one do-gooding HR rep or upper management to make my life hell and end my career. We all know how evil and vindictive those tree hugging vegan types can be and my company is rife with them.

I would assume that all of my neighbours know I shoot. I openly carry slipped guns, kit and dogs out to the car. Carry shot game back into the house and hang game outside the rear of the house. I'm not all that bothered as most are old and from the generation where open carry of shotguns and a bloke going door to door with some rabbits and trout was a thing. As they pass on and are replaced with younger neighbours then I may reconsider. I imagine that if I lived in the inner city or even in the local town then it would be very different.

Agreed. I will also stand on peg, gun loaded and barrels up vertically when action is imminent. At any point where the gun must move from the barrels straight up position or the drive has just started the gun will be broken and safe. Gun closed stock upwards when the time comes. When walked up the gun is carried broken in the right hand barrels forward, left hand directing dog, holding whistle etc. Upon a flush, the gun is closed with the stock upward and gun mounted in a smooth action.

Jesus, some holier than thou attitudes by members who should (but probably don't while casting the illusion that they do) know better... OP wanted to know how to disable an auto safety and not a berating in the non use of a safety catch. IMO a gun is either broken or dangerous. There is no in-between, safety catch included.

What a complete nipple that guy is. "The danger is break-ins and then these weapons get into the wrong hands." What difference would having an individual license for each firearm make to them getting into the wrong hands should they be stolen? Imagine the demand that administration of 37,000 individual licenses would put on an already deprived and struggling dept within each police force? Just another bell sniffer councilor trying to garner votes amongst his constituents based on the campaigning of one misfortunate individual.

100% legit and congratulations on your good fortune. Speaking from a position of strength as the recipient of a huge payout from the deposed prince Hakeem Abimbola of Nigeria.

Reduced £300.

That's great news. Well done to BASC, CA and all of the other orgs that put a lot of time into this over the summer. I expect to see this return with a vengeance in the next few years. Welsh government are hardcore lunatics and will never settle until shooting and fieldsports are consigned to the history books. There will be some AMs sat in the Senedd with their **** boiling right now so I expect some form of knee jerk reaction at the very least. Perhaps an Ireland style removal of wildfowl from the quarry list effective immediately or perhaps AI will make a sudden return and all shooting will be put on hold as a result.

We have a huge brownfield site locally which was used until the early 90's for the manufacture of coal into smokeless fuel. The ground was heavily contaminated with the heavy metals mentioned above and an abundance of other chemicals which derived from the open air processing of coal to remove the nasty bits so people in London could burn it without worrying about air quality. The local council and Welsh Gov have spent enormous amounts cleaning up the site and removing 1000's of tons of contaminated earth with the intention of selling the site onwards for development. Even now, 30 years after decommissioning of the plant and clean up not a single developer is interested. However, the huge wetlands site a couple hundreds yard up the valley which was home to numerous fowl and other wildlife has been cut down to less than a quarter of its previous size in order for a huge housing estate and two supermarkets to be built. Not only are the houses at severe risk of flooding as they are almost level with water table of the adjacent river, they also claim that it's just a coincidence that since the development of that site, record levels of flooding have been recorded downstream and have blamed climate change instead.

In answer to your own question in above Rob. I would feel comfortable explaining to a judge that someone had broken into my workshop and stolen the barrel only of a S1 shotgun and that the action and internal mechanisms were safely stored away from the gun and are still in my possession. Not ideal of course but given that, in isolation, the barrels are no more than a steel tube. It's unlikely that a common thief would be able to identify them as anything other than a metal tube and likely focus on taking other, more easily fencible items. An educated thief would recognise that without the action and internals, they are useless and the risk vs reward factor for taking them just isn't worth it. An educated thief of course, would have come to your home equipped to break into a cabinet knowing that any guns that are fully assembled will be locked away in a steel cabinet and are unlikely to be left alone in an unmanned workshop. I do feel that as a community we overthink these things. Given that a determined thief could be in and out of your property with your whole collection within minutes armed with nothing more than a cordless grinder, I think taking reasonable precautions outside of this to carry out work on firearms is acceptable. After all, the aim of the gun safe is to prevent an opportunist attack and not a pre planned and determined attack. For the latter you would need bank style vaults, electronic alarm systems and possibly even 24 hour supervision of the property which is unfeasible.

The problem with fixed cameras is that they can only provide enforcement in the immediate area covered by the camera. Average speed cameras mitigate this but aren't perfect. Most areas that would benefit from ASCs are littered with junctions which make taking an exact average difficult. We also know that the issues in the vast majority of incidents aren't solely caused by speed but are more often other factors such as distraction, intoxication, phone use etc. A fixed speed enforcement camera cannot detect phone use, a school run mum applying makeup while driving, white van man eating his breakfast etc. They have a very limited scope.

The Senedd has apparently spent a huge sum on 32 new Gosafe camera vans, operators and additional admin staff to support the anticipated rise in fines from the change in limit. That budget could well have been spent on additional police resources to help keep school zones safe. Or perhaps a small percentage of the £32m spent on changing signage? It wouldn't need to be every school every day but a randomised approach with an initial heavy presence to establish that school zones will be policed.

Disagree. I would much rather that people are able to drive past a school giving their full attention to the road ahead than people keeping one eye plastered to the speedo to ensure they don't creep above an arbitrary limit and get fined. Perhaps some police resource could be given in the form of an officer or PSCO stood outside the school gates at pickup and drop off times. A right good telling off in front of the other parents would hit them right in the embarrassment and would serve as a much better and safer deterrent. Said officer could also tackle phone use, parents parking on the yellow zig zags, littering and all the other issues that come with school drop off and pick up. Anyone speeding past but not stopping could be noted and stopped elsewhere on the road network for a talking to.

There are voters in Wales (who appear to be of sound mind) that wouldn't vote conservative if it meant their first born child would be burnt at the stake and their grannies hands would be chopped off as a result. We truly do not deserve the right to vote if we are going to use it so irresponsibly.