Poor Shot

Hi. I have for the sale the below following the sale of a gun. 2 x Briley Invector DS fitment 12g extended chokes. Lightly used - £60 delivered for the pair or £35 each delivered. 1 x Pachmayer Decelerator recoil pad to fit Browning ProSport, ProTrap, ProMaster etc.. This is the larger pad at approx 35mm overall thickness, it was included with the gun but never fitted so is in an as new condition. These can be quite hard to get hold of and are a grind to fit spare. - £45 delivered These are for sale elsewhere.

Close but not quite... No need to panic. New cars will be fitted with a function that alters active cruise control (only when in use) to match the speed limits as you enter them and this cannot be switched off by the user if you wish to use the active cruise control functions. Some cars already have this (one of mine does) and it's a nightmare. The car uses a combination of in car cameras and GPS location and mapped speed limits to tell what the speed limit is at any given time. As such it's severely limited by the data contained within the map being updated as/when the speed limits change (this function cannot work with temporary limits) and the road signs being of a consistent makeup that the onboard camera and computer can recognise it as a valid speed limit sign. Also that the sign is placed in the correct position, at the correct angle and that no other speed limit signs are placed in the field of vision of camera (roads running parallel etc). This falls down with signs in various states of condition, material and of course, electronic overhead signage which it sometimes fails to read. As a technology, it is nowhere near being workable as an overall speed limiter and it's unlikely that it will be for years to come. In my car I experience issues with this tech daily from the car reading a 20 limit on a bridge that crosses a motorway with the car rapidly (but gradually) slowing from 70mph to 20mph. I have also have issues on an A road I use regularly where the car picks up a 40 limit on a road running parallel to the A road and slowing the car from 70mph to 40mph. This can be overridden by using the speed altering function on the steering wheel controls or by pressing the accelerator and resetting the cruise control. Annoying but the usefulness of this tech on variable speed limit roads like the M4 past Reading, M25 etc far outweighs these inconveniences. You can always switch the active component of the cruise control off in the menu and use the dumb cruise/ speed limiting controls as you would have done in any car from 2000 onwards. For those with the tinfoil hats on. A lot of premium model cars from about 2015 onwards (BMW, Mercedes, Range Rover etc) came with a factory built tracking option which relied on a subscription from the user to activate which can allow the manufacturer to track, unlock, shutdown etc cars remotely. This tech is installed at the factory regardless if the user ops to subscribe so it's not entirely impossible (in the same way that a euromillions win is extremely unlikely but not impossible) that a malicious government couldn't take over this function and use it to limit the use of these vehicles for whatever reason. Both of my current cars have app connectivity to remotely control HVAC, door unlocking, pre warming etc. That ship has already sailed and did so years ago.

I'm sure Bio Ammo advertise as entirely 0% plastic with the case also being made of a biodegrable material hence the OPs test of this claim. I'm sure they are made of PET based plastics which can take 50-80 years to biodegrade normally or are industrially compostable. Better than the many hundreds of years that regular plastic cases and wads take but not ideal.

At 31 I'm just about on the cusp of this. I very rarely will take photos of anything and prefer to live in the moment rather than waste it trying to capture it in a photo. Going out with younger friends can be a nightmare. They seem to be under constant pressure to display their lives on social media in an attempt to echo what they see presented back to them by that same social media. Rarely do they realise that what they see are only the best bits of others lives and that others will never broadcast the ****ter parts of their life. By failing to do so they put themselves under a lot of mental stress because they don't have the Instagram perfect life. No one does, they just don't know that because it isn't visible to them. Looking back through my phones photo reel I have hundreds of photos of my spaniel bitch which I am immensely proud of, some videos of her doing retrieves to show folks who don't understand what all the training goes towards and that's about it. Only photos of me are ones that I have been sent by others. I'm not sure that technological advances have really changed anything apart from it being more visible and accessible. Dog fighting for example was a thing in 1790, 1890, 1990 and will probably still be a thing in 2090 providing AI hasn't gained sentience and wiped the mess that is humanity off of the earth. At our core we are still primates that originated from caves and trees, bashed animals to death with a stone on the end of a stick and sacrificed captured members of other tribes to a god. No amount of Iphones, Starbucks or veganism is going to change that. We are still and always will be savages with the only thing that changes is the way in which we display that savagery.

CO detectors have a finite life and need to be replaced at the end of that life. Most detect CO by the way of a chemical or electrochemical reaction and once those chemicals have been depleted then the detector will no longer work and generally signal that they no longer work by beeping. 10 years is about standard for CO detector and you should have an end date printed on the back of the detector.

Sadly, this sort of thing barely scratches the surface of what's really out there on the dark web and encrypted messaging systems like WhatsApp, signal, telegram etc.. I've heard things from mates who are more in touch with this sort of thing and animal torture, human torture is a thing that is quite easily accessible if you know where to look. You can actually buy people on the dark web, have them smuggled about the world, have them killed etc. Up until quite recently videos of this sort of thing was available on Instagram and other social media sites. Extreme meme pages were a thing where it was almost a contest to post ever more violent and depraved content and see how long it would last before a moderator closed the page and banned the user. If I start scrolling through Facebook reels or Instagram shorts, within 10-15 videos there will almost certainly be one video showing someone or something dying horrifically via road accidents, run over by trains, electrocuted climbing on electrical lines etc. These are openly available to anyone with an account so It's not surprising that even more grim and depraved content is available behind even slightly closed doors. Human beings are mostly pieces of **** with no morals and no compassion for people and things around them and many multiples more so when money is involved.

There's a Facebook page called Game Bird Syndicate Places Available and Wanted where you can post and sometimes get lucky. IME it's just the shoots where the organisers are a tad ambitious with their pricing, have a bad reputation or a combination of both which don't get filled through word of mouth that advertise there. Otherwise ask about on clay shoots, gun shops etc. I got on to one that unfortunately folded through an entirely chance meeting while doing some training with my dog. Shoot captain saw the dog and asked if I would like to beat on his shoot. I was invited to join the next year. The one I'm currently a part of was through a gun dog trainer that I used for a while. The opportunities are out there you just need to put the feelers out and with a touch of right place, right time and you'll be in.

Habitat loss certainly plays a big part. Here locally anything bigger than a 6x6 plot is being bought up and developed into housing. Strangely enough a lot of the ex industrial brownfield sites are being left unused and green space being built on instead. There used to be a large wetlands area a few minutes away which runs alongside a river. In the last 15-20 years its shrunk to about 1/2 of its original size with a 150 home estate, fast food outlets and two supermarkets built on the site. About another 1/4 of the remaining 1/2 is still for sale for commercial development. It comes as no surprise that a lot of downstream areas now experience flooding where it didn't before. That the numbers of wildfowl that depended on the wetlands are vastly decreased. Locals are very excited about being able to see otters, geese, swans, herons and foxes quite often whereas they used to be rare. The numbers of wildlife hasn't changed, their habitat has just been squeezed to a point where contact with humans is unavoidable for them. Not 500 yards away in one direction is an ex washery and colliery site which could have been built on and an ex furnicite plant in the other direction.

I can't take credit for it. I'm sure it was Mark Twain that penned that quote.

Before I replaced the old and overgrown Cherry Laurel hedge in my garden I had planned to leave it over spring summer for any nesting birds to be done and fledged. I didn't need to as one morning a group of 5-6 magpies systematically worked their way down the hedge forcing parents off the nests and eating any eggs or chicks. They wiped out the entire 30m of hedge in a few hours. The hedge has since been replaced with a natural hedge formed of Beech, Hawthorn, blackthorn, hornbeam and hazel and a good number of bird boxes of varying types placed around the garden to make up while the new hedge matures. There is a lane that runs past the end of my property that goes on for a mile or so and is lined with ivy covered matured oaks. They are almost perfect for nesting birds with a lot of thick cover woven into the branches and on walking up there yesterday and I don't think I can recall a spring where I've seen more destroyed eggs laying on the ground that have clearly been predated before they could hatch. I do my best with the squirrels that visit our garden with traps and an air rifle but my hands are tied with magpies as I live in Wales and those lunatics in NRW saw it best to remove the shooting of magpies under GL 004. We also have plenty of semi feral cats which must also have a devastating effect on the bird life locally.

I'm not sure that it matters who you vote for. Once the election is over any promises or manifesto items go straight in the bin and it's business as usual for these people regardless of the color of the rosette they were wearing. In my 13 years as an individual of voting age and the years prior to that in my teens, I've seen governments formed of Labour, A Cons/ Lib Dem coalition and a solely Conservative government with leaders like Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak. As I am Welsh I have also been ruled over by a second tier of chancers from Welsh government with leaders of Carwyn Jones, Mark Drakeford and now Vaughan Gethin. I am a regular working stiff and at no point during that time have I ever felt like the political direction (in real terms and outside of the media bubble) has been any different to what it is now. If voting made any real difference then they wouldn't let us oiks do it.

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.