Poor Shot

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.

I fully support the abolition of the WA. It was a great idea in theory but it's quickly being turned into a socialists wet dream by extremists for the benefit of extremists. We run the risk of ending up in basket case country without a pot to **** in. Don't get me started on Welsh independence... I'm not saying that 100% rule by Westminster is ideal but from where I'm sat it's the best option we have available.

I signed it last night at approx 22:00 and it was on 120k. At 10:00 this morning it's on 142k. Seems to be gaining momentum fast but the real question is, will the Senedd pull the plug on this before it gains 500k+ signatures and hold a false debate as they did on the last one? Or will they allow it to carry on to point where it really cannot be ignored? It feels to me that the Senedd is often prone to ignoring anything other than their own opinion and they'll double down on this despite the clear dislike of these new speed limits from the vast majority of the population.

If the gun is in a state where it cannot be fired then you should be fine. Without the actions internals then it's little more than some steel tubes and a lump of wood. In any way, contact your FAO and they'll have the answer for you. Or at least a version of the guidelines that they are personally aligned to and happy to provide as advice.

All of the above. Though it's quite expensive to use as a general spray over and water displacement oil. When I shoot in the rain and the gun is soaked through I tend to give the barrels externals a generous dousing in something cheap like GT85 spray and then wipe down with paper towel to remove. This is mainly to displace the water in the gaps in the ribs, behind ejectors etc.. I'll then wipe down the whole gun with a rag with Legia spray applied.

Hello. For sale is the above dog travel crate from DT boxes. It is the DT18 550mm/ single box model in black which to date has been used with a Toyota Corolla Hybrid Estate. It should fit any estate car from mid size upwards that has a flat boot floor and opening (no lip on boot). The crate is approx. 2 years old and will come (if wanted) with the cut to size vet bedding with non-slip underside. The crate and bedding will be washed prior to sale. Change of car forces sale. Box is immaculate with no cracks, scrapes and will be supplied with 2 x keys and DT Boxes lanyard. The crate comfortably fits a springer spaniel bitch with plenty of room to spare. Would fit up to 2 x dogs of similar size or multiple smaller dogs. I've provided a link below to the DT boxes webpage for this box which has more useful images and info than I can provide. Toyota Corolla Touring Sports - Dog Car Transport Boxes for Sale — DT BOXES £350 buyer collects CF44 S. Wales. Please do not message me asking will it fit your particular vehicle. This is your own responsibility to find out using the specifications set out in the web page. I can supply any supplementary measurements on request.

I think you already know your answer there Bob. While you may feel that you are stagnating, you seem to have more reasons against taking the new job than you do for the new job. You could always use the offer of a new position as leverage with your existing and negotiate some changes to make the existing position match the new offer a little more. At this moment in time it is very much an employees market and if your management has any sense then they will see that altering your compensation and job role to match a new offer will be in many orders of magnitude cheaper than recruiting your replacement. Sadly, managers are often very poor and unsuited to their positions and will often watch you walk out the door rather than entertain a pay increase.

Depends on what salary X is compared to salary Y. Is the difference in salary Y (assuming an increase in the new job) equal to greater than salary X when you base salary X on a 40 hour week instead of 35. That being said, if you don't have any gripes with your current job and you're perfectly happy with it then there is no real reason to leave other than the grass appears greener etc.. Would you be able to return to your current job should the new one turn out to be a complete shambles or would leaving burn that bridge and leave you stranded in the new job? Given that you are the wrong side of 50 I would edge on the side of less working hours and more life enjoyment. The time in your life to concentrate to career goals is gone and your focus should be on doing all the things you can do now that you may not be able to do at 65.

You'll be in the stocks by lunchtime..

But as long as Flippermaj knows what he's looking at, has the gun a reasonably good condition and is prepared to walk away from it at the slightest sign of deterioration/ barrel bulging etc.. then it probably won't disintegrate into a million shards of metal and wood injuring and possibly killing Flippermaj in the process. It's not something I would be willing to do or advise others to do but more power to Flippermaj should he choose to do so. Besides, he could always pack a first aid kit into the wheelbarrow he carries his huge balls around with. Shooting a 3" magnum steel cartridge through an old, full choked (and possibly not 3" chambered?) SxS is very risky and takes a brave/foolish person to do more than once.

I'll be going out. I have booked the day off work and changed my gym schedule around to accommodate so at least this Friday the early alarm won't be for an hour and a half of lifting weights. I took a walk around the marsh on Monday evening and there was a plenty of mallard, hundreds of Canada geese and even a few smaller ducks which my pound shop binoculars couldn't quite make out from the sea wall. I suspect they were teal.. Surprisingly no dog walkers present on the last sunny bank holiday of the year and I hope this continues through the season. I'm relatively late to the shooting game having re-found my passion for the countryside at 30 but I'm determined to make a trip out on the first and last day of the season a yearly tradition. Last years first day was bright sunshine and 20 degree heat which is the polar opposite to this years forecast of wind, drizzle and 14 degrees.

Does the Mokka have an adjustable boot floor? Other half's last car which was Mokka sized had a two level boot floor which had to be in the raised position in order to fit a space saver in the boot floor recess. It was a quirky trick from VW so they could advertise the car as both having a larger boot space than the competition and have a spare wheel option. Didn't bother to say that it was one or the other and not both at the same time. Should tell you in the user manual if this is the case.

If you can feel a scratch when you run a fingernail over it then it's too deep to be removed by hand. It will need a machine polish at a minimum which is normally best done by someone who has experience else you could impart even more damage to the paint. Also polish and wax are different tools with different uses. It's not clear but going on the terminology used you are going to have to use first a polish to remove the finer scratches and then a wax to seal and provide a finish which will last more than a few weeks. A polish will help remove finer scratches but will only provide a hydroscopic finish for a few days before fading. A wax will last a lot longer but has no cutting properties so will only fill the finer scratches. When I had nice cars I would periodically spend a whole day lifting up the paintwork by going over each panel with a light cutting polish like autoglym super resin polish (has some fillers and a light cut to reduce scratches) then a filling glaze like poorboys black hole (or white diamond for light coloured cars) to fill in any deeper scratches and provide a wet look finish and then a couple coats of Collinite 476 wax to provide a long lasting hydrophobic finish (absolute ****** to work with but a genuine 6-12 month finish unlike most waxes which fade in a few weeks). Before the above I would wash the car with a stripping wash soap which would remove any existing waxes, glazes and polishes so I had a clean surface to work with. I now have company provided cars so I couldn't give a toss about the paintwork. They get washed once a year by the dealer when being serviced. They may see an automated car wash if they are lucky and I have a meeting at head office that the car needed to be clean for. More recently I've started using a SI02 based ceramic spray wax which is almost as easy to apply as a detailing spray but so far has been on for 5 months and is still beading well in the rain.

Little more than litter box liner or outhouse toilet paper. The writer is clearly anti through ignorance and with ignorance came the attitude that she absolutely would not accept the chance to have her mind expanded or accept that an activity that is actually completely alien to her would actually be beneficial to a whole host of people, wildlife and environments outside of her very small and one dimensional sphere. Likely the sort of person who would believe that clay pigeons are living animals and are to be protected. In short, shooting = bad and you will not change my mind.

The new defender isn't in the same class as the old one and we should stop thinking of it in that way. In reality is has replaced the discovery which was traditionally bought by the better off horsey type women who may occasionally have to tow a horse box or venture off road to park in a field while watching their young play sports or attend a horse event but didn't want an Evoque or discovery sport as they are a bit council. The big sunglassed blonde would have traditionally bought an RR Sport but the new defender has taken that price range and pushed the RR Sport to where a standard RR used to be. The standard RR has moved up a segment to compete with the Bentayga, DBX, Cayenne or Cullinan. Land Rover no longer make a purpose built agri/industrial off road vehicle (outside of the commercial rated defender which has been dropped?). It wouldn't make sense for them as a large core of that market are running about in Japanese or Ford pickups that they can't replicate or compete with. Anyone who wants a true old defender style off road vehicle will have gone down the Grenadier route. Land Rover are a changed beast and not one anyone who owned an original defender would be familiar with. Looking at the OP Toyota Landcruiser, that's heading the same way to. What part of the usual Landcruiser market would fork out over £50k (will be well over £60k by the time any options or packs are added) for a vehicle that has no more capability than a Hilux at £30k? It wouldn't make sense to any commercial entity outside of very niche use cases. Expect to see them soon at an M&S car park near you, in the parent and child space with two bratty, Ralph shorn children strapped into the back and an Essex-esque mother up front.

When choosing a coach you must consider what you want to get out of it. Do you want to enter competitions and be competitive, shoot for regional/ national teams? Would you just like to be able to turn up on a Sunday, shoot a 45/50 and rub the score card in your mates faces? Would you like to improve your overall shooting ability and be able to nail those tricky driven birds on a driven day or those out there pigeons when decoying? If your ambition is to be a competitive shot, shoot for regional and national teams then a coach who hasn't done those things themself will struggle to get you there and likely be a waste of time. Anything else can be done by any good shooting coach. Decide what you want from the whole process, find a good coach and get shooting. Have fun!

Get some coaching from a reputable CPSA or BASC accredited coach. 2 or 3 sessions with a good coach could save you a years worth of just turning up and trying to improve on your own. Getting a good coach is the hard part as there are plenty of accredited coaches out there who will happily take your £75 an hour for as long as they can all while teaching you nothing. A good gauge of a coach is their achievements in the sport. I wouldn't see anyone who isn't or hasn't previously been a AA or AAA sporting shot for example or won British/ World stage competitions. You can shoot 30/50 so you can clearly shoot but its consistency that counts and being taught the pick up point, hold point and shoot point method and how read a target will go a long way towards ensuring that you're getting 9-10/10 on each stand rather than 6-7/10. Also helps massively to spread your shooting around different grounds. Being able to shoot a 45/50 on a ground you shoot week in week out where the targets don't change greatly isn't that much of an achievement but being able to turn up at any registered sporting event and put an 80+/100 score in consistently will put you in upper half of the score sheet on any ground you go to. As mentioned above, trying different disciplines will also help a lot. Skeet, trap etc are all quite specialised parts of what you may see on a sporting layout and will help with fast, close crossers or quartering going away targets. Similarly to yourself, I've been shooting just over two years. Back last year my scores more than doubled in a three month period because I spent some time with a quality coach and started to travel around and see more than your average Sunday morning ground where having a looper and crossing target on the same day is a talking point. I found another shooter from the Sunday morning shoot I was going to who also wanted to progress, threw ourselves in at the deep end and starting attending registered shoots. We may have started at the very bottom of the score sheet with less than 50% averages but after a season are both comfortably above 70% averages and have won class prizes etc.

The Franchi Affinity will be a completely different gun in terms of quality, feel, handling and reliability. Saying that it is almost 3 x the price new so I would expect it to be 3 x the gun. I switched from a Hatsan Escort to an ATA Venza last year. The Hatsan was ok and a good tool for a job but it was low quality and at times unreliable. When your using a gun on a marsh where you may only get a handful of opportunities each trip then having the second shot miss-feed randomly is unacceptable. In comparison the ATA is on another level despite being in the same price bracket. It handles really well, has a clean and crisp trigger break and so far has been 100% reliable.

That's next on the agenda.. Once we are all stuck using steel the complaint will shift to the millions of pieces of plastic being shot about the countryside. We'll then have to shift to bio degradable wads only and we'll all take another shafting in cartridge cost as a result. There is plenty of noise about plastic pollution at the moment but at least we have a choice whether we use plastic, fibre or bio degradable wads. When we have no choice and are trapped using steel with bio wads then we'll see even basic cartridges for clay target shooting reaching over £500 a thousand and most will give up. It's the thousand cuts and unintended consequences that those who wish to see all forms of shooting disappear happen.

To add to my earlier post I shot my first FITASC today. Squad left the club house at 9:30 and finished shooting at 14:30. 5 hours to shoot 100 birds is a bit much IMO and a 40 minute break between parcours 3 and 4 meant I was going into 4 cold and missed a few of the first singles as a result. It was a reasonable (by FITASC standards) £60 for targets only. I could have easily drunk more than £60 away in a pub in 5 hours but I don't drink so the money has to go somewhere. I only managed to semi pre mount twice which I thought was going to be real issue throughout the day as I mainly shoot english sporting. Lucky the refs were a pair of planks and missed both incidents. An overall enjoyable experience but super sporting is still my favourite of the clay shooting disciplines.

A reply from United Utilities to the auto generated email sent via the Countryside Alliance. It's written confirmation of what many knew already 'we aren't interested in shooting leases anymore, planting trees and selling carbon credits is more profitable'. There really is a skill to writing so many words that mean so little. Thank you for contacting us to raise your concerns about the United Utilities’ updated land strategy. Building on decades of successful habitat restoration, we recently reviewed the way we manage our land to ensure we are fully focused on using our catchments to manage water quality, quantity and mitigate flooding, which are of strategic importance to us as we respond to the challenges of climate change. Addressing these challenges requires a step change in our approach to help ensure a fully resilient ecosystem in which wet moorlands and biodiverse woodlands can improve catchment resilience by slowing the flow of water and improving water quality and retention – this is the primary reason we own this catchment land. Following that review and to ensure we can focus on those areas, we will not be renewing shooting leases where we own the rights. This follows a decision made some time ago not to issue any such leases on a long-term basis. Stepping away from leasing our shooting rights, as those leases come to their natural expiry date over the next few years, provides an opportunity to work with stakeholders to change the land management approach and support the delivery of this long-term objective for increased catchment resilience. We remain committed to working with others, to accelerate the restoration and rewetting of our peatlands and the biodiversity of our woodlands. We believe this will help unlock other opportunities to deliver a richer and more diverse approach to habitat management, conserving and improving biodiversity, including protected species, while also developing skills and jobs. We see this as an extension of our catchment management work which has been so successful in other parts of our region. Our updated land strategy affects 24 licences where we have shooting rights within specific catchments. We are working through this transition with those who are affected by this change as the leases come to their natural end and we remain committed to working with others to help address climate change risks such as wildfires and droughts whilst improving biodiversity. Many current land management techniques will continue and these will form part of new plans, developed and delivered with stakeholders and partners, providing new jobs and economic benefits for those who work in our catchment communities.

The countryside alliance will send one on your behalf. All they need is your name, address and permission to do so. Takes seconds. Likely ******* into the wind for the reasons we've all highlighted in this thread but what's a few seconds while your taking a **** or eating lunch staring at your smartphone?

Is this as much to do with anti-shooting sentiment within United Utilities as it is to do with the fact that a lot of money can made on re-wilding schemes, carbon credits etc? As is happening with most of rural Scotland at the moment? If its the later then any challenges will do little as shareholders will always prioritise this over the relative pittance they must get from sporting leases.

That's because the whole fat = bad thing is a bit of myth and in the USA at least, has been badly smeared by those who have an interest in selling sugar in order for them to be able to continue to sell large quantities of sugar while fat takes the rap for the obesity crisis. It's all about the amount of calories you consume vs how much you use on a day to day basis. That's not to say that all fats are good because they aren't. There is around 9 calories in a single gram of fat so it wouldn't take all that much to send you spiraling over your daily calorific requirements. That being said, it would probably be quite hard to consume 180-200ml of fat when using it to fry meat and vegetables as is traditional in an Asian diet. I would assume that the bulk of the oils used are drained, retained and re-used for the next meal. The fat consumed vs how much is used is probably minimal. The Asians you refer to probably move a lot and eat relatively little compared to a general western lifestyle of large periods of inactivity and consumption of lots of processed foods. A Mediterranean diet is broadly similar with lots of olive and nut based oils consumed but with a more active lifestyle and probably smaller/ less portions. In my local takeaway, the workers in the back who do the heavy lifting are lot leaner than the two girls who sit out front taking orders.

There will no doubt be competition entry and local/ nation org levies within that but yes, FITASC is a very expensive way to shoot some clay discs. They would do well to remove the multiple breaks and shoot all 100 birds over 4/5 stands in one go as you would on a super sporting course. You could also change to a ref per stand rather than a ref per squad layout and get more people through the course in the same time. Part of the high cost is paying for a ref to chaperone a squad of six to shoot 100 targets over 4-5 hours. With that being said, I am going to shoot the Pro One challenge in a few weeks at £70 per entry for 120 sporting targets. Hoping to at least get a Hull branded hat thrown in with that one.. 😅