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I've never seen roll bars fitted before so that different. Here in the UK it is damp and at times there is an amount of moisture out there (fog)which can reflect the power of the light beam back making the target difficult to pick out. Moving the light out or up reduces the reflected light. Goodstuff. Edit. Saying the above, mostly night shooting is now done with infrared with lazer target illumination along with heat sensing thermal imaging. It's almost unsporting.

The gamekeeper was out to protect the pheasants but I was a mechanical engineer by day and about a fourty minute drive away from the shoot. So I wasn't out there for any sort of monetary gain. It really was for the love of it. My wife is a fantastic woman and partner who never complained or moaned about me being out on patrol. The only thing that she said was .. don't put your cold feet and hands on me when you come home.! Edit. It can get cold here right down south. although nowhere down as much as up north. Sometimes when we had to come back in to defrost and thaw out a bit our clothes would be covered in frost/ice. We had to 2ear about three top layers. T shirt, jumper, coat and a wet weather suit to stop the wind going through. Face was covered br a balaclava with eye holes. The face felt like a bit of meat out of the freezer and sometimes the eyelashes felt a bit sticky. But we had fun.

Not just about the music, it's also about where you want to be put. The wifes Mother and Father were cremated and she also wants to be cremated. So I asked her where she wants her ashes to go. She replied that she wanted them to be scattered on a warm beach somewhere. But since then she has had a change of mind and she wants some scattered on a local beach around a bench seat that we have sat on looking out to sea when we have been out walking the dogs. Then some of the ashes to be put into a hole drilled into my headstone. Me, I can't bear the thought of being burnt to nothing. I have burnt myself either welding or on machinery and know what its like. I hope to be planted in with either my mother or father or even my grandfather and grandmother. To be arranged. The music, I've thought about it and settled and then thought about it again and again.

IF I knew That it existed I wouldn't have bothered to set it up because what would I do with it. I don't have anything to hide or camouflage. I don't need to hide the fact that I buy petrol from a certain garage or we shop at Tesco. I really don't have anything to hide. I have enough difficulty in sorting out the thousands of photographs that I capture of the dogs, family or the garden let alone doing anything that the system would want to bother about. IF I had a SECRET BOX. In which to store Stuff , I would probably either not remember what I had or how to get it. Quite often I will find a box out in the garage and have no clue what's in it. QUESTION... For the people who do use this type of encryption, what/where are they going to put their STUFF now,?

FUN,? You not supposed to have fun. Detol, ?? Who'd have thought it.. how does Detol kill toads ?? I suppose that Its a lot cheaper than cartridge. Cost was a major consideration what with fuel, tyres, wear and tear, etc etc, then cartridges . It didn't used to be a big consideration but cartridge prices and/or reloading components have gone through the roof IF YOU CAN GET THEM. Being out every night until home at one AM gets wearing. Sometimes we'd go out lamping for perhaps 3...4 hours and not see a single target but one, A hundred yards up the road from the yard when we were coming back in. Sometimes in the winter we would have to come back in for a cup of coffee and a thaw out because we were frozen solid. Also it wasn't much fun gutting out a truck load of rabbits. We used to do it for FUN. I used to like being on my own out there, knowing a piece of land and Walking the wind and the land. For FUN.

This. And this. Don't dispare. I recon that if you have 1 good day in 4, then you ain't to bad. Think about it,; real pigeons land to feed where THEY want to Eg. your back garden or the local park. Therefore you have to either find the place where THEY are feeding or create a place (pattern) which LOOKS interesting. I've set up on fields that have been blue yesterday and today there's not been a bird in the sky and another time that same field has been just disced soil. This field had been wheat straw but the farmer had run a disc over it. I went to the field and on the sight of a few birds flying over I set up . Eventually I shot 75 but same place another day I just got cold. Not a bird to be seen. AND ABOVE ALL ELSE. You've got to put the lead on target. It doesn't matter what the gun is .. cheap or expensive . You can't shoot birds if there are none to shoot but on the other hand you have to take your chances. Cartridges, as long as they go bang and are #5 to #7 it will bring them down. Try 30grm of #6. The decoys need to be seen, the hide and you dont.

I've got a a B325 grade 5 and the pictures are totally different engraving to my gun and mine is an invector multi choke. I really like this gun. It looks like it's had some good days out in the field. I bet that if it had a complete strip down and the wood was cleaned and recheckered it would be a lot nicer.

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So your telling me that gamekeepers don't have an Exclusion zone for charlies on pheasant shoots. I know lots of keepers who are out at EVERY opportunity all weather's to CONTROL Charlie. Especially when the birds go to wood. One keeper I knew lost 500 poultry in one night when two cubs got into a pen.

IF I LIVED OUT THERE..... highly improbable... Far TOO COLD. AND MOZZIES... THEY EAT ME. I'm too sweet. 😁😆😇 I think that I would be far happier in somewhere like Portugal or Turkey. Warm / Hot . There would have to be an Exclusion zone. Like 1/4 mile no exceptions. Like electric fences around the fields. And a (Lawrence of Arabia style) "KILL THEM ALL," POLICY, take no prisoners " Kill all of them. I expect that the dogs would be grateful of bear steaks, minced bear and meat gravy with biscuits, etc. Go on tell me.. you aren't allowed to slaughter the grizzlies.

A very strange situation with this bloke. The product was supposedly good but people could never get straight answers about availability, price, quantities and actually getting the product. Strange. Its just like now. Some say he's in business and others say he isn't. I've never seen any down south and would I want to buy thousands of them,?

Just because he turned up in a motor, it is highly unlikely he owns it. All on pcp these days. A land rover salesman brought a discovery to show it to a mate who was interested. At a shoot we were having at his place. What a pile of junk. On the old ones they used to have aluminium chequer plate on the front wings to get the spare wheel off of the bonnet. The new one's bonnet was about as thick as a baked bean can and the new type sudo chequer plate is thin plastic mat which will probably last six months. The best bit was how much,? The salesman said,,, with a smile.. it's only £850 a month,!!! For x years. People said OW MUCH.? But it's tin junk. The salesman said YES but it's the LIFESTYLE. So basically they're building and selling a vehicle that is just a showpiece for those who imagine a look the part situation. IF it was taken off road it WOULD get stuck AND if you were to hitch it up to a big tractor then you would almost certainly do so much damage to it that it would be a write off. IF MATEY fails to keep up the monthly payments the repro men WILL come and take it away and matey will be on a pushbike, if he's lucky.

We get all sorts here,,,, odd bear, cougars, big tom. but do show up.... ;; question,,, How ODD are the bears,? 😁 it looks pretty BUT ,,, Roll on global warming. Edit.. The other way... a really nice bloke from SOMEWHERE in Canada has moved about a mile up the road from me. A really nice bloke. He said that he used to shoot all sorts out in Canada. He said that he has loads of pictures in albums that he'd show me. But I haven't been yet. Maybe in the summer I'll drop in for a cup of tea with him.

As above. A blooming good cartridge. Plenty in half choke. So many shooters go way over the top with shot size and load weight. A pheasant or anything is the same now as it has always been. Back when most guns were 2.1/2" chambers game loads were 1.1/16 Grand Prix or 1.1/8 and other than that it was ounce impact. Now shooters want to use 42grm #4 at pheasants coming over oak trees. You could probably knock those down with a 410 . what does matter is putting the lead on the target. I know use half choke in both barrels all the time. I do tend to use 30/32.grm #5 for pigeon that flyt into sitting trees. Smaller shot nearly pluck the bird but many times they just fly away and drop across the fields somewhere as Charlie food.

Is this some sort of fake video inconsistenses . Is it a female or a male,? It is catching fish which are a good size. Plenty to catch, so why looking for LIVE BAIT,.? Anything that would take bait of that size would sink the boat. Is that a fake shark,? It seems to be following the kayak at a constant distance. Why not head to the safety of the shore.? The paddler says that the shark might think that it is a seal. So why doesn't the shark just attack anyway. But the video doesn't show how landfall was made. I think that it is all set up for a hoax vid clip. Click bait. If the person caught that shark what is it to do with it. The kayak would probably be towed out to sea, a long way out to sea for lunch. Edit I've watched that clip several times and by the way that supposed shark moves.. it's fake

Inconsistencies... I thought that it was female but then changed my mind. There were loads of sizable fish to catch. ...,,live bait..!!,. what size of fish was he/it trying to catch,? He was in a kayak. Was there a real shark in the water.? Was the shark a real shark or a dummy shark following, being towed along. It seemed to be keeping constant distance. I would have been paddling to the shore..... He said that if he did that, that supposed shark MIGHT THINK THAT HE WAS A SEAL. Wouldn't the shark just take him wherever if that was the case. I think that this is a setup for YouTube. If not the kayak would be up for sale. I'm not that keen on going in the bath let alone going in a kayak in the sea with sharks. When we went to Mauritius there were fishing trips that they tried to sell me. One stall/shop had a gantry with half a whale hooked up on it. this looked like someone had attacked it with a chainsaw. They said that a shark had been feeding on it The boats were like a small cabin cruiser and I asked how far they went out. Oh just out past the breakers..??? Which were like Hawai 5/0 style. NAHH. I'LL GET MY FISH AND CHIPS FROM THE CHIPPIE THANKS VERY MUTCH.

Yes I do but why do shops go there. Think how much that the shops are laying out for small returns maybe. ANYWAY I wouldn't pay that much just to go in and mooch round looking at random stuff. SO. whose going ,!

Ow much...!!! £31.80 !!, just to walk through the door. + getting there and parking + something to eat and drink. So you can say goodbye to at least £50. Just to mooch round and look at stalls of overpriced stuff that you probably wouldn't go out to buy. I'm not tight fisted and if I want something I go and buy it BUT do I pay the above to go into a shop and buy stuff.... NO I DON'T..AND IF I were to go to a gunshop and they tried to charge me to go in to BUY FROM THEM I would decline and go elsewhere. What planet are these people from.? AND £19.80 for children 3yrs old + .... consider this... IF I WANTED TO BUY / SPEND £50 ODD POUNDS I would go into a gunshop and spend the money over their counter. I would get £50 of goods and they would get that money without paying a fortune for a pitch.

Sounds like a lot of us got up to similar silly things which could have resulted in various damage or injury. But none of these sort of things got plod out mob handed like nowadays as opposed to total lack of interest in solving real crime.

I think that it's all about politics and justification. On one hand its about doing as little as possible.. thus on one hand only issuing crime report numbers and not even bothering to come out and not bothering to investigate vandalism or hooligan gangs. BUT to send out loads of police and vehicles to an event like this. A similar event happened a few years ago near to where I live. A bloke has a small swimming pool in his back garden and puts a spoonful of chlorine chemicals in every week to kill off stuff in the water. The chemical is in a plastic bucket out in his shed. This chemical started to fume so he called the fire brigade. I was just about to go out shooting and I heard two tones approaching fast. It was a fire engine and it came into our cul de sac. This was quickly followed by a second one and then by a car. I couldn't see what they were there for no smoke no flames nothing. The neighbour had been down to find out what was going on. I had a chat to him and Seeing as there was no imminent disaster I decided to get away. By this time everything was arriving. Numerous fire engines, and police cars and a few ambulances. The whole cul de sac was rapidly becoming an emergency vehicle car park. I was away.! Before they sealed the area off. On the road i passed numerous more polce cars, more fire engines, emergency incident lorry caravans. I was away shooting for a couple of hours and as I was coming home I could see a sort of pulsing electric blue haze illuminating the clouds. This was from about a mile away.! I thought "oh no". I pulled up and phoned the Mrs to find out the score. She said that it had been all about nothing and most of them had or were leaving. Sure enough emergency vehicles started to come by in convoy. When I got home the last crew of firemen loaded down with breathing apparatus were just leaving. The Mrs said that there had been about 25 vehicles there and A LOT of emergency people of different types all aimlessly milling about. A few days later I spoke to the bloke who called them out. He said that it was all over the top and the first fire engine team had sorted out the problem in a few minutes but it had sort of been used as an excuse to use it as an exercise for a major chemical incident. It's justification for funding, if you've got it, you have to use it or loose it, they even had a helicopter out. Goodness knows how much that lot cost.

BBC News - Man arrested after AIR weapon discharged https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy48e9n11kpo Really THE BOMB SQUAD... EVACUATE THE NEIGHBOURHOOD. ?. Are they doing this to justify their existence or just a display to show off. It's like when they attend a situation they all have to have the blue lights flashing. Why.?

The above is correct and I agree BUT this is not what I was told by a FEO.. "they make it up as they go along" the feo told me directly that he needed to see that I had a USE FOR AND ACTIVELY USED THE GUNS ON MY CERT FOR HIM TO PASS THEM . This is just a bullying process for people to give up weapons and certificates. But it appears to be a widespread practice. So best you start a crusade to stop this personal sort of interpretation of the law. This isn't the first feo to tell me a load of nonsense. A previous feo told me. AND OTHERS, that if you reload fac ammunition that you are required to enter that ammunition that the individual had reloaded onto their certificate. This feo had to be wheeled in and advised that his interpretation was not correct and that he was to cease telling people to do this. He was swept out soon after this.

There is an important point here. Soon you WILL have to shoot without lead or plastic. this will mean that will have no option other than to scrap these old guns or to have them disabled and get a proof cert . you won't be able to just hold onto them as museum pieces. you now have to show regular use of weapons. Using non toxic type ammunition. You can blame basc for that one

I would have thought that all of these guns would be able to shoot steel. They are so cheap that so that if the steel shot scratches the bores, so what. When they get a bit worn which will be a lot of shots scrap it and get another. In the past people didn't worry about barrels. My grandfather shot nitro grand prix through a barrel which was only black powder proofed when it was new. It was only a cheap Damascus barrelled 16 bore back action hammer where the barrel wall was so thin that the barrel could have been used as a wad cutter.! Another bloke that I used to shoot with had a Braendlin arms boxlock n/e which had fallen off of the tractor into the finger mower which had pinched into the DAMASCUS barrel and made a hole in it. YEARS AGO the local garage just put a lump of rod down the barrel and beaten the barrel back out then just braised it up. My mate used this as a wet gun and it shot very well. You knew the sound of the gun.