team tractor Posted October 15, 2017 Report Share Posted October 15, 2017 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4981850/Vigilantes-slammed-images-mutilated-grey-squirrels.html Shock horror people are going to eat them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-G Posted October 15, 2017 Report Share Posted October 15, 2017 Quote - and many have extremely high calibre rifles! Really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AberFowl Posted October 15, 2017 Report Share Posted October 15, 2017 Quote - and many have extremely high calibre rifles! Really.Need high power to 'BLAST' them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zetter Posted October 15, 2017 Report Share Posted October 15, 2017 (edited) An awful piece of poorly researched journalism pretty typical daily mail fare Edited October 15, 2017 by Zetter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultrastu Posted October 15, 2017 Report Share Posted October 15, 2017 What is an extremely high calibre rifle.?? 80 mm ? 125 mm That's extremely high . Crapest piece of journalism ive ever briefly scanned over . Trying to demonize normal people doing normal things . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
team tractor Posted October 15, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2017 The problem is it will work with some people Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sha Bu Le Posted October 15, 2017 Report Share Posted October 15, 2017 Oh come on people, everyone knows when this was written Lois Lane was having a day off while superman did her picnic sarnies for her. (Was it sarnies or something to do with bait). The writer (can't say reporter or journalist) was really Jimmy Olsen cub reporter for the Daily Planet. Didn't think cubs could write and it does show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clakk Posted October 15, 2017 Report Share Posted October 15, 2017 Daily Fail enough said ,Nathan that rag isnt fit to go in little squares on a piece of string for bottom cleansing its already covered in brown jobs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manthing Posted October 16, 2017 Report Share Posted October 16, 2017 Read it the other day. I always thought vigilantes operated outside the law? If they have evidence of law breaking they should go to the police not put people's picture up calling them vigilantes. Load of codswallop. As for the high calibre rifles, I don't know any FAC shooter that would risk they're ticket using a RF/CF by shooting up into a tree with no backstop. Air and shotgun all the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted October 16, 2017 Report Share Posted October 16, 2017 Ok I read the article or farceickle. The only thing I don't like is people posing with very bloody dead animals, I don't think there is any need. As for the article itself we can all see it's a joke but will basc or officials from any red squirrel charity do a counter article? I'm guessing no they won't. Some very high powdered rifles there though 😅😅😅 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mice! Posted October 16, 2017 Report Share Posted October 16, 2017 I went back to read some of the reply's expecting them to all be from vegan anti shooters, but mist of what I read were slating the article, I was pleasantly surprised. Anyone any idea if the above screen shot is true? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 16, 2017 Report Share Posted October 16, 2017 The timing is suspicious though. Just before MPs are going to debate air rifle licensing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sha Bu Le Posted October 16, 2017 Report Share Posted October 16, 2017 e organ I went back to read some of the reply's expecting them to all be from vegan anti shooters, but mist of what I read were slating the article, I was pleasantly surprised.Anyone any idea if the above screen shot is true? The screen shot will be true, the content however seems more than a bit tongue in cheek and more than likely done for a laugh. However how many veganistic teddy bear lovers will take it as gospel and be organizing a 'cull' disruption programme. Well as soon as they find out when and where in the FoD, keeps them busy I suppose. Yes, the reply comments surprised me too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suburban shooter Posted October 17, 2017 Report Share Posted October 17, 2017 Nathan us suburbanites and urbanites have to put up with this on a daily basis I am surprised that you are surprised and annoyed by the article. We have lost the right to have semi auto rifles and pistols, they started targeting coarse fishing until they realised how many people did it. Air rifles next ; only when they start to ban fly fishing and shotguns will people in the countryside get involved by which time they will find out how small a minority they are and how politically irrelevant as well. I can see why the gun lobby in the USA doesn't want to give an inch. We all need to stand together rather than be loners and fragmented organisations hoping to stay under the radar, or else propper shooting we will be extinct in 20 yrs just look at the Olympics !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted October 18, 2017 Report Share Posted October 18, 2017 Mondays mirror also ran this story, the thing that really annoys me is there saying " but killing greys is unlikely to affect the number of reds as they are only in a few areas with around 140,000 remaining. There are thought to be 2.5 million greys" First those numbers are obviously pie in the sky, then the reds are endangered, so should we just let them disappear, if we said that about rhinos pandas etc there would be uproar. The difference is we can actively do something about grey squirrel numbers, keep at it guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingman Posted October 18, 2017 Report Share Posted October 18, 2017 "video shows the animals writhing on the floor after being blasted in the head so hard their eyes pop out" Don't know why but that made me laugh! What a complete load of left wing biased **** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spandit Posted October 18, 2017 Report Share Posted October 18, 2017 I've never been that comfortable with pictures posing with dead animals, no matter how clean or humane the shot was. Was interesting to see that all the comments were anti grey squirrels and mocking the article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redial Posted October 19, 2017 Report Share Posted October 19, 2017 The man shooting was trained by the best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suburban shooter Posted October 19, 2017 Report Share Posted October 19, 2017 C'mon ultrastu you know that 125mm barrels aren't rifled. It is only us British that feel the need for rifled tank barrels these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suburban shooter Posted October 19, 2017 Report Share Posted October 19, 2017 I've seen the video and the squirrel was not writhing on the ground it was bouncing around as they often do after a lethal head shot. Another reason why I prefer heart/lung shots ; even if the adrenaline gets them to run off, they never make more than 12 ft before the hydraulics give in and they stop dead. Deer can make 150 m and no one moans about that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultrastu Posted October 19, 2017 Report Share Posted October 19, 2017 C'mon ultrastu you know that 125mm barrels aren't rifled. It is only us British that feel the need for rifled tank barrels these days.Id comment more on this thread of I thought it was worth it .It's pathetic in every sense . No disrespect to the op for bringing it up . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted October 20, 2017 Report Share Posted October 20, 2017 Im assuming everyone is going to contact the Mail to put them right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suburban shooter Posted October 21, 2017 Report Share Posted October 21, 2017 Tried to but they are no longer accepting comments on this article. BASC surely are going to officially respond on our behalf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suburban shooter Posted October 21, 2017 Report Share Posted October 21, 2017 Slightly dismayed that you found my rifling quip pathetic, I was only trying to lighten the conversations with a bit of diversionary sillyness. Too much anger being wasted on the unfair and ill- informed article. I thought that the editor of a newspaper was duty bound to make sure that the detail was correct before going to print. We need an organisation that lobbys effectively on behalf of shooters on a regular and pre emptive basis so that the media is educated in the way that they are in other countries; that article would not have made it into a newspaper in any European country or the USA. The ones that we have in the UK are not effective at public relations at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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