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  1. Born Hunter
    Ain't that the truth.
  2. Born Hunter
    Cheers for the posts folks. All welcome. I'd be interested to hear from anyone with experience of Wirehaired Vizlas.
  3. Born Hunter
    Sort of.... here's my stalking kit. Took me a while to find what suits me. What I carry will change through the year. For instance In the winter I might finish an afternoon stalk in a seat where it'll get f***ing 'Baltic' quick so I'll stuff a pack-able puffer in there, whereas in the summer it'd be a thin midlayer. Basic kit, Knife and paddle field sharpener Bin's with chest harness Ammo Headtorch Paracord game carrier Hat, gloves and neck gaiter Insulation and/or hard shell waterproof layers Snack and fluid Toilet roll A cou
  4. Born Hunter
    While I was reading about the carnivore diet I came across the case of the Eskimo and also I think the masai before western influence. Both ate an extremely high animal diet but as jukle has pointed out it's not at all conclusively good/healthy.
  5. Born Hunter
    https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-health-meat/steak-is-back-on-the-menu-if-a-new-red-meat-risk-review-is-to-be-believed-idUKKBN1WF283 I've been of this opinion for a while and that extends to saturated fat too. The anti meat/sat fat thing has become something of a religion! And you can see that in the responses from that lot in the article. They're essentially wanting to censor this study because it threatens their 'meat is cancer' bottom line. Anti science bullshit!
  6. Born Hunter
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teesside_EfW
  7. Born Hunter
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste-to-energy_plant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste-to-energy
  8. Born Hunter
    That's lovely mate. I hope you can find the energy to share some more later. I'm making tracks mate. Needed a fair bit of looking in the mirror, metaphorically speaking. Met a cracking lass a few weeks back. After a few dates she ticked a lot of boxes for me but unfortunately I think she'd have struggled long term with the side of me that all of us have in common on this forum. Anyway, it's not about me but sometimes it's easier to share if someone else opens up a bit about themselves, ya know. I'm genuinely interested in the life you and your good wife had, the good times...
  9. Born Hunter
    Tell us about the good times then mate! Seriously, share with us a bit. Truth is I'm a solitary sort too, but I'm at the other end of the journey, looking for someone to share my life with. Your loss certainly hit me a little because of that but at the same time it's surely worth it. It sounds like you found a diamond!
  10. Born Hunter
    They're for when he's out 'controlling' elephants.
  11. Born Hunter
    There are no words. Just know you were lucky to have found each other.
  12. Born Hunter
    This little sprocker my mate bred has turned into a lovely stamp of dog. I went with another mate to pick him up, his first dog, last Christmas. I’ll try to get a picture now he’s coming on a year old. Def thrown to the cocker sire.
  13. Born Hunter
    I've heard it said that Nosler's ballistic tip is a 'less frangible' frangible bullet than V-max. Even if true it still 'pops' em. If I want a photo of something but it's not very errr 'photogenic', then I try to be a little imaginative and make the focus something else. Like have the animal partially hidden in the foliage with a landscape in the background etc. I think that there is not much more distasteful and miss-representative than a heap of mangled dead stuff.
  14. Born Hunter
    Welcome back buddy. Hope all's well
  15. Born Hunter
    Oh okay.
  16. Born Hunter
    Agree entirely! Unless the fundamental cause of the paternal dominance in gene expression is understood and proven then it can’t legitimately be applied to any other species. I don’t know enough about genetics to question that.
  17. Born Hunter
    None at all mate. That would be categorised as ‘useful knowledge’. I seem to specialise in ‘random useless knowledge’! Haha
  18. Born Hunter
    Its something and that may well eventually be termed the soul.
  19. Born Hunter
    We're on the same page then mate. But just for context, for a long while folks didn't believe that. In fact back in the bad old days they would dissect live dogs with absolutely no ethical doubts as even while the dog screamed in pain and visibly demonstrated extreme trauma they believed that it was merely a programmed reaction from an essentially non sentient being. The same view regarding fish has been prevalent untill very recently. Whether a fish's experience of suffering is the same as ours is hard to determine as existence is subjective but they seem to undergo the same physio
  20. Born Hunter
    Fair enough mate but I don’t believe that anymore. Too much evidence to suggest they do.
  21. Born Hunter
    I don't think that question has been answered mate. like you, I have ideas but it's really very speculative. I've seen the same debates which is why I felt it important to post this.
  22. Born Hunter
    That's a good analogy. I actually got onto this with someone regarding spearfishing and how it measures up to line fishing, ethically speaking. We didn't dwell on it for long and moved on to more interesting things but later I was sent the article which I found interesting. In my mind it really brings into question the way we treat fish vs the more charismatic and relate-able animals, like mammals and birds. ie
  23. Born Hunter
    A couple of things I've come across this week that have made me question what I thought I knew. First off that the father contributes more to the offspring than the mother. That is, a study on mice showed that although mother and father contribute an equal proportion of nuclear DNA to their offspring, the fathers genes were seen to dominate significantly in the expression of those genes. This has obvious potential implication on the breeding of working animals. Perhaps not so much in practice as in understanding. Secondly, that fish do indeed experience pain, or at lea
  24. Born Hunter
    Not me mate, @MH1 posted that. But sounds like I should give it a watch too.
  25. Born Hunter
    Another solution I thought of was a small surface to air missile with a purely kinetic warhead. It could be designed to deploy a parachute for a safe fall back to earth to minimise collateral. Also the small size would minimise risk to jets etc. Just enough to kill a drone. Only caveat is cost of a launch but perhaps that could be brought down with a largely reusable missile.
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