Born Hunter
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What would make it truly wild? As far as I’m aware it was free to roam wherever it wanted.
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Massive anti
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You’re preaching to the choir. I just wanted to state that it wasn’t canned. That lion could roam between the national park and the conservancy as it chose.
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I’m not disagreeing with you really but just wanted to point out that the Cecil nonsense wasn’t a canned hunt. That lion was a free ranging animal. Generally speaking I wouldn’t be in favour of canned hunting and feel that it does more harm than good, to hunting and conservation. Tangential but the topic of fences isn’t straight forward either. A fenced conservancy or ranch doesn’t necessarily stop the animals passing or mean they’re not effectively free. Something that is often incorrectly assumed.
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There’s a lot of my shit don’t stink types in field sports. That aside, I don’t get what the excitement is in using an air rifle that is ballistically a match for a proper rifle. Air rifles have their niche but big game just seems a bit pointless. Most the lads I know who take larger game with one do it purely because they don’t stand a hope of getting granted anything sensible.
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I assume anyone with a launch capability has a pretty good awareness of what’s where. But yeah space junk is a growing concern in that sector.
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What they’re trying to offer is global internet. They could do that with many less satellites if they were far away and so could see a large portion of the earth but then user experience would be shite because the signals would take so long to travel the distance it’d create lag for users. So you put the satellites in a lower orbit which means they see less of the earth so you need more for continuous global coverage. You then need to multiply by two or three to add system redundancy. Its interesting to me because the sheer number makes the system immune to anti satellite weapons. Until t
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My nerd senses tingled!
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I’m sure a few of you have seen this lad recently. Got into a bit of a pickle with an unseen concrete barrier but muscles through. No harm done really. But oh no, the police and council are extremely concerned… On another note, we’ve had some f***ing rain!
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I’m sure I read something about the early field trials in Vietnam with the 556/M16 were impressive. The lethality of the cartridge they used was great and the wound channels were devastating. Something to do with the bullet tumbling on impact. Since then the bullets terminal performance was stabilised and that led to much reduced lethality.
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It was only a couple years ago a few commandos ditched the L85 in favour of the AR platform C8. By 2025 they’ll probably have another!
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Rangers too I believe. Interesting that the MoD is sticking with 556 when the yanks are going up in calibre.
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The messaging too “by the end of this campaign there will be no hamas” or words to that effect. The lawyers will be busy for years.
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Yeah that’s the one. I was just finding it myself. Details that are left off the footage can be critical in making any judgement, but I suspect if faced with the same situation, the Royal Marines/Navy would be expected to act differently.
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Has anyone seen the video of the Israeli coastguard booting about in the sea machine gunning a load of drowning hamas in the sea after their boat was sunk? The Israelis do not give a f**k for taking prisoners or The Hague conventions! I can see them going door to door through Gaza and the West Bank before Xmas is here, executing any fighting age male that so much as looks angry.
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I was at a do in Blackpool a couple weeks ago. First time I’ve ever been. It’s surpassed only by hull in topping the shithole chart! To top it off I caught some flu type shit that I still haven’t managed to shift. Gaza… Blackpool… hull… difficult one tbh mate.
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Is it time to call on the Government to let us arm ourselves?
Born Hunter replied to Lenmcharristar's topic in General Talk
At times of national emergency there’s more chance of them taking guns off us that there is them letting us have more. There’s zero appetite for an armed civilian populace in the UK. -
As trump showed, the only way to bring about change is from within the two party system. But I can’t see farage being allowed in.
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Not enough people. The industry seems slow to embrace technology too. Particularly as it uncovers inefficiency which causes headaches for management.
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I had this set in the garden and had these two on the bounce. The terrier literally flushing them into the trap. In this circumstance they obviously enter at speed so not totally representative of normal. However it was a rare opportunity to actually witness how humane the trap is. In both instances the squirrel was limp in probably 10-20s. Ive had foul catches too where the trigger wires allowed the squirrel to slip down the side with only its hips firing the trap leading to a a less than human catch. A bit of experience and thought though makes these very quick killers. Im sure non
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Terrorist Escapes From Wandsworth Prison.
Born Hunter replied to chartpolski's topic in General Talk
I may have too but it is a coincidence. Quite likely a bit jumpy with this fella about. Even though I doubt they seriously expect him to do anything other than run. -
Terrorist Escapes From Wandsworth Prison.
Born Hunter replied to chartpolski's topic in General Talk
I drove by RAF Croughton earlier, I think, the five eyes base. There were four police cars surrounding a civilian vehicle in one of the entrances. If I were to put two and two together… -
I suppose I wouldn’t say it was common knowledge, but known amongst a few I think. But very few knew exactly where it was, just that it was in the woods somewhere. These woods have gone very much unmanaged for decades and this tank needed a machine to shift it. I suppose those factors meant that those that knew didn’t have the means or motivation. I think the plan is to get some of it to the elevenses cabin. Which will be mega for first day this season!
