Born Hunter
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Is all land privately owned or do you have nation parks/land for public hunting?
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We're living in an environment that our body's and minds haven't been given chance to adapt to. We evolved to live very different lives. Look at the obesity epidemic; our minds are programmed to nail as much sugar and fat as we can when the opportunity arises because palaeolithic man never knew when the next famine or feast would come. Then welcome to the post industrial/agricultural revolution world where we have more calories than we could ever need but it happened so fast we couldn't adapt our basic palaeolithic behavioural programming. There are countless examples of how tech has caus
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I didn't know he used a drone for that, thought it was just for his photography/filming? Just look at his bow for tech; it's worlds apart from a primitive bow. He was in the Northern Territory recently on a bit of a walk-about, just wandering through that inhospitable place, shooting water buff bulls, dodging salties and catching barramundi, sleeping under the southern milky way, living like a nomad. The fact that I, an Englishman 8000 miles away, can follow his adventures day by day is one of the great things about modern technology for me personally. I have a small screen that give
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Technology in it's entirety is huge; medicine, aeroplanes, cars, telecoms, satellites, roads, firearms, (B&F collars ) etc etc. Back to the OP though, think we're just talking relatively modern tech.
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Absolutely no. Can't explain logically why because I would be living a more perfect life so the logical answer is to say yes. I just like real stuff, suffering is part of life, without it I really think life would have little meaning. Look at Dan Bilzerion, he admits that he cannot buy pleasure anymore. He's had so much just constant pleasure that his sense of well being, his sense of satisfaction in life is no more than Joe bloggs. But even if you could fix that with whatever code/programming it'd still be fake and something about me just says "f**k that".
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Might well be, I'd say it's introducing as many problems as it's fixing. Objectively we all live a bit longer than our palaeolithic ancestors but now suicides and self harm are relatively prolific. Not to mention less quantitative metrics; what about the quality of human social interaction? But then folks have been saying how the end is nigh for decades, perhaps the last century or two and we have consistently had a knack for finding technological solutions for all the problems that our madly competitive nature creates. We will probably still be around, in ever greater numbers and ev
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It'd be to the detriment of technological and economic progress but to the benefit of social cohesion imo. Progress is a bit of a trap. We pursue it out of the short term sense of improved well being it provides but at the expense of living more and more unnatural lives and hence the problems that brings. To revert to a less advanced state is effectively impossible due to the fact society as a collective would have to also revert for you to gain fully from the more natural life benefits. Fundamentally this wont happen because just as progressing gives a short term feeling of improved well
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CASUCKS
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Free speech as far as I'm concerned.
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Dunno if it’d be in keeping with the property.... This’d be my main reception room.
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There doesn't appear to be a tent or basha? That seems a bit odd given the weather has just started to turn past week.
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Go back and find the body. Might be a decent pair of boots and coat!
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Looks suspicious. Got to wonder if someone dumped it in a hurry.... Reminds me of the time I found a pool of blood on the bridge with bloody footprints leading down the road, through the woods to the riverside perhaps 500 yards away where I found a tent. Woke the occupants up to check everyone was okay and apparently their mate had chopped his foot open in the night and wondered off! Must have been bleeding like f**k, the track was easy to follow through the woods and must have still been gushing when he sat down at the bridge. Didn't sound like his mates were too concerned letting
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I've thought about this before (dunno why, I don't do the lotto, lol)... I wouldn't tell anyone how much, just that I had made enough not to need to work anymore. I honestly think it'd ruin some people if I just gave em a couple million. Be better to just sort them out a few bits to put them in a position of privilege but keep them needing to work for a bit of grounding and direction. Give someone with an addictive personality a shit ton of money and they'll probably kill themselves from the total freedom. People need a purpose, some more than others imo. We're all chasing wealth but
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IMO some of the steadiest dogs are keepers dogs, or at least dogs that live on keepered estates. They're around birds so much they just settle into 'the job'.
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I’d wreck a Range Rover. Something like this for me and not give much of a toss for owt else.
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Off your advice I've bought a pair of solognac neoprene lined wellies. 45 quid and on first inspection seem every bit as good as 150 quid brands. Too cheap not to try. PS if they fall apart what's your address for warranty claim?
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The average person could retire on it with sensible investment. 5% on 1M is 50k. 1M you have a choice; extravagance for a couple years or freedom for life. No right answer of course. 100% if I landed 1M I'd quit my job and iron out the details when I could be arsed. More than 3M and I wouldn't even care about the details, LOL.
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Quit my job, buy a nice property and manage a small estate exclusively for sporting interests. Spend the next 10 years adventuring and hunting everywhere that has ever sparked my imagination, New Zealand, the American West, Canada, Alaska, Patagonia, Tansania, Botswana. Then I think I'd dedicate myself to a project of building my own personal museum to natural history on my property. All the stuff I'd collected through my hunting and travels, all the stuff I was interested in; dinosaur skeletons and extinct megafauna exhibits too. Hopefully a bit of a legacy. Mega mega bucks then I'd
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Not condescending at all. Everyone has been helpful. Tikka has a strong following and I'm a bit critical of them so I expect a little resistance. That's fine. Cheers I'll have a look.
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I’ll reserve the term excellent for products that don’t require fettling off the shelf but yeah they are fine for a grand I guess. I’m not slagging tikka, I want to keep the rifle. Just a few things I personally think can be improved without significant expense. Like all the plasticy bits for a start. ill see what I can do with your suggestion. It’s elegant in its simplicity which suits me. Lol. I assume you mean to shim the receiver above the recoil lug? Rather than the lug itself?
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I’ve shot it plenty and after a few years it still pisses me off. Lol im fixing it one way or another
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This made me remember the after market aly trigger gaurds. I wonder if that's the solution? Crank up the bolts without warping? Anyone?
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Well enough. This is primarily an annoyance. Reasons above. Sako engineering is brilliant in my experience. Tikka is 'economy'. Again, this is not driven by accuracy. Another glass bedding proponent! Is it much of a faff? Something any gun Smith can do? I'll make a pigs ear of it. Lol Cheers
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Very true and understood mate but that isn't the stocks fault in this case i dont think. Imo the t3 action itself is bollocks. I've had two stocks and both had creep. The t3 has a plastic trigger guard / mag well thing which the bolts to secure the action to the stock go through. If you crank these bolts up this shitty bit of plastic warps. Also the recoil lug seems like a shitty design feature to me. Environmental conditions don't seem a big deal for me, just this shitty fit. I have considered a '3rd' stock, lol, but if that needs bedding then might as well just get this one be
