Born Hunter
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It's kind of an "all elephants are grey but not all grey things are elephants" situation. I accept that most hunting and shooting folks either fish or are on board with it but I don't accept that the inverse is true, not these days anyway. I don't want fishing to be punished for it's lack of support, but I don't believe 'they' are allies.
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I don't know how I've cut my nose off to spite anything mate. Nothing the fishing community do will benefit hunting or shooting because they keep their distance from us. And any initiatives they are using to promote themselves are already being used by hunting and shooting.
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What percentage of people who fish (on the whole) would you say hunt or shoot game/vermin?
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99% of those that only fish would not ally themselves to the hunting and shooting world. Plenty of us that hunt and shoot will also fish but we're the minority in the fishing world. They don't want to be tarred with that brush. My point is, what the fishing mob are doing is of no benefit to us. IMO
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The angling community are no allies to hunting and shooting.
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Did the sab not jump into his path? If the sabs hadn’t of moved no one would’ve been hurt.
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Sam's a good lad. That's his first huntsman's job. Not really looked into the details of this but before things descend into a character assassination I just wanted to speak for his. The Cottesmore are absolutely hounded by the sabs.
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IMO supplying combat jets would be an escalation but not strictly the difference between being at war proper or not. The interesting thing about the Ukraine invasion is that neither side is fighting with air superiority. Ground forces are largely being defended from air threats by ground based air defences. The basic Russian manoeuvre unit seems to be the Battalion Tactical Group which has an integral air defence support unit. They failed to gain air superiority and to this day won't even deploy their most advanced "stealth" jets over Ukrainian territory for fear of Ukrainian ground based
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Worst shoot in Britain
Born Hunter replied to Squirrel_Basher's topic in Rimfire, Centrefire & Shotguns
Well done for making a point, I would've too. These absolute f***ing chancing c**ts in the fieldsports world need showing up. I know of a local shoot that couldn't get their birds this year and still ran the syndicate! The brass neck on it! -
It all changed when much of the defence industry was privatised. Governments don't have the monopoly of technology anymore. They're largely just another customer.
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Is there though... I think the whole 'the technology the army keep top secret is unimaginable' belongs to a very different time. 50 years ago maybe. These days, nah.
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Probably done the rounds on whatsapp and so had the resolution reduced. Makes it look crappy.
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The vid is a bad one from a publicity point no doubt but truth is it’s not exactly the behaviour of a renegade pack. I’ve sat a listened to arguments for and against it but fact is what was done is a bad look for hunting.
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That said, I can’t help but feel if your only strategy for survival is hiding the truth of what you do, then you’re on borrowed time anyway.
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Cheers The old guard wouldn’t have tolerated the man behind the camera. Unfortunately these days it’s normal and accepted.
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Tar. What pack was it?
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What was shown?
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Do you find, in real life, that the people who own electric cars are doing it for ‘the earth’? Personally, I don’t. I find they tend to just be technophiles, attracted to EVs because they are just big gadgets. If they don’t get on with them they’ll quite happily go back to a Range Rover.
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I'm bound by the official secrets act...
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What do you reckon to him? I’m leaning towards con man, but admit there will probably never be sufficient evidence either way to make a judgement.
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It probably lingers longer yeah, but then once it's gone by it's gone by, a satellite constellation will give repeated coverage as they orbit. It's not like a 'weather' balloon is particularly manoeuvrable. If it genuinely did provide any intelligence threat then it'd have been shot down much sooner. It's not like Montana is heavily populated. Ironically the whole event was probably of more intelligence value to the US than to China. The fact is, it provided a negligible threat, so any risk associated with 'shooting it down' is inherently unacceptable. Conversely, it provided the US with
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The misspelling of etc really adds credibility to a source.
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The NSA were probably gathering signals intelligence the whole time. Coupled with the fact that there’s literally no intelligence it could gather that a spy satellite hasn’t already. Then they shoot it down with the most unnecessarily dominant combat aircraft in the world just before it would enter the Atlantic Ocean proper and become unrecoverable… The whole thing was a grey zone game of ‘poke and see what reaction you get’.
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The country has a comprehensive air defence system that can track ballistic missiles but only sees a spy balloon when it's over the mainland where it can be easily recovered once shot down for their boffins to dissect... Also having caused sufficient media noise to continue to fuel the anti China build up.
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Where did you learn that fact?
