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  1. Born Hunter
    Exactly mate. Unless I'm wrong then with the potential for rapid career progression they will soon have paid it off and have benefitted from it with a very high expected salary ceiling. The starting salary is really of much less significance when you consider the bigger picture. It may well be insufficient but no one has shown me anything to suggest it is yet other than a fundamental belief of 'it is'.
  2. Born Hunter
    With respect, junior doctors aren't the only ones that have student loans. Childish behaviour is laughing at someone's comments in derision, personally I find that behaviour amusing but it's still unnecessary and is the cause of ninety percent of the pathetic tit for tat arguments on here. By all means carry on behaving that way... As I said, let's move past that.
  3. Born Hunter
    Gaz, maybe we've had a bit of a misunderstanding mate. Apologies if ive got your back up. You're a good lad, I don't want to carry on tit for tat. By all means respond to what I have said I just don't want this to deteriorate as is the way on here.
  4. Born Hunter
    Good post.£24k is a joke. Regardless of what they may progress to in later years. They have got bills to pay now, not to mention what their student loans must be like. What must their student loans be like? That's the problem with this, everyone thinks they know what these junior doctors deserve without really knowing what the crack is. Their student loans will be of absolutely no concern, trust me. Ok I trust you LOL I'll take that in the absence of any response of substance. But you haven't offered a response of substance yourself have you? You've just posted your own opinion followed b
  5. Born Hunter
    Good post.£24k is a joke. Regardless of what they may progress to in later years. They have got bills to pay now, not to mention what their student loans must be like. What must their student loans be like? That's the problem with this, everyone thinks they know what these junior doctors deserve without really knowing what the crack is. Their student loans will be of absolutely no concern, trust me. Ok I trust you LOL I'll take that in the absence of any response of substance.
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    But again, so what? You think it's not worth it. Look at the situation more generally, clearly plenty of med students do think its worth it, otherwise they'd have used their academic abilities to pursue another career. If we face a shortfall of med students and it's clear to conclude that is as a result of too low a starting salary then I agree it should be raised. But as things stand is that true? Other than folks believing that they deserve more with little reason other than 'they do'.
  7. Born Hunter
    Good post. £24k is a joke. Regardless of what they may progress to in later years. They have got bills to pay now, not to mention what their student loans must be like. What must their student loans be like? That's the problem with this, everyone thinks they know what these junior doctors deserve without really knowing what the crack is. Their student loans will be of absolutely no concern, trust me.
  8. Born Hunter
    But so what? Why do they deserve more than any of those other examples? Because the profession they are training for is considered more noble? Reality is that generally speaking a persons worth is dictated by their value as a resource. If we have a shortage of doctors and it is deemed to be as a result of too low a starting salary then suddenly that resource becomes more valuable and their worth increases. A man/woman serving fried chicken may well earn more, if they do it suggests they are of greater value to society than a starting junior doctor. That's just a reality of nature and human
  9. Born Hunter
    I think they deserve whatever they are worth to be perfectly honest irrespective of how hard they have worked for it. If we need more doctors then their worth goes up etc. If everyone wants to be a doctor and is willing to work hard for it then their worth goes down. Even in nationalised industry there are these free market forces on labour. That is until people start deciding what folks deserve based on how noble their profession is rather than how valuable they are. Also, what's the progression like? What's the drop out rate like? All these things need to be taken into account before mak
  10. Born Hunter
    Yep! Anybody that has tried to buy a Boyds directly in the recent history will know that unfortunately. I payed twice as much but bought a Walnut Parmoor instead.
  11. Born Hunter
    The US Army took their first order of the M16 durring the early stages of their involvement in Vietnam. To replace the M14. They were obviously playing with it prior to that. I'm really not interested in another history lesson argument, lol.
  12. Born Hunter
    That's a reflection of modern warfare where engagements typically use infantry to suppress the enemy for artillery or air power to finish. The statistic is similar for Vietnam which is when the 556 and M16 was rolled out. We can look at anecdotes all day; How truly deadly is the 5.56? Well, this past April when I was going through Combat Skills Training at Ft. McCoy, Wisconsin, one week was spent in Combat Life-Saving class (CLS). The medics who instructed us had slide show after slide show of combat injuries they have treated over their last three deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.
  13. Born Hunter
    I don't care what frank Barnes says. There has been absolutely no evidence presented that supports the statement that the 556 was designed to wound! It was not, it was designed to improve the firepower of an infantry unit in modern warfare. It was the Hague convention that forced the use of non expanding ammo and therefore reduced lethality and militaries are constantly working to improve the lethality of ammo within this law! You can keep pushing the wound myth but without backing it up its just hearsay.
  14. Born Hunter
    Let's get something else clear, the FMJ was only adopted exclusively because the Hague Convention banned expanding bullets. Militaries want weapons that kill and they continually work to make the FMJ more lethal as a way of working around the Hague Convention. Nevertheless, the 556 was not designed to wound, it was designed to optimise the combat effectiveness of infantry and the FMJ is not used exclusively in war because it wounds it's used because the Hague Convention banned expanding ammo!
  15. Born Hunter
    LOL its garbage no matter who's saying it, it can not be backed by evidence! http://militaryarms.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/the-poodle-killer-myth.html There were a few design criteria for the 556 and none of them were about wounding. The biggest military criticism of any round is its lethality! Time and again studies and reports speak very clearly on the desire to improve a cartridges lethality! Designed to wound is bullshit!
  16. Born Hunter
    LOL, it's really neither here nor there but to my knowledge no NATO round was developed 'to wound'. LOL. The development of an intermediate caliber was entirely based on optimising the combat performance of an infantry unit. Typical engagements meant that a 30 cal was 'too much' gun and therefor an unnecessary compromise on other consideration. The US Army carried out combat simulations and found that an infantry unit armed with 556 had superior firepower than one armed with 762 and combat theory generally follows that firepower wins battles, not big bullets. That was the crux of it, not this
  17. Born Hunter
    For fucks sake get out and belt a few and come back on here and put all this arm chair speculation to bed. My money is on dead charlie! All this talk of FMJs leaving nothing more than pinhole wounds...... I've read and seen photos of some devastating FMJ wounds! Theory is great, but only born of direct experience. Get out and try it. They might be shite, then again they might be a reasonable compromise or even superior!
  18. Born Hunter
    They've totally ignored the IUCN's brief to the EU on the impacts of trophy hunting then! LOL. Policy driven by emotion rather than evidence.............
  19. Born Hunter
    They look smart as f**k HPR! Very professional looking setup with a lot of thought gone in. Exactly the sort of thing I have in mind when I finally settle in one place.
  20. Born Hunter
    Nice, then you can look forward to the center fire and open ticket lads taking the piss out of you for rimfires/FAC air and closed ticket and of course the dog lads will be calling you for being a fat lazy merciless 'rifle lad'! See! No one is exempt from being ridiculed! LOL
  21. Born Hunter
    If the majority of Scots are pro Eu then a vote to re join the Eu would win If the majority of votes in the coming referendum is leave the Eu...i don't see it forcing another Scottish referendum I don't see how it could 'force' another referendum anyway! They gonna demand a referendum every time UK politics don't go their way? Surely they considered that when voting in 2014! LOL Besides, they'd be running an even greater deficit now with the North Sea f****d! That economic model is looking even less ideal now. I suppose that little inconvenience would be irrelevant in a second
  22. Born Hunter
    LOL, I don't think anyone has ever flicked the lamp on and said "Oh f**k, the air rifle lads have cleaned us out!" LOL. Don't take any of this personally. Air guns have their place but they do attract a certain kind of person. It's all tongue in cheek fella..........
  23. Born Hunter
    Stop crawling about the hedge bottoms of the local lambing fields then! There might not be someone come by in time to save you in the future!
  24. Born Hunter
    Look gents, all this speculation is mute now. I'm sure Command has their best man boarding the helo (that's hee-low, not hello) as we speak! He would have been there already but he had to wait for his Ghillie suit to come back from the dry cleaners. Obviously his identity is a closely guarded secret........ for 'persec' reasons of course. There'll be grainy black and white footage uploaded to a secure youtube channel shortly!
  25. Born Hunter
    You mean Special Operations Command, Air Rifle Tactical Division? Just don't leave them alone in their Sniper hole, they'll tell you the Vaseline and tissues are for weapons maintenance.............. it's a lie!
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