Born Hunter
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Coots and Moorhens were my first guess. Evil little black b*****ds. Could well have then been scavenged.
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Then destroyed it shall get!
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In a perfect world I'd quite fancy a brace of springerxfells and a brace of lurchers. Maybe with a steady little bayer to run with the bushers or be kept back for bolting to the gun. But that's an ideal world. For the time being I'll just keep on with my lurcher and terrier team.
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f***ing disgraceful. I hope your 'sort of girlfriend' appreciated your heroic swerve!
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Sounds a bit of a ball ache for a shity old gun...... I only wanted a deactivated sawn-off as a bit of a conversation piece.
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What's involved in having a gun deactivated? I've got an old SxS that I never use and is probably best destroyed. I'm off to the gun smiths this weekend anyway but thought I'd ask on here first. Just wondered about having it deactivated instead of destroying it.
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We used to but stopped bothering. It's not like in a pheasant or partridge pen where if a fox gets in the birds can't get away. Any trouble and they'll just take to the water and safety. That works for us but every shoot is different. You may find you need an electric fence... I'm sure others will share their wisdom.
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Greatest loss of British lives in that campaign for 8 years. All the more tragic with it being durring our withdrawal.
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Shot myself in the foot, though, as this wasn't the case viz a vis Syria. Worry is though, Syria is/was a proxy war...... Ukrain on the other hand has developed into something far more serious. The russians are'nt backing minority malitia, they're parachuting in fecking unbadged Spetsnaz!
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Well me and my partisans would be shooting those traitors along with the reds!
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Do you thing they are going to role out into Eastern Europe? They're f***ing Russian! They'd be landing marines on skeggy beach if they thought they could get away with it! I wouldn't give them an inch.
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I don't believe NATO assets are being moved east to counter a Russian invasion of Ukrain, that's now a lost cause militarily through a clearly weak western resolve. I believe what is going on is bolstering the defences of the other ex soviet NATO members as a deterent to further Russian invasions. There's a constant 24/7 AWACs patrol and 16 alliance fighters on patrol.
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You hook me up with a job with semi naked office girls and I'll tell you that DS is now Outlaw Pete...... Deal?
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so have most of the others mentioned LOL, I think anybody still on their first username should get a gold star! Be like a THL cliche, we could have our own secret handshakes and all that.
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FFS Mush, keep up! DS has been back ages! LOL
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That sir, I'll agree with you on.
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Yeah, but I'm not playing if I haven't got a carrier!
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So what would have happened in the ground battle if small 2 or 3 battle groups had been defeated? There would have been no one else to send in. What if, what if..... what if the carriers had been sunk, what if the argy commandos had successfully sunk ships at Gibraltar, what if the UN had turned on us. Fact is what we were presented with we dealt with in a campaign on the other side of the planet in our enemies back yard! You make it sound like we sent our entire military. LOL. What if we had dropped a fecking Polaris on buenos aires? LOL Scot, we had the use of a yank carrier
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What part of that is luck? That's a piss poor argentine planning. They had mostly conscripts correct, but even when faced with their best they were no match even for smaller numbers of marines and paras. We never lost a single land battle! And to say they would have smashed our fleet is ridiculous, the core of the fleet was kept safely back to the East of the Islands. The harriers advanced sidewinders gave the Task force air superiority. It was only when Frigates were sent in for Naval artillery bombardments they became susceptable. The Destroyer/Frigate air defence trap employed worked we
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It was an incredibly well planned and carried out campaign from our Admirals and Generals that achieved it. It ran like clockwork and we didn't loose a single battle. Fieldhouse, Woodward and Moore played a hell of a game, they used the best in the world to do what they do best with the support of a driven and focused PM. Luck always plays a part but for me they achieved what the top US Naval brass analysed as "militarily impossible for Britain to achieve" which should be rightly put down to the professionalism, skill and grit of the British military. We were taken as post colonial 'has beens'
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I work for an american company. I agree with you mate. Just not these folks that seem to think we're done for and written off just because we haven't got an operational naval combat wing.
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I'm no fecking Admiral but tell me this, what did Hermes and Invicible give us that we can't provide through alternative means now? Constant air patrols to intercept enemy aircraft and maintain air defence of the fleet...... bombing runs to weaken the argies defences on the islands prior to D-Day...... recon of the islands....... ground attack capabilites to support the 3Cdo and 5th Infantry. Bear in mind what we had back then and why that was so critical strategicaly. The first ever precision guided bombs were dropped in anger then but the vast majority were not. We had no cruise miss
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f***ing hell themoocher, you're making me want to hang myself with a Union flag!
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But that has always been my point, they can't. The technological gap between our militaries is greater now than it ever has been. And we have a lot of that technology, in the air, on the ground, on the sea and under it at the Islands right now! I'm not convinced we couldn't take them back either but I can't be arsed to argue that.
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But that's what gives us energy security, the Russians would have to stop supplying Europe to stop Norway etc supplying us by creating higher demand for gas in Europe. They can't just turn off the taps to the UK without severely damaging their own exports to a much wider market of the whole of Europe. Suddenly everybody starts questioning their own energy security and Russia have just set their economic recovery back another couple decades untill folks start trusting them again. This'll all be a mute point if the Govt. grow a pair and get fracking moving forward. They should also be invest
