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  1. Alsone
    They wouldn't. They have no interest in shooting and want to get guns out of the hands of civilians in my opinion. The issue they have is they also need pest control. They won't subsidise it, we know that. But without subisidsation it could mean the end of shooting for a lot of people as pest control becomes too expensive for those who do it as a hobby for farmers or if commercial eg a farm that relies on shooting for culling and the sale of prey to subsidise farming costs, uneconomic. If not selling your quarry, you'd have to bury them or burn them, or give the meat away for free to loca
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    Thanks. I couldn't agree more. I don't know the position on rifle rounds but like you I've seen shotshells. £8 a box for lead. £40 - Bismuth, £70 - Tungsten = no alternative plus Tungsten has some health concerns. If the Government want use to go lead free, they need to subsidise the alternatives down to the cost of lead indefinately until a reasonably priced alternative is found.
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    Note sure how I missed the point. I said the very reason for not selling to game dealers was the cartridges cost 10x as much but you're still paying us the same. The price is the biggest problem followed by the performance. As I said above, some reports suggest that in rifles zinc / copper / resin alloys outperfom lead. However, there remains no viable alternative in shotguns and price is an issue with shotshells. Can't comment on rifle pricing for zinc / copper / resin alloys as haven't seen any.
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    It depends if you need the income from the meat sale. That's always been the aim. Every excuse they make licensing more difficult. It isn't about safety it never was. It's about slowly closing ownership by the back door. Anyone with an ounce of sense can see that tightening laws on legal guns in response to a tragedy involving illegal ones has no effect whatsoever. I believe in CF there's an alternative made from memory from copper zinc alloys and resin that outperfoms lead. However, what the cost is I don't know. Still nothing for shotguns though that equals lead in p
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    Just don't sell your quarry. If they ask why, it's because it now costs 10 times as much to shoot them but you're still only offering the same price.
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    America, everything has to be bigger! Agreed. 7.5 British is still a bit small I think. There's a reason pretty much anything over 7 is labelled clay and not game. That said if US 7.5 = UK 6.5 then explains it. I do agree shot size is subjective and there is no right and wrong answer other than don't go too small for killing power or cause holes in the pattern by going too large. Anything in between, personal choice, although there are accepted norms.
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    7.5 shot though. Bit small. Prefer 6's for most applications myself. Guessing that's why they're the ones left on the shelf. Not much clay shooting going on.
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    Hopefully he's avoided the Chinese flu and is ok.
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    Well that's a joke Ian considering they've now done away with licensing insurance. Who is going to go to the BASC with a case if the BASC are no longer covering licensing costs? Maybe you asked prior to this change to their insurance. The BASC need someone prepared to lose £20K which means only the wealthiest.
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    This is what I've been saying to The Shooting organisations for years. Whilst ever there is guidelines, the Police are free to do whatever they want because they're only guidlines (except to the extent that a Court may have modified compliance through a test case). For this reason, Firearms Guidance needs to be enacted as Law and it needs penalties for those enforcing it if they depart from the rules or make up their own requirements. You cannot have a fair law where there are no penalties for one side breaching it. It needs to be fair and equal to both sides. There needs to be a huge fi
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    Is this Grimsby? (Just going off the Sacha Barren Cohen film of the same name). Didn't think you needed the pubs open to do that up there. She's even got his initials JP tatooed on her arse. Classy bird. PS very funny film if you haven't seen it.
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    "Whether you are planning a spontaneous uprising, open-ended jiahd or a brutal insurrection. the Toyota HiLux is the number one choice...." Toyota should fit a kill switch? Preferably one attached to a hidden charge. Imagine the wars that could be won if the CIA could dial into in it like a Tesla and flip the switch.
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    In the UK only if it's single shot.
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    Are you sure The Sun got the report right and it wasn't 300,000 pellets? Not much point in having .22 ammo for air guns. Wouldn't surprise me as mistakes have been made before confusing air gun ammo with rifle ammo, such is the knowledge of some of the non shooting public. As for the air guns, who orders 600 units? I'd have thought that was abut 10 years supply!
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    Complain to OFCOM. As for the BBC Licence, I got rid of mine last year. Best thing I ever did. I now have Prime for £67 a year and it's way better. You could afford Netflix as well for the same as the licence fee. Easy enough to rid yourself. Just fill out the form online, detune your tv (erase all the saved stations) and unplug the aerial. If you want to be supercautious, also unplug the aerial at the aerial end. Pretty much you can watch most programmes from BBC / ITV on catchup. Only programme I can get is any news (You cannot watch any live broadcast through any medium or BBC ipl
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    I think there are a lot of issues at play. Many retailers won't stock shooting magazines as they're either too niche or they don't want to offend snowflakes customers by having them on the shelves. Another issue is magazines in general are falling popularity and have a limited future. As cover prices have gone up, I think more and more people are baulking at the idea of paying £4-5 for something they read once then chuck out. When magazines were £1.99-2.50, many people didn't think twice but with price hikes and the avilaibility of stuff to read on the internet, many other magazines
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    I must admit Chris, I see at lot of the US's problemns stemming not from ownership but inadequate background checks and in the majority, lack of firearm security. You get guns in criminals hands often through theft and that's where having them openly available unsecured in homes becomes a problem. That's also how disaffected and bullied teenagers get access to carry out school shootings. Nearly all the school shootings I've heard of involving students involve theft of mum or dad's gun. I personally, think better background checks and proper firearm security would go a long way to reducing inci
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    I saw a tit the other day. Unfortunately it was a blue one. Not surprising with this cold. A lot of strange looking guys with binoculars watching it though. Apparently, CP followers.
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    Adders are usually docile until they feel threatened then like any animal they become defensive. Statistically, the number one type of adder bite is to the hand and the number 1 cause is trying to pick them up. It's also bad for the snake. Believe it or not, they die easily after becoming stressed by being disturbed and being disturbed is the number one cause of death for adders. They can't be bread in captivity because the stress of being captive kills them. They're curently predicted to be extinct in the next 5-10yrs as their populations are plummeting due to disturbance. If you see an
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    I've never seen adders swimming and I always understood they dislike water. Not saying they never swim, but equally i could be wrong. As for picking one up. Both of you are very lucky if you managed to do so. Most adder bites are to hands of interested parties as generally they won't allow anyone to pick them up and they're lightening fast. Even TV Wildlife expert Steve Backshaw got bitten by one.
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    I've found plenty. Grass snakes as well. Although a zig zag would tend to be an adder, it's unlikely it was an adder. They're lightening fast and impossible to pick up - that's how most people get bitten. They also hate water. Grass snakes on the other hand are a light brown with black banding and a small one could be mistaken for an adder if you didn't know what you're looking for. They're usually quite docile and although they can bite, or play aggressive, they often play dead or exhume a foul smelling liquid from their skins to give the impression of rotting flesh as most predators
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    Having them on your home would scare the sh*t out of me. In the UK to find snakes you have to know where to look, and even then it can be rare. I went out to see one in the wild and without knowing the local spots, it took me over 6 months twice a week in likely habitat terrain before I found a spot were they live and found one. That's how rare they are. To have them in your garden or on your farm, must be terrifying. Worse still when you know they might be in your house or garage.
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    Yeah he ate the evidence.
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    UK firearm laws go too far. eg. 12ftlbs+ airguns being FAC. Since when was the average FAC airgun more deadly than shotgun? Yet you can hold a shotgun on a SGC but need an FAC for an airgun! OK there maybe a crossover point with .50 cal airguns. However, for most airguns .30 cal or below even fac pressures offer little more than shotgun. At the higher end range may be a little more 150yd as opposed to around 80-100. But at closer range, ask yourself which is deadlier a 60ft lbs pellet or a 1 1/2 ounces of number 1 at 1,500fps. I know which I fear more and it isn't the air gun! There has to be
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