Alsone
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Yeah right. Can you imagine the snowflakes when they don't feel safe going for a walk in the woods. They're all urban conservation experts until the wildlife strikes back, then it's ban / kill everything in sight. Ditto with the snowflakes and dynamite. They want to ban fireworks! They already banned bangers. They're trying to ban sub 12ft air rifles over here and have already banned knives - not internet sales, many shops no longer sell single knives. Dynamite would give them all an orgasm.
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...and medical reasons. Check the form and notes and any shooting body advice on what you need to disclose. Not disclosing relevent conditions could be fatal to your application and could land you in trouble. They will get details of any conditions that are relevent from your doctor so anything not disclosed will be discovered, If you have a clean record, no medical conditions, good refs and are stable, there's no reason to suppose you won't get granted. If you don't, it doesn't necessarily mean you won't get granted, but it's not automatic.
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My thoughts are with you.
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Actually I think prof Brian Cox isn't the mouth piece. He excels at fingering.... ...and Just remember things can only get better... or if you Dare: (Prof Brian Cox on the keyboards in case you didn't know....)
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Actually I might have to eat my joke here. I found this whilst searching for a fox with a hearing aid (I thought some right Packha Charlie would probably have given a fox one). It seems according to Packman not only do foxes have radar domes for ears, but they can detect magnetic fields. As most buzzing from electronics indicate a magnetic field, it could be a combination of sound and magnetic field if Packman is right. The video is here, but the narration is painful. Here's you torture for the morning. Pity it isn't Halloween: All I can say is with steerable radar
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I can accept the foxes have hearing aids, but where do they get the batteries from?
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TBH for a short while a couple of years ago, it ebcame spot on. Totally reliable, and then it went downhill again. I use Accuweather and the Met Oriffice usually and these days the Met Orrifice tends to be more accurate, but they both get it wrong. I can't remember the number of fishing days I've lost this year due to bad forecasting of rain when it turns out to be fine and sunny all day. Then the next day you planned to go that was going to be rainy, you find a garden full of cats and dogs...
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You must know a better forecaster that I do. The one thing that always pisses me off is the weather man. FIne and sunny = terrential bloody rain just after you put the washing out or go shooting. Heavy rain today = glorious sunshine after you didn't do the washing or arrange to go out because the weather was bad. A little breezy = there's going to be a bloody hurricane. A little grey today = so much bloody fog you can't see where to put the car keys. Risk of light snow = better take the spade and snow plough! The best weather forecaster is the one who steps outside and looks upward! Relyi
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Not a shooting one but I once went on a school trip. I used to be excellent at jumping and we were in the woods and I had been jumping back and forwards across the stream. Anyway the teacher was told and I was asked to jump it for the class, and I fell short in front of 30 school kids! They were quite amused. Me much less so. Luckily it was only a couple of inches deep so no great harm but an audience is never a good thing!
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Nice account but tell us the truth, I bet you went out for ballet. Had to practise it away from the wife. ? I think Gav's probably right, with the pheasant, the fox was still around watching from cover and took your lunch. Btw be careful of shotgun ballet. I once went to a shoot where a right proper idiot (didn't deserve a licence as this wasn't the only stupid thing he did), thought it would be a good idea to walk balancing along the top of the moss covered trunk of a down tree with a loaded and closed shotgun so he could get closer to the high birds!!! A whole 1 metre! The in
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I'd just be careful with licensing. They can say one thing then do another. I'd either transfer the non listed items to a RFD until you receive an amended cert, or ask them to issue temporary cert, in fact I'd probably transfer to an RFD until you get a temp cert.
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Cialis?
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I take it by that you're holding onto it whilst they issue an amended version. Don't simply ignore it if they've left items off as potentially you're holding those items without a licence and matters could get complicated down the line.
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So sorry to hear this. You are in my thoughts and prayers.
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Bedtime to 3.30am, that's way too long. The pill must be like the .17 in the other thread!
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As you get older you need both. The pill to get it started and the lens to convince yourself it's working.
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Now that's what I call a 17 (incher).
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"Robert Silvers, director of research and development for AAC said, "We started development in 2009, but most of the work was done in 2010. A military customer wanted a way to be able to shoot .30-cal. bullets from an M4 platform while using normal bolts and magazines, and without losing the full 30-round capacity of standard magazines. They also wanted a source for ammunition made to their specs. We could not have just used .300-.221 or .300 Whisper because Remington is a SAAMI company, and will only load ammunition that is a SAAMI-standard cartridge. We had to take the .300-221 wildcat conce
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Nice gun btw. Great you have the choices. TBH on the ammo side, I don't think it necessarily matters what's legal but more what's ethical. I'd personally never use fmj against live prey because as Sausage alluded to earlier, the bullets do and will pass through on multiple occassions missing vital organs, and the prey run off wounded, or may nick a blood vessel or vital organ and leave it running off and bleeding out over a portracted period of time or sucumming to infection. Expanding ammo is the only real humane option as it almost guarantees a kill and allows for mistakes in aiming. I
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If you know the author or can get in contact, he ought to change the wording. "Hunting" isn't useful as it makes people think of hunting with dogs. That garners little widespread support. It would be better if it used the word "shooting". TBH, getting him sacked probably wouldn't achieve a lot. He's probably going to walk straight into a big fat contract with an independent channel. Worse still, he might even get his own programme. At least the other presenters / editors currently can help keep him to the script if he departs. Imagine him as presenter, writer, editor and unconstrained by
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300blk is an intersting choice as it's mainly a self defence / military round. I have heard of it's use on pigs and deer to around 150yds in the states. It's famous because it can be supressed in subsonic form to be quiet and still deliver a punch. That said, some reports say expansion is unreliable with sub sonic ammo and supersonic is more suited to hunting. Similar rounds over there would also include .458 socom and .500 Beowolf although again, neither of these are used exrtensively for hunting that I'm aware of. Both pack a hell of a punch and should easily stop a boar at 150-200yds though
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Wonder if that will make the BBC News... Shouldn't they be interviewing him as a high profile celeb coming out in support of Country Folk? Surely that's headline news. One of the country's most popular high profile celebs and a Lord coming out in support. Shouldn't the Government have to respond with guarantees and action in favour of protecting shooting? Shouldn't rural people and shooting communities / individuals be given protection as minorities? Shouldn't spreading fake news / inaccurate information as an organisation, charity or representative of an organisation / charity,
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New general license from Jan 1st
Alsone replied to philpot's topic in Rimfire, Centrefire & Shotguns
Total joke. Who decides if endangered species live in your wood? You shoot something and someone from a certain Right Royal Animl body gets notified and their guy declares no endangered species in your wood only the protected ones. What then? You potentially prosecuted. It's about as useful "reasonable force" is to self defence. All based on opinion. Pity shooters can't call a national shooting strike and let food supplies and animal welfare suffer. That would soon make people realise the importance of pest control and managing the countryside. -
I bet WJ don't publsih that. I'd try sending it to a few newspapers. I doubt they'll publish a story but you never know one might. Anything that makes the urban antis see why control is necessary, can only be good for shooting.
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When you want deer, put in for .30PRC Deer Rifle that will make him wet himself.
