Johnsond
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??? All very very PC actually way too much for me. Perceived risks !! Legal alternatives !! Enjoyment !! Wrong hands !!, serious incidents with legally held firearms!!. All well used lines. What I shot or shoot is irrelevant and most sensible responsible shooters will not broadcast online their activities. You can if you need to and actually I do not believe in reality you are as naive to UK firearms laws as you say, find out all about UK firearms legislation online in no time at all. What you won’t find so easily is the facts behind each case and the failings of existing legislation at the time. Water under the bridge now unfortunately.
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?♂️?♂️All the information he apparently requires is easily available in great detail online. To have shot full and small bore and other disciplines inc air rifles yet to have no knowledge of any of the number of tragic events leading to changes in the firearms legislation is unusual to say the least.
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You probably would not get a sect 1 shotgun slot for wild fowling, but a lot depends on your liaison officer so never say never. Pest control ( pigeon/crow etc) and Practical Shotgun are the two reasons most commonly used. Ref the Fowling im on the lookout for a 10 bore, always fancied one and love those old punt guns ??
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Random D & A is everywhere nowadays. It was more a comment aimed at the at the scene you painted of cannabis farms and pistol toting drug dealers all over the Countryside ?
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Hungerford was semi not auto rifles Dunblane was pistols inc Olympic 22 target pistols courtesy of Blair. Shotgun capacity was restricted to 2+1 unless on an FAC at the same time as semi auto rifles went sect 5
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Doesn’t even make sense
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Cannabis farms and handguns ?♂️?♂️You smoking it right now ?? Inner city criminal firearms use is statistically far far more prevalent than anything that occurs in the countryside or rural locations. You need to get that diving holiday booked and get some high PPO2 into you to clear your head. The era of predators you describe wandering the countryside is long gone. What was the population of the UK last time we had such animals in the wild as opposed to now??. Regarding subsidies and farmers I’d probs not disagree too much but until we are willing to pay a lot more for food then it’s gonna be that way.
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Not unsurprisingly you forget that we farm livestock in the UK.
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You are showing either your age or a total lack of base knowledge of the subject in hand. The info you require is easy to source online and many on here whom are or were shooters will know full well the impact of a succession of firearms amendments starting with semi auto full bore then pistols and recently MARS type eqpt. My point is because it was and is a minority sport it’s easy to chip away at each discipline with relatively little opposition. Death by a thousand cuts and all that regardless of it being one of the safest and most stringently regulated activities an individual can partake in.
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Not quite sure of the previous posts meanings but as I’ve said on a number of occasions the whole pheasant/grouse thing is totally and utterly not my idea of a good days shooting. But if you’ve had any experience of legislative selects removal of personnel property etc and the rabid anti field sports mentality of many groups then the idea that some can be justified and others can’t is misguided. To these people any form of field sport and any form of civilian firearms ownership is totally unacceptable. You only need to watch that MSM Covid guidance disciple Piers Morgan in full flow and you can see what they would like to do regarding firearms ownership.
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Not quite sure of the previous posts meanings but as I’ve said on a number of occasions the whole pheasant/grouse thing is totally and utterly not my idea of a good days shooting. But if you’ve had any experience of legislative selective removal of personnel property etc and the rabid anti field sports mentality of many groups then the idea that some can be justified and others can’t is misguided. To these people any form of field sport and any form of civilian firearms ownership is totally unacceptable. You only need to watch that MSM Covid guidance disciple Piers Morgan in full flow and you can see what they would like to do regarding firearms ownership.
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?♂️ What mould
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Hi All Acquired some beams today, the guy said they were Jarrah ?, it’s super heavy and stinks when cut. Sliced a bit off one end to take the pic and the place was reeking afterwards. If it is Jarrah is there anything it’s particularly useful for. cheers
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I think you will find the impact modern farming methods make to the ecological balance of the countryside are thousands of times more harmful than the shooting you describe. My point is and your comments confirm what I said is that people whom are not affected by it don’t care. Like I say it’s not my thing, tweeds and expensive shotguns but it won’t be a sensible focused bit of legislation as in all things firearms and shooting control it will instead be a knee jerk pandering to the urban left whom despise the countryside and in many cases have zero idea of the husbandry involved in maintaining it. Unless you are a FAC holder and have been on the receiving end of totally unjustified legislation then it’s difficult to realise how easy it is for governments to just legislate a minority sport out of existence.
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SNP attitude to all types of shooting is well known. Given an opportunity they would ban the lot. Whilst I’m no fan of that type of shooting I know as an FAC holder for 25yrs how it’s easy to pick off different disciplines, Hand gun owners were singled out after the tragic events at Dunblane whilst a lot of the shooting associations and governing bodies sat back and did nothing. The same attitude may well be shown to the tweed wearing types with a line of range rovers parked on the moors. Long term it will only go one way and that’s one more shooting discipline ticked off the list.
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You mean such as this utter scaremongering
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Don’t hold back J ?. Can’t say I disagree with a single part of any of that.
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Hi all, Any recommendations on what’s the best treatment to put on a timber serving platter. Options are Oak, Beech or elm at the moment and possibly Maple
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Yeah it’s turned out to be a handy bit of kit in reality, The day spent splitting saw some bloody nice wood get chopped and split but that was the deal unfortunately. The trunks to come out should give some nice boards. The one in pic in particular.
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Few bits of Elm left over from a days processing with the rock splitter in return for some nice Elm trunks, didn’t want to turn these two limbs into firewood.
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Most suitable Ifor Williams plant trailer ?
Johnsond replied to arboriculturist's topic in General chat
I had the 12ft tipper for two years after running a 16ft try axle for years, I used the tip function maybe a dozen times and found the extra weight, lack of bed length and height to be more of a disadvantage than the tipper function made up for. Compromised and went with a 14ft tri axle which is a great in between size, beaver tail option with a full width ramp and a winch would make it a very handy bit of kit. -
Castrol GTX will be more than good enough for a what is a comparatively low revving unit.
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Night and day difference in my opinion. Winch every time, for me I’ve found I can get a better finish, quicker cut and at the end of the day far less back pain. RH is 100% right when he says practice on rough timber etc to begin with.
