Stalking locked down?
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What happens if you have an accident whilst out? If you breakdown on the way to your ground? If you bump into the land owner? If you need help extracting a deer? If you get stuck in your vehicle? The list goes on. All these things will either A. put you in contact with someone/people who you really shouldn’t and need not be in contact with or B tie up an emergency service to help you and at worst require treatment at hospital.
Is it really worth the risk? Is someones life genuinely less important than getting out with the rifle?
Your short of meat go down the butchers or farm shop, every one I’ve been to has something to offer in recent weeks unlike the supermarkets.
This is probably THE most important message the government has ever issued to us in most of our lifetimes. If everyone stuck to it, this may be over in a few weeks and hopefully you’ll be in full health to take advantage of returning to the field.
I know what I’ll be doing.
Is it really worth the risk? Is someones life genuinely less important than getting out with the rifle?
Your short of meat go down the butchers or farm shop, every one I’ve been to has something to offer in recent weeks unlike the supermarkets.
This is probably THE most important message the government has ever issued to us in most of our lifetimes. If everyone stuck to it, this may be over in a few weeks and hopefully you’ll be in full health to take advantage of returning to the field.
I know what I’ll be doing.
243varmint
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You got to get to the hills first by car.
Police will be pulling people up. Logging reg numbers and the amount of times they've been out.
ANPR, road traffic cameras.
Not necessary journeys.
STAY AT HOME!!!!!!!!!!
ITS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE
Crow Man
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Both my wife and daughter are nurses, they can’t even get hand sanitizer to protect themselves, they are worried when they go to WORK and are worried when they come home, hoping that they are not passing this horrendous virus on.
They HAVE to go to work, the only way to help them is for us to STAY AT HOME and follow the advise.
The wild life will still be there at the end of this, some of us might not.
Stop looking for loopholes and ways around this and just STAY AT HOME PLEASE.
They HAVE to go to work, the only way to help them is for us to STAY AT HOME and follow the advise.
The wild life will still be there at the end of this, some of us might not.
Stop looking for loopholes and ways around this and just STAY AT HOME PLEASE.
I think that most members here are fiercely independent & thinking countrymen. Infinately responsible & trustworthy (having had to prove that frequently so as to be able to enjoy our pastime)
Happy with our own thoughts and in our own company.
Glad to be able to be solitary & away from all the bloody humbug of daily drivel that can sometimes intrude upon our lives.
Now, we are as mad as hell to suddenly be told what to do & how to behave!
It's good for the imagination to be able to invent & share all manner of devious means to circumvent these new "rules"
We know what we have to do.
Happy with our own thoughts and in our own company.
Glad to be able to be solitary & away from all the bloody humbug of daily drivel that can sometimes intrude upon our lives.
Now, we are as mad as hell to suddenly be told what to do & how to behave!
It's good for the imagination to be able to invent & share all manner of devious means to circumvent these new "rules"
We know what we have to do.
And what happens if you have an accident and have to be hospitalised taking up a bed that could be needed by someone else
Agree, it's not rocket science. The more people look for an angle to get around the latest advice the tighter and the more serious the next instruction will be. If we sit tight for a few weeks this will be over sooner rather than later. The more people take the pi55 the longer it will last.
I've just spent the last hour arguing with Mrs T that it also applies to horse riding. You can imagine
mereside
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This exactly, but not just freeing up beds, what about ambulance staff, first responder or even helicopter police and fire crew all these things take up resources so it is unnecessary, anything could happen and it really isn't needed, having family members in the NHS and friends they need all the help they can get as well as every family will have someone vulnerable that needs us to do our bit for them to stay alive. This is not something to mess with lets all try and help.
Odders
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Nope.
I'm a ten minute walk from the fells from my own house & no ANPR nearby.
I HAVE to drive into Ennerdale twice a day, as I care for my mother, who lives there, so no frivolous journey & once there, I'm 50 yds from open fell.
Odders
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What happens if, through inactivity, you have a DVT or stroke that hospitalises you, taking up a bed that could be needed by someone else?
Orion
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Crow Man
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Yes Bryn, but somewhere along the line they will either MAKE you drink or DROWN you.
mchughcb
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So what's it like to being told you are non-essential?
If the industries are non-essential in a modern society then they wouldn't be profitable or survive.
I'm pretty sure when the whole world becomes bankrupt, we might look back and say, for several trillion dollars over the next six months - 6 years maybe we could have bought more ventilators or hospital beds?
The reality of death maybe is a new concept for some people living in the Western World.
Flatten the curve, Flatten the curve - but over what time scale? Full lockdown for a decade? When does someone's access to a ventilator more important than somebody elses access to water, food, power etc.
If the industries are non-essential in a modern society then they wouldn't be profitable or survive.
I'm pretty sure when the whole world becomes bankrupt, we might look back and say, for several trillion dollars over the next six months - 6 years maybe we could have bought more ventilators or hospital beds?
The reality of death maybe is a new concept for some people living in the Western World.
Flatten the curve, Flatten the curve - but over what time scale? Full lockdown for a decade? When does someone's access to a ventilator more important than somebody elses access to water, food, power etc.
FrenchieBoy
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As I am no longer shooting I shouldn't really have much of a say in this thread but I have been really biting my tongue while reading some of the posts on this thread!
A lot of what I have been reading here on this thread is suggesting that some FAC holders are not quite as responsible as they make out to be!
Why are so many of you doing your best to try making "excuses" and trying find ways of getting around what the government has ordered?
Do you really put such little value on your FAC - AND OTHER PEOPLE'S WELL BEING?
Do you really care that little about your fellow shooters that you are quite happy to show the shooting community up as being totally irresponsible?
Is getting out to shoot a deer really that important to you that you are willing to put your FAC at risk?
Shoot me down for this post if you like but I was always under the impression that shooters were responsible people, now after reading some of the posts on this thread I am really starting to wonder!
A lot of what I have been reading here on this thread is suggesting that some FAC holders are not quite as responsible as they make out to be!
Why are so many of you doing your best to try making "excuses" and trying find ways of getting around what the government has ordered?
Do you really put such little value on your FAC - AND OTHER PEOPLE'S WELL BEING?
Do you really care that little about your fellow shooters that you are quite happy to show the shooting community up as being totally irresponsible?
Is getting out to shoot a deer really that important to you that you are willing to put your FAC at risk?
Shoot me down for this post if you like but I was always under the impression that shooters were responsible people, now after reading some of the posts on this thread I am really starting to wonder!
Odders
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As I am no longer shooting I shouldn't really have much of a say in this thread but I have been really biting my tongue while reading some of the posts on this thread!
A lot of what I have been reading here on this thread is suggesting that some FAC holders are not quite as responsible as they make out to be!
Why are so many of you doing your best to try making "excuses" and trying find ways of getting around what the government has ordered?
Do you really put such little value on your FAC - AND OTHER PEOPLE'S WELL BEING?
Do you really care that little about your fellow shooters that you are quite happy to show the shooting community up as being totally irresponsible?
Is getting out to shoot a deer really that important to you that you are willing to put your FAC at risk?
Shoot me down for this post if you like but I was always under the impression that shooters were responsible people, now after reading some of the posts on this thread I am really starting to wonder!
So tell me how going alone into the hills is putting others in danger...
..and don't use the excuse of traffic accidents, falls or stabbing oneself during the gralloch, as the home is a far more accident prone environment.
FrenchieBoy
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Regardless of the risks it sound like you think that going out stalking is far more important than listening to and taking notice what the government has ordered FOR OUR OWN PROTECTION AND SURVIVAL? If people are not prepared to listen to and abide by what we have been told to do by the government there could well be a lot more tighter laws made, and pretty soon!
mchughcb
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Correct follow the government direction. For example if they say you are h
And just like that Britain became communist without Corbyn. FFS even staying at home people will have accidents. I remember talking to one OHS idiot. Who said any death at work was preventable. I said the last death at work was a guy with a massive heart attack.
He said totally preventable and unacceptable. Yes the parrots live among us.
And just like that Britain became communist without Corbyn. FFS even staying at home people will have accidents. I remember talking to one OHS idiot. Who said any death at work was preventable. I said the last death at work was a guy with a massive heart attack.
He said totally preventable and unacceptable. Yes the parrots live among us.
Heym SR20
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I am afraid we have just got to suck it up for a while, especially for those of us fir whom stalking is a past time rather than a job.
In four weeks time we will only be two weeks into the buck season - they will still be in the winter coat moulting, hair gets bloody everywhere state, which actually is a pain in the arse to deal with phase. And let them get a bit of spring grass into them and they will lot better on the table.
With a bit of luck things may ease up a bit by then and if you already infected, which many of us will be, you will have had the disease, given it to the rest of your household who will also be through it and you are no longer infective.
By that stage the first wave of disease will be through and gone through the population that is out there mixing and the system will be able to cope.
In four weeks time we will only be two weeks into the buck season - they will still be in the winter coat moulting, hair gets bloody everywhere state, which actually is a pain in the arse to deal with phase. And let them get a bit of spring grass into them and they will lot better on the table.
With a bit of luck things may ease up a bit by then and if you already infected, which many of us will be, you will have had the disease, given it to the rest of your household who will also be through it and you are no longer infective.
By that stage the first wave of disease will be through and gone through the population that is out there mixing and the system will be able to cope.
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