Big_Sparky
Well-Known Member
How’do All! Hopefully this will be one of my shorter ramblings (unlikely though!)……
Ok, so I’m trying to help a pal out (albeit the only actual help I’m doing is writing this post!) whose had a funny old time of a few things just lately (I won’t go any further into detail as I don’t want this to be a sob story type post & im not looking for something for nothing - I mean, personally, I’m not looking at all
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Anyways - a friend of mine is a serving WO2 with the Royal Engineers & newly posted to Bulford (Salisbury) and slowly trying to get himself into the deer stalking ways! I’ve had him out for a tag along day up in Scotland (where he was based) and was planning to take him out with me on my ground in the Borders (and still will!) until he was posted so far south. He currently doesn’t hold an FAC but is in the application stages (slightly complicated as his permanent residence is in NI & he’s a serving British Soldier) but is a very safe pair of hands with a firearm and an excellent standard of fitness.
He’s quite like me, when I started (well, aside of the fitness ha ha) - looking for opportunities to get out & learn ahead of the chance to pull a trigger.
I appreciate that I’ve seen offers from members in the past to take serving lads or vets/police etc out on discounted or even free days - I’m not asking for that (unless someone feels they’d like to do that) nor suggesting that a serving soldier “deserves” special treatment (indeed I’d ideally not like this post to turn into a debate of any sort at all!) but really rather just looking for someone genuine who’ll be fairly local to him and prepared to offer a reasonable, flat fee to come along, learn, get involved and maybe get on a beast or two without the complications of pricing structures and trophies and shot fees and what not (again, not the time or place to debate how anyone makes a living!).
He’s just completed his DSC1 through the BDS up near Kinloss.
If that’s something you think you could help with please shot me a message and if not - that’s perfectly fine too (you probably just don’t need to tell me)
Cheers for reading if you’ve made it this far!!
Ok, so I’m trying to help a pal out (albeit the only actual help I’m doing is writing this post!) whose had a funny old time of a few things just lately (I won’t go any further into detail as I don’t want this to be a sob story type post & im not looking for something for nothing - I mean, personally, I’m not looking at all
)Anyways - a friend of mine is a serving WO2 with the Royal Engineers & newly posted to Bulford (Salisbury) and slowly trying to get himself into the deer stalking ways! I’ve had him out for a tag along day up in Scotland (where he was based) and was planning to take him out with me on my ground in the Borders (and still will!) until he was posted so far south. He currently doesn’t hold an FAC but is in the application stages (slightly complicated as his permanent residence is in NI & he’s a serving British Soldier) but is a very safe pair of hands with a firearm and an excellent standard of fitness.
He’s quite like me, when I started (well, aside of the fitness ha ha) - looking for opportunities to get out & learn ahead of the chance to pull a trigger.
I appreciate that I’ve seen offers from members in the past to take serving lads or vets/police etc out on discounted or even free days - I’m not asking for that (unless someone feels they’d like to do that) nor suggesting that a serving soldier “deserves” special treatment (indeed I’d ideally not like this post to turn into a debate of any sort at all!) but really rather just looking for someone genuine who’ll be fairly local to him and prepared to offer a reasonable, flat fee to come along, learn, get involved and maybe get on a beast or two without the complications of pricing structures and trophies and shot fees and what not (again, not the time or place to debate how anyone makes a living!).
He’s just completed his DSC1 through the BDS up near Kinloss.
If that’s something you think you could help with please shot me a message and if not - that’s perfectly fine too (you probably just don’t need to tell me
) Cheers for reading if you’ve made it this far!!
