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    • Basil H replied to the thread Rabbit disease.
      The virulence of myxomatosis to species beyond its South American hosts was recognised pre WWII, and it was first used against rabbits...
    • Basil H replied to the thread Wanted: Wildfowling help.
      PM inbound.
    • Basil H replied to the thread Wanted: Wildfowling help.
      North of the border, foreshore shooting is mostly "public" except where a Local Nature Reserve has been declared e.g. at Caerlaverock on...
    • Basil H replied to the thread Buzzards breeding - hopefully.
      Mr. Gain, you might want to check which species are subsumed in the pelecaniformes..... I don't think anyone is exactly obsessed about...
    • It's actually quite light (!) for a 40" barrel single - many would be a couple of pounds heavier. The standard case for eights was 3...
    • Basil H replied to the thread .22 volley rifle.
      I know a fair bit about wildfowling history, and have never read or heard of these guns being used, apart from a speculative post-war...
    • Basil H replied to the thread Forged Certificates.
      "Going section one" would not really address this particular - and very unusual - problem.
    • Basil H replied to the thread Gun laws daily telegraph.
      This was an unusually horrible event. Unfortunately, the horror has obscured the fact that this was a very unusual and possibly unique...
    • Basil H replied to the thread Forged Certificates.
      To forge a certificate you would need to get your hands on a genuine one as a model. Not the easiest of tasks if you are a non-holder...
    • Basil H replied to the thread slug guns anyone?.
      I understand that the deerhound ("staghound") hunts carry shotguns to actually kill their deer. Do they use slugs or shot ? And is it...
    • Basil H replied to the thread Norfolk deer.
      The Broads Authority is not too popular locally. They do much the same as the old Great Yarmouth Port and Haven Commissioners but charge...
    • Basil H replied to the thread Pigeonwatch …. Again.
      I can no longer sign in as my email (which appears "automatically") is not recognised nor it seems are my other details. Not a great loss.
    • There is one more "name" in Wild Justice as they have just appointed their first CEO, Bob Elliot.
    • I know a number of people with large bore (8,4, etc.) and M.L. shotguns. They can be moved off (and indeed back on) as per 8.15 above...
    • Basil H replied to the thread One Million Deer.
      Surely the actual number is of no real significance. If the same methodology is used year on year then changes in population up or down...
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