Recent content by Pine Marten

It is not insurmountable. Just an extra point of friction on something that is already logistically painful.

I don't have dedicated target rifles so when I do use lead for practice, I then need to re-zero with copper at the end.

II I think your qualms do you credit. Beyond the immediate and practical pest control considerations, one of the main things people outside fieldsports dislike instinctively about us is that they suspect us of enjoying killing things for its own sake. Well here's an example of that not being...

I wish I had a way of just going to try this that didn't require taking a day off work, booking two weeks in advance, redoing a test made up by the NRA and doing a supervised zeroing test because I'm not using lead. Because I'd love to just go and try this quickly for fun and edification.

I think they were made by Negrini anyway so that's your answer. I have three Negrini cases and they are superb.

This is total slander, I have done no such thing.

When I were a lad, I used to cast lead soldiers. 60% lead from electric cables, 40% tin from wine bottle tops. Burning off the paint in the process in a small steel pan on the kitchen hob. It did smell very much like the sort of thing my parents should have perhaps told me to do somewhere else...

Here is the solution to your problem. It's essentially wild rocket with a massive umami punch, it's weird, you start eating it and you just crave more until you run out. It must contain a natural form of MSG or something.

I find myself compelled to answer "Holiday snaps? On the beach? Eh? Eh? Say no more! Know what I mean? Nudge nudge!"

"Hoi'sin" ça veut dire "sauce aux prunes" en anglais.

I think I put that roebuck in a Christmas themed Waitrose coolbag on the way home from yours that time! You need to put it in before rigor mortis sets in. No dripping or leakage.

My mistake, Entschuldigung. Although the point about Hunters as a proportion of population stands. Just more shakily.

Signed ✊🏼

Here's the lower jaw of a really old (~10 years) roebuck I shot in the Vosges mountains in Alsace. Probably lived a lot on lots of fir needles. Teeth worn right down.

Those numbers are also absolutes and mask the fact that France, Spain and Italy are countries with a lot more hunters than the UK. France has something like 750k hunters for a population the same size as the UK's. By contrast Germany has about 100k hunters for a larger population. And the...