Car breakdown with rifle

[scotch_egg]

Not the first time when guns and taxis, have been an issue...



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It’s okay Tony is enjoying retirement now days….

 

[Drum123]

May we assume you do not live in Leeds?

K

He'd maybe feel a bit safer if he was packing heat in Leeds at the mo.
There's always a chance of been jumped by a gang of rastas , greebos , crusties or goths while traversing the inner cities these days.
I jest. Obviously.

 

[finnbear270]

GREEBO’s Must be 45 years since I heard that.

 

[Heym SR20]

Plenty of people in big cities will use Taxis to go to and from a gun-shop, or to the station or an airport. Provided the gun is in a case and unloaded there is no fuss. If a policeman does ask, then give your name and FAC number.

If a member of the public calls the police unnecessarily they may well get a polite word or two about wasting police time.

One thing I tend to do though is to have a non hunting type fleece / coat in the car.

However if you skulk about in an old ghillie suit with a bandana round your head, large knife on your belt and a drag bag - as in Sniper the Movie, then you might attract attention.

 

[Tallguy]

There are many options in this situation. If faced with this I would have got the vehicle recovered to my home along with me and my guns by the AA/RAC/Whoever. The garages that maintain my cars are all within 5 miles of my home so I would have got a local independent recovery driver (plenty around here) to pick it up the following day or whenever and take it to the garage for the ‘usual consideration.’

Guns are home safe, as am I and a night in my own bed. If the AA/RAC/Whoever mechanic asked what was in my cases I would simply reply ‘sporting gear’ and leave it there. I would not disclose to the recovery firm that I am carrying firearms during the call.

I understand that if you declare you are diabetic the AA treat you as a priority. Not that I would ever do that, obviously….

 

[kenbro]

Did you haul out your bino's & any other expensive kit to take home?

Aye, you need to take pictures of stuff ( Even fitted stuff like audio gear) before leaving your vehicle.
In.

 

[Rake Aboot]

You’ve be forgiven for thinking that but you do need a reason eg walking from car to gunsmith etc. You cant just walk about with it even in a slip.

Yup not true
You can take your gun out for a walk if you really feel the need but there is no reason to give a valid reason if the gun is lawfully owned.

 

[triggertrix]

I think the far more important lesson from this episode is being overlooked:

If you want to go anywhere, take a Land Rover. If you also want to get home afterwards, take something else.

Toyota

 

[Colonel]

I was on my way to shoot when my car was written off and taken away, I was left in the middle of the country in the dark waiting for a taxi 37 miles from home. I had to take everything out of the car, including rifle, sticks, tub, and sit at a tee junction in the pitch dark. After 45 minutes and still no taxi I called a friend and got home

 

[John Gryphon]

You could have negotiated a fare reduction on mentioning what was in the slip lol.

 

[bobt]

a few years ago, two of us waiting at the side of the road for the shoot transport to pick us up after a drive, 2 blokes 3 dogs, guns and a handfull of birds, the local bus stopped asking "are we getting on" that was 20 miles from the centre of Leeds,

I doubt a taxi driver even in the middle of a large city would even blink,

 

[zambezi]

Toyota

Touché

 

[tackb]

my last range rover (last ever ,i'll walk before i have another !) crapped itself on the A14 when i was on my way to a range day with 5 rifles and associated parafanalia so i got recovered home then dealt with the spiteful 4.4TDV8 (god i hate landrover!)

anyway , you can legal have your legally owned firearms in a public place with good reason and your Landy crapping itself is good reason

 

[Utectok]

Take the defender home and fix it yourself?

 

[John Gryphon]

you can legal have your legally owned firearms in a public place with good reason and your Landy crapping itself is good reason

what about outside Number 10 lol.

 

[triggertrix]

he’s not planning on biking, it’s just in case

 

[8x57]

My daughter's partner is an engineer for Landrover and works in their Coventry HQ. He owns two Landrovers, one an old series 2A and the other a modern Discovery. I tease him relentlessly about the unreliability of Landrovers. They visited this weekend and I couldn't not comment that they had brought my daughter's VW estate rather than the Discovery but they shrugged that off for reasons of fuel economy rather than any concerns about reliability.

Daughter's partner did however mention some time ago that he has the best excuse ever if his boss should question why he is late turning up for work at Landrover HQ, - "The Discovery broke down". Well that's exactly what happened a few weeks ago and he had to get recovered off the motorway.

 

[Quixote]

It does seem to be a very common theme these days that Landrover reliability and longevity is seriously below par. I had a 2003 Freelander 1 years ago that managed over 150k with no issues, and we've recently scrapped my wife's 2004 Freelander 1 with over 149000 miles on the clock (tinworm was beginning to get out of hand, sadly). Both had the TD4 engine, one was manual, one was auto, and neither put a foot wrong in all the years we had them. They were comfortable, reliable, good-looking (to my eyes anyway), and seriously capable offroad. I loved them!

Would I buy a Landrover now? Not even with a gun to my head, I'm afraid!

 

[Mungo]

Found myself in a bit of a pickle last night. On the way out to go for a stalk the clutch pedal on the (old) defender got stuck down. Managed to unstick it and a good chunk of the way home before if gave out altogether. AA recovery would take the car home, or to a garage, but wouldn’t take me home afterwards. Having an immobile car at home was no use so got dropped off at a garage but was then faced with a taxi ride home with a rifle. This was around midnight in a major city.

Being a bit unsure how best to proceed I elected to phone the police non-emergency number and log a report, fearing a well meaning member of the public might see me getting in or out of a car with rifle slip and call the police themselves, especially given recent events in the states. The girl on the phone knew nothing about firearms but didn’t express any concern, took some details, and I made it home by about 1am.

My question, what would you have done in this situation? Anything else I should have considered?

Not as dramatic, but…

I had a blow out on the a9 just outside Perth. Long story short, I managed to get the ‘get you home spare tyre’ on (which required lining up 3 dead fallow and a dead roe on the verge). Then limped into KwikFit, where they made me sit in reception with my rifle between my knees while they did the tyre.

A few years later, the engine blew up. Again on the a9. No rifle this time, but I chatted to the recovery driver. He was entirely matter of fact: ‘oh, yeah, all the time - what do you expect, it’s the a9 and there are a lot of people still using landrovers’.

 

[Swedish]

It does seem to be a very common theme these days that Landrover reliability and longevity is seriously below par. I had a 2003 Freelander 1 years ago that managed over 150k with no issues, and we've recently scrapped my wife's 2004 Freelander 1 with over 149000 miles on the clock (tinworm was beginning to get out of hand, sadly). Both had the TD4 engine, one was manual, one was auto, and neither put a foot wrong in all the years we had them. They were comfortable, reliable, good-looking (to my eyes anyway), and seriously capable offroad. I loved them!

Would I buy a Landrover now? Not even with a gun to my head, I'm afraid!

Sorry to burst your bubble but questionable Landrover reliability is not a new thing...