Gun Culture

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

NRA Bisley Butts Appeal

NRA Bisley Butts Appeal
On the evening of Sunday 13th August 2006, a freak thunderstorm struck the world famous Bisley Ranges washing hundreds of tons of material from the stop butts. The debris collected in the target mechanisms rendered the targets inoperable and thereby initially closing all the ranges. The estimated cost to the Association is in the region of £150,000.
Bisley represents Target Shooting worldwide and the National Rifle Association is working to reopen our ranges as soon as possible. The NRA is making an appeal for your help. If you have any connection with Bisley or Target Shooting, please support us by making a donation to the NRA Bisley Butts Appeal.

All donors will be acknowledged publicly at Bisley and in the NRA Journal unless they choose to remain anonymous

This came to my attention via an email from Pledge Bank

“I will Send the NRA £1.00 for the Bisley Butts Appeal but only if 2,000 other shooters will do the same adding the following text in a letter accompanying the £1.00.”

I’ve signed the pledge but I think a little more than a pound would be better and I’m not going to wait until another 2000 shooters sign up.

Friday, August 25, 2006

Country roads, take me home.

This post over at The Englishman’s really struck a chord with me.  Couldn’t get a comment posted due to some kind of problem with the site so I thought I’d comment here.

Have you ever driven with a farmer? To us every field is a story waiting to be read, every animal is of interest. We are the ones checking the furrows are straight or wondering what the damned fool has done with his straw - by looking out the side window as we wander down the middle of the road at speed

I still do that despite not being a farmer - it’s still in my blood, all my family are farmers from way back.  Drives the missus bonkers when I give her a runnning commentary on how that silage is going to run like a beck or how that hay is going to sweat summat horrible.
She is particularly bemused about why I like the smell of shit spreading.  To her it is a horrible stink, to me it is the smell of home.

Thursday, August 24, 2006

Young dad, murdered by leftist social policy

This is the picture of the young lad, a father of a wee boy, who was shot outside his own home by a pack of feral scum bastards.  From the media reports it looks like the tragic tale began when he went to see off a gang of scrotes throwing stones at his car.  Said pack of animals ganged up on him and attempted to kill him by stabbing him in the neck - quite deliberately.  Months later they finished their task.  No doubt they felt it was an honour killing after he had ‘disrespected’ them.
Here we have a working man and devoted dad targetted and murdered by worthless animals.
There is quite a bit made of the fact that the investigation into the stabbing went nowhere and did not result in any kind of conviction.  These are of course valid concerns, even if we are not entirely surprised.  One would not expect a zero result - especially when it appears the perpertrators and their cohorts regularly taunted Mr Woodhams after the event.  We are not surprised because we know that there are many areas, in every town, where gangs of vermin run riot with impunity because they know that the residents are too scared to stand up because they know that they will be hung out to dry by the authorities.  A police force and justice system powerless to defend them and twisted enough to punish them for defending themselves with a legal code written to deny them the tools to do so.  A social system built assuming that these little darlings are just waiting for some love to reform them, the legal system giving them chance after chance to mend their ways even though we know that there is no way that will happen.  A scrote does not become so overnight, he becomes so when he sees that there are no checks on his behaviour.  Every time he gets away with an infraction, each instance of antisocial or criminal behaviour that goes unpunished emboldens them.  They are spurred on, safe in the knowledge that they are untouchable - above the law.

Many Home Secretaries talk of how we, the law abiding, should make a stand.  How we should take back our streets.  Yet they consistently fail to recognise that we need back our powers to do so, powers stolen by stealth over the last 50 years.  We need our power and duty to uphold the peace rewritten large across the statute, what was once so obvious that it was unnecessary to write it down has become lost in a flurry of statist law making.  To enforce our duties we also need the tools.  Lethal force is necessary against an enemy so determined and ruthless and yet even the non-lethal irritant spray is considered so dangerous in the hands of the citizenry by our ruling overlords that it is a Section 5 restricted weapon - just like a rocket launcher or hand grenade.

Give us the tools and we shall finish the job.

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Poof copper kicks up a fuss about earring

Whilst browsing the Daily Mail website I found another gem.  This one regarding a homosexual copper who claims sexual discrimination because he is not allowed to wear an earring on duty.  Now he may well have a point because women are allowed to wear studs according to force dress policy, but he says he has been singled out because he is a fudge packer ‘gay’.

‘I choose to wear a small stud earring in my left ear and this for me is an indicator of my sexual orientation.

Now hang about chummy, when I was young and daft I used to wear an earring in my left ear and it was commonly understood that if you had one in your left ear then you were a straight chap but if you had one in the right (or both) then you were as ‘gay’ as could be.

If anything I am more shocked by this

He quoted another example where a ‘straight’ male colleague was allowed to wear a tongue stud while others wore nose rings, heavy gold earrings and even eyebrow piercings.

Chuffing hell!  This is the plod not a tribal gathering of some sort!  This isn’t a ‘gay’ vs ‘straight’ issue, it is a safety issue and a standards issue.
For reference it is your humble correspondents view that coppers should not wear visible jewellery at all (exception of a wedding band) if you wish to pierce yourself up like Swampy then get a job in a juice bar and call yourself ‘Moonpod’; but whilst ensuring the Queen’s Peace have some bloody standards.

Moderate Muslims Issue Demands

Loath as I am to take any notice of anything published in the Daily Mail, I couldn’t help but be pulled in by todays front page headline

Muslims call for special bank holidays

Seemingly so-called “senior Muslim figures” met Ruth Kelly to ‘takle extremism’ and told her that what was required was Sharia Law for muslim family matters and public holidays for Ramadam and Eid-ul-Adha.  We are also reminded that a third of Muslims would wish to see Sharia law as the law of the land with Britain becoming a Muslim state.  Perhaps those Muslims could be pointed towards one of the countries already operating Sharia law?

So to combat extremism we must conceed some of the terrorist demands?  Fuck that Mohammed, and the camel you rode in on.
It seems to me that this so called extremism is only extreme from the point of view of the majority non-muslim population, these views are widespread and deep within Muslim society.  The root of this extremism is more likely the result of excess tolerance rather than insufficient tolerance.  Had these sectors not been used to getting preferential treatment and concessions suppressing the majority popular culture; perhaps they would have been less likely to consider that they should be receiving special service?  Perhaps they might have understood that tolerance cuts both ways instead of demanding the whole bag of sweets like a spoilt child?

To their credit the Muslim Council of Britain are not joining this call, but one has to wonder if they too share these views but are too politically pragmatic to voice them.
“Moderate Muslims” seem to be moderate when compared with active terror cells but far from moderate when compared to the majority of the UK population.

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Two of my favourite things

As Julie Andrews nearly said, these are two of my favourite things

A piccy taken on my mobile ‘phone on an evening plinking.
The rifle is my CZ Silhoutte in 22lr, on top is a Hawke Nite-Eye 4-20 x 50 with illuminated reticule.  The moderator is a good old Parker Hale beastie.  The scope is a bit of a heavy bugger and I don’t exactly get a whole heap of use out of the illuminated reticule feature, I keep thinking about changing it for a Leupold but whenever I start thinking about that I think I should be changing the rifle too.  I have a fancy for a Sako Quad, not for the interchangeable barrel feature though, just because it is one of the nicest synthetic stocked bolt action 22lrs out there.  If there was a nice stock available for the CZ I might not bother although the trigger still is a bit creepy even with the spring and copper sleeve trigger kit fitted.

Ooof, that had to smart!

Spotted in a local bodywork shop, so I know nothing of the circumstances that lead to this or how the occupants faired....

Reckon it still could be worth fixing though.

Friday, August 04, 2006

Pikey Fan Mail

We all like fan mail don’t we?
‘Course we do, especially in response to old posts that we’d quite forgotten about.  Enter stage right a chap called Traveller Mark…

how can you say all gypsy (travellers) are the same when some are like nothing what you print and what about the off duty poilce man speeding and killing a traveller and putting his son in hospital i dont see that on here you lot make me laugh you know nothing just because we live in a caravan we are scum but what about people who live on council estates they are just as bad with drugs robbing and killing from one highly pxxxxxoff traveller mark

Punctuation is your friend my mobile chum.
If you’d care to read again then you’d see that I didn’t actually say that all pikeys were the same. 
You don’t see the part about the caravan hit by a car, but I don’t believe you saw the story of the rape of three young girls by pikey bastards either - can’t please everyone I suppose.
Actually I’m a bit perplexed by your claim later that “we are scum” - so what are you complaining about?
Ho hum, thanks for dropping by and thanks for not nicking anything.