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Horse and Country TV channel

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  • 27-01-2008 12:08am
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    bullets
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    shooting related programs on this channel
    tonight for those with Sky. I did not even know the channel existed
    until the girlfriend mentioned there was shooting on tonight at midnight.

    Sky channel 280.
    Has National Shooting Week on in a while with the
    Country side alliance.

    ~B


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    foxshooter243
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    bullets wrote: »
    shooting related programs on this channel
    tonight for those with Sky. I did not even know the channel existed
    until the girlfriend mentioned there was shooting on tonight at midnight.

    Sky channel 280.
    Has National Shooting Week on in a while with the
    Country side alliance.

    ~B

    seems your girlfriend is a keeper..icon7.gif


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    bullets
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    Some good programs on it last night. They Had English MP's sticking up
    for sports shooting , People explaining how safe the sport was, Showing the
    youth of today with Olympic Pistol and Skeet etc etc, Showing a
    beginner that never shot before gets their first lesson.
    Custom made earplugs where they take a mold of your ear!
    Gun dealer explaining the differences between side by sides and over and under
    and the advantages of both.

    I may have heard wrong but I think one of the people teaching clay Pigeon
    mention a price of 60 UKP for a first lesson not including clays and ammo.
    (Maybe he said 6? or 16 and not 60)

    ~B


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    chem
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    bullets wrote: »
    Some good programs on it last night. They Had English MP's sticking up
    for sports shooting , People explaining how safe the sport was, Showing the
    youth of today with Olympic Pistol and Skeet etc etc,
    ~B

    Can Olympic .22 pistols still be licenced in the UK? I think section/cat A covers semi auto rifles and pistols in the UK. Do you have to be a dealer to have them? Its just I often hear that people have to travel to europe to train in Olympic pistol from the UK. :confused:

    It sad to see the way shooting sports have gone in the UK. Its death by a 1000 cuts. I used to look at UK shooting mags, years ago, and envy what they could licence. Seems the tables have turnned. Just as long as we dont follow the UK as we always seem to do!


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    bogteal
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    I think you are right bullets 60 for first lesson witch is not bad for one on one.As for horse and country very good when it came on first plenty of Shooting Gamekeeping Country shows and so on. I think it is just wrong time of the year now. But still a great channel to have.


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    Sparks
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    chem wrote: »
    Can Olympic .22 pistols still be licenced in the UK?
    The longarm ones can be, yes (50m free pistol):

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    The balance arms that extend back are not removable, so it's legally a rifle and so exempt from the pistol ban (following a court case in the UK).


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    rrpc
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    Isn't that a gruesome looking adaptation of a fine pistol? I'm sure they're delighted they can keep their sport going, but to do that to a perfectly balanced pistol for the sake of avoiding a ban is just ludicrous.

    I wonder can Tony Blair explain how that is 'safer' than the original pistol - which btw is only a single shot.


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