Hi Y'all,
What I am about to tell you is enough to make watching rice boil interesting. On our return from Shropshire, following the 'Lurcher walk' and stop off at aged parents (to drop Easter gifts and steal cat biscuits) we resigned ourselves to the fact we were faced with a three hour car journey which just might be punctuated by a stop for a 'filthy'. Mummy and Chris chatted and played random music for a short while then began the most boring conversation ever! I now know that if I was ever to shoot deer (not that I would ever ever want to) I need a 240 calibre weapon with 1,700 feet-lbs energy, basically equivalent to a 2lb bag of sugar dropped from 850feet....yawn...The bullet must be a soft nosed or hollow point, something to do with the Geneva convention (I dozed off for this bit), basically for shooting deer, one needs expanding ammo. The conversation then went on the the various sections on a firearms certificate, from rifles to prohibited weapons to semi automatic weapons, what on earth do humans need a semi automatic weapon for? Surely if you cant hit the damn thing first time then you really should take up knitting!? That being a 2,2 semi auto rim fire 'cock-knobbler' suitable for shooting deer...yadder yadder, we then went onto bullets, this is where I tried breathing slower to help me sleep as the excitement of the conversation was just overwhelming...NOT! Oh for heavens sake! Why do you have to have so many bloody measurements? Cant the Europeans and English agree on anything? English and American bullets are in inches and Europeans are in Metric! Then the really exciting bit...what do all the numbers mean? Well, a 243 is a 6mm bullet but is referred to as either, then we move on to the 6.5 x 55, the first part is the diameter of the bullet, the second part is the case length....Oh please will you both SHUT UP! How far is MacDonnalds?....
...two minutes later, after sipping coffee from a flask, we are now talking about Scotland, to shoot all species of deer, one requires 100grain bullet, 1,750ft-lbs energy, a minimum muzzle velocity of 2,450 ft per second. Arghhhhh So what, this has nothing to do with small brown terriers, how far is it now? Just when I thought I couldn't take any more, the conversation moved on to a 2007 change in the law for England and Wales where Muntjac and Chinese Water Deer can be shot with a 50g bullet with 1,000 ft-lbs muzzle energy, this basically means you can use some of the foxing calibre rifles ie: 223, then it went back to talking about Roe deer at which point I did manage to fall asleep!
Wake me up when it's all over.
xx
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