From: "niel fagan", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Oh how reasonable a reply. But I have seen very similar ones from those
>defending their "self-actions" on the previous bans ie the NRA , and the
>Deer Society, and the many other self-interest groups who junked someone
>else's sport to help them keep their own.
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>You have taken up Gallery Rifle, oh that new sport with not so many
>shooters, using what the ACPO would love to see set aside, those high
>capacity lever actions, mmmmh.
>
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>>There are over 40 shooters of 50/55 cal rifles in private ownership, and
>use, here in the UK
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>Tom
>
>PS the ACPO really doesn't have to do anything, they can leave it to the
>shooters to sell each other out.
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Tom's hit this one squarely on the head, those of us who like the bigger
calibres (my personal fave. is .6 of an inch all bar 4 thou. "true bore")
along with gallery rifles (esp. in PISTOL calibres, mines a .38/.357 MAGNUM
BTW) have become an expendable resource to various of the shooting
organizations, infighting promoted by them and the state of mind they
require of their members can also be a real problem.
This week I met two shooters I didn't know here at work, one has converted
to bow sports only and finds it much nicer than the carpet humping (.22
indoor prone) league shooting he'd given up to take-up full bore pistol,
which when that was banned meant going back or changing directions, the lack
of aggro., at the moment, means bow sports suit him very well. The other who
shares the same office still shoots, full bore mil. (he's pissed at loosing
his ar15, then his pistols) rifle (bolt action) and gallery rifle, also
having given up carpet humping. Both agreed the selling out by the
appeasers, along with the emotional bias they lend the press from within the
shooting world is probably one of the most damaging things to our "minority"
sports. If you look carefully at every slightly different shooting activity
they can all be considered minorities, and look what happened when the
ethnic minorities got their act together, yes they do still fight amongst
themselves, but its rarely seen by the public, if you can't loose your
contempt, at least keep it private!
Niel, still an occasional carpet humper, and I've got a gold somewhere to
prove it!
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