The irony is I feel more in kin to people's over seas than here but I am trapped here.
The other irony is all summer they, the controllers have been or could of labelled me as normal! All summer I have been shooting my 22, my nitro shotguns and airguns but so typical of a hyper sensitive/ critical society such as is here on this crumby island all the above pales into insignificance.
I too have shot paper and steel. When I said I hate it it was said tongue in cheek. Not as a criticism to paper shooters.
The reason I hate it so to speak is because it is so critical of my shooting.
I never realised my words thus would touch a nerve as it did.
The other irony is I know I am not alone in doing some things differently compared to most in British shooting sports but because I have been vocal about all, I have indirectly painted a huge target on my own back! For instance, bow hunting is illegal but hunting with a catapult and ball or stone is not, put an arrow in a catapult to hunt with and it becomes illegal. But hundreds of slingbows are being bought every year over here. There is as far as I know no completion series running for slingbows over here so you can work the rest out!
But how can it be that hunting with a bow is illegal but a ball propelled by rubber is not?
I will tell you, them in office don't fear a catapult, a silent arrow and broadhead slightly more so.....we are back to the control thing again are not we, a control thing with a hidden agenda!
Maybe that's why the shooting fraternity likes to feel they belong to a group over here. Maybe it makes them feel secure, presenting an image of responsibility to the nation, including antis. A renegade rocks their world I guess and they have to be seen to rise against any rebel or as they see it rabble. It's a familiar tale in the British way, look at America's history with Britain! What they can not see just as king George could not, times are a changing, their traditional shooting ways, what they have relied on for centuries is coming under more and more scrutiny all the time. Their foundations are being rocked and they feel it and the fear turns very quickly to wrath!
Maybe I should be pleased! It will be ones like me that are use to going it alone that will carry on, all be it covertly but them, just like the way pistol shooters went in Britain will have to let go of their sinking ships that are the committee's that court and prostitute themselves to parlaiment!
Sure sure, they, the authorities can come and take away my gear when ever they want. Just what would they be taking away? For a start they would be freeing me from any traceability, accountability to the controllers. They would be treating as if I were a criminal and once labeled thus like so many over here I actually become in a strange way invisible!
I would be free to use any method I chose, illegal or otherwise to achieve my goals, I mean why not, they branded me a criminal right?
It ain't gonna happen, they like the status quo, I'm on their radar, I give them purpose in reality! When I was corrected for my huge error recently I became a huge satisfying tick in one of their box's.
They, or the system actually needs me more than I need them!
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Any way......
