farnet wrote:In the summer I will try it at my FAC club.
Archery on the other hand is brilliant, but extremely tiring on the arms for such an unfit individual.
That's where we use ours, we took our targets there to live.
As for archery scales and chronie give some noteworthy stats
For Son's 40lb recurve we got 132 fps
555 grain arrow weight
giving.......................21.47 foot pounds of KE ( Kenetic energy)
And a momentum of .325 slugs
My 60lb compound bow we got 171 fps
563 grain arrow weight
giving.......................36.55 foot pounds of KE ( Kenetic energy)
And a momentum of .427 slugs
Our 175lb Crossbow we got 212 fps
372 grain arrow weight
giving.......................37.12 foot pounds of KE ( Kenetic energy)
And a momentum of .35 slugs
As you can see, archery doesn't tickle either!
And I disagree on licensing, it wont catch the idiots, it wont stop; the idiots, in fact it'll stretch the police even further, giving them less resources to fight crime, and catch the &^^$$s they haven't got the resources to catch as it is, the laws are adequate just not enforced, and attitudes particularly where cats are concerned need to change we have 9 they do their business in their litter trays, millions don't but unlike dogs their owners are not held to account when they come onto your property and do it so some people ( not nice people IMO) take matters too far into their own hands and should be stopped, but you have to ask is it responsible to let cats wander? You'll see elsewhere I've been in the gunshops where I have seen such idiots turned away when they openly state why they want an airgun, some don't even think it's wrong
Here's a link for you which may give perspective https://pictures-of-cats.org/how-many-c ... -year.html 250000 a year run over in the UK, our cats are never going to be among those statistics even though many years ago someone too pot shots at one of ours when she had her head poked out of the window, we only found out years later by the holes in our down-pipe where the ^%$£ missed. When presented with one side of an argument and especially if you have a vested interest one should investigate it from all angles, not only that, we should make TPTB do the very same thing, get the facts and think about how we feel, don't let the media pull our strings as they are no better equipped than we are, probably worse in fact, they decide how they feel and present a case from that angle, then only those who agree with that case are ever heard. That's not political by the way, it happens across the political divide and common sense rarely prevails
