What will you do ?

[tiptop]

Looks like more shooting grounds are starting to heed the advice and close for at least a short period of time. The Clay Shooting Company are taking a break from their registered shoots under their control. (Westfield, Oakedge, Garlands).

Grange Farm has also shut down as well.

 

[jwpzx9r]

As time proceeds, it seems caution is best, I won’t argue that a social thing isn’t worth the risk. However, in the workplace some risk has to be taken or we will be living in a true apocalypse in a years time. My factory can host machine workers with far less chance of contact than shoppers will face. Difficult times indeed. 

Will the real problem, sadly,  is if only one of your machine operators is tested positive for this virus... the games up the pole, as we used to say when playing as kids.

It is the Spanish flu of the 21st century our tools to fight is are actually not much better . What is better is the understanding of viruses and epidemiology using the two hopefully we will get a much better result than 1919.

 

[Sian]

You know what’s xxxxxxx me right off at the moment, the keyworkers who can work from home or the fact that you only need one keyworker in your family home to warrant sending kids to school.  I am sure there are some extenuating circumstances but the majority could keep them at home.   I realise the home keyworkers obviously have important work to do but seems to me a few more kids could actually stay at home and that is just looking at my school.   I get asked today by email “is their child’s class going to be the same”  ie staff and just the kids that are normally in there.   This was a 2 yr old’s parents - both in finance. And home working.  NO ITS NOT.  I cannot guarantee anything at the moment.  Another where the dad is a doctor fair enough but the mother is at home - 1 child with me the other 2 elsewhere but still coming in. there are more I could go on.   

 

[jasper]

Orston closed also.

 

[Paul120]

You know what’s xxxxxxx me right off at the moment, the keyworkers who can work from home or the fact that you only need one keyworker in your family home to warrant sending kids to school.  I am sure there are some extenuating circumstances but the majority could keep them at home.   I realise the home keyworkers obviously have important work to do but seems to me a few more kids could actually stay at home and that is just looking at my school.   I get asked today by email “is their child’s class going to be the same”  ie staff and just the kids that are normally in there.   This was a 2 yr old’s parents - both in finance. And home working.  NO ITS NOT.  I cannot guarantee anything at the moment.  Another where the dad is a doctor fair enough but the mother is at home - 1 child with me the other 2 elsewhere but still coming in. there are more I could go on.   

It seems a fact of modern life some people are all too ready to take advantage of a situation and pass it off as being clever. 

 

[Nick Selby]

No I don't want to swop with you, but expect you will have better infection control than me. but my large international domestic appliance company still expects me to carry on as normal repairing 'our customers essential broken appliances' with up to 10 calls a day at different locations.

I could self isolate but would have to claim statory sick pay as they won't make up the difference. For some life go's on and bills have to be paid. Just waiting on the government to give guidlines on that one.

I am arguing against people shooting, not working. I know there are many jobs that are needed to continue and not just in healthcare. In my eyes, the staff in supermarkets, pharmacies, factories etc are just as important as healthcare workers. Those roles are essential, shooting is not.

 

[tiptop]

Ian Coley Sporting, ground and shop closed 'til further notice.

Looks very much like the grounds are taking control of the situation.

 

[jasper]

Nick

I would like to say in an open forum. Thankyou to you and all NHS staff . We all know that you do an already impossible job under severe pressure. I agree that other jobs are also increasingly important at this time. but you guys are the frontline.Stay safe. See you on the other side. 

Jasper

 

[wynno]

Well that’s it then folks. All the major shooting grounds have temporarily closed for the duration of this crisis. No doubt one or two straw balers will manage to smash a clay or two...lucky them.

Its hard to imagine not going through the routine of loading the gun, calling pull and watching the clay go unscathed through the air ...

I haven’t shot since the beginning of March, and not to be able to shoot until July at the earliest is a scary thought, I wonder if some grounds will give up completely.....  a very scary thought.

So, I’m going to be getting the gun out periodically, practice dry mounting , get used to the weight and mutter bang under my breath, wonder how many will do that also....

As I’ve said previously stay safe and I’ll see you on the other side, with a little luck all the usual contributors to the forum will still be around. 
 

 

[TheSherriff70]

I think my guns will never have been so clean. Looking forward to a good cleaning day! 

 

[Charliedog]

Did manage a simulated day at the weekend, enjoyable but felt inappropriate to be honest

 

[Nick Selby]

Nick

I would like to say in an open forum. Thankyou to you and all NHS staff . We all know that you do an already impossible job under severe pressure. I agree that other jobs are also increasingly important at this time. but you guys are the frontline.Stay safe. See you on the other side. 

Jasper

Thank you Jasper but you really don't need to thank us. We chose to work in the NHS and have to take the rough with the smooth. I am just a small cog in a very big wheel. To be honest, I class all the other essential workers like supermarket employees, factory workers making essential supplies\food etc, refuse collectors, petrol station attendants, lorry drivers (and many others), teachers who are still manning schools, care support workers etc are all just as important as us NHS staff. 

Stay well, listen to the advice and hopefully all of you will be out shooting before the summer is out..

 

[Richard59]

After the weekends wave of announcements / shoot cancellations one arranged & dropped off the Perazzi to Gloucesters most able gunsmith, the very likeable Blane Boon, this for a strip & clean before she is locked easy for a hefty sentence. Now I think Im a bit OCD cleaning the stuff I can see, apparently not, and not by a long chalk by all accounts! Luckily for me gun has been stripped, cleaned put back together and is now back at home as the lockdown hits. 

All the very best to each and every one of you, be safe and see you all on the other side of this.

 

[jasper]

So anyone under the illusion that we are in lockdown. Listen up. I work for an manufacturing company who make an non- essential product

. Still in work. And whilst I appreciate the economic wheels must try to keep turning. ?????

accordingto gov advice we allowed to be here. Crazy. ?????

Stay safe all. 

Jasper. 

 

[jasper]

So despite signs on our factory door stating not to enter , we've just had a delivery drive from one of the big courier firms walk all through our premises. Doh. Yesterday a lorry driver wanted to stand in my pocket whilst he explained what I had to remove from his vehicle. Our own driver is currently roaming around Birmingham stoping at various place.  I give up. 

Off to listen to my favourite L.P  at the moment.. Anthrax :- spreading the disease. 

Jasper.

 

[Paul120]

I took the dog  out for his daily ( and now mine) constitutional  at the usual time in the week of around 8pm.  

Usually there's next to no cars on the main road and it's unusual to meet anyone on the footpath.  

I have never seen so many people about or cars on the road.  

Fed up with people in their 70's referring to the war and how people just got on with it.

2 things. One is that people got to the Air raid shelters when the sirens went off pretty smartly. Secondly, just about no one below 75 was alive during the war. 

 

[Jan Powell]

Spoke to a ground owner today. He’s really cheesed off at having to close and only did so yesterday. That must have made him about the last to close the gate. He’d put in place all the required social distancing and personal hygiene requirements meaning the risk of infection was reduced to the lowest possible level bar shutting up shop.

Fortunately his other businesses allow him to offset the ground’s closure. I fear others won’t be so lucky and will have have locked the door for the last time, especially if this goes on for months.

Sad business for the sport we all love.

 

[wynno]

Unfortunately I think that’s a fair assumption. Joe public WILL get used to the peace and quiet and some grounds may very well find themselves fighting a losing battle with noise pollution.

As our sport is an outdoor one, I have no qualms being in a squad with 5 others , where the ref/scorer keeps hold of the card and takes us around as a complete squad.

The only time you would have to get remotely close to any other person is when you paid, and that can be done contactless now that the limit has been raised to £45.

will any ground owner be the first to trial this ??????

 

[Jan Powell]

Unfortunately I think that’s a fair assumption. Joe public WILL get used to the peace and quiet and some grounds may very well find themselves fighting a losing battle with noise pollution.

As our sport is an outdoor one, I have no qualms being in a squad with 5 others , where the ref/scorer keeps hold of the card and takes us around as a complete squad.

The only time you would have to get remotely close to any other person is when you paid, and that can be done contactless now that the limit has been raised to £45.

will any ground owner be the first to trial this ??????

They have. A ground in the midlands was doing this last Sunday. Entrants were allowed into the clubhouse one at a time and were then asked to return to their car and await their time to shoot. The cafeteria was closed and ground staff actively discouraged groups of more than 2 people from gathering.

I wasn’t there but I’m told it worked well. Feedback from the shooters was positive and the risk reduced to the lowest possible level.  It only lasted one day though, the PM’s announcement on Monday put pay to it.

 

[paul b]

Sorry gents but the last two posts are just ridiculous!We have a responsibility to do the right thing for the nation and that means STAY AT HOME,the grounds that ran last weekend in my view potentially brought our sport into disrepute,why should we be out having fun whilst the rest of the nation is having a grim time,not to mention the psychology of it when posting pics of your shooting whilst our vet shooters are on a 12 week curfew.I can gaurantee i couldn't help myself to end up talking rubish with a group of shooters if went to a ground and ill bet most would its human nature.My life is shooting and some weeks the only people outside of home i see are shooters,so i miss it as much as everyone else, but this virus is killing our nhs and we must protect it with everything we have and us not pulling the trigger is a tiny price.I feell for the grounds but they arnt on there own ,this battle will create many casualties.