CLEMTOG
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"Blimey, good luck with that Clem. If you try riding a motorcycle in Australia with a rifle slung across your back you'd be arrested in no time!"
In days gone by Cam, I did this a lot, sometimes the rifle/gun was not even covered, just slung over my back but that was the 1960's and I never went more than a few miles, I have done it in recent times (using a slip) and it does make me uncomfortable, when covered it is legal in UK if you have the vital license/permit etc, the weapon has to be in the "not readily available" category, hence the slip and in the case of a rifle, bolt removed.
About three years ago, I rode my Pan into London dressed as a stalker (complete with deer stalker hat, which was not a crash helmet) and cammo top and bottom, with a rifle sling over my shoulder, but with a "fake" rifle in it, which was actually a hedge cutter attachment, and virtually got no looks at all, and that included riding under the arms of several police motorcyclists on point duty, no one batted an eye lid, this was for the distinguished gentleman's ride (prostate cancer) even went to a resto for the lunch stop, and just propped it up in a corner, but then there were a lot of people in "fancy" dress around at that time, clowns, military uniforms, as well as hundreds in suits, but on the way home, riding through a slightly dodgy area (Bricklayers arms/Old Kent Road) two kids on bicycles saw me and yelled "look he's got a gun" and excitedly started to ride towards me while I was at a red light, I have no idea what their intentions were, but the lights changed and I was a mile away in about two minutes.
I once refused to hand over my keys (was in the car) to a ship personnel on a cross channel ferry as that was the rule if you were carrying firearms, I was not letting security of my vehicle with weapons and ammunition in it, pass to someone else, getting off the ship was problematical for everyone, I transferred to the tunnel where you stay in the car at all times, but they (did in the past not now) put a two foot sticker on the windscreen which depicts an AK47 to ID to all that you are armed! what you get now is an exclamation mark, on the mirror tag, subtle and much better, secrecy is the best security, it may have even been to do with the letter that I wrote in after the trip.
Not done any shooting in France for a long time now and they have just changed the rules again, was hoping to see my mum before Xmas, but that has gone again, she is 93, financially this must be effecting many businesses and Polo, who is saving a pair of wheels for me, but at least in the two year period that he has been doing that, prices have dropped by 50%
CLEM
In days gone by Cam, I did this a lot, sometimes the rifle/gun was not even covered, just slung over my back but that was the 1960's and I never went more than a few miles, I have done it in recent times (using a slip) and it does make me uncomfortable, when covered it is legal in UK if you have the vital license/permit etc, the weapon has to be in the "not readily available" category, hence the slip and in the case of a rifle, bolt removed.
About three years ago, I rode my Pan into London dressed as a stalker (complete with deer stalker hat, which was not a crash helmet) and cammo top and bottom, with a rifle sling over my shoulder, but with a "fake" rifle in it, which was actually a hedge cutter attachment, and virtually got no looks at all, and that included riding under the arms of several police motorcyclists on point duty, no one batted an eye lid, this was for the distinguished gentleman's ride (prostate cancer) even went to a resto for the lunch stop, and just propped it up in a corner, but then there were a lot of people in "fancy" dress around at that time, clowns, military uniforms, as well as hundreds in suits, but on the way home, riding through a slightly dodgy area (Bricklayers arms/Old Kent Road) two kids on bicycles saw me and yelled "look he's got a gun" and excitedly started to ride towards me while I was at a red light, I have no idea what their intentions were, but the lights changed and I was a mile away in about two minutes.
I once refused to hand over my keys (was in the car) to a ship personnel on a cross channel ferry as that was the rule if you were carrying firearms, I was not letting security of my vehicle with weapons and ammunition in it, pass to someone else, getting off the ship was problematical for everyone, I transferred to the tunnel where you stay in the car at all times, but they (did in the past not now) put a two foot sticker on the windscreen which depicts an AK47 to ID to all that you are armed! what you get now is an exclamation mark, on the mirror tag, subtle and much better, secrecy is the best security, it may have even been to do with the letter that I wrote in after the trip.
Not done any shooting in France for a long time now and they have just changed the rules again, was hoping to see my mum before Xmas, but that has gone again, she is 93, financially this must be effecting many businesses and Polo, who is saving a pair of wheels for me, but at least in the two year period that he has been doing that, prices have dropped by 50%
CLEM
great memories.
