CS: Misc-Who were these authors - "Artifex" and "Opifex" ??
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In 1907 a book was published in London, dealing with the decline of the English - specifically Birmingham - gun trade, and it was entitled "The Causes of Decline in a British Industry". The authors did not publish over their actual names but as "Artifex" and "Opifex". The say that their backgrounds in the industry were as a stockmaker and a barrel maker. Can anyone tell me who these two authors actually were? All help gratefully received. Thanks: AL -- David Penn might know. Steve. ---[Cybershooters contacts] Editor: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website & subscription info: www.cybershooters.org
CS: Target-Wanted - info on in-the-ear hearing protection
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can anyone give me names, tel nos or websites for UK companies offering good, in-the-ear (i.e. not muffs or bins) hearing protection systems (electronic or passive) for shooting? All advice gratefully recieved. Colin ---[Cybershooters contacts] Editor: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website & subscription info: www.cybershooters.org
CS: Field-BASC leadership
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is certainly no time for any sector of the shooting world to be indulging in internecine battles, let alone doing it so publicly; and the one or more special general meetings necessary will involve a waste of BASC funds that are desperately needed for far better causes. I know Charles Nodder very well, professionally and personally - he was my opposite number at BFSS when I was with The Game Conservancy, and succeeded me there when I moved on - and I know he is acutely aware of the priorities and challenges facing shooting. It is precisely because Charles is so strongly committed to the cause, and never a man to act on impulse or out of personal animus, that his careful and detailed letter in Shooting Times must be taken so seriously. Unless his allegations can be fully refuted, the future for BASC's director and the entire Council looks grim. Colin ---[Cybershooters contacts] Editor: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website & subscription info: www.cybershooters.org
CS: Field-BASC Chief Executive confidence vote
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone following this wretched business should read the lead letter in the current (18 May) issue of Shooting Times. (It's too long for me to key it in here, and my scanner is bust!) In it, Charles Nodder, formerly Director of Public Affairs at the old BFSS and then with The Game Conservancy, and now PR consultant to The National Gamekeepers' Organisation, has set out a lengthy argument in favour of a no-confidence motion. From someone whose professional work has involved close co-operation with John Swift for 17 years, it is quite the most outspoken and informed criticism I have seen so far, and he cites chapter and verse for various incidents and issues that have led him to support the no-confidence move. It's very sad to see live-quarry shooting tearing itself apart publicly like this, and the situation ought never to have been allowed to arise. Colin ---[Cybershooters contacts] Editor: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website & subscription info: www.cybershooters.org
