Monday, August 5, 2013

Shooting insurance from SACS.

If you shoot/hunt then you need to have insurance.

Click the picture on this page to join what I think is the best value for money insurance around.

ABOUT SACS


The Scottish Association for Country Sports was formed in 1994, in response to a growing belief by country sportsmen in Scotland that their best interests were not being served by existing countryside organisations, which were entirely based and run from south of the border.

Scotland, with its different countryside, different legal system and different sporting culture from the rest of the UK did not fit conveniently into the "Home Counties" pattern.

It was felt strongly that Scottish members of these organisations were being treated unfairly by comparison with their English members, who formed the greater part of the membership of these organisations.

Although SACS is based in and run by people living in Scotland, over the years the services we provide for our members has led to our membership including thousands of people who live or take part in country sports all over the UK. It is not restricted to shooting sports – we represent all who use the country for sport, whether you hunt, shoot, fish, fly hawks, work terriers – the list is endless.

Finally, our membership rates are around half of the other country sports organisations, and we provide £10m Public Liability Insurance cover for all of our members as part of the package.

More importantly, we are the ONLY Association to provide
£100,000 legal expenses insurance to all of our members, which ensures that our members can have top-quality expert legal experts to defend them if they are charged with offences relating to their sports, or if they have difficulties with their Firearms or Shotgun certificates - at no cost to them.



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Its been a long time coming ...........

Over the past six months I have been busy with all sorts of projects and have much to tell you about.
Where to start.......well early on in the year I was busy shooting rats on one of the farm I have permission for, there were hundreds of the things in the chicken coup that needed removing. The chickens were in a 8 metre x 7 metre room that had recently had a new slate roof fitted. The inside was covered in the waterproof membrane you find on all roofs but the rats had taken I liking to this and over the space of a month they had all but destroyed the first 2 foot, eating huge holes out of it to get into the chicken feed.

This gave us some interesting shots to take as we could quite clearly see the rats running about, just above our heads, on the floor and up the stone walls. There were 28 chickens in this room a running around keeping away from the rats as they were eating all the chicken feed on the floor and in the pots. Some fun times were had in that room, trying to work out where the chickens were and trying not to shoot any of them while trying our very best to rid the place of the rats.
Over 3 months we seem to have all but wiped out the rat population.....from the chicken room and adjoining buildings but I am sure they will return at some point soon.

Another venture I have taken on is Pass It On Young Sports. This is a free event I host enabling people of all ages to come and have a look at and shoot different air rifles. I set up a range with backstops, clay pigeons, spinning targets and reactive targets ( go BANG when you shoot them). This has gone down very well with the local kids and I have had lots of  people come and have a go. The aim is to get older kids off the games consoles and out in to a field to shoot some targets and get some fresh air, while learning a new pass time.



  As I now have a mobile air rifle range I am in a position to the range up at different places, so if you have a club or group, scouts, cadets etc. I am available to hire.


A few weeks ago I was asked to provide a range in Oxfordshire for Woodland Ways  the largest provider of Bushcraft & Survival Courses in the United Kingdom. They had 155  13 year old school kids for a bush craft and survival weekend and they asked me to provide the range. Over two nights every child came to the range, in groups of 25, and got to shoot the rifles on the 20 metre range I had set up. Most of the kids had never seen an air rifle before and had no idea what they could do.


If you would like a quote for the range to visit you please drop me a email @  Richard.nash72@gmail.com
 
 
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