{"id":9972,"date":"2012-05-18T09:59:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T16:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=9972"},"modified":"2012-05-18T10:02:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T17:02:21","slug":"stop-the-bird-shot-it-is-human-rights-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=9972","title":{"rendered":"STOP The Bird Shot &#8211; It is Human Rights Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/nobirdshot-e1337358096820.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/nobirdshot-e1337358096820.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\" \" width=\"425\" height=\"317\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9973\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/birdshotsize.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/birdshotsize.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\" \" width=\"317\" height=\"294\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9974\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/birdshotsize.jpg 317w, https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/birdshotsize-300x278.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Broadly, ammunition for shotguns is referred to as \u201cshot,\u201d and consists of pellets of a certain material inside a cartridge.  Bahrain Watch has observed two sizes of metallic birdshot in Bahrain: #2 birdshot (pellet diameter of about 3.8mm), and #8 birdshot (pellet diameter of about 2.2mm).  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Bahrain\u2019s top cartridge: Victory Starlight by G&#038;L Calibers Ltd. (Cyprus):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The most popular shotgun shell being used by Bahrain\u2019s Secuirty Forces is the Victory Starlight, a product of Cyprus G&#038;L Calibers Ltd; The shell is identifiable by the word \u201cSTARLIGHT\u201d in all-caps, shaped semi-circularly over the marking \u201c32gr\u201d, indicating a load weight of 32 grams,.  To the right, a large \u201c8\u201d (shot size) is located above a vertical line, broken by the marking \u201c70\u201d (shell length). The shell metallic headstamp reads \u201cVictory 12&#8243;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Birdshot from UK manufacturer Gamebore(US Owned)<\/strong> has also been seen in Bahrain.  The shell can be identified by the presence of the Gamebore logo, followed by &#8220;67mm&#8221; (length of the shell), and \u201c8 &#8211; 32gms,\u201d where the 8 is shot size and a load weight of 32 grams.  The Gamebore cartridge has been observed in use for #2 and #8 shot sizes.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/shot_sizes1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/shot_sizes1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\" \" width=\"420\" height=\"369\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9977\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/shot_sizes1.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/shot_sizes1-300x263.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/center>  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/karranahshotgun1-e1337281845361.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/karranahshotgun1-e1337281845361.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\" \" width=\"425\" height=\"317\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9897\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D9972&amp;text=STOP+The+Bird+Shot+-+It+is+Human+Rights+Abuse&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadly, ammunition for shotguns is referred to as \u201cshot,\u201d and consists of pellets of a certain material inside a cartridge. Bahrain Watch has observed two sizes of metallic birdshot in Bahrain: #2 birdshot (pellet diameter of about 3.8mm), and #8 birdshot (pellet diameter of about 2.2mm). Bahrain\u2019s top cartridge: Victory Starlight by G&#038;L Calibers Ltd. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=9972#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2926],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9972"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9981,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972\/revisions\/9981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}