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  1. Hello With a budget of £600 - £700 which new makes of shotgun would you recommend or avoid? I know I could pick up a decent used one for that money, but it's a gift, so can't really be a used item. Weight is an issue for the user. The lighter the better. 12ga, game only. I shoot with 15 year old Baikal which does me fine, so brand name bragging rights isn't a big concern. A decent gun for the money is the main aim. Thanks.
  2. Not sure if I can put video links in, but I had several unsuccessful attempts with Phillips - the key was removing all the old blue, sanding just didn't do it, nor did rust remover - at least not perfectly. In the end I resorted to electrolysis and a 12v power source and it produced a much better result. This was a sound moderator - I was pretty pleased with the results, but I wouldn't like to try it with a full rifle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnnWHL_7q8k Parts 1 + 2 are the unsuccesful attempts which involved (God forbid) actually following the instructions, so I haven't posted them here. A frustrating and time consuming comedy of errors until I got it right by trial and error.
  3. I found them to to be very good on some things (speed of visit, letting me know when they were delays with variations) and poor on others (telling me they never issued open tickets to anyone, so don't ask). It might be that if you have a 'professional' need - deer and pest control was mine for some land we manage, they move quickly, but if it's 'sporting' only with an occasion chance to get out shooting then they may take longer. Don't know if that true, but mine was very quick at the same time I knew others were waiting ages.
  4. Stubby, I have no sound on this machine so can't tell if you are explaining this as you go so can I ask - when you pull the skin back do you tear it off or leave it hanging , and what part of the guts do you grab to pull them out, and do you not need to free the back end off - just pull and it all comes away? Cheers, C.
  5. If the flag of St George has racist undertones then maybe they should eradicate racism.
  6. Freeing the back pasage from a deer is fiddly with a knife/fingers, and you end up contaminating both and have to clean them in the field. Plus if you nick the tube then you're in bother becasue ecoli gets inside the carcass. A few stalkers use this thing.
  7. The comments and generalisations that some posters here are make about farmers and landowners are absolutely shocking. It is no wonder that shooting is hard to come by when so many shooters talk about the people who let them shoot on their land with such contempt. I regularly read farming forums, and plenty of farmers will read forums like this, and see how too many shooters actually view them.
  8. Come back and post the results of your research when you are finished plus your data and any conclusions/suggestions you make on the back of it. That way people will see for themselves, they're a prickly bunch on here, suspicious of 'outsiders' in case you are here to take our guns away.
  9. Is that the same as an Andy McNab where you shoot a stag, grouse and enemy soldier in one day?
  10. cubix

    Case Tumbler

    Get a 2nd hand national geographic rock tumbler off ebay. Thats what I use.
  11. Quads have had a hard life and for what I need are still pricey, tractors and dumpers esp. can be a ****** to fix and cost spondoolicks to get a half decent one. I'd thought of a fiat panda 4x4, and cutting it down to the bone. Ideally though something with a chassis. I want to spend 50 quid on it! and not worry about it getting nicked. I'll take anything on, really.
  12. My landrover won't fit in between my trees. I want an old, small 4x4, diesel, and which I can strip and weld into something useful for pulling logs etc. It will never be on a public road so will be SORN'd, tax/ins not an issue. Any suggestions?
  13. I use a couple of large plastic tool boxes with tons of see thru compartments in the lid etc. You can get them v cheap at B+Q, poundland etc. Just make sure it's the BIGGEST one you can find - my stuff has already filled my first one. Wood cabinets are great for the tradition of it, but you can't lug them around, plus if you get him a box like the one above you can force him to keep all his mess in the loft.
  14. So what the hell does that mean? We can't get it after 2011?
  15. Motorhead by Motorhead Sharp Dressed Man by ZZ Top Princess and the Frog by Jim Jones Revue
  16. Roman Pay coupled with Roman Cart.
  17. cubix

    Irish lads

    I've found people from over the water very decent, and this seems to be such an unusual thing, so large and orgainsed that you wonder if there is more to it. Turf war over dodgy dealings ?
  18. Well, I would not accuse her of discrimiantion because you have not actually been discriminated against - she might have hurt your feelings but you have suffered no material loss. The verbal abuse would only be an issue of it were indicative of some wider culture of actual discrimination in the company. There are strict tests in law which have to be met to prove that. If she was to target you by sacking you, overlook you for promotion or a pay rise etc because you were from Liverpool that's a different matter. What you have said about her specifically in relation to her gender, being a 'boiler' etc it as bad as she has said to you. You could complain to the company that her behaviour was insulting, there could be a misconduct issue, but she's committed no criminal offence. But it sounds like you really don't like her - blow off some steam, you need to get your personal feelings out of the equation otherwise it will cost you your job.
  19. There are two things here: 1. Most stalkers don't pay, they shoot on the back of relationships with landowners/farmers they have built up over years, they help out with other tasks and keep foxes under control, they also often take others out for free. Read some of the forums referred to earlier and you'll see a lot of this. I can name a few stalkers on SD who do this. I even do it on occasion, but only with people I really know well. 2. Top end red/sika hill stalking - that's the whole highland/dartmoor/wherever experience you are paying for. Short answer on the 2nd case - it costs so much because shooters are prepared to out compete their fellow shooters and offer money for it. Dont criticise the owners (I know some who have a couple of local lads shooting and don't want to know about it when they are offered money for a lease) , criticise shooters who won't band together to bring prices down. It is greed, but greed for stalking not money, you'd barely believe some of the tricks some stalkers will pull to get stalking off other people.
  20. I find it difficult, they're too quick by the time you spot them they're gone. Lay up on the edge under a flight line if you can find one.
  21. Blackpool! Was it in a pub cellar ? Not the CO2 bottles pressurising the beer pumps leaking!! No Lager! What were you thinking only doing 36?! - if I was the magistrate I'd fine you for not treating it like the real emergency it was!
  22. I've been hearing this for a year or more. There's a company in N Yorks who we've spoken to about suplying us. pm me for their details, they'll know. We had issues with SEPA because of the proximity of watercourses on our land, otherwise I we would have bought a lot it. It very popular and effective, in biodiversity enhancement in some cases it's the only option - they'll struggle to ban it completely.
  23. That was so subtle I almost missed it.
  24. The 'likes' of me? What does that mean? Am I a member of some stereotypical group? 'I vote for the BNP but I'm not racist.' - I'll never understand that one, then why try put a racist party into power if you're not racist? The traditional way of registering a protest vote is to spoil you ballot paper. Note how anyone who criticises the BNP policies gets PERSONAL abuse back.
  25. Get your argument right. The BNP want to deny the right for people to vote for their own beliefs - black people for instance, who would not be able to vote because they will be forced onto planes and boats to be expelled from the UK by the police. I would class them as facists because their undemocratic singl eparty state policies are facist, not because they dont agree with me.
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