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Vince Green

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  1. Commercial loading machinery can be run much faster loading plastic wads, two or three times faster than when loading fibre. Bought by the container load plastic wads are much cheaper to buy than fibre wads. To produce the volume of cartridges that they need to sell to stay in business the manufacturers have to load predominantly plastic. People only want cheap most of the time. When I used to help out in my mate's shop more than half the people who walked in the buy cartridges first words would be to ask "what's the cheapest...………."
  2. One of the many good reasons not to rent out rooms in your house on Airbnb. The scammers use the address to open accounts during their stay
  3. Some clay grounds can salvage the lead. Especially on DTL all the shot lands in a very small area. I've seen it at bisley as a crust up to an inch or more deep on the ground at the end of a prolonged period of shooting. A hundred cartridges contains approx. 3 kg of lead so do the maths.
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    watches

    Like a lot of things, the difference in reliablity between the prestige names and the bargain basement is nowhere near as wide as it used to be. In fact, in many instances the cheap watches work perfectly. Nobody buys a £60,000 watch because they want to tell the time
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    watches

    I buy £10 watches and have never had a bad one yet. I have a number of decent watches for best, my son has a collection of named watches, it was his thing for a while to wear designer watches at work in the City, but none of them work any better than my £10 bargains i
  6. I can't post links on this device but if you google GINA MILLER + SOROS you will get pages of it
  7. The evidence appears to suggest she is a paid agitator, if so, that should be investigated fully. Was the (alleged) money paid to her campaign accounted for in the remain returns?
  8. There is strong evidence that he was deliberately and systematically undermined, left off circulation lists and not told of meetings that were taking place etc. That has not been forgotten, we will be coming back to that one later.
  9. But they are not poor or destitute people who only live the way they do because they have no choice. That appears to be the misconception that the C of E are labouring under. There are genuinely homeless people now living in old vans and buses because they have no other choice .
  10. Good price! Fiocchi is generally a top brand
  11. The travellers over here return to their homes in Limerick when they are not 'working' over here. The Irish Government back around the 50s passed some aggressive laws making it illegal to be homeless. The law was aimed at the Travellers and the intention was to drive them over to Britain to get rid of them for good. However, the Travellers were one step ahead of the Irish Government. They bought up farms and farm land in Limerick that was (back then) virtually worthless but it established that they owned property so weren't homeless.. Since then they have expanded and consolidated their holdings, then along came the EU and the agricultural subsidies made them rich. There is a town that they virtually own, called raithkeil (spelling?)
  12. A lot of the travelling community have permanent homes in Ireland, and own large tracts of land that they have bought up over the years.
  13. You can't just let people set up home on your land, no matter how sympathetic you may be about their plight. There are planning laws and those laws exist for a good reason
  14. Ireland is certainly in a strange place, financially insolvent but hosting just about every multinational corporation that trades predominantly in the UK, to evade tax Ireland. On the day we leave will all these cosy arrangements stop? if so Ireland is toast!
  15. Yes that's the thing that seems to be the elephant in the room, forget us, forget Brexit, that's a distraction. The smart money is not talking about Brexit they are talking only about the Italian banks. The French banks are far too exposed to Italian debt, if Italy goes tits up, sorry, when Italy goes tits up France will follow. Brexit is pushed back to page 4. However, despite not being in the Euro, British institutions are in way too deep with the French, utilities, Eurostar etc plus we "own" a lot of French debt. In or out we are exposed but out would be better. Either way its going to cost us a fortune. Moron remainers are going to blame all this on Brexit but in truth, Brexit is our salvation if it means that the EU cannot hang a "bailout" on us as it has in the past. Its not our problem and its not our debt, that what has to become our mantra, the eu will try to hang it on us. that's for sure. The imminent collapse of the Euro is all the money markets are concerned about. I've got a meeting with my IFA on Friday, he has called it, so it will be interesting to see what he has planned
  16. I can't change my GP even if I want to. Where I live the GP you are allocated to is decided by which road you live in, and its not negotiable unless you have a very good reason.
  17. Right so let me get this straight, "If the people of the UK decide to overturn the result of the referendum than that's the will of the people and that should happen" but somehow the Referendum is not the will of the people ? and can be ignored?
  18. Small companies cannot possibly keep up with the design requirements of the modern car industry. When Ford bought Jaguar they designed out all the mechanical faults that had given Jaguar its quirky image. Exactly the same with Aston Martin, when Britishness means unreliability its no asset. The X type was basically a Mondeo and the S type was a Lincoln drive train but they put Jaguar back on the map. The amount of design resources Ford brought to Aston Martin was incredible, it was the only thing that saved the company but the image and prestige has not suffered at all
  19. Nissan drawing SUV manufacturing back to Japan has absolutely nothing at all to do with Brexit, its a war that is being fought in the Pacific rim Nissan has lost 14% of its global market already to the "exploding" global threat from Chinese car manufacturers and don't imagine that this is a problem that is going to go away or that it only affects NISSAN. The panic in Japan is blindingly obvious. China is really feeling its feet now and is set to make massive inroads into many industries, cars just being one, but a big one. Why do you think Trump has been getting so excited about putting trade restrictions on China . This is a trade war China is going to win and everybody knows it. One of 99 reasons why we need to get out of the EU, the EU will resort to pathetic protectionism to try and resist the threat from China, as will the US, both will fail miserably. On our own we can deal with China. We will not be able to resist them but we wont be damaged by a trade war.
  20. only a light dusting here
  21. I always reloaded 32g with a slower burning powder and a fibre wad to produce a. lovely smooth cartridge. Out of preference I would buy 32g if they were available, more pellets will always be better than less pellets in my reckoning.
  22. Cheap cartridges with less lead in them are just false economy. The only purpose of a cartridge is to put as much lead as possible into the sky. Don't get sucked in by cheap "deals" that don't add up. You get up at the crack of dawn, you drive miles, you set up in a muddy field in the freezing cold, yet you are happy to shoot a cartridge that has 20% less lead in it because its 60p a box cheaper than the real thing? If you think that is good you need a bit of time at a pattern plate. My mate Ron used to say that cheap cartridges were often more expensive than best cartridges when you weighed up all the factors
  23. I seriously worry that people with work place stress, drink problems, depression etc will avoid going to get help because they fear the medical checks at renewal time
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