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Vince Green

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  1. Yes they always told that parable just before they came round with the collection for some reason...……...
  2. I totally agree with you, why give actors and pop stars knighthoods for only doing what they get paid for? I think the level of tax avoidance HMRC are talking about goes a bit further than duty free drinks and ISAs. More like having their total earnings paid into offshore shell companies and paying not a penny in tax. Lewis Hamilton style.
  3. Yes you just about have it nailed, on the head. real labour = nieve halfwits, dreamers and idealists. Momentum = violent thugs with aggression issues = dangerous halfwits. Corbyn was my MP for nearly ten years, When I say this I would like to think people at least believe me, he is totally and utterly bone idle, he has never lifted a finger in his whole life to do anything positive. He can whinge, he can criticise, he can be universally negative on any subject but its al cheap shot politics. he is a plonker. Jeremy, your past is catching up with you.
  4. The thing about .22 prone shooting disciplines is the word DISCIPLINE. It is the ultimate challenge. Anyone with short attention spans or seeking instant gratification forget it. Real skill, real ability, endless dedication and no excuses. Most clubs run a different night for wannabe Rambos to shoot less demanding (but definitely more fun) action events.
  5. Don't ever make the mistake of confusing Momentum with Labour
  6. Hundreds round here in bird table land, I see them out of my kitchen window most mornings.
  7. where are you? that could be a starting point. its all very random this load development process, 1) It could just be your rifle doesn't like that particular bullet. Brand or weight, it happens. Have you tried 150 grn? Heavier bullets often cost the same pretty much as lighter bullets but use a lot less powder so work out cheaper to load. Heavier bullets tend to go a bit slower but can be more consistent (until you start getting into twist rate issues with very heavy bullets) 2) Vhit 160 is a main powder for .270 so should be OK 3) Three shot groups are fine, thin stalking barrels really don't like firing lots of shots in a short period of time. They get incredibly hot and POI definitely shifts. Be aware of this My 7.62 Target rifle has an incredibly heavy barrel but after 10 shots its still too hot to touch. Its where the first shot goes that counts from stone cold My mate's Sako 6.5x55 puts each shot slightly to the right of the previous shot as it hots up, he's aware of it so its OK 4) I am sure this will get howls of protest from some quarters but try PPU bullets, you can buy them by post now and they are half the cost of what you are using. A friend, a very serious target shooter used Sierra Matchkings for ever but when supplies ran out was forced to use PPU 165grn .308 match bullets instead. He was genuinely impressed, certainly not the cheap rubbish he was expecting. I use PPU bullets all the time now. 5) full loads are seldom the most accurate 6) how are you measuring your powder?
  8. It was true when I was a kid, I was not allowed coffee. But back then it was drunk much less than it is today
  9. And much less likely to be labour voters, look at the fox hunting ban. Did that have anything, even remotely, to do with foxes? Of course it didn't, it was a straight out attack on the toffs. Nobody ever cared a stuff about the foxes I can, read the Communist Manifesto
  10. Had another chance to use it today in a proper target rifle off a rest at 200 yds. Its definitely plenty accurate enough for deer and probably foxes too, but not v-bull accurate which would be sub 2" at 200 yds. My original assessment of 4" seems about right but this ammo is £38/100 and you can shoot all day for very little expenditure. Its ideal for shooting in a new barrel, sighting in new scopes (for perhaps finer tuning later), training novices or just having a blast. Also its clean, loads and ejects fine. Some of the old problems with steel cased ammo seem to have been consigned to history.
  11. Yes I normally keep one in the car. That's a good use, not drinking ten on a night out along with shots and going hyper wanting to fight everybody.
  12. Once we leave the EU will be financially like a table with three legs. The effect on the EU will be felt in ways we haven't even considered. The Spanish fishing fleet for example, all their big trawlers fish virtually exclusively in British waters. The Dutch take huge amounts of herrings from British waters. What are they all going to do? It is estimated that the European fisheries policy costs this country £6 Billion a year, that's the value of the fish we lose, and that's only if you believe the foreign trawlers stick to their quotas - and of course they don't.
  13. My friend Alan's father had a small manufacturing business in the East End of London back in the 60s. He well remembers the police coming round every month to collect their envelopes. It was regarded as normal, it was the way it had always been, you had to pay the police, nobody questioned it.
  14. The other thing is the pathetic number of police "on the beat" compared to say America, even a small provincial town in America has a huge police force compared to an equivalent sized town in this country. And they have the town police, the county police, the State police, The Highway Patrol, The US Marshals. Park Rangers, Railway Police etc all with jurisdiction in that one small town.. When you see an incident in America on TV, (sadly often a shooting), pay close attention to the number of cars that responded. Most towns, most incidents, they can have twenty cars there in minutes. I myself have seen ten or more American police cars in convoy bumper to bumper screaming down the road lights and sirens to get to a fairly minor traffic accident, its policing as it should be done. If you phone 911 and say there is somebody in my back yard I guarantee you will have four police cars there in minutes. And if they find somebody in your back yard they will arrest them and they will go to jail. Phone 999 in this country and the police will turn up Tuesday, give you the number for Crime Stoppers and do nothing.
  15. It wasn't even an official bus belonging to the leave campaign
  16. The last thing a copper wants during a scrap is a highly vunerable pistol in a holster at his side, he will be too scared of losing it . That changes the way the police deal with situations
  17. Just keep what you have got if its going OK, why waste your money on a lot of expensive bling?
  18. We asked if anyone had a wheelchair going free on Nextdoor for my mother in law and had several offered to us. The one she was given was brand new, the old lady died before she had a chance to ever use it and the daughter was just clearing the house. It costs nothing to ask
  19. I've got a lot of type metal I have had for years, more than I will ever use, I tend to cast in pure lead more now for my muzzle loaders and buy ready cast bullets from shellhouse for my .303 and .308. Its just laziness. I will happily send you some free if you pay the postage You won't need to harden the 200 up all that much but it should be a good accurate bullet
  20. Too big is often not the problem it seems. Buy some cast bullets from Shellhouse Bullet co and try them out. Its much easier to experiment with bought cast bullets than to commit to a mould and be stuck with it. About 12 grains of Unique or 16 grains of 2400 are pretty much universal loads, giving you dirt cheap loads to play with. Plus both those powders but Unique in particular works well in 357, I use 5grns with almost any bullet it seems to work. My mate says the same with 5.5grns My mate shoots foxes with cast bullets and 12grns unique and has done for years
  21. The trouble is cats and busy roads are not a good mix. My step daughter lives in the country but on a busy road, its not an A or a B road but its very straight and cars go down it at 80mph +. She lost three of her cats in about 3 years and now she has a secure run down the garden and a cat flap into the house. I have to say the cats seem perfectly happy.
  22. That sounds worryingly like Lymes Disease. Everybody who lives or plays in rural areas should be completely aware of the symptoms of Lymes disease because it is really serious and can cause organ failure and death. It starts like a horsefly bite and it appears to clears up, then vague strange symptoms start, tiredness is definitely one of them. Gradually it eats you away inside. Tell him to get tested. Most Doctors have barely heard of it Seriously, its a killer if its left, even if you think it has gone and you are over it, you are not, its chewing away inside you. They reckon as many as 90% of cases are not diagnosed
  23. If Irish and French horses cant get here its hardly our problem - its theirs! Let them worry about it But its never going to happen, the remainers' claims are just getting more desperate, which should tell you all you need to know. I was listening to some plonker spokesman on the radio this morning saying we never voted to leave, we were just asked if we would like to. The sad thing is he really believes that
  24. Is it really linotype? individual pieces of type/letters is monotype and quite a lot harder than linotype which was used exclusively in Linotype machines to cast long lines of text. A process known as hot metal printing. Tests in the past with hard shot, mostly in America, have shown no ballistic advantage once you get harder than about 2-3% antimony. In fact there is very little evidence that hard shot was ever more than a marketing gimmick to sell cartridges, but a few percent does prevent balling and may help in the drip forming a round shape more easily. Antimony is more useful in hardening up cast bullets that have to grip the rifling
  25. There are many ways of claiming benefits if you retire. Benefits don't stop at retirement age in fact there is a case for saying a lot of benefits such as housing, income support, sickness, incapacity, attendance, mobility etc become easier to claim as you get older.
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