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I had the actual covid and after one day of flu like symptoms spent the following nine wondering why I didn't at all feel as if I was going to die like that Mr Johnson told us we would. A few weeks later and because it was "demanded" by my work place I had the Astra-Zeneca injection which I did not wish to take but there was no Pfizer offered. Just Johnson's A-Z which was British and best and all that spaff, guff, and bluster and propaganda. I then had three days of irregular heartbeat, palpitations, night sweats such that the bedsheets were soaked. So I called my GP, from work, to report this reaction. I was told to stay where I was, notify my works first aid, and that he had called an ambulance on 999 as it was likely I was having a stroke. Ambulance comes, blue and twos, and off I go to the local coronary dependency unit. Get there have all the tests and then the deputy registrar of the unit comes and introduces himself. "You've not had a stroke you've had a severe reaction to Astra-Zeneca. You are not the first. You won't be the last. You'll need to now book a heart scan through your GP." So I book the scan. Have it done and when the results come am at work. My GP says I need to come and see him. I ask when, as I am at work. He tells me, in the strongest terms "Now." So I go and get told that the A-Z has given me myocarditis. A-Z and Boris Johnson. I'd be banned from P/W if I expressed the words I feel about both. So IMHO this friend of DAVE-G is far from delusional. He was in fact wise to have refuse Johnson's cut price poison. Now in fact AFAIK A-Z is banned for any further use? I, alas, have the misfortune to be wise after the event.

But it isn't a fire arm unless there's one of these? Surely? Until then isn't it just an arm. That's on fire? A flaming arm but not a fire arm. For as, as they say, "It's not a fire arm if there's no a fence..."

And so do I enjoy them. And everybody else's that posts here. Now what's that they say about opinions? That everybody has one...the same as everybody has an XXX...and that some opinions...like some XXXs...stink more than others?

Aha! Now here's my tale. Which is true. One of my late father's friends was a man called "Tiger" Chapman as he had indeed shot a tiger whilst in India. In close cover. In the 1970s I was a lad of early teens and had read the Corbett books. So I asked Mr Chapman what he had used. He told me he'd used a side by side 12 bore. Now I'd all sorts of thoughts of SG, Special SG, slug, the "Colindian" bullet or the Fauneta or even Eley's "lethal ball". So my next question was what had he used? The reply was "Number 6 as it holds together remarkably well at close range". Which actually is true as you have almost a dinner plate sized swarm of pellets that is far more destructive than the same size diameter pattern of six LG pellets. Thank you. Yes the Old Market as there was a parking site across the road which I guess was the site of the market? I bought two boxes of Hull Cartridge AAA there. Long before covid. The ones in the 2 1/2" case with the clear, disintegrating, plastic overshot wad. I think that a disintegrating wad superior to Eley's traditional thick card overshot wad. But that may be all in the mind! Is the shop still there? A visit there and a full breakfast at Guyhirn at "the Orange Tree" made a trip to Holt's that much more enjoyable.

The gun shop in that place...off the A47...in Norfolk (a town hat used to be a prosperous port in Georgian times) used to stock it. Wisbech? Lovely iterestig place to visit if you ever go nearby while driving on the A47.

Love it! Managed to do the same with a sword bought online at Holt's. Nice work if you can get it isn't it! Same sword but placed in a Leicestershire auction with an book I bought to accompany it from Amazon for £8.00. Sometimes it is really what you know and not who you know. Do your research is the thing. Knowing what the relevance of that number "17" was. So £420.00 is £350.00 after commission less the £65.00 original cost was a nice day out to Norfolk for £280 clear "bunce". Compensates for those times I've bought stuff and been disappointed. A PATTERN 1822 INFANTRY OFFICER'S SWORD, mid 19th Century, with 32 in. single-edged slightly curved steel blade fullered on each side, Gothic hilt with Queen Victoria cypher, wire-bound black fish-skin grip, no scabbard, worn, blade stained with some rusting and pitting towards the point, guard dented, 38 in. overall Purchased For £65.00 An other ranks 1845 Pattern sword to the 17 (Leicestershire) Regiment for the Crimean War period. An other ranks 1845 Pattern sword to the 17 (Leicestershire) Regiment for the Crimean War period with relevant book of recollections Sold for £420.00

No. The fore-end on most shotguns is serial numbered. It is not subject to control. The very very rough rule of thumb for civilian market weapons used to be if it is a so called "pressure bearing surface" and so when the weapon goes to proof is given a proof mark. Even so there are exceptions...it could be argued that the stirrup on a Webley break open revolver is a pressure bearing surface yet on civilian market Webley revolvers it does not. And yet the bolt head on a Lee Enfield is subject to civilian proof (as is the barrel, receiver and bolt body but I've known them, bolt heads, not be subject to control.

You need very little water, or gravy stock, as there will be water enough coming from the root vegetables and the meat. I start mine with about an inch of boiling water poured in on HIGH. Then after maybe one hour switch the power to LOW.

What's the latest from our SD member with his 5lb 10oz 20 bore AYA?

https://www.targetfocused.life/blog/browning-bps-12ga-pump-shotgun-review

I was with Green Flag. The full monty home start and all of it. Went to Nigeria and because of the then delayed Presidential election (this was in 2015) was there five weeks instead of the intended two weeks. During that time my of being not in use car's battery went flat and its MOT expired. No problem with the MOt pre-booked a test and therefore can lawfully drive to and from the test. Then called Green Flag. Oh no they say we cannot come and start it as it has no MOT and (I use their exact words) if you the drive it and have an accident and kill someone we'd be liable as we started the thing. But that if managed myself to get it started and it then broke down to and from this per-booked test then they could come out as they hadn't started it. Needless I cancelled the policy after taking them to the Ombudsman.

Always preferred English Skeet for practice AND trying a new gun. As it was like a McDonald's burger. Exactly the same and always the same every and any time you shot it. That way you had a true known measure of how you were shooting. Or more importantly how that new gun you'd just bought suited you against how you scored with your other guns. Yes English Sporting is best for "fun" but as where I shoot the layouts change every two weeks and the course is set to show deceptive birds that don't quite "fly" as you think they appear to be flying...which of course is the point of it. Good for fun but not to use as a known set in stone measure of performance. That's the problem with English Sporting. It isn't like that McDonald's burger. It varies from week to week and location to location. You can never tell if you are the one causing the miss because you didn't "read" the bird correctly. Or that new bought gun is causing the miss because you are aren't shooting it as well as your old one. So English Skeet as a self measure. Sporting as a relaxation with friends A shooting friend who golfs (I don't) said Skeet v Sporting is like playing all your golf each week on your home course or playing your golf every week on a different course away from your home course.

I have the chance of it from the source, as it were, when I am in Nigeria as it is brewed in Lagos. Indeed my friend's late father was sent from the UK to set up the brewery in the early 1960s. But to be honest when I am there I prefer Star. And in France if there's a choice of Guinness or Murphy's Red prefer the Murphy's.

I had one and it showed that some arteries or veins had accumulations of plaque. They inject you and then put you in a scanner. You can actually feel, or I did, some "heat" inside you as the dye passes around. But the temporary inconvenience of it is worth the problems that it may then disclose that can be treated early. So my advice is very much "go for it".

There's stories involving Jimmy Hendrix, others supposedly "The African Queen" or somesuch.