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  1. The thing would, surely, be in contact with the barrel? Or if an ejector and not an extractor it'd be in contact with the other extractor?
  2. Yes. The meek will inherit the Earth...well as long as they get their fat bellies and lardy ***** from under their dinner table and off the sofas!
  3. Hello ALFIEH. Perhaps also join the web forum "the Stalking Directory" and cast your bread there too?
  4. From the picture you don't seem to be applying much, if at all any, crimp? Viht 320 is a good powder and I used it in my Smith & Wesson pre-Model 27 .357 Magnum in .38 Special case. But it will need some crimp, even if only a slight to light crimp, to give consistent performance round to round to round. Without knowledge of what you are using it on which might be a s7 Historic Revolver such as a Colt Police Positive, a strong Ruger 77/357 or a lever action carbine of some sort with a steel or even brass frame or other or even a humane dispatch two shot Deringer type arm I'd not be happy with suggesting a load.
  5. I thought about this again and apparently, so I am led to believe some game shooters using an O/U set up the gun to fire the top barrel first as that is the quickest to reload. I personally don't own and O/U and maybe others here that do shoot driven game with one might comment?
  6. Bench made yes but made to a pattern so best bet would be buy a used one from auction and cannibalise it. Fitting a replacement lock plate from the new to your gun is a lot easier than fitting your barrels ton the new to you complete gun. The more "issues" with the new to you gun such as broken stock or very very short stock or out of proof barrels (so check out the "stock and action" section of any auctioneers sale catalogue) the cheaper that donor gun will be.
  7. Ah but you don't need a 36" leg as the flap is made from continuing the cut up to include the buttocks part of the trousers!
  8. Shouldn't be too difficult to make from from a old, one leg, of a pair of trousers?
  9. Wet rag and a flat tipped soldering iron. Or the tip of a clothes iron.
  10. I was a member of the Conservative Party back in the late 1970s and, indeed, was at Nigel Lawson's adoption meeting when he was selected as the candidate for Blaby in Leicestershire. The Tory Party back then wasn't "of the right" it was the party of those, now despised, it seems, by the likes of its present idiot headbangers, of what were known as "one nation Conservatives". I left in in 1987 over the Tory ban, Thatcher, on self-loading rifles. Realising that it had become a party where the individual rights of British people were thought less important than headline grabbing policies to remove the blame from the failures of others whilst appeasing the the shrill voiced. It had begun the journey to the authoritarianism of the small minded and its becoming "the Nasty Party". It was no longer for me.
  11. Yes. They didn't think much of Churchill when he stood in Leicester! He didn't win. December 1923 for the National Liberals. West Leicester. Beaten by the Labour candidate. And where did each go to school? Churchill went to Harrow and the winner, Labour's Pethick-Lawrence was at Eton. Both true "men of the people"!
  12. They were the premium end of the Eley product range whereas the Grand Prix was actually the low end of the range. The cheapest of their catalogue yet nowadays people ascribe to it a quality that it never would have been merited back when the Gastight and etc. were produced.
  13. It used to get taught by Leicestershire Fire and Rescue on their training days for work place Fire Prevention Officers. I remember going on one. They'd take wire wool (using it as they explained as if it was a discarded Brillo pad) and throw it into a waste bin as if a cleaner had used it. They'd then then drop a standard normal 9 volt battery into the middle of it. Didn't take long before the waste bin was well alight and burning well.
  14. Ah well the Mulberry harbours too months to actually make. Days, yes, to two across the Channel at 6mph, and days to erect. So yes if they had all the stuff alreadty made it'd be day. But the actual things each took weeks or months to make. I knew a man who as a school leaver aged fourteen worked as his first job on making them in the North East. A Mr Jones. He was one of the apprentice boys in one of the yards that made the big concrete caissons and was told that they were "water cisterns for the Middle East" which made sense as they were water tight and had drainage cocks on the bottom. He said the first that they knew what they were actually what they were was when he went to the cinema and saw the Pathe news of the harbours.
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