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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?
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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!
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Beating wanted East Midlands
enfieldspares replied to AlfieH's topic in Shooting/Ferreting/Beating Wanted
Hello ALFIEH. Perhaps also join the web forum "the Stalking Directory" and cast your bread there too? -
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.
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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?
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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.
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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!
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Shouldn't be too difficult to make from from a old, one leg, of a pair of trousers?
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Wet rag and a flat tipped soldering iron. Or the tip of a clothes iron.
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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.
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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"!
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I agree. A carpetbagger.
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Eley Gastight Cartridges
enfieldspares replied to Stimo22's topic in Bullets, Cartridges and Reloading
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. -
Warning, if it can happen, it WILL happen!
enfieldspares replied to kitchrat's topic in Pigeon Decoying Equipment
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. -
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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A service that once boasted "We delivery anything anywhere." Now a poor shell of what it once was. The rot set in when the service was privatised. Something that even Mrs Thatcher never considered but done by the useless Cameron and the useless George Osbourne.
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Hmm? It tightens the weave.
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Sacrifice the baize on the two lids to the covered compartments to get baize to use to make blocks for the muzzle ends of the barrels. And blocks for the action flats. If you do the job with care you can lift the baize off the lids using a knife edge between baize and wood.
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Anything Midlands based
enfieldspares replied to dave1992's topic in Shooting/Ferreting/Beating Wanted
Hmm. A friend once posted an advert asking "man needed for dogging work". Back when the local Leicester Mercury was a printed paper carrying small classified advertisements for cars, bric a brac and whatever else. It also had a section for "Sporting and Leisure". He got a totally different set of responses to the one he was expecting. He didn't think any of them would have been much good. He said they all sounded quite unfit as most seemed to respiratory illnesses from how their breathing sounded to him over the telephone. -
I watched ten minutes when the man was in the newsagent using his contactless card. Then switched over to something equally pointless Nazi Megastructures followed by Forged in Fire. I think I need to get a life.
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Gough Thomas actually rated them quite highly for the fact that the gun was well balanced and its "half weight" nicely between the shooter's two hands. I have had a few GP over the past and as a single barrel pigeon hide gun they are an excellent choice. Much better and safer than any break barrel gun. In fact I'd rate them as the safest choice for a hide gun if taking a novice out for the first time. Instantly checkable as loaded or not with a mere half opening of the action but without the need to "break" the gun as with a break open shotgun. The gun never needs to be "broken" to reload so is always muzzle up and the gun can be kept loaded but with the action open halfway so that the cartridge is held in the breech until the shooter sees a possible shootable bird. He then as he brings the gun up closes the breech and as the bird comes closer and into range then pushes the safety off and takes the shot. If he changes his mind he opens the lever again to leave the action halfway open. And back in the past for many the only affordable choice was no gun or a single barrel gun. As single barrel guns go there are worse options and worse options indeed than the GP or the Cooey or, the Aya Cosmos all good. Webley less so but in my opinion the worst was the Argyll and/or the BSA Snipe or BSA XII.
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I'd try but my double, nay, treble, chins make it hard!
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Save on car fires when it can be discharged through the front grille without opening the bonnet of the car into the engine compartment. Best there is save halon which as said is banned.
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Problem with co2 is it uses up what oxygen is left from what the fire hasn't a!ready used. I'd suggest assess what is likely to cause your fire risk and choose the extinguisher to suit that. As long as you remove one arm of the fire triangle...heat, oxygen, combustible material...for which water is best as it cools and wets dry combustible materials. For anything else non electrical conductive foam may be best? But again are you seeking to create a safe escape or seeking to do more and put out the fire? The doctrine used to be one fire one extinguisher and ONLY if your escape route is fully clear but if that fails to then get out via that escape route and leave it to the professionals. Also for some fires such as chip pan fires an old school fire blanket has merit. If upstairs a blanket to block the bottom of the door to keep the smoke out, water to cool the door and a hammer to smash a window out to make an escape when the professionals arrive may be best if your escape route is blocked. First and cheapest advice though is one or two or more smoke detectors. Plus maybe smoke hoods. .