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Future tip to all. Go online directly to Parcelforce website. It is slightly cheaper if you do....even if dropped off at the local to you Post Office...and cheaper still if taken to a local Parcelforce Depot (mine is but five minutes away a benefit of having an industrial estate on the village boundary with Leicester).
https://www.parcelforce.com/sending-a-parcel
They email you a receipt and also you download and print the label so you always have the tracking number to hand in your email. You will need scales (bathroom scales work for me) and a metric tape measure plus a PC with access to a printer.
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20 hours ago, Loki said:
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Looking back at WW2 - the Russians over-run German Military Forces by sheer weight of numbers.........The T34 tank was poor in terms of engineering, but the numbers that came out of the factories, overcame any engineering/quality on the German side.
The saying "quantity has a quality all of its own".
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We had, yes, a horse drawn mil delivery. Hobill's was the company. Their farm ended up having the M1 put through it and Leicester Forest East services. Then not many years later on what was left of the farm the M69. I used to park my car in their farmyard when going to Paris and walk down to Leicester Forest East services to meet the coach going to Paris via Dover and Calais.
We also had coal in sacks from a coal merchant on a flat bed lorry and bread from a bread man with a wicker basket from Geary's bakery of, then, Ratby the next village.
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What? That today's Made in China binoculars out perform 1940s British Army issue binoculars? They do. Even fairly recent 1970s and 1980s Pecar telescopic sights don't compare to today's Hawke stuff.
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I have had Zeiss 10x40, Leica 7x42 and my late father's 7x50 binoculars he has as a gunnery officer in WWII when engaging German bombers either as light anti aircraft or as searchlights. Sad fact is that even the cheapest, almost, of today's Made in China binoculars surpass, just, but enough to be evident his WWII set.
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As other say powder can degrade and either break up which will make it burn as if it were a faster powder. Or dry out. Which I don't know what it would behave as if. OTOH if the cartridge gets damp the fibre wad might swell.
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On 17/04/2024 at 20:54, Stephenwilko said:
Well that's my first attempt at HD decoys what's everyone's thoughts on the colours
My advice is get rid of the very apparent seam along the back of the head and into the neck. It casts a shadow that is most unnatural.
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RELISTED AS BUYER DID NOT CALL AND COLLECT WITHIN REASONABLE TIME.
From a near postcode LE9 2AL which is near J21A of the M1 at Leicester Forest East. Sight please of a valid SGC and cash on collection £35.00 = £5.40 per 100 which is less that the Clay and Game rate for 1,000.
In boxes as shown and with a red lacquer sealant colour on the flash hole end.
Please reply here and PM.
These cannot be posted, cash on collection only and no valid SGC shown when purchased = no sale.
And yes I am aware that VCR Act 2006 doesn't require such but I am also aware that old .455 Webley cases can be and were reloaded with such primers. So if you want there then no sight of a valid SGC = no sale.
COLLECTION AND PAYMENT WITHIN SEVEN DAYS PLEASE.
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See PM and PM now replied to. OP is still looking as what I had wasn't suitable.
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1 hour ago, moongeese said:
Very interesting, the one I have is a lovely gun, and has a W prefix, I did not know this was an ex RAF gun, the fact I collect WW2 militaria, makes this special.
There are various videos on the internet under Pathe about training RAF Air Gunners with shotguns.
And some American ones with the actor who, later would play Penguin in the 1960s Batman television series, Burgess Meredith. And President Ronald Reagan!
This below is from the topmost video.
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Belgian alas. But it's cheap if you want it at £85 and I'll pay for you to try it over twenty-four birds at Normanton Shooting Ground. If you have it I'll pay for the birds, If you try and not buy you pay for the birds you've shot up to when you decided not to have it. The main benefit though is the stock length which with the pad is some 15 5/8" to centre as I am 6' 4" tall. Take the pad off and replace it with a simple plate and it comes down to about 14 3/4". The BSA guns if you're lucky will be 14 1/2" maximum. The ex RAF guns are nice. Ejectors, 28" barrels, and all with a W prefix serial number and about half choke in each barrel but very low in the stock.
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2 minutes ago, CoventryWire said:
Exactly! I was £2 under the winning bid but I'd have happily gone for more if I knew!!
Is this a BSA or something else? I was really after a BSA since I'm not allowed one of there bikes!!!
Tis a Belgian. No maker's name. Dates from in between the two World Wars. It was my "wet weather" gun in that if the weather looked wet it was the one I'd go to. Now I have an AYA Yeoman Ejector so it hasn't been used save the first day of last season. That's really a damn and blast £2 under the bid. Southam's is better in some respects as their online sale is live and you can go that extra £5.
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Tsk! That's why I hate their Sealed Bid! You never know quite where from £x to £xxx to pitch your punt.
Now OTOH if you want a 30" barrel, SBS, long pistol grip stock non-ejector I do have one here in Leicester near J21A of the M1 just above the M1/M69 interchange. It has a long stock to a Silver's recoil pad although that could be taken off and it'd still have a 14 3/4" (or so) all wood stock.
Here it is. It can even be tried, Tuesday to Friday at Normanton Gun Club just off the A47 at Thurlaston near Earl Shilton. All jet black action and metalwork. Bores good. Proper Anson rod forend unlike the BSA which is, on some, a Hackett type snap on thing. As with the BSA this is 65mm chambers.
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There were at least one in Holt's that you've just missed.
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And bayonets? What of bayonets? By the word "bayonet" being omitted from the list of prohibited items are these still then to be allowed to be sent in the post?
My concern is that a bayonet may be construed as a sword, combat knife or "survival" knife by over zealous ill informed postal staff.
As when infantry stopped being issued with short swords in the following decades the bayonet would evolve into a dual purpose weapon. On the rifle to be used as a bayonet.
But off the rifle to be used in peacetime on the soldier's belt, on parade, as a form of short sword replacement. Or off the rifle but now in wartime in his hand as a dual role combat and "survival" knife.
Therefore a definition of a bayonet needs to be clear so that bayonets do not, mistakenly be banned as swords (the long Pattern 1907 bayonet) or as combat knives (the American M3 bayonet) or as "survival" knives (the German and other nations') saw backed bayonet.
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8 hours ago, ditchman said:
i know i have said this before .......when you set your deeks out ...put a full bodied crow deek ..about 20 yds away from the pattern
I've always thought there is great merit in this as crows being wary birds give the pigeons confidence that all is well.
What I have never done but would like to try is put white reflective paint on the white collar as, so some say, pigeons see the ultra violet of the "collar" and use that to see where fellow pigeons are on the ground feeding. Like old bri-nylon shirts at a 1970s disco. For those of us old enough to remember such things.
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6 hours ago, oowee said:
🤣 Can you believe anything that comes out of this blokes gob? On the platform with Orban .......
Shyster. Wouldn't trust him an inch. Brexit bonus? A US-UK trade deal? Free trade? Tell that to those in farming who will see their livelihoods seriously affected by the UK-AUS deal, those in the offshore fishing industry. Farage has become a millionaire from Brexit. A very nice little earner. Arthur Daley without the charm. A grifter.
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3 hours ago, Fellside said:
😆😂 While the car was still moving me thinks.
Yes! And in truth deservedly so!
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5 hours ago, Fellside said:
I’ve just bought a thousand red cartridges - they look really nice!
There's a song isn't there?
Quite suitable for that long journey I made now thirty years ago plus from (for me) the East Midlands up to Central Scotland to shoot driven grouse.
How does it go? Ah. yes...
"One thousand red cartridges in my bag and if one red cartridge should get fired today there'd be nine hundred and ninety-nine cartridges in my bag,
"Nine hundred and ninety-nine cartridges in my bag and if one red cartridge should get fired today there'd nine hundred and ninety-eight cartridges in my bag,
"Nine hundred and ninety-eight cartridges in my bag and if one red cartridge should get fired today there's be nine hundred and ninety-seven cartridges in my bag"
Hmm. I think my fellow travelling guns would have stopped the car, opened the door, pushed me out and left me in Trowell Services!
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For clays? I'd say maybe 1/4 and 1/4 in both. If you want a denser pattern go from 7.5 size shot to 8 size shot or at least a cartridge hat has harder shot as that in itself will supposedly give a denser pattern. Only by trying it will you know but, for sure, Brand X 7.5 often shoots different enough from Brand Y 7.5 and Brand X 7.5 different again.
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One important factor is that roll closure vs crimp closure. I was told long ago by David Bontoft that Hull buckshot was relatively more expensive as given the quantity loaded AND that it was a roll closure it was, he said, "virtually hand loaded". I fear that .410 steel may also be expensive as the quantity loaded will be limited so no scale of economy on setting up costs for the machinery for the production run.
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LIneker may be Leicester born and bred (as were Walker's crisps) and indeed my friend of fifty years lived across the road on the same street as Mr LIneker when we were all kids but Lineker's adverts long ago became tired and Walker's long ago became part of the international combine that in France is Lay's crisps. Time for change. But Beckham? Lord save us!
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2 hours ago, Conor O'Gorman said:
No it's not the same thing. A 'BASC letter' is not the same thing as a joint statement issued by nine organisations. Please be factual in what your post about BASC.
Yes to both.
Noted. Thank you.
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17 minutes ago, London Best said:
Looking at the price for two barrels it would be better to order each barrel done individually.
Yes. It does! I then looked back and checked my email from them. And in fact it was this:
December 2022: Thank you for your message. The costs are £65 + VAT for single barrel and £95 + VAT for two barrels.
Royal Mail parcel tracking
in Off Topic
Posted · Edited by enfieldspares
Is that Royal Mail Recorded Delivery which only provides advice of delivery? Or the fully tracked service offered by Parcelforce which tracks at every stage of the process?