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The blank loads I had a box in maybe 1980 or so.

There is less effect on the gun from recoil when the lower barrel is fired so therefore the gun is under better control. That's why the bottom barrel is fired first when shooting a pair and, of course, why it is the barrel of choice when but a single shot is being fired. Of course on a side by side the barrel which would produce least affect of recoil when the gun was fired would be the left barrel for a right shouldered firer! But most side by side guns are double trigger guns the front trigger fires the right barrel. And I suppose the small advantage of the right barrel being easier to reload? Having said that I have never, when I had an SKB 200, set up a selectable single trigger side by side to fire the left barrel first. That's the penalty of tradition and how the right and left barrel were customarily choked. Even on a Boss and its standard non-selective single trigger gun the right barrel fired first.

The recent thread on another Forum I belong to had as its topic "the worst forums". It made me log back in to the UK Fly Fishing Forum. That I have not visited for some good few years. And I was saddened to her of the very recent death of Ifor Jones. Ifor was a good man and I shall miss out chats in the fishing lodge at Thornton Reservoir. I have cut and pasted this from UK Fly Fishing: Friday 23rd February 2024 An announcement on behalf of Fishery Management Limited Following the tragic passing of Ifor Jones on the 16th of January, 2024, there has been understandable speculation into the future of the business and the waters he managed so well for so many years. On his diagnosis back in November 2023, Ifor asked his 2 daughters, Sophia and Cassandra Rose, along with his friends, Arthur Olding and Mark Hunt to form an interim management team to help with the future transition of the business. On the 7th December, 2023, the above were appointed directors of Fishery Management Ltd and set about consolidating the accounts to gain a view on the state of health of the business. This process took until late January, 2024. The conclusion of the account consolidation made hard and unwelcome reading. Unfortunately, the business was found to be very heavily in debt, with little working capital and a low asset base. The team explored every possibility to work through the identified issues and transition the business as a going concern. Sadly, to no avail. “On consultation with the firm’s accountants, Haines Watts, discussions were entered into with Leonard Curtis, one of the largest independent firms in the UK, specialising in corporate recovery, insolvency and business restructuring. With great regret and sadness, a decision was subsequently made this week to wind down the business with immediate effect and put it into voluntary liquidation. This was the only option available. The process will be handled by Richard Pinder of Leonard Curtis. Enquiries should be directed to recovery@leonardcurtis.co.uk Leonard Curtis will, in due course, be writing to all known members, creditors and other stakeholders of the company to explain the steps that are being taken to wind the company down voluntarily and place it into Creditors Voluntary Liquidation.” As acting Directors, we would respectfully highlight that no salary was taken at any point by any director, no money was removed from the business at any time and their own money has been used to both run the business and pay for the insolvency process. This cost alone was and is considerable. The acting directors would also like to thank all of the staff and in particular Tom Bird and Lloyd Thompson, for their professional attitude, efforts and cooperation during this difficult period. We would also like to thank the long-standing customers of Ifor’s business for their patience and understanding. This isn’t the news any of us would want to hear regarding the business and the prospects for fly fishing Draycote, Eyebrook or Thornton reservoirs. Whilst indeed this brings to an end a chapter in fly fishing that has touched many people’s lives, including our own, we do not believe it will ultimately be the end of fly fishing on these waters.

Where, please, are you based and do you want manual, electric, what need you?

Well I guess they are taking over running it from the Bilderberg Group who after WWII took over running it from the Jews who, of course, had succeeded the Freemasons who were running it before WWI. How long will the Islamists continue to run it? As long as the Archons allow probably? But whoever it is be it some form of human, extra terrestrial or even artificial intelligence (if I had David Icke on speed dial I'd ask) we can all thank God Almighty that that last over reaching requirement of it being at least some form of intelligence means it'll never ever be Suella Braverman.

You all not have been bidding on the famous or infamous Minoudis Purdey then? I remember the original Guns & Ammo write up. Cor blimey awful the thing was! https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-4829691

I remember showing my Colt 1911 that was made in about 1917 to one of my late father;s friends, one George Baxter, in about 1976. Mr Baxter had been a machinist back in his working life. He didn't as such know about guns but he knew about machining and light engineering. he looked at the pistol and after, at his request I'd stripped it and then reassembled it said this. "There's not a single operation (as in a mill, cut, machining) on that gun that isn't necessary. It is perfect." So I agree that less is more in that respect. Supposedly the engraving on a sidelock is there to hide wear as the gun is used and gets rubbed against other objects and secondly to hold oil against the metal. This below is just sublime IMHO. Apart form the gilded fences and the fancy work on the barrels and the gold triggers that is. But the lockplates are superb and tasteful too. How practical it would be I don't know!

Steel case heads zinc coated? And showing corrossion? Not rare as in old but maybe uncommon but modern made. I'd not pay money for them over and above what a box of present production would cost and indeed I'd want to pay less. They may. also, the Two Inch not be reloadable as they may use old Eley Surefire primers?

Johnny Walker Red Label became "export only" as likely, or disappeared, did Cutty Sark as also disappeared did Booth's gin. The two have now had the names revived. Things come and go. Watney's Red Barrel anyone? Whitbread Tankard?

Yes. I think anyone thinking, if it becomes the law, of taking up this "early pension" would be best to take advice on their individual circumstance. Absolutely so.

My parent's house where I lived until my father'd death in 1987 (after which the house was sold) had in fact a gunroom where my father kept his two shotguns, his cartridges for them and all his salmon and fly fishing tackle. My mother however kept her rifle upstairs in the walk linen cupboard behind the immersion heater therein. My pistols and rifles were in a two gunsafes up in the attic rooms.

Thank you. Best laugh I have had this evening so far. Love it!

It's a con job! Stop working through ill health before you receive your state pension and you will be on Universal Credit. This gives free dental treatment and a number of other advantages such as the possibility of help with home insulation and heating, Council Tax reduction and etc.. Even if you monthly universal credit is only £10. If you receive state pension you lose those automatic rights. So the con job is by you taking state pension early you lose those advantages. Never trust a Tory Chancellor when it comes to benefits and pensions. So by letting the sick "retire early" they will be potentially worse off.

My view is it should be done fully and all over the action and to the highest quality, as was on my Boss, or that there should be almost virtually none at all as on my late father's Henry Clarke. To do the thing "half cooked" is to look as if you couldn't afford to do the job properly and had fancies that exceeded your finances. In recent gun terms it is why I always preferred the look of the AYA Yeoman Ejector than the AYA No4. Form should be "pure" and follow function.

Thank God it's eggs and not child molestation. Clearly there's some sort of "switch" or addiction and the man cannot control himself once the "switch" is tripped. So thank God it's eggs as he'll never be rid of this obsession verging on mental disorder.

Car boot? Auction sale? it's surprising what folk will buy if the disc or plaque can be removed and the trophy reused.

Too right! I have a pre-Croots canvas and leather one and it is heavy and a narrow shoulder strap. Really digs in when walking between drives and that with only a 6lb 12 ounces gun in it too. My advice if doing it all again would be a AKAH fabric slip with a moulded plastic nosecap. Had one once wish I'd never sold it. Didn't know they were still available. I will be telephoning tomorrow to get confirmation about the nose cap and if they still come with it ,ost likely order one. https://www.a1decoy.co.uk/product/akah-shotgun-slip/

Love it! There;s just been a nuclear strike and the Home Office is advising to turn your water heating off as leaving it on could be dangerous. My brother when he joined the police back in 1970 something was given similar to bring home with him.

Get one with a wide shoulder strap! Or have a look at SD Classifieds and you'll see some that I have for sale.

Smoke and mirrors. It's the immigrants fault my state pension is poor, it's the woman down the road with six kids by three different fathers fault my state pension is poor. When the reality is Johnson has lead the UK into spaffing billions on Zelensky and Ukraine and then spaffed an almost equal eye watering sum on PPE equipment from Tory Party cronies. It's just easy though to blame some poor man in a boat or some poor woman in a council house rather than admit that the money actually is there but it can't be had because doing so would make the life of offshore fundholders like Jacob-Rees Mogg and and his cohort uncomfortably enough impoverished to have to have only the the one bottle of wine at dinner.

What they have done is this, no more and no less. They have fulfilled their part of a contract between them and the state that if they paid a weekly "stamp" that they would receive a weekly old age pension I(women at age 60, men at age 65) when they finished work. And rightly they expect that contract to be honoured. There is no hypochecation of taxes in the UK so they will have paid in also in income tax, purchase tax, stamp duty, excise duty, television license, radio licence and VAT. And if instead of paying some of that tax they had paid it in to a private pension they'd have been better off. And had they died before age 60 or 65 their estate would have received those private pension premiums back. But in every case they'd have been better off and received a better return than they have received by the state taking that money from them. And lastly if they do or did pay into a private pension they did not expect Gordon Brown to the rip the backside out of it in 1997. So they complain perhaps with some right to complain.

PM replied to and the "mouli" is all wrapped and packed.

The old big difference was that under French inheritance law you couldn't disinherit your children and there was also an obligation, I think, to provide for a spouse. As JOHN UK said you really really do need current and up to date advice on that. It is very different from the UK. There was a recent case in France as to if a will made in the UK trumped French inheritance law rights of possible beneficiaries that had been ignored by the UK made will.

Some FEOs will think that being up in the loft may mean that you won't use the cabinet if it is less easy to access than, say, a bedroom or other place.

It's hard not to. Because I never realised there were so many guns that I "must have" for my collection. Happily to then discover that by fortunate coincidence the Oxford Gun Company may have that very make, model and variant in stock! Callooh! Callay! Oh frabjous day! Which, Lewis Carroll, I find myself bringing to mind as the lad does remind me somewhat in appearance and manner of one of either Tweedledum or Tweedledee. But, as Alice, I look from one to the other and can never decide...