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They are gas vents, yes, you'll even see them on some best London guns. Not per se for pierced primers but for gas leak around ill fitting or loose primers IMHO. A pierced primer will leak direct into the action through the flash hole.

Here's my 2p worth about Yorkshire tea. Why save time and not just empty them straight into the lavatory bowl (rather than drink them) and cut out the middleman?

I was also going to suggest the very same. Do it on a Lee Enfield to tighten or loosen and you'll rip the back out of the fore end if you don't first remove it but that's all as it is steel into steel where it screws into the receiver. So that'll not suffer damage. But on an alloy action the steel will win every time.

Oh my Lord! Yes I fear that will be so. Problem for me is I've no room as I am rammed jam packed still with hoarded bog rolls. Yorkshire tea! I had three clients that made Yorkshire tea. I told them that was the best place for it to stay. Yorkshire. Awful stuff!

No5 now sold to SNIPPER.

The "Long Tom" is still available as not having a blocked end it is decided as not suitable for MUNCHER and his needs.

If you don't go you'll never know. My thoughts would be take a shoulder bag and food and drink so you aren't paying through the nose and check who is exhibiting. Then add in your cost to get there. It's a cheap day out compared to, say, ninety minutes at the football or an evening at the theatre. But if you're coming from Aberdeen or Plymouth maybe not?

No4 now sold.

No 5 provisionally sold to SNIPPER subject to the necessary.

Again both at £15.00 each posted but really one is for a "long tom" single barrel or blackpowder musket and the other, the canvas, the sling is a nasty cream and brown webbing material. Long Tom - Brown PVC type plastic - 62" OVERALL - QUOTE ITEM #7 CANVAS - NASTY CREAM AND BROWN WEBBING SLING - END NOT BLOCKED SO SINGLE BARREL? - 51" OVERALL QUOTE ITEM #8

No 5 is twelve inches deep. This I have just measured along the two lengths of strapping below where the handles join the body of the case.

All are per-owned and used. Not new. But at £15.00 each, posted 2nd Class Recorded Delivery are still good value. Payment by bank transfer, no Paypal. Please reply here (and by PM) so it is clear what you want. BROCOCK - 52" OVERALL LENGTH - QUOTE ITEM #1 SPORTSMARKETING (MORE GREEN IN COLOUR THAN IN APPEARS) - 48" OVERALL - QUOTE ITEM #3 BLACK UNBRANDED - 49" OVERALL = QUOTE ITEM #6

Back once upon a time I had a 9mm pistol I'd been sent to review left in its box, wrapped in brown paper I'd at least say, on my doorstep.

I am sure he'll be gutted to know that. But I have to agree with you. I never thought "Some mothers..." at all funny. But then I never found Mike and Bernie Winters funny either. Nor Cannon and Ball.

Always. always. always tell the courier to wait and open the package in their presence or sign clearly "Received one carton - contents unexamined". If they won't oblige refuse the shipment. Sadly here in the East Midlands there was a recent case of two people in an Amazon warehouse stealing goods by one identifying the high value item for the other to steal. There will no doubt be others who have not been caught elsewhere in Amazon warehouses here and there. https://westbridgfordwire.com/amazon-employees-jailed-for-theft-offences/

THIS IS NOW NO LONGER AVAILABLE.

No and I am unsure as to if it is the balcony on the Monument or the cornice on the Royal Exchange or the Bank of England. But certainly it is, was, one of a famous landmark building in the City of London. Anyway it's one or other of such.

There's a passage in, I think, Payne-Gallwey, about a conversation on shooting a pheasant the same height as the balcony on the Great Fire of London monument (which as a kid I actually climbed up). His friend says he wouldn't as it is too high. To which which the reply is that the balcony is only some such height even thought the total height of the Monument is somewhat more.

Yes, heard of them, no not personally used them they are steel shot. They tried them at a shooting ground near me and "we were not impressed" was the verdict from some county level shooters. No, 16 gram in a 12 bore. +1.

Unboxed, no shellholder, can be used for .38 Special/.357 Magnum, with semi-wadcutter type profile bullets. Genuine CARBIDE sizing die so no need to lubricate cases when re-sizing them with a carbide sizing die. £35 posted by Royal Mail 2nd Class Recorded Delivery. Not advertised elsewhere. Will be sent well wrapped and packed. Please reply directly here and by PM. Payment by bank credit or cheque/postal order. Absolutely no Paypal please!

In theory and in practice you could load a Keith type semi-wadcutter bullet "deep" in a .357 Magnum case (by crimping over the front of the forward driving band) and so have the case capacity that you'd obtain if you loaded the same bullet in a .38 Special case but crimped into the actual crimp groove behind the forward driving band. That may or may not be safe practice and I'd not suggest it unless and until you'd had sich loads then tested by a Proof House. But as I say I'd consult for load information that you are going to use ONLY the powder maker's website. And that alone. So that's my last contribution to the thread.

If you need a good condition replacement forend for your Aut0 5 I have one. £58.00 posted by signed for and insured postal service. If interested I can send your email some pictures if you PM me. If you are near to Leicester it's £50.00 collected so you can examine it yourself.

Different cartridges should be loaded with their specific data from the powder maker's website. The same with 38 Special v .357 Magnum v .357 Maximum or .44 Special v .44 Magnum v .444 Marlin.

I had indeed a Vostok MU1 pistol. In its wooden box with all the accessories. Sadly long ago sold and in any case all banned de facto by the Tories in 1996 and by Labour de jure after the General Election of 1997. UK eBay does sometimes see the wooden boxes listed.

Light loading is, yes, basically loading just the powder maker's recommended starting load (less the usual 5% or so they advise to reduce if the components you are using are not the same as in their recipe). This is because the velocity achieved by loads in powder maker's manuals are optimistic, often in a twenty-six inch barrel and therefore the advised velocity if often some way above the velocity the load will be in your rifle. Reduced power loads are a different thing in how I "name" reload types. These may often use a powder not normally associated with that cartridge in its full power form. So might use such as Red Dot or some such. The older Lyman 45th Reloading Manual had many of these such. Some indeed with cast bullets cast from linotype alloy. But it is certainly not recommended to try to make a reduced power load simply by using, say, just 50% less powder than in your usual load. Not anyway what I'd ever do. My advice is that using the powder maker's official data for their suggested starting load (and any advice they give on beginning 5% below that of different components used) will, as said give you a light loading. Note that it is for also for what their tests have shown is good reason that some powder makers call that suggested starting load the "minimum loading". So don't try the 50% less route please!