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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!

Yes. You are correct. It was this.

When I had a Kawasaki 750 Turbo the advice was always when you got to where you were going to sit on the bike and let the engine keep running for a couple of minutes to cool the turbo. That shutting the bike off straightaway meant that oil stopped circulating and the turbo was therefore shut off while still hot. And that's why most units failed. They'd not been allowed time to "cool" from hot as it were.

Paris and Benin City.

Pigeon pie. There was a thread on what should be protected as a traditional activity. Surely the taking of a pigeon for the pot (or pie) was that most traditional and long standing of countryside "foraging" activity? I would agree with the OP's proposal. However if BASC had its way it'd be academic anyway...for shooting bismuth cartridges at £2 a pop now transforms a pigeon pie to being a luxury food more expensive than a smoked salmon sandwich. So it's all rather pointless given BASC's lead ban call.

You need to see a lawyer. To ask if monies is the same in meaning as is property in inheritance law. And especially if the will says "a third of my property". I would urge you to do this asap especially as you have, now, a copy of the will. Also note a beneficiary of a will can apply for probate themselves where, as the firm below says, no executors named in will are able to apply for probate or are ill and/or unwilling to act). I do not know these people below but they may be worth a call. https://www.gnlaw.co.uk/news/what-rights-does-a-beneficiary-of-a-will-have/

Just had the left hand striker sorted on my late father's gun. It needed the tip sorting out so the gun had to be stripped on that side. Cost me £20 by the gunmaker that I use and have used for years.

Paris is clearly delineated, as Departement 75, by, effectively, the Boulevard Peripherique save for a bit stuck outside to the south-east. It is these people that live within that boundary that were entitled to vote. And they have decided to vote that people living OUTSIDE of that boundary (so therefore non-Parisiens) will pay these charges. Having worked in Paris from 1999 onwards and living there from 2002-2006 and outside from 2015 to 2019 I'd agree. Paris is very congested and, as French car number plates carry the departemental number on it, these affected SUV vehicles will be those that are coming in from outside the city. There's little worse than sitting in a bus (Paris buses are excellent) behind SUV after SUV after SUV none of which are owned by people living in the city! And ditto if you can't find a place to park your car as all the spaces are occupied by folk coming in to Paris. So, yes, I'd agree with that. There's a lot Hildago has done that I don't agree with...she's caused congestion by permanently closing the Pompidou Expressway...but on this and banning electric scooters people are very much in agreement with her.

And what of the Royal Oak public house in Mareham-le-Fen (once ran by my late Grandmother) being told by the Royal Oak somewhere in Lancashire that it couldn't use the same name? Well of course that conversation never happened but I think it makes the point. King's Head, Red Lion, The Crown, any number of public houses have the same name often in neighbouring villages. Anyone can call any place anything they like. My late mother once had a problem with people calling her telephone having confused her number with Mertrux a Mercedes truck business. After a few times of politely explaining it was a wring number I took over and simply told them that Mr X or Mr Y or this department or that department wasn't able to take calls and the caller would have to telephone back on Thursday week. Surprise surprise the calls stopped. Now to the OP's query. The answer is simple and it is also legal and lawful. Have rubber stamp made, or print you own sticky labels, saying PERSON UNKNOWN AT THIS ADDRESS RETURN TO SENDER Stamp this in the front of the envelope, or ditto with the home printed sticker, and when convenient drop them in the nearest Royal Mail posting box or over the counter of a convenient post office. I guarantee that the address will be corrected pronto. As to the unwanted callers a simple "I am sorry I cannot help you there is no such person or no such business at this address" and don't volunteer any further information at all or any alternative location. Again it'll stop pretty soon. What he says.

£15 is not unreasonable if you factor in the cost in fuel and time it'd take yourself to collect them? If I want RC Cartridges Professional Game it's a thirty-eight mile round trip taking about forty-five minutes each way. I'd trade £15 for the pleasure of being able instead to avoid the A46 at Hobby Horse Roundabout and stay at home and mow the lawn. Or maybe not!

This. Wills have to be available for the public to see. That is the law. I would urge you to see a solicitor. The solicitor that wrote the will may well have retained a copy. If your sister cannot produce a later dated will that it is that will that will be held to be the "last" will and so the one that must be followed. The sacked solicitor would be my first contact to see if they still have a copy. Wills can also be registered online (this isn't probate this is registering the will online). Again a solicitor will likely advise the websites that might have the will.

They have it in France. Trouble is work practices change yet the unions won't then allow the age to be adjusted to take account of that. So, the example always given, French train drivers receive state pension at age forty-four. Which had reason when the guys were on an open footplate for seven hours plus in freezing weather travelling from Paris to Marseille in dead of a wet and rainy Winter night in the 1870s and onwards. But not now in modern TGV trains in 2024. Yet they still (or until recently) were entitled to retire on state pension at age forty-four.

So you had to borrow a gun for the climbing over an obstacle and "Would you shoot that bird?" and all of that?

I've got mine. Dated 1989. When there was another "scare" about having to show some sort of formal requirement for a "proof". A "proof" of what well that remained a mystery. Did it at Rowley Fields School for the classroom stuff and the field tests at Leicestershire Wildfowlers at Kibworth Shooting Ground.

Young foxes are almost always the ones that get killed and now that "cubbing" is illegal (be that a bad thing or a good thing is not for my opinion here) there's more that die this way.

My apologies it may be indeed the Regale. It is the one with the long stock anyway.

Francis Lovell in Oxfordshire has one.

Insurers take the view that an old vehicle is more of a risk than a brand spanking new vehicle as you'll be indifferent to slight knocks and scrapes on such. Whereas on a brand spanking new vehicle you'll drive with great care and thus, the thinking goes, less likely to cause a knock or scrape to a third party's vehicle.

I have deactivated a couple of shotguns, bolt action rifles in the past. Back then it was a simple matter that could be done with a drill and a cutting disc if you wanted to do it crudely. A mill if you wanted to do it neatly or, even, spark erosion. That and a small bit of welding. Nowadays it is with a side by side gun more complicated. As the forened iron needs to be permanently fixed to the loop on the barrels. This so that the gun cannot be then taken apart into the three parts of barrel, forend, stock and action. And the breech faces that previously needed only to be drilled have to be drilled and the striker holes welded. So, yes, although there's not £400 worth of labour or materials there is £400 worth of labour, materials and "faffing about" including the outrageous Proof House charge. The only still existing monopoly in the UK. Compare the cost of certifying a de-activation with the cost of having your car MoT tested. Rip off Britain lives on at the Proof Houses. One man with a spiked metal rod and maybe a small hammer for five minutes examination, Compared with an MoT thousands of Pounds worth of equipment, rolling road, ramp, gas analyser, and etc., etc.. A two man job at times, and twenty minutes examination. And double submission? Yet on an MoT bring it back the next day and the re-test is free. It really is something that our shooting organisations should look into?

No. It's not correct. There are a number of occasions when FAC holder or SGC holder may write on there own FAC or SGC. I have done it 1) when I have transferred a firearm held on my RFD onto my personal FAC and personal SGC when selling a gun held as stock to myself. See 5). I have done it 2) when I have imported a firearm from the USA back in the day, a .357 Magnum Smith & Wesson pre-Model 27 I've mentioned in the "Favourite Gun" thread, when these were sent by normal US Postal Service accompanied by a valid UK Import Licence. Indeed those personally importing firearms or shotguns into the UK often also do so as HM Customs or Border Force often request such is done on the person's arrival with the weapon at the UK border. I have done it 3) when transferring my just deceased father's shotguns (held on his SGC) onto my SGC in my role as his executor. I have done it 4) when multi-shot shotguns went from SGC status to FAC status following the 1988 Firearms Act and I "transferred" my unrestricted 16 bore Browning Auto-5 onto the appropriate newly granted variation slot on my FAC. That's four occasions. 1) and 3) you might argue I've done it as a different "actor" but ") and 4) I've done it as myself. And 5) as below if I hadn't had an RFD at the time I'd also have done it as myself. And 5) Others times can be when a shotgun is given to you on your SGC by a third party who for whatever reason withholds their name and address. Which I have done onto my RFD Register but not on to my own FAC or SGC but would have been entitled nevertheless to do if I had had no RFD. So I do wish that PW fellow members should stop making up law that doesn't exist. Or denying procedures that are in fact permitted. I apologise if that sounds impolite or harsh but to say that apart from your signature you never write on your own FAC or SGC is incorrect. But yes to the OP's original question it is indeed current and l presently accepted practice and custom not to enter ammunition you've loaded yourself as an FAC holder onto your FAC where a third party would enter it. But see however 1) where I have sold ammunition to myself.

What I would say is that many old, and not so old, SBS have way way too much "drop" for modern clays. The BSA SKB 200 and 200E have, in respect of the ones I have seen and the two that I have owned, too much drop at the heel. Which is why for some they do kick the cheek. So to try before you buy on a simple going away bird is vital. This will tell you if the cast is good for you and also, to a degree, if the drop is good. A simple going away bird is just that going straight away from the shooter with them almost standing directly behind the trap (or as near as safely possible if using a human trapper). A round of DTL is not a "simple going away bird".