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Most likely to have been AA Field as I tend to use them as a good starting point - but type/make would have made no difference as it was a design fault pure and simple and I was certainly not alone in suffering the inconvenience of having to take the beast to my local dealer to have them removed - R&K's Daystate trained chap informed me that he had fixed several MK3's with exactly the same problem within a couple of years. I was glad to get shot of the thing but ,I must admit, the trigger was to die for and I have never experienced anything that comes close - the HW Record unit, by comparison, was simply Neanderthal.

When we are charged by weight - what's to stop me "accidently" putting loads of my rubbish in a neighbours bin?. And as for working on a council tip or with Binmen - not anymore but have several friends that still do.

NOPE And as for bribing an officer of the crown have you seen the amount of stuff most Binmen take home and sell on Ebay?

In all honesty I think it's the easiest problem in the world to solve. Treat your Binmen well i.e. offer them a cold drink in the heat and tip well at Christmas and you should find that putting your dead Grandmother's corpse in the recycling barely raises an eyebrow.

After a few years the O ring starts to loosen and if you are pointing the gun upwards ie for a second shot at a pigeon in a tree, then the jolt of the mag cycling simply spits the pellet out the back of the mag and into the action/bolt housing underneath - following a puff of air but nothing else, attempting to cycle the bolt chews said pellet into the cocking lugs of the bolt - happens most when the nearest screwdriver is the other side of the world. Belas once informed me that a mod had been fitted to some examples - not mine obviously and I sold the beast for parts

In such a situation I would take the least reliable - if in view of anybody with any sense it always pays to be able to blame the gun for my appalling shooting

Manchester failed because of the engines. The designer of the Lanc. was Chadwick who, as far as I know, had nothing to do with the wimpey- that was Barnes Wallace's baby. When we look at the Lancaster's amazing results (and failures) it is worth mentioning that Mitchel, who designed the Spitfire, had designed an aircraft so similar to the Lancaster that it hurts, but with far greater performance, several years before the Lanc was born. It might also be worth remembering that many of the 56000 RAF who died were ,in modern terms, "murdered" by ridiculous ideas and expectations of a totally insane Command.

Anything soft - makes it easier to dig the ******* out when they drop backwards from the magazine, on cycling, into the action and jamming the whole shebang up.

You are about to get a myriad of answers but try Cylinder in the bottom and Improved in the top for clays and obviously switch to fire bottom tube at the nearest/fastest target - you will be amazed at how far out a cylinder choked gun will smash clays.

So sorry for your loss - my only hope is that whoever picked up the "statue" perhaps thought that it had just been left there by mistake but, in my heart of hearts, it was more likely to be some waste of oxygen that will never know better - here's hoping you find it .

Whatever happened to that piece of wood with 4" nails sticking right thru it? - make sure you don't leave it upside down just inside your gate.

When you find a decent quote and buy the policy make sure that they make a note that you do not agree to Auto Renew - tell them that is the terms of your business. Stops the beggars screwing you over next year if you forget that it's renewal time.

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There is also a good chance that the previous black plastic has been branded as racist

Well they are proactive at least - how do the English react when we are outraged? When a female police officer is shot dead in the street and the guilty party walks away with diplomatic immunity - when a serving soldier is murdered in the street in broad daylight or when an attempted abduction of a member of the RAF took place a couple of weeks ago (and we can all imagine his fate) - how many times can we turn the other cheek or sit and sup Darjeeling in denial - we all talk the talk but at least the French gets off their backsides and do something.

Before it gets sold you need to post a vid of it in action

Not so sure that the gun was actually made by Leech & Son - the vast majority of guns of this era were made in Birmingham then simply stamped with the sellers name - makers such as BSA and Wibbly & Snot made thousands of guns that ended up with names of thousands of different retailers stamped on the rib.

It's not just bringing the whole point of the system into question but also acts as an insult to the many who have actually earned the respect of their nation and been rewarded accordingly - farcical.

I shoot in some VERY public areas and the Land owners have a code of practice that includes informing the police and obtaining a URN before shooting - it's always a Civvy that answers the phone and they are always a good laugh - even at 4 in the morning.

Still in business - give them a call and they may be able to date the gun.

452? - most likely, as suggested, one of the claws dirty - really easy to remove and clean - you could, if you are uncertain, try spraying the bolt/ claw area with WD40 or similar and then using high pressure air from an Airgun tank to blow out any crud.

Bets are now being taken on how long it takes Daystate to bring out an Ostrich Commemorative (ltd ed) Model.

SOLD pending the usual.

Get the thread identified and buy one off the bay - they are so cheap that you could buy stainless or whatever you fancy for pennies - without seeing it my guess would be something like M4 or M5 - failing that I would think that any gunsmith would have one.

Often wondered if a "Weasel Ball" might work (Ebay about £3) - if you chose a light coloured one and sprayed the ball green/brown and used it on a relatively smooth surface i.e. freshly sown soil then it could just work?