bruno22rf

Checkering quality on the boxlock is not of a very high quality + having no makers name would suggest a mass made Birmingham gun such as were supplied to hundreds of gunshops who would then stamp their own name on it. Not worth a fraction of the Sidelock I would say and suggest around £500 when you can buy a nice English gun such as an Osbourne for the same money.

Pre 1910 I'm sure as the name became " CH Maleham" in 1910.

Rather than attempting to buy a compressor I think you would be wiser to buy a bigger tank.

keeper96....your Tweed or your Wife?

What would the point be, may I ask? My local dealer charges a fiver to fill a tank and he reckons that with the cost of buying the compressor and the maintenance he will never get his money back but cannot sell PCP's without one.

It must, to some extent, be down to an individual's scent as, in over 35 years of shooting, I cannot recall being bitten by anything - I have stood in a hide where my mate has been eaten alive by mozzies but me....nothing

I would go and use the local council office toilets - as far as I'm aware the council is duty bound to provide Toilet facilities on public health grounds and if you don't have any money then I would love to hear their reason for not allowing the use of their office loo.

B25Modelman-sounds like you may have a Homo sapien Domesticus in your house - short ,fat snarly beasts that normally hide in the kitchen - my kids call ours "The Tea and Cake Fairy" - leave a mail order catalogue on a dimly lit table and it should emerge within minutes.

By the time you walk out of a shop with your new Camera it's out of date so decent used examples are easy to come by. Loads will disagree but I would look for a used Canon/Nikon with no less than 12mp and a 70-210 zoom lens as well as the standard - many dealers sold such a package and some people bought far too much camera for their needs and thus sell them on shortly afterwards when they realise that they don't need a huge lens or backlight facility to snap Penelope in the paddling pool. One word of caution however - Photography can be addictive.

No competition - the AA is practically a factory built custom rifle with the inbuilt ability to make a complete mockery of your shooting skills - any attempt to blame this gun for a missed shot is pointless. Keep an eye on the website "news now" as I have seen nice one's up for £200 now and then - if you find one you should take a mask and a cosh cos you're stealing the thing - try one though cos they are fairly heavy.

£11k/ year will not get much of a mortgage - basic 3 beds down here are around £15k deposit alone. You could try the government schemes - there's 2 of them I believe - might be an option or maybe an interest only? How much is the property?

I bought a couple of boxes last week and spent most of Friday morning decoying - didn't see one pigeon so I'm guessing they are rubbish

Mine had a crudely fixed 3 shot mag, I used to have a laser pen taped to one side of the gun that I could operate with my thumb and a Maglite torch fitted underneath - we used to shoot on a farm where they fed stale Ice cream cones to the pigs and these were stored in cardboard boxes in a barn - we would wait about half an hour each time then enter the barn - laser on, torch on then barn lights on and we would often be greeted by the sight of 100+ Rats legging it pronto - some used to run towards us and we crushed them under our boots but several used to see the red of the laser pen and go to meet their maker - great fun. The farm was over run with them and on one memorable occasion they ate into, and emptied the tub, of 25kg of poison that had been delivered that afternoon.

The .410 is a far more powerful beast than the Flobert - the "dust" shot that they tend to be loaded with would struggle to drop a Dragonfly at 20 yards but you could always tip out the shot and replace it with a few no.7's - a tiny smear of silicone sealant always finished the job off nicely and ,thus loaded, the 9mm is far more capable of spoiling Roland's plans for the future. You could try subsonic .410's but I think that by the time you find a round that fails to turn you Farmers roof into a colander you might as well stick with what you have. I used to have a semi 9mm identical to Rimfireboy's picture (restricted to 3 shot) and they dramatically increase your firepower - but also your outlay on 9mm party poppers. Wabbitbosher gets them in from time to time so if you fancied one he would be the man to parle with.

I don't get it....you can only get so much sozzled before you fall over and I reckon a trip to Tesco for 3 bottles of Merrydown (£6) or a trip to good old Aldi for 3 bottles of their Knights Malvern Gold (£1.69 75cl) will have you daft as a box of cows .

Put the experience to the back of your mind - you have, most likely, identified the problem in the first couple of sentences of your post - you are rusty AND you were excited. If, God forbid, you find yourself in a similar situation again, put the gun away and spot for your buddy for at least half an hour whilst watching the birds and their approach to the decoys - you know where to shoot and when to pull the trigger so no problems right? When you get the gun back in your hands concentrate on ONE bird and nothing else if a group approaches and take your time and turn in shooting - most of all you need to remember that if you shoot a complete slab of shells and connect with nothing then it simply doesn't matter - you are out doing what you enjoy and the birds will simply get shot another day

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.