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Have a good festive holiday and keep up the training, little and often as a play game. Also research from the military working dog programmed has shown that skills retention in canine is averaged at 26 days before repetitive refresher training is required to sharpen them up again, so don't be afraid of taking a break from training specifics if you feel your dog is losing interest, as always though basic obedience needs to daily until your dog understands how the game works, once this happens you can let him be a little more 'lead' as the saying goes.

Let the dog be a puppy, it's no fun if it's all whistles and commands all the time. Never start training as the very first thing in the morning, all the dog wants to do is check out his patch, mark his scent etc after being in all night. Let your dog run around etc, just keep an eye on him and if you sense he may be about to make a big break for it, get ready to call him back. Let that morning madness go first, then play with your dog in a way that you can incorporate training, hide and seek is great for recall, it gets pretty boring for your dog if he can see you all the time. My nephews dog lab was exactly the same at that age, so don't worry, it's now 14 months old and has done the odd day of picking up very successfully. Try to stick to one lesson per day, repeated in a series of 3 repetitions a time until you notice the very first bit of body language or eye expression that indicates boredom or confusion and then stop immediately and go back to one task that you know your dog can complete correctly so that you can reward him and finish positively. Always try your best to give positive reinforcement; no reward or punishment for incorrect behavior, only positive reward for the correct behavior, this makes training easier for you, unless you understand complex reinforcement system training in canine behavior and learning. Don't Rush as you will make things harder for you in the end. Training animals is very very easy, it's just very repetitive and sometimes boring. I train specialist dogs for a living, from cadaver to drugs, ( in past have trained gun, attack, protect,security and search) It starts with obedience training regardless of the dogs final training, the lesson plans are simple, it's just they can be so mundane to follow for humans!! Enjoy spending time with your dog and it will work for you both. (Just one final thought, why do you tell your dog 'No' when it encounters other dogs on leash? Dogs are far more sociable animals than we are, most humans are not that warm and sociable when meeting other strange humans, dogs are not like that at all, by stopping a natural behavior with a ,no, command you are subtley modifying your dogs behavior towards protection of you. How? Because if your dog ignores your ,no, command I bet any money you reinforce it with a pull back on his lead, now whenever another dog and human approaches , and your dog is out in the front on its lead, and you tell it ,no, and pull it back, it will start to think that there is something ahead that you are afraid of, so the dog will start to do its best to protect you... Before you know it you have a dog that starts showing dog to dog aggression and barks at oncoming dogs and their owners. Just a thought for you to hold on to....) .

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Just use the gun, it will loosen up, generally you shouldnt oil a bolt, the only place that needs a very small thin smear of grease is on the back of the bolt locking lugs, the grease should be high pressure grease, axle grease is good, oil is very very bad and will see you have premature bolt wear. Bolts are expensive to replace.

Really sorry lads n lasses im in Bangor North Wales. Can send to your RFD at cost or face to face.

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Hi All, I have for sale a brand new 232 bar 12.2lt dive tank, its in test until August 2015. Its a Faber Steel tank and was going to be used for diving, however the missus didnt like diving so its surplus to requirements. It does not come with a guage or hoses - BUT it does have fitments for either A clamp or DIN fitting guages which you can get for around £40. Tank new cost £180 from divers warehouse. Yours for £110 ono collected, Im not far from Bangor, North Wales.

Nice one, the freezer is getting a bit full now and always after different ways to cook em, had rabbit satay planned for tomorrow but Im going to try your rabbit pasta dish instead

Hi, Mine was very accurate with H&N FTT .22 15.1gr.

I would be checking the scope mounts to the dovetail, also if you have had the scope out of its mounts I would doublecheck that the scope is sat in the mounts correctly. Then optically re-centre the cross hirs as you did before:ie find the mid point in the adjustment. Set a target up at 5 - 6 metres and test fire again. You didnt remove the barrel did you??