Alex C

Just caught the back end of this last year and was excellent value for money and a good laugh. Also worth a mention is i know Gt Smeaton didnt charge for youngsters last year, so any of you with kids will only need cough up for yourself.

Leave nothing unsaid. The only bit of advice i could ever give anyone who is involved in the worst waiting game ever. I didnt and will regret that until the end of my days. All the best mate and when he does finally cross over i hope its with dignity and in peace.

I just sold a 56 plate x type diesel estate with just over 50k on the clock. I paid 10.5k and got back 6.5k 9 months later. I hate to say it but second hand x types are worth next to nowt! I only took the kicking as it was the most spiteful pile of **** i have ever had the misfortune of owning. Good luck with the sale

Best of luck to all 3 of you. Alex

It always makes me laugh when i see the way a Landy Owner will always leap to the defence of his chosen machine. I think if you want a good all roung 4X4 which can tackle a 200 mile motorway run and get you up onto a grouse moor at the end of it, a Jap 4X4 is the weapon of choice. However if you only do local trips and short runs then a Landy will tackle the more extreme off road stuff with greater aplomb. Why do Landy owners continually have to tell me i am wrong with tales of cross continenet journeys in their trusty old 90 ? I know i COULD be done, but why would you want to? Your spine wont thank you for it !

I had about 10 lessons before i bought my own gun and started on my own. I went to a school in Bedale, Warren Gill, and was instructed by a lady called Ann. She was fantastic and i found myself much more able to listen and understand what she was trying to tell me. Maybe the lack of bravado actually helped me as when i had a lesson with a male instructor i seemed to shoot worse and listen less Maybe i am just pre programmed by years of marriage to listen to all women intently

Do it on a warm day or you will be there for ages. Then scrape at one corner and a good pull usually gets it off in one. Then a good wipe down with white spirit or nail varnish remover for the stubborn bits. Good luck

Sorry i assumed you were a young un The cheapest i found for my Shogun was the AA of all people. I tend to just get on the price comparison web sites and go from there Cheers

If you are under 21 the best advise would be to forget thinking about a proper 4x4. They will cost the earth to insure. You could try something like an older Panda 4x4 and try and build up some no claims? It aint going to be easy if you are young i'm afraid Good luck

Canis This was exactly the situation we were in. I have only been shooting a couple of years but the other mate i was with is ex career military and has done more game and clay shooting than i have had hot dinners. It is one of the only sports i have encountered so far where people seem to think they have the right to empart their worldly knowledge on you without an invite. Strange some folk.

I read a topic on here a few weeks back about people breathing down your neck whilst you are trying to shoot and just thought it was someone being over sensitive.I now know what he was on about ! On Sunday i had the misfortune of being followed by another party who had a chap with them who i have now classed as one of the most annoying people i have ever met. We were taking a friend round who has just completed his basic training in the Army and is home on a pass, as a treat we took him to do some clays at one of the posher places up here. He was made up, loves shooting clays but doesnt often get the opportunity. We had done a couple of stands and as he is a beginner with a shotgun we just wanted to get his stance right and get him comfortable with his mount etc. The aim was not to turn him into an A class shot in one morning, and as long as he was flinging lead down range he was happy (thats artillery for you i suppose) At this point the group following caught us up. We had our young squaddie in the cage blasing away merrily probably hitting 50%. He walks up and gets so close behind our friend that he actually stopped on a second bird thinking it was one of us trying to give him some pointers. He realised what had happened and carried on with another pair. This annoying old bu**er then starts dishing out the advise as to why he isnt hitting some, your behind, in front, swing through etc which we though a bit much. I turned to the guy and said '' He is just a beginner we are not looking for him to hit them all, just getting him comfortable'' '' o right'' says this bloke and backs out of the way. I then put down the buttons and turn to get my gun for my turn by which time this fella has leapt forward and occupied the cage. He figures out he has jumped the queue and backs away.He then practically spends the next 10 clays clinging to my back and blowing sweet nothings in my ear about how much lead etc to hit the clays. Now if this was a pretty young lady that would have been fine, however i draw the line at daft old coffin dodgers. This carried on for about the next 2 stands with all of us getting more and more annoyed.We knew something had to be done. We didnt want to be nasty to the guy, but we wanted some pay back for him spoiling our round up to that point. A plan was hatched, we stopped between stands and faked a choke change, the fact we used my mates fixed choke sbs for this didnt seem to figure with our new unwanted coach. We let them get ahead and into the stand first. We then rocked up behind him and started to play him at his own game. We formed a semi circle within inches of his shoulder everytime he shot. We sucked through our teeth every time he missed one, kept telling him he was behind even though he was so far in front he could have shot the next stands clays, we gave him tips and pointers and slowly watched his score disintergrate. My mate even started buttoning for him and faked flat batteries on the trap, waving the remote round and setting targets off at really unpredictable timings. The straw that eventually broke the camels back was us ******* ourselves laughing as he tried to hit the rabbit. He missed every one and on the last practcally waited until it stopped before shoooting it. '' That had bloody surrendered before you shot it'' says my friend, ''we should report you to the RSPCA for animal cruelty for that one'' all accompanied by howls of laughter. Our new mate then turns a nice shade of red and while only just keeping his lid on, stalks off to shoot some of the emptier stands letting us carry on unmolested. Hopefully he will think again before offering his unwanted service of coach to any other groups. We ended our day with some great shooting and having had one of the best laughs in ages, and sent our squaddie mate back to barracks with a decent score card and a funny tale to tell

Surely you could get vermin control added to a FAC for lowlifes like this. Someone will no doubt tell us its down to what an under priviledged upbringing the poor darlings have had. Chopping their nuts off with a rusty blade would be too good for them.

Dont bother. Dealer will charge a minimum of an hours labour. That can be between 30 and 60 squid. You would know if the clearances were wrong as it would sound very rattly from the top end. Save your money and put it towards a new set of brake pads or some other consumable Hope it goes and stay safe

There are a few places in the lakesaround Keswick way who will put any design you want onto slate. Wont be cheap though. Failing that try someone like Timpsons the cobblers. They can laser etch metal plaques so if you could give them a design they should be able to do it. Best of luck

They moved my wife and 2 toddlers on the other week. She had the nerve to get a flat tyre on a slip road. They very thoughtfully moved her along to a layby and then shot off for a donut break leaving them stood on the embankment freezing for 3 hours waiting for the RAC. Its not like there was a Kwik Fit 200yrds down the road that they could have escorted her to or anything. Thanks fellas, i can only hope that you get gangrene of the ball bag and your nuts fall off Apparently they cant change a tyre on a stranded womans car because of 'Elf n Safety'

What about an older landy on a classic policy with limited mileage. May be an option?

Mine is named after a Japanese sword that Ninjas use. Sorry but it doesnt get any better than that. Quite obviously mine is the best

It saddens me to think that lads not that much younger than me are laying down their lives for a conflict were history tells us is unwinable. Such a waste. RIP young man, my thoughts will be with you and those you left behind.

Hi chaps I bought a cheap fixed choke lincoln 12g o/u at Newark and just wondered how i would go about finding out which model it was and how old it may be, in case i needed to buy anything for it. Also its a fixed choke, how do i tell what its choked at? Cheers Alex

How would you stand if you just waltzed into the shop, picked another up off the shelf and dumped your knackered one and walked out with it? Would it be classed as theft if you left your details or would the police consider it a civil matter between you and the vendor and it would then be up to Halfords to chase you for the money? I would suggest a bit of research into the sale of goods act - knowledge is power Hope you get sorted

I have a mate who lives over there who shoots, i visited him and shot there in september. From what he told me there are 2 clubs. One of them is pretty new and seems the better equiped with sporting layouts, DTL etc. I believe they spent a fortune on this just before the Commonwealth games I shot at the smaller club which was right on the coast by a sewage works. Nice little club but set up for Skeet and Trap only. Ranks as one of the most friendly clubs i have ever shot at. Really nice bunch of guys. Hope you have a nice time as its a lovely island Alex

NOOOOO you dont tell him what ever you do....... You do however tell everyone else who you work with so they can all rip it out of him Its his own fault for being a dimwit !!

If your shooting clays and come a bit further south, there are a few of us who shoot around Darlington area. There is a clay shoot every sunday at down this way at either elton, Marne Barracks or Spennymoor. Obviously you will need to apply for a visa being that you hail from the frozen North Welcome Alex

I was loooking for a cheap rough shooting gun which to be fair i finally found in the end with a Lincoln. However the time it took to rake through the piles of rubbish, to find something which didnt look like it had been buried in someones back garden for 10 years, was unreal. Not worth the high entry price as most of the stuff was higher priced than a good search on the internet. Wont be going back

Being fairly new to shooting i still get that little giggly kid inside me laughing like a drain when i drive off road. Its like i shouldnt be doing it or something but knowing you wont get caught (If that makes sense). It usually comes to a grinding halt when 2 tonnes of Shogun nose dives up to the axles in s**te. All the older more sensible chaps then get out of their landrovers and look at me like i have just crappped on their living room carpets. I then set about my gearbox like an olympic rower, forwards backward repeat repeat clutch melting tyres smoking lots of noise and revving of engine. By pure fluke it usually extricates itself and i then turn to my audience with a smug look across my fizog only to be met by shaking heads muttered threats of then burning that pile of Jap **** next time i do it. Does it put me off? Does it ekkers like