marmitemania

The help and generocity from everybody on here has overwhelmed me. Thanks for all your kind words and offers you are a rare kind of people. As said once I have conntacted the keeper to see if I can get back on I will let you all know. Once again I am genuinely lost for words at the responce and kindness off you. THANKYOU.

Thanks for all your replies chaps, as has been said there is some very noble people around and it restores your faith.

That is a very kind gesture bigman. I,m on the Bed, Cambs, Northants border at Raunds and that is where the farm is. I will have to speak to the keeper and the farmer to see if I can get on the land. It was beaters day and I didn't do any beating just a couple of walk throughs so I could retrace my steps on every drive. Thankyou and will be in touch if I can sort something out if you are close enough, would furnish you with beer tokens and petrol money..

Mark Maxus it was just like the knives you have posted just without the blood groove. I think they have gone up a little in price though.

I know where you are coming from but I do not have ready access to the land and farmyard/yards where I lost it, it was a beaters day and the farmer is very private and was not seeing eye to eye with the keeper at the time. I am going to contact the keeper to see if there is any possibility I can have a look, I have already searched the gateways and any land that I can have access to. Gutted is not even close to how I feel.

Does anybody know where I could get a new or secondhand Bowie knife from? I have tried fleabay and Amazon but I am looking for a certain knife. My mum and dad brought me a Sheffield Bowie knife which I think was J J Roberts it had "Bowie" with the makers name engraved on the blade and had a plain brass hilt with a rivited plain rosewood handle and the blade was around 8/9 inches in a Brown leather sheath. I know I lost it on my last shoot as it was in my leg pocket but I think it must have come out when climbing over a fence or getting in or out of the car. The reason I want one the same is because it had a lot of sentimental value as it was brand new from mum and Dad and I had it at 12 years old so have I have had it 25 years, one the same or very near would make the loss a little easier to swallow. Please help. Thanks in advance. Just an aside note I don't want a foreign made knife. Just had a rethink and I think it was J Nowill and son.....

This could have been so different if he had not shot at the van, we would be reading about the chaps mum being mown down in a robbery, maybe the wishy washy limp left minority want this, its about time things changed in this country and people face the consequences of their actions, if he had been shot it would have ben a hazard of his occupation. String all this scum up I say.

mmmm.... Let me have a think about the answer to this one (whilst looking at my profile)..... It forms an intrinsic part of my life I eat it every day, so yes I love the stuff but cant eat any of the generic supermarket stuff, can spot it a mile off in a sandwich.

He also apparently said to the policeman that he should know his place. I think this just shows his contempt and disdain for anyone who is not a overpaid out of touch chinless wonder like himself. I think he should know his place and realise that it is working for us in our best intrest but sadly they are out for themselves only. To partially quote Monty Python. "BURN HIM HE'S A WITCH"

I have to agree with the other posters if they catch the person who did this they to should be set on fire. I am a real beliver in an eye for an eye. You would just have to do it in a way so their death was protracted and painful.

It will be great I promise you. Im glad people are buying British made cars instead of going with the PERSIVED german quality which in my opnion (and I worked indirectly for VAG for nearly 4 years) is simply not all its cracked up to be.

One of the directors at the company I work for has a 2.7 Diesel XF its a fantastic car and has been exemplary in all aspects unlike the same priced and same aged Audi A6 3.0 tdi the other boss has, gerry built rubbish. Both cars were brought from new and really could not be more different you dont even notice the Audi as from the front it just looks like any other Audi but the Jag really has road precence.

Post up a picture or the serial number and someone may be able to help. I have a BSA Meteor and they are great little guns.

Do not take any risks with batteries I have seen one explode in someones face and it was not very nice, luckily there was an emegency eye wash very close to wash down the face and eyes. If they are bulging they sound like they have been overcharged and have probably boiled themselves dry. Put them back in the bin.

I Made mine and it didn't cost a single penny, one sheet of steel cut to about 6" square bolt an old wiper motor to said plate, weld a lenght of RE bar to each corner and bent it down' next I welded a nut to the end of a good lenght of RE bar and on the other end I welded a lenght of flat springy steel with again a very small lenght of RE bar on each end to mount a decoy to. the nut just screws onto the wiper motor spindle, a lenght of wire runs from the motor to a twelve volt car battery which was also free but is very heavy, has worked faultlessly (and draws the pigeons in) in the year since I made it and is very stable as the bars on each corner easily push deep into the soil. It also has two speeds although I have to select the speed at the motor itself. I should mention I work in a plant and van workshop for a construction company and thats how with permission I was able to obtain all the materials for free.