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Phew. Reading all this, I must have been having a really vivid wild dream, when I ordered 20 brass 8 bore cases from Rocky Mountain Cartridge Company. I must have imagined that they suggested to me, they should ship them to a friend of mine in Washington, who in turn posted them to me. I wonder where the cases that I am using came from, and who got the money that came off my debit card?

At what concentrations is it toxic? If a pregnant Ewe goes down. The first thing we do is whack it with a copper injection. They're back on their feet in minutes?

It's been suggested I try Hodgdons Lil' Gun as a replacement for Alliant Steel? Has anyone ever tried it, or got any info? I am loading a 46 gram steel load with Alliant Steel. I've shook the tin, and had a look through the neck, I've got my fingers crossed it'll last me the rest of the season.

Can ssb 150 directly replace Alliant Steel, or are we back to developing a load again. Then doing the same when ssb 150 runs out?

I must offer my apologies. I must be mistaken. Your history lesson is indeed enlightening. In the world that I and many others live in. Other than getting Woodcock and Snipe removed from the specific species list, BASC did little to fight the restrictions on lead shot in England. It was Natural England that proposed placing Mallard and Greylag on the general licence. BASC Council supported the proposal wholeheartedly. If you remember, that's why individual Wildfowlers had to make their own representations to Natural England to oppose their proposal. It would have been nice if our shooting organisation had done it for us. If BASC had been more supportive of it's 'Keeper members, there would have been no clash of personalities or massive ego's. BASC has indeed got a respected Gamekeeping section. But the NGO is a respected organisation in itself.

I don't know how SACS came about. But the NGO was originally formed by 'Keepers who felt that they were getting very poor, or no support at all from BASC. So they split and formed their own organisation, which represents their profession far better than BASC has the will to do. After the threat to two species of our staple quarry, which BASC supported. The present anomalies in the UK's laws regarding use of lead shot, as well as the impending threat to it's continuation, and now the questionable composition of BASC's Council. Isn't it time that Wildfowlers split from BASC, as the Gamekeepers did. I would think there is as many, if not more, 'Fowler's than 'Keeper's to support a successful organisation .

A really enjoyable read. Thank you. One sentence hit me immediately. "On the plus side many of the marshes are under HLS with Natural England insisting they must be wetter than in the past." I live and work in an area of Heather Moorland, which has been designated SSSI, and overun by the spotty young runts from Natural england. They are insisting that they can make sloping hillsides hold water. Why? I don't know. A sponge can only hold so much water, then it will run out whatever you do. To hold this water back, they are blocking up all the grips, (Dykes). But not only the ones dug within the last hundred years of driven game shooting, but the natural grips that have existed for thousands of years. In efect, they are trying to create an environment that has never existed. In doing so, they are likely to destroy a unique upland ecosystem.

Glad you enjoyed it RoyBoy. Not so much Cockerham, but some of MBWA's marshes are greatly effected by rain, and not necessarily on the marsh. If there has been a lot of rain miles away in the dales, and the Lune and Wyre are in flood, you can be in big trouble when the flood meets the tide.

Chamber length please?

Thank you David. I wasn't in when Pat tried to deliver it. Picked it up from the sorting office this morning.

P.M on it's way

Thanks for that. I have a Fredk Williams 3inch magnum boxlock N/E, I am wondering if I want a B.P. hammergun to go with it?

A question regarding the Fred Williams, please. Is it 'Fred Williams' or is the makers name written Fredk Williams

Chamber length please?

I have a Miroku of this specification. I bought it new in 1979. It is a 3800s. The 3800 had an action with only a small panel of engraving. (I have a Trap Gun of this model). The 3800s is as described. The 3800sw had more elaborate engraving still, and a rib as wide as the barrell. Pre 1977 the models No's were 800, 800s and 800sw the actions were a totaly different shape to the one in the photograph, and the engraving was different.