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Anyone know of a good quality floater pole, not one with nylon lock nuts (which are useless), preferably one with metal collars and metal thumb screws? FT.

This gun is now sold!

I hate steel shot. We used on the shoot i belong to, about five or six years ago, we had so many wounded ducks it was not funny! We had to spend many a sunday wandering around shooting flappers. The next year we did a deal as a syndicate and bought Hevi-shot with all our game cartridges, so getting a much better price. Job sorted! They work really well. Ft

Mauser M03 Extreme magazine, .243, 7-08, .308 Unused/As New I bought this as a spare for my M03 .308 and have never used it. In the importers 2010 catalogue they are marked as £149.00. I would like £110 for this inclusive of recorded/insured delivery. ft

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Land Rover (Gaydon) 1hr tasting session. Folks, Here is an unwanted gift, a 1 hour taster session with Land Rover at Gaydon on Warwickshire. Chpoce of vehicle. Defender (manual), Discovery 4 (Auto), Range Rover (Auto), Range Roaver Sport (Auto). Cost £75. Open to offers, or to swap for a stalk. This can be used as money towards a longer session by buying more vouchers. Simon

Lee, too late and too little I am afraid. Provionally sold for the asking price. Simon

For sale; Harkila Nordkapp Merino Wool Base Layers Quarter zip top which fits 52"-54" chest and bottoms which fit 42"-44" waist. These are top quality items which I have worn for a maximum of 2.5 hours. unfortunately I discovered that I cannot wear wool next to my skin. So I have washed them in Tek-Wash and they are as new, but without labels. They would cost you £110 delivered off the web, but you can but these for £60 delivered. Which has to be a bargain. Electronic money transfer prefferred.

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mbpj, many thanks for the prompt delivery and wonderful condition of the guitar and amp. You never mentioned the cover or strap that you sent, you are a gent! Many thanks, ft

SOLDCased five year old Beretta Siver pigeon III 12g, with really nice oil finished wood, 28" multichoke barrels, all Beretta chokes + 2 Carlesen chokes. The last image shows the only damage to the blacking. The gun is used but in very good condition, and well looked after. £1150 OVNO ft

It would be eay to say .308, or 30-06, .270, 6.5x55, .243 et al. But there is a case for the 7mm-08 being the ideal allround deer rifle calibre. If you were to produce and table of burn efficiency and power to weight ratio's the 7mm-08 would be very near the top. But a sensibly downloaded 30-06 will take muntjac with little damage and the .243 loaded to it's extreme will deal with heavy red stags. On saying that I fundamentally have a problem with the premise of the thread!! I want more rifles not less And so i have settled for a 6.5x55 and a 7x64 as my centrefire calibres of choice. ft

If you find a book called "Shotguns and Cartridges" by Gough Thomas Garwood, you will find drawings and explanations. There appears to be a difference between "easy opening and "self opening". I quote, "The definition rests on whether, when both barrels have been discharged, the force of the mainspring (as in Purdy) or of some auxilliary spring (Holland & Holland) is freely available for throwing open the gun, and whether it is adequate for that purpose. Some guns such as the Westley Richards "Connaught" or the Churchill "Hercules" which like several others use the Smith action which are best descrided as easy openers" The springs in "easy openers" like the Churchill do not act when the gun is fired, unlike the Holland and Holland which has a continuous auxilliery spring action because of a spring fitted in the fore-end which acts on the knuckle of the action. While the Purdy, Boss and other best guns use the "Beesley" principle, both limbs of the mainspring act to throw the action open at all times, but only can when the top lever is used. ft

From the other side of this, the wife snores for England, i use hypo-allergenic foam ear plugs. ft

Gorilla glue. If you have a split seam, place gaffer tape on inside of split, then apply glue to outside. ft

Just found this for you, if you can find a legal one; http://basc.dotadmin.com/media/transhipment_of_firearms.pdf ft

I keep a diary and write up memorable shoots, stalks and fishing trips. I should have kept a better one though. I have destroyed three injured deer this last year and applied for humane slaughter to be included on my FAC when i sent in my FAC for a variation. If I had taken photo's and done a write up at the time it would have saved me chasing round after folks for a letter to verify my application. ft

This site has some interesting takes on rifle actions; http://www.chuckhawks.com/finest_bolt_actions.htm It is interesting that the famous Remington does not get a mention but the Weatherby/Howa does. ft

Band reunions should be fun, does the drummer not own a shooting estate in Cornwall? ft

I found squirrels and rats like peanut butter. I used it last year in my tunnel traps to great effect. Never tried it with honey though. I am trying deer salt licks for the first time this year, i have one young roe buck who uses one as a fraying stock, the little blighter. unfortunately he is a nice one i am leaving for the future. I have two permissions where I leave the foxes, because I was asked to leave them to control the rabbits. So I do! Let us know if you find something the munties like! ft

I hate steel shot, with a passion! I use hevishot, damned expensive but very effective. ft

HDVA, as I posted before I know of people paying between £1.00 to £3.50 per acre in this area, another poster put £4.00 as his top price. It all depends on what it's worth to you. But with ponds, you get duck flighting in September, Oct, Nov, Dec, Jan. Woodland gives you pheasant drives Nov, Dec, Jan and hopefully deer! If you get some cover crops too you will have sport nearly all year round. Atb, ft

HDAV, I hope it works out for you it sounds ideal with the woodland and ponds ft

Bob, it's easy to speak ill of the dead. It's also easy to look down on a small amount of shooting when you shoot over "thousands of acres". It all depends on what the lad wants. If he has no shooting it might be worth it to him, but not to you. ft

Bob, Archie Coats did a twice a year driven shoot on 10 acres, even published a book on it. Not surprisingly it's called "The Ten Acre Shoot". It all depends on what you get, are there ponds or flood medows? Does the price include cover crops in stategic places? Somwhere between £1.00/acre and £3.50/acre is what I know of being paid round here. Anything more than that and it would need something special to make it worth more. I know of some lakes round here that I would cheerfully pay £7.50 acre for. Atb, ft