Graham M

Passports.......HAH!!!! When I applied for my first passport I had to go into Birmingham to be interviewed by a gubmint dept to prove that I was born here. The girls on the door into the building were all young Indian girls. I then had to go to the lift to the first floor and the man at the lift entrance was an older Pakistani man. The man who met me at the way to the interview rooms was a mature Sikh. I then went into the interview room and was questioned about where I was born in Birmingham ..............by a Malaysian woman. I was born in this city and I had to prove it to a bunch of foreigners.....................................What the....

When they "Lost" my FAC and then sent the empty envelope onto Staff's police (who signed for an empty envelope), I immediately emailed them to enquire as to how the hell my FAC had been removed from the envelope and then the empty envelope had been sent on. The muppet on the other end wanted to know if I had insured it, which of course it should have been as it had to be signed for at the other end. After a dozen or so emails either way I finally received one telling me that I was not entitled to compensation because I had not taken a photo of the letter before posting it. Never hear such BS in all my life. No further emails were answered.

Unfortunately I was one of the very first to register with Mr Andover's site and my details were there for years. When they were hacked I immediately removed them but not quick enough. I went onto a site that tells you if you have had your details hacked along with many others, and yes my details had been hacked, and ever since, for the first time since owning a PC, I have been inundated with spam mail. Buy from the site, but be very careful about registering your details with them because all they did when they discovered that their site had been compromised was to go into liquidation (due to the numbers of people wanting to sue) and then immediately (almost) open up a new site with the name slightly altered. This was done to prevent having to pay compensation. He may be a Viscount, but Andover acted like nothing less than a dodgy building firm who makes a botch of a load of building jobs and then closes down and goes into liquidation. If I want to buy anything from GT I'll find out the phone number of the seller a call them. https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/29/guntrader_liquidators_order/

Does the bar have the bushings inside for the powder and the shot. If so you must check that they are correct for 12g - 1oz shot and for whatever powder you are using. Do you have any reloading data for the Redding press.?? Do you have the crown?? I have finished the die so if you send me your address I will post it off to you.

You will need all the bits you see on the reloading press. Going from the right as you look at it, you need a re-sizing die, a de-priming die, I will send you the die for priming, but you want the die above it with the tool for spreading the case mouth prior to loading powder wads etc and then the shot. You then move around to the crimp starter and then finally the die for seating everything which is the one at the very far rear with the spring on it. You really need to find someone who already loads who can guide you through everything because you need to find out what size the powder measure is in the loading bar as well as the shot charge bar.

Richard, I have bored out the die but just need to profile the base so that the cartridge rim fits properly. Don't know why it's come out upside down, but you get the drift.

OK I've saved it so if I were you I would remove it now.

Sorry no. If I did I would probably keep them as 410 is going to be a problem soon enough. Let me see what I can do, but it will be a while as my good lady is quite disabled and I don't get much free time these days.

Sorry Richard but all the dies you see were for the Redding and a couple of other presses. I do have a spare 20g (I think) which I will gladly send you free of charge if it will help you. It's the one at the rear If I can sort things out I will see if it's possible to chuck this in the lathe and centre-bore it out to 12g

No!. He cancelled everything before he left; direct debits, standing orders the lot, but for some reason they kept on paying this CPP, which must have been a standing order. He even told the bank manager that he was emigrating but wanted to leave something in his bank for when he came over to visit. He left over £200 in the account but over the last 8 years that was all paid out to this CPP. We have tried to use their "Chat" which is as much use a a chocolate fireguard, and the free phone is only available in the UK, so calling from the USA is prohibitively expensive. Trying to get answers is like pulling teeth.

Banks HA!!!!! Four years ago Barclays closed down two local banks in order to open a new one on a newly built shopping centre. A couple of weeks ago I received a letter from them telling me that they are now closing down the new one and that the nearest branch will be in Birmingham city centre. My son emigrated to The States eight years ago and during that time Barclays has been taking money out of his UK account to pay for a CPP. In March 2023 it went overdrawn and for the last nine months has been accumulating interest on the overdraft of around £1.50 a month, which left him £74.44 in debt. He then received a letter (which I opened) telling him to pay up or else (almost). I have spent the last three weeks trying to close this account down. I have spoken to the card protection people and they have confirmed that the payments should have been stopped because he isn't covered anyway because he isn't in the UK. He has tried closing his account on his online banking ..... (can't do it). He has even phoned up from America and was put on hold for twenty minutes, but in the end hung up because of the cost of the call. I was able to find out about the CPP and get his details (I pretended to be him) and my son was then able to send them an email closing everything down at their end. (he may be entitled to a refund) So if my son needs to speak to someone about closing his account when he comes over in May, he now has to travel into Brum go into a Bank he has never used before and try to convince some faceless muppet to close his bloody account and to stop paying something he cancelled eight years ago.

Took my ticket into Hindlip hall for a variation some 35 years ago, when I was under West Mercia. Saw Inspector Tolley and he did it there and then for me in less than half an hour. Used to call in at Lloyd house now and then and Cathy Warren was the girl to see if you needed anything done at West Mid's. I now hear that some police firearms licencing dept's won't even see you if you call in. What ever happened to the old helpful firearms dept's

Just had this vision of you opening the door from the inside just as someone was coming up the stairs with a load of stuff in their arms. Just out of curiosity........why didn't you hang it opening inwards???

So let me be clear on this ....BASC "Remains committed to the voluntary move away from lead", but didn't volunteer to move away from lead. I now give up and won't be posting on this subject any more. It's like an excerpt from Alice in Wonderland.