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9 Carrion on Sunday. 1324

You would if you shot at my preferred clay ground. They prefer to keep costs sensible and rather than employ someone to go round picking up inconsiderately scattered carts, they require you to put them in the provided bins. Many of the S/A shooters carry a mag stick to make life easier. I do think an o/u is easier to use on the clay grounds but some guys need the soft recil the semi offers, fair enough, not for me though. I am still trying to fully get to grips with a S/A, don't shoot as well with it but not dragging my mint 525 through the fields and hedges.

By manually cycle I'm talking about pulling the bolt back and then pressing the button to release it (as if you'd just loaded). I can do this as many times as I like without disengaging the mag cut off, but as soon as its fired, the mag cut off disengages and if the mag is loaded, the next cartridge is cycled.

And there was me thinking I'd got it all wrong! Saw vey little flighting today and didn't fire a shot at pigeon. Fortunately I'd stuck some crow deeks on he edge of the pattern and they provided all the action, 6 carrions at least 4 more sitters missed, and no pigeons!

OK, tried mine today and it's as Edgar Bros said. It will manually cycle all day long with the cut off activated and it will remain cut off. Fire a shot and the cut off is released and the next cartidge cycled into the chamber.

I think thats exactly what will and should happen. It locks the mag when manual cycling but releases if fired.

I have a feeling it's the recoil that will be required to reset it, you're only cycling the bolt...we shall see.

How many do you want? I can probably get some and get them as far as Chichester for you?

I can see by your rolling eyed smilies that you feel the damage is acceptable. I bloody wouldn't! If they are boat/jetski trailers they are bound to be used in a marine environment, and if they don't have decent quality sealed bearings then they aren't fit for purpose as far as I'm concerened. My braked boat trailer has not had a new bearing or brake componenet yet although the wheels and hubs do get stripped and fully cleaned/protected at the end of each season. Similar with the jockey wheel, it's the original and still running freely. It's a Snipe trailer, thoroughly recommended.

I have a feeling mine resets you know. I think that I set it at the weekend when I had a light strike and took the cart out to inspect it. When I then reloaded and dropped the bolt, I'm almost certain it reloaded the next cartridge on firing but I hadn't unlocked the mag cut off. I've often used it on the marsh as a safety feature by dropping the one out of the chamber and closing the bolt, then releasing the mag, meaning a cycle of the bolt leaves me live again much faster than fumbling for a cartridge and loading. But it's unloaded until then so safe. I say again, I'll try it at the weekend. I want to try it now but suspect the neighbours will object!

22 last weekend in addition to the crows. 3762

Just trying to remeber if the recoil resets mine, will check at the wekend.

I have to say that I was truly disappointed that he didn't get the Duke sorted, the dream team was maybe just to good to be true. I'm not sure about Cal, I like the bloke but don't know if he's got that last 2%? That said, it's only a little bit of extra confidence that can lift you that final step!

I've been using a Hatsan 3" s/a for a seasons 'fowling and on the pigeons/crows since and it's just kept on going... So long as it's kept clean internally, mine's now fully stripped and cleaned every second trip out. I don't know how much maintenance other semi autos need, but I clean my guns regularly anyway and this is acceptable to me.

Was about to start typing, when this was posted ... Couldn't agree more!

Posted elsewhere, but I cannot find ANYTHING to disagree with in the following. It as I saw and still see it. Tonight I shall go and have a drink for Margaret Thatcher's death. I shall raise my glass to the night sky, and THANK HER, and celebrate her life. People on this seem to have a very strange view of history. So here are a few little nuggets with how and more specifically WHY a lot of industries were destroyed by her, and what's more, ...destroyed with the MANDATE OF THE BRITISH PEOPLE. The seventies were blighted by the trade unions waiting for winter and then coming out on strike at it's heart. Holding the country to ransom for ANNUAL pay rises of up to 36% ABOVE inflation. This was the likes of Scargill and co. And they bled us dry. We were bankrupted by them, then the Winter of Discontent happened. And they ALL came out. Miners, power workers, transport workers; even funeral directors, everything tied into the TGWU came out. My own grandparents lay on a slab for 2 months waiting to be buried. The entire country was a ruin. Rubbish not collected for months, rats everywhere. And the unions laughed, and brought down Callaghan's Labour Government. Thatcher stood up at the General Election and made ONE SIMPLE PROMISE. Elect me. And THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN. ELECT ME AND I WILL DESTROY THEM. She won by a landslide on that promise. She became the last elected Prime Minister to actually hold true to her election promise. She did exactly what she said. She utterly destroyed the unions. Obliterated them. The cost was those industries. We knew that would be the price. But we would not allow them to hold us to ransom again. What she did, she did with our BLESSING. The socialists and people who backed those strikes have only themselves to blame for what happened. Baroness Thatcher didn't destroy those industries and communities for fun or as part of a class war. She did it to stop them holding the country to ransom again. Then she held the purse strings tight and re-built the economy and the country and Britain again stood tall and thrived. We won back the global respect we had lost while the left wing ruled. In the Falklands we were thankful for her being in office. Those of us who went 'south' in '82 did so knowing we had a leader who would not, and did not, interfere. She sent the military and allowed us to do our job. Gave us the money, the equipment and most of all THE FREEDOM to get the job done. Our lands had been invaded. We had a gun up our nose. SHE led us. Frankly Thatcher took a very broken Britain by the hand like a strict old fashioned Matron and LED THE COUNTRY BACK TO WHERE IT HAD ONCE BEEN. We were the worlds 3rd major power in ALL respects. And as for the world, it has NEVER been safer than when Thatcher was in Downing Street, Reagan was in the White House and Gorbachev was in the Kremlin as the three spoke DAILY. They laid the ground for the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Russians were TERRIFIED of her. And the world again feared Britain. And lets not forget that she gave people the full right to buy their own council property. Her vision was that the TENANT and the tenant alone could buy that property. As soon as her party stabbed her in the back the feeding frenzy began as under her, the famous Tory grandee greed was held in check, led by the europro traitor ponce Heseltine, who didn't have the guts to face her openly and alone, they arranged her removal and we have been a broken patsy for Europe ever since. So yes, I will celebrate the life of Baroness Thatcher, with thanks, with respect, and her death with sadness, because she allowed me to know what we could be, what we could achieve, what it meant to be BRITISH

Where, on a few million dole cheats/benefit scroungers/professional layabouts or a.n.other blood sucker?

Don't know much about gravel boards, but I am great with an epee!

I used to live up top, on the old Guards barracks about 8 years ago when they first went up, nice part of the world...but I wouldn't go back now!

Using the 30g 6's on pigeon and crow, do the job when I point them in the right direction, took a couple of cracking high birds over the weekend cleanly! (Missed more than a couple more mind, but that's more a comment on my shooting!)

Predictable for the winner, but didn't have the next two right! Enjoyed that, some good racing, enjoyed Moto2 more as usual, will be looking forward to watching how much pressure Redding can apply!

Hi Rab and welcome. On the hill or in the valley?

11 more this morning... 1225

Equals, in my case, a view of nothing!!! Anyone else encountered and surmounted this problem. With the sun in front of me the net just turned into a well lit haze! There's 12 decoys, a floater and four dead crows on the periphery out there, as you can clearly see!

64 over the last three weeks... 1163