Wharf Rat

PM me your address. I am on my hols in Northumbria in a week or so, and shoot a 28 bore. We could do a deal. Cheers Jim.

If you know the range,it doesn't matter what calibre you use. Get yourself a rangefinder and away you go. You will need a very busy reticle to get the best from one though. Pittaway uses a Hawke with half mildot I think.

Meteor. Cheap 2nd hand, easy to tune, easy to shoot. The older Mk 1 & 2s have true .22 barrels though. If it has conventional scope rails buy it, as it is Mk 3 onwards. Brilliant ergonomics, light, tough and simple to use with no pump/tank. I bought the lad for one his 10th, he is soon 12, and he has now got a collection from Mk 1 to 5 (the original designs). He has learnt to shoot them inside out. When the weather was poor we spent a fair few hours tuning them and experimenting with piston weights, spring pre-load etc. They can be a really good grounding in riflemanship. A PCP spoils kids for centre fires and allows poor technique I think.

I do 95% of my shooting with a synthetic stocked pump. Always use it for clays and no one has batted an eyelid in years. Stop worrying about it, and go for a 2nd hand Mossberg, US built Winchester or Remington. Same cost as the Revo, but tried and tested guns.

The majority of so called 'fraud' is accounted for by people not informing DWP that they have been overpaid. Given the complexity of the system, most people simply do not realise that they are being overpaid until they are reassessed. As for 'foreign' aid; only 15% of the foreign aid budget makes it foreign governments. Despite officially ending tied aid in 2001, 20 to 30% is tied aid i.e. money that must be spent by aid recipient countries on UK goods. Aid provided by is often paid as part of trade deals to open up protected third world markets to UK businesses. If you think that we send 'aid' to benefit the third world, take a look at the declining profits and market share of Asian and African farmers, and the increase in UK land ownership in the third world by UK firms for example. Half a billion gets spent on UK aid consultants by the DfID alone. Who's winning DfID's major contracts? - The top 15 Click heading to sort table. Download the full data. Note: These are the top 15 contracts and procurement agreements published by DfID since January 2011**

Germany.

Size please?

Sent you PM.

State of my finances, I may have to bring a can of Vimto and a load of straws lol.

I am in for a long rage day. I dropped a fried egg sandwich on the best hall rug on Tuesday and I am still fuming about it like a grumpy old ****** four days later. Long rage is my best discipline.

Cracking day! Toughest course for at least four or five years. My favourite HFT event of the whole calendar. If you really want to test your shooting; or to show your mates how you can shoot unsupported out to 60 yards plus, this is your opportunity to show everyone how it's done. Thanks to all involved for the great food, great course, and great atmosphere.

HW95s start at £217 online: http://www.versandhaus-schneider.de/index.php/cPath/40_1678_942_944_950_2041 Specify export spring.

Guns sent Parcelforce are limited to standard £100 cover in the event of being lost in the post. Arms and Ammunition - low powered air weapons Low-powered air weapons (air rifles, air guns and air pistols), together with lead pellets and other airgun and airsoft projectiles, can be sent but are subject to the following conditions: These items must be sent on an express48 service only These items must be sent via the Post Office only Enhanced compensation cover is not available http://www.parcelforce.com/help-and-advice/sending/prohibitions-and-restrictions You would better sending via your local RFD, who can send it insured by TNT. Or... have a look on Youtube for HW77/HW97K strip and service. If you must shell out £70, get a V-Mach/Vortek/Welsh Willy service kit. A service would just be a lube change along with, perhaps the spring, any seals that are damaged.

Funnily enough drowning animals is actually illegal. Political correctness gone mad. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/man-fined-for-drowning-squirrel-2030149.html

Laying contorted in frozen mud and snow, shooting at partially obscured targets nearly 70 yards away with a 12 ft-lb rifle whilst assorted acquaintances both new and old mutually take the mick. Having to shoot at tiny kill zones, squatting in order to line up with a hole drilled through a tree. Elevated targets at six yards. Wouldn't miss it for the world.

I've yet to put it through a chrono, but a damn sight more than the it was. The seals were all shot, the trigger spring was in back to front, it had about 1/4 lb of grease around a way over powerful spring with sharp ends... The 3 in 1 is used with the wet and dry for polishing. It is all removed with the meths. Only lithium based grease is used to actually lubricate the assembled rifle.

The Remmy magtube is not listed as a separate item, it is part of the receiver/action. Unlike the Mossy 500 that is simply a threaded tube, the 870's is fixed (I think soldered?) The crimp can be drifted and reamed out but metal is removed and the tube is, as you say, weakened. If you look back, this has been covered before I think.

A standard German spring is 6 ft-lb. A US, Dutch or (I think) Danish spring would be the full monty. An uncut Titan XS would give you over 12 ft-lbs and be more available. Blackpool Air Rifles do full power tune kits I seem to remember. Don't fit an Ox spring, as it's square section can cause damage. Even if you bought a new HW80, it would benefit from a strip, clean and regrease. Polishing the piston, the spring ends and fitting a sleeve guide takes a couple of hours and costs peanuts (half a dozen bits of wet and dry and some autosol, plus some 3 in 1 and some CV grease) to really improve smoothness, lock-time and consistency. I resurrected a butchered Meteor last weekend. Couple of hours with meths, 180 to 1000 grade wet and dry, some 3 in 1, a pea sized amount of CV grease, plus cylinder hone and a service kit got the old girl shooting lovely. The next old springer I do up, I will do a before and after vid, although there are dozens on Youtube to look at. It is really very easy. If you can tie your own laces you can tune a springer, people just like to make it sound complicated!

From Corbyn's 16/11/15 NEC report: "As we have seen in the recent past, there are clear dangers to us all in any kind of shoot to kill policy,” “And we must ensure that terrorist attacks are not used to undermine the very freedoms and legal protections we are determined to defend." "But of course I support the use of whatever proportionate and strictly necessary force is required to save life in response to attacks of the kind we saw in Paris".

HW80s are designed to run at way more than UK power limits. Out of the box a US spec 80 puts out around 17 - 19 ft-lb. Why run such a heavy gun, designed for FAC power levels, at 12 ft-lb? The hold sensitivity of springers can depend more on the quality of the tune than the power output in my experience. I would be tempted to go the HW route and play around with the spring length, pre-load and internal surface preparation and lubrication. You could easily end up with a fairly tame, powerful, fuss free classic airgun with a really useful range.

What air rifle... 97K .177. I have won HFT medals, travelled far and wide and hunted my most successful lamping trip with the 97. It is pellet on pellet out to 36 yards measured IF all the screws are kept tight. BSA Scorpion .22 FAC. It's like a fridge. How many sleepless nights has your fridge given you? Plug it in and use it. Boringly accurate, boringly reliable, a lighter more ethical choice over the hold sensitive HW with fewer odd/pulled shots and in FAC the same trajectory. CZ 634. Easy to load, very light, full 11.7 ft-lbs and eminently tunable. Hold sensitive as a virgin, but very satisfying to shoot accurately and what I dreamt of owning throughout an impoverished childhood. The last one I would ever sell, and for very little rational reason at all.

Amen to that...

Seriously, I give up: Pests Act 1954 Control of rabbits: Information for occupiers of land 1. Responsibilities of occupiers to control rabbits Under Section 1 of the Pests Act 1954, the whole of England, apart from the City of London and Isles of Scilly, has been declared a rabbit clearance. Mike, ask for some advice from BASC or the CA. Internet forums are for ill-informed arguments and not much else.

Your claim that the law has changed was wrong. The obligation to control rabbits remains. Unless there is no safe method for their control the fact that this is a garden has no bearing. If the tenant is unhappy from a safety point of view they can have a competent person undertake a risk assessment and/or feasibility study. If the owner offers Mike money he has a consideration. He becomes an agent and can give 24 hours notice and insist on access if the landlord has the rights to carry out the works.

No, sorry but you are quite wrong. Pests Act 1954 Control of rabbits: Information for occupiers of land Responsibilities of occupiers to control rabbits Under Section 1 of the Pests Act 1954, the whole of England, apart from the City of London and Isles of Scilly, has been declared a rabbit clearance area. Under Section 1(2) of the 1954 Act, all occupiers of land in a rabbit clearance area have a continuing obligation to kill or take any wild rabbits living on, or resorting to, their land, unless they can establish that it is not reasonably practicable to do so. If it is not practicable to destroy the rabbits, occupiers have an obligation to prevent the rabbits from causing damage elsewhere by, for example, fencing them in with rabbit-proof fencing. The obligation to control rabbits is irrespective of the use being made of the occupier’s land or that of their neighbours. Whole document available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/349504/control_of_rabbits_guidance.pdf As an aside, NickP is the landlords agent, but a consideration should be included in any agreement between them, i.e. cash. You are his or her agent if you are paid one pence or above.