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Years ago, the travelling fraternity used make them out of cocoa tins.

I have always been told to spend money on a quality scope rather than an expensive rifle, on the grounds that any weapon is more accurate than the user anyway. Having said that, the best group I have ever shot with my SSG .308 (seven keyholed shots at 200 yrds) was with a scope that cost just £12.00. The scope was a 3-9 x 40 'Hunter'. Lord only knows who made them. Admittedly, the 180 grn bullets must have suited the barrel and I don't use them much, but I have never done as well since putting an 8 x 56 Schmitt and Bender on the same rifle.

I've said this elsewhere BUT! A neighbour of mine used to do a lot of mobile engine tuning and used a mobile phone a lot. He suddenly started to feel ill and visited the doctor. The symptoms were sudden fits of dizziness and sickness. The doctor asked him what operation he had had on the back of his neck, where he had found some scar tissue. The chap had never been in a hospital in his life, he is a Jehovah's Witness and they don't have blood put into them, apparently. Investigation found that he had a mobile phone unit on a shelf just behind his van's drivers seat at head level. The scar tissue was radiation burns. Further hospital tests revealed that a lot of the binary bits in parts of his brain were being reversed. I am not sure if it was permanently reversed or intermittant. IT GETS WORSE!!! Last Autumn he had a stroke and two weeks later he had three heart attacks. He is in his early 40s. I will not have a mobile phone, but then: I will not have gay sex. I will not get in an aeroplane. I refuse to have a passport that has any mention of Europe on it. Am I paranoid???

I've been in contact with Riverswest.com, but they seem to be updating their website. No news on prices or UK agents!!! The Dakota Waterfowler coat is no longer listed. P.S. Just had an Email from them to say they have 2 old stock Dakotas at $199.00, but they do not have a UK 'office'.

Just been trying out the Gen 3 night vision goggles. Truly amazing!!! One battery about 3/4 of an inch long. Don't know how long it will last. Just got to get something to clip them to now.

I see the rooks have started nest building!! We're having a 'blackthorn winter' at the moment, though.

I don't think pigeons use them, so you're allright. There are some radios that don't need a PMR (Private Moblie Radio) license, with ranges suitable for most situations, now available. CB handsets tend to by a bit heavy on batteries.

I would put running up stairs and steep banks, jumping over fences and into pickup trucks alongside these as causes of HD. If you want to take out a puppy, then lift it into the vehicle. I've never had that problem. Always had a few acres outside the back door though. One flatcoat breeder that I know, had never bred an HD dog in her life when suddenly she had two complaints about dogs from the same litter. She went to see how and where they were being kept. One was living high up in a block of flats, going up and down the stairs every day. The other was on one of the Channel Islands and running up and down cliffs all the time. One friend of mine starts gun training by discharging an air pistol, with no pellet, close to the puppy as it is eating it's meal.

There used to be some soft rubber decoys that squashed up to almost nothing. I think they were called David Home-Gall decoys. Is there anything similar available today? I've been making do with about 20 shells and a few whole hard plastics, for lofting, for years.

Gamekeeper don't seem to be able to do without them on shoot days. No more "Fire a shot when they're all on your pegs."

ABU Egon. 2 of us had 27 bass averaging 7lb in 1 1/4 hrs in the Portland Race one afternoon in 1976.

Yes, he rented it for a while, but I don't know if he still does. I know a lot of the people who he had on the programmes. The old shool-teacher with the prawn pots at Ringstead, his wife was a teacher at the school I went to. He taught in the primary school just up the road. He went beating on a shoot next to Mapperton Manor where I used to go beating. Dawn Warr, who did some rabbit lamping on one programme, used to be keeper at Evershot where I still go beating. Royston Mowlem, who boat he went mackerel fishing in, shares some common ancestry with me, I think. I hope you noticed the proper way to cook mackerel, boiled in a bucket of sea water! That part of the programme was filmed on Chesil Beach almost opposite Moonfleet Manor Hotel. http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?clie...=500&height=310 My dad could remember when there were 10 fishing crews at Abbotsbury alone, during the summer months. My grandfather's brothers-in-law went off to earn some money in the Australian gold rush, so that they could afford to buy a seine boat. They came back with all their savings in belts around their waists and bought one. There are not many 'Lerrets' left now. There are only about 3 crews left on the whole length of the beach now, all part-timers. OOOPS!! Just read the forgoing posts!

Evershot?

I remember a cattle dealer telling me once that "A returning customer is the best advertisement". I'm sure that I read once, probably in Archie Coates's original book, that it is allways best to take enough cartridges for a bumper day, JUST IN CASE! Even if you have access to regular shooting, it is allways nice to see someone else's country. There are roving syndicates of pheasant shooters who travel all over the place for this reason. These chaps are paying around £30.00 a bird to shoot pheasants. Our wildfowling club members pay BASC over £4.00 a bird for every duck they shoot on the foreshore. Why complain about paying £1.50 (on a bad day) a bird for shooting pigeons without having to plan anything other, perhaps, than a day off work.

I try to post a few reports here: http://www.anglingforums.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=189 http://www.anglingforums.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=833 http://www.anglingforums.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=832 but they are usually a few weeks old.

West Dorset, behind Chesil Beach.

For the sake of it's hips, you don't want to take it out of the garden till it's 6 months old.

You are thinking of ROOKS, I suspect. Young rooks from the nest are supposed to by good eating.

Hitting something is the first priority. From what I remember a rifle raised to 33 degrees produces the maximum range at which the bullet will fall back to the level you fire from. This page http://www.chuckhawks.com/rifle_trajectory_table.htm will help!

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So is Philip Beasley somebody else, or perhaps a relation?

Bath and West showground at Shepton Mallet this weekend, I think. I've been told it is a cheap place to buy clothing. The last time I went to the Bath and West, it was at Dorchester, in the days when it used to move about each year. Anybody remember that far back?

Perhaps I've seen you wearing it!!

There used to be .20 pump-up air rifles by Sheridan I believe and I seem to remember somebody bringing out a .25, but don't forget that it will have to be no more than 12 ft.lbs muzzle energy, so the veolicity is bound to be lower than smaller calibres. You might do better with a catapult.

You could have a look here: http://www.anglingforums.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=189