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  1. I'd say that they may be genuine

    I am an ex-Browning employee - but back in my day the slips & accessories tended to be the sand colour cotton type fabric with the lettering in smaller brown letters
    Some time passes, and I am working in a small factory in Jarrow as a bench-hand leatherworker....making lots of gunslips for a huge number of UK airgun & rifle/shotgun firms (as well as most of the Barbour retailed bags and leather accessories)  
    One day I even answered the phone to find myself chatting to my ex manager at Browning! That threw him off tilt a little....

    The slips in the post seem to be of the right construction style, but we only ever added embroidered logos to the slips we made - that screen printing is bad..!
    The black case with red trim = looks almost identical to what we made

    The Jarrow firm went into liquidation, but re-formed on the basis of the boss and his secretary, sitting in an office with no on site machinists, farming orders out to third party makers, etc. They MAY still be farming out the orders for the gunslips & having them screen printed now....but I heard that they'd closed too.

     

  2. 3 hours ago, steve_b_wales said:

    I'm looking for one for my Escort Magnum which is a 7+1. I think this will fit?

    I would say that if the Hatsan & Remington mag. tube threads were the same it would be more common knowledge, as I tend to run Rem 870 pumps so always have the radar on for cheaper accessories where possible
    Knowing the Turks, they're more likely to have have copied a metric maker/thread on the Hatsan models, so maybe Benelli or Beretta would be a close match?

    Did a quick double check and not finding anything on the Nordic site to say that they offer a Hatsan option.

  3. A pity the rifle rack was an optional "extra"
    Looks like a good little car - IF I was in the market for such a thing I'd go for one over the Indian. US or Japanese alternatives.
    The option to save a few thousand £ by doing some paperwork/registration yourself looked like a good plan too!

  4. On 06/06/2021 at 21:03, Dave-G said:

    googled - thanks 

    I have had good results re-crowning using a suitable large round head brass slotted screw and some lapping compound - save buying a single use tool

    You can do a temporary "bedding" job using shims cut from old soft drink cans - it will allow you to get the action & barrel out of the stock, to see if contact in that area is one of the variables that are the cause of the problems

  5. 37 minutes ago, Revo said:

    Nothing .but how would you get it 

    Totally legal to drop it into a suitable box, then mail it at the local Post Office, direct to any new owner (as neither of you are an RFD & it's a 2nd hand gun)

    Looks like a nice little project..!!

  6. Strange behaviour from some clay shooters....but it does explain the reception/warm welcome I tend to get from clay grounds when I ask if I can take away fired hulls

    Free reloading components for me, less mess/rubbish for them!
    win win - though I tend to only grab the translucent cases, plus any non-12 bore types too

  7. Likely not....shipping guns RFD-to-RFD is easy as they are inanimate objects

    Ammunition has to go by special couriers, of which there are few available.

    It may be use, that IF the ammunition is of standard Section 2 configuration, then no SGC is required to POSSESS it - so anyone you know who may be able to bring the cartridges to you in person could do so legally

  8. 45 minutes ago, Westward said:

    I don't care very much what they do with my medical data and I've never understood why confidentiality is so vital that it has to be guarded better than Buckingham Palace. Most of the women I've ever come across are happy to spend hours and hours talking about their medical conditions with anyone who'll listen.

    Your data isn't particularly safe right now anyway as every single clinician working in your doctor's surgery can access your medical file and the NHS already does data mining on patient records. 

    You do you....

    GDPR is there for a reason - so anyone ignoring it should be taken to task - irrespective of accessor from other parties/employees, whether they themselves treat the data as confidential or not - and if not then they should also be suitably taken to task...!

  9. 7 minutes ago, Centrepin said:

    It's always interesting to note that the Swiss as a neutral country have national service and teach skill at arms to all.

    What would happen in this backward country if we started teaching just gun safety as an option at school.

    For goodness sake, we can't even teach first aid as mandatory, imagine even offering skill at arms.

    It's been a part of the Soviet/Russian school system for decades

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