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Walking the dogs tonight i could hear corvid activity in the distance, soon as i got out the car, walking up the track could see crows into an alder clump clearly upset about something . There were about 7 mobbing a tawny owl . My presence did not seem to deter them at first but the dogs running around and the fact i was stood watching them they left off but circled around gradualy dispersing after a few mins. The Tawny was not phased it just sat there moving into a thicker part of alder and i walked off left it to it. This time of year suppose crows on metal owl was in wrong place at wrong time. I then got to thinking the owl decoy i bought ten years ago and how it had never really proved that good as a decoy. Why is this ? Is it me not sighting it right or is it that its not a tawny or anything they recognise as an owl, or are crows smart enough to know a lump of plastic from a real Tawny owl.

I am in a similar position looking for a shooting car. Sold my LWB teranno which was fantastic but getting old and i let it go when the opportunity presented itself. Ever since then i have been on the lookout for something suitable and can not find anything that quite fits the bill and yet is frugal on fuel . X trails are ok but i have looked at a few and driven a mates a lot and they just do not do anything for me . Two cars are on my short list at the moment i have mates who have both and i like everything about both of them. These are in order of preference Jeep Cheroke patriot or liberty 2.0 CRD manual. or a Mitsubishi outlander or forwork version. Both these cars have 2.0 litre TDI VW diesel engines and they are a nice drive good off road and under your 3 k budget. I like the jeep the best my mates is a big mileage 269 000 miles 2008 (57 reg) he got it used with 140 000 miles on it 4 years ago he has done 30 000 in it a year and apart from servicing its needed very little the alternator clutch pulley disintegrated at 180 000 miles he had a weeping power steering pipe picked up by mot last year he just had to tighten up , and apart from tyres last year its been reliable. its good off road comfortable and a nice drive. VW 2 litres are apparently prone to turbos giving trouble, but mate has had no trouble but he changes the oil regularly perhaps this has helped with reliability of turbo.

Had a super nova was good a little heavy but worked great, not had a 535 but had a 500 for several years of the two guns To use i liked the 500 more but i think the super nova is better made overall. Of the two i think i would go for the super nova .

A friends son is doing MOT training updates , and he said the lecturer told them MOT testers could wear head cams wile doing MOTs, now i can not see this happening myself but it goes to show they are thinking looking into every avenue they can dream up.

Its all right deleting such restrictions but now its simple to plug in a bluetooth adapter to the obd 2 port and a phone add you can view live data wipe codes and police or vosa will be able to check if such things have been tampered with just off their phones not even a need for a laptop or vag com /lexia tec 2 any dedicated software. If its deleted nullities your insurance its a big risk for what you gain and breaking the law as the potential to put your bank balance in jeopardy or perhaps your gun licences. when restrictors come in best to just accept them . Vosa pulled in a mate who inocently purchased a AUDI a6 it had been de DPFed and holow cat visualy just a cat but borred out and lined in steel so it even felt sounded good when tapped, but vosa found it and he was lucky to get away with a warning cost hin around a thousand pounds to replace everything to standard again . they are shutting the door on the tempering and modifying with newer cars, and as more and more new technology becomes available i think it will get more difficult to bypass things.

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Interesting but what is with the knobbly front tyre and ace bars all about .

Thats the type Proper 4x4 a nice 6 cylinder without being 4.2 litre as in the Land cruiser amazons .

Hillman husky dark green with a cream roof, was 17 and i went on my first holiday on my own in that old car took my Springer with me i kept it about three years was solid as a rock ex army with low miles . Sold it to get a MK 1 cortina 1500 super

I would say toyota land cruiser 6 cylinder diesel but at your budget it will be an old one, so you want the closest thing to a Toyota landcruiser you can get yet getting a 4x4 thats not too long in the tooth. I think in your budget your best option would be a Nissan Patrol DI 6 A 3.0 litre around 2008 . The Patrol has power presence comfort and will do all you want from a 4x4. No horror stories with these vehicles they are tough reliable and comfortable, the axles transmission and engine are well up to the tasks you you have in mind, and i think you would love it the engines are a dream smooth and reliable like only a straight six diesel can be.

Volvo have done a lot for safety they aim to make it near impossible to crash in one of their cars. Its getting to the stage in road cars we do not need to be able to speed, GPS and sensors we could in the next few years have cars that do not respond if you want to speed this would be great good for the environment make roads safer i can not see where the negatives would be to such technology. Speeding kills people and the limits are there to keep us ALL safe. My problem with speeding all road users are not tuned in to the driving job on the same wave length on public roads, on race track everyone is in the same mindset. Want to speed get into motor sport RAC competition licence or perhaps an ACU licence on bikes, leave the roads for people travelling around doing their business, its a crime to speed just like robbery and murder we need speed limits to try and save lives. having cameras to catch criminal educate them as with those who have been on the speed awareness course is a step in the right direction. Jumping behind the wheel or handlebars is most probably the most dangerous thing we do in our lives and we do it daily we have to sit up and take notice its the responsible thing to do. Get into motor sport if you like speed. https://www.motorsportuk.org/Competitors/Apply-Renew-Licences/Apply/-Renew-licences Starter pack https://shop.msauk.org/product_details.asp?id=4023

use a Lohman crow call had it years. video on the Lohman off youtube .

My feelings that it was sorted were WRONG! it turns out the saab as a couple of sensors and these through the ECU can trigger the cooling fan thus protecting the engine to some extent, but if the stat is stuck shut it will for quite some time fool you as it did me into believing its a sensor or stat stuck open. In fact if it had not been for the fan running relatively early on i doubt she would have noticed a fault on the relatively short runs she does in this weather. Stat was stuck shut had sensor well one of them on the stat housing which is how the stat comes with the stat staked in to the housing. Its warming up properly now runs just under half and apart from about 1ccs of water which dropped from the header tank level when i was testing it that night up the A1 its not loosing any water so think its escaped a disaster. wa a strange one for me this never come accross a car that can switch on fan and decide for itself which sensor it needs to take notice of, in the old days it would have shot up and you would have known more or less straight away. All good stuff i supose these days so its not all bad this progress thing.

Constriction in itself is only part of what makes a choke work add to this the Imp Cylinder Modified Imp Modified terms and it adds even more confusion to the subject . The generally accepted guide of Recognised measurements of Under nominal bore size of 10 thou 1/4 20 thou 1/2 30 though 3/4 and 40 thou full .were never more than a guide and no guarantee whatsoever they will throw typical patterns down to constriction alone. choke length bore size and a whole host of other variables including speed pressure powder burn rate to name just a few make things very complex. Now for properly regulated guns, such guns by the better gun makers were just that regulated to produce patterns that fell squarely in the accepted percentages of these specific chokes. With the dawn of multi chokes things became good in that it was now possible to change choke constriction relatively fast and cheap with less restriction if need be without the loss of more choke at another time or situation should the need arise, made guns more versatile. But with many multichokes in the early days the longer choke constrictions disapeared as on many of the old fixed choke guns, with just a few exeptions the Breda screw on choke tubes were longer as the constriction was tighter so with full choke you had about 3.5 inch constriction yet the true cylinder was flush with the muzzle screw collar. As multichokes progressed we are where we are today with chokes of many types ported radial ported double taper wad lock straight rifled restrictor chokes the list is endless today and many dedicated chokes can have constrictions way tighter than ever seen before and produced for harder less forgiving non toxic type shots which again adds yet more complication into pressures velocity and pattern percentage variations compared to how lead responds to choke. So one 1/4 choke vs another1/4 its business as usual regarding chokes i am afraid, use constriction as a rough guide but only real way of knowing what any choke of any given type constriction will do is to pattern it then you will know exactly what its doing.

I went over to sisters 7 this morning, lent her my car and i had a play with this saab, it started ok starter a bit noisy but thats another issue, but ticking over fine left it running in the barn abot a half hour wile i made a cup of tea. Went back out its fan is roaring away like it does. Temp is barely off reast and car struggling to get up to temp, i went for a run in it sitting there was getting boring. Nothing changed usual so i came back home and got my code reader found the OBD port that was worriingly eassy to find and accesable, like perhaps they knew it would be needed LOTS! . So diagnostics. SCAN . bang , P0517 . I then looked it up. Was Temp sensor. I wiped the code and soon as i wiped it IGN still on but not running the fan switches on and straight away i noticed the temp gauge shooting up it went to just under half, the fan cut out i put cover back on Port put my reader away and went for another drive. Its sat at just under half fan as not cut in once and heater is fine and coolant bottle slightly warmer to tuch like i would expect. I got one of those cheapo lazer temp guns they seem a gadget but do seem to detect temp changes i am going to use it on the expansion bottle keep an eye on it. Just done ten miles in it heater off its not budged from just under half. Sorry for the chapter but but recounting all the details, and it seems to me it may be ok now but ill keep you posted thanks .

Thanks ditchy its got no sludge i checked that , and coolant bottle no bubles and coolant looks to not be diluted like they have had any issues before selling it her. No orange coolant spew anywhere its just the clock reading low and this fan running as i can see.

My Sister bought a Saab 93 Tid 1.9 sport 57 reg 112000 miles, Bought it private and it seems to run fine but she has had it about a month now and came around tonight in the rain concerned about the cooling fan coolant level. She said its not overheated and it seems ok but temprature is about a 1/4 up from rest only yet the cooling fan cuts in quite soon from the gauge moving off rest. I took it for a run up the A1 went 40 miles each way the temp went only slightly over 1/4 and sure enough when i stoped fan was runing. I turned around came back home basical turned off heater tried to make it get hot but it did not and got back home fan was off. Restarted it 20 mins later when she went home fan still off but she rang said it was on when she got home thats about 8 miles. Im thinking some sensor radiator sensor something like that, are they possibly linked to the gauge or through the ECU . Any Saab experts in the house please, i need help on this one i dont know saabs and no idea where sensors are and what they are meant to do on these cars. My first thought were if temp low was engine getting hot enough would it efect fuel consumption, but she said its doing mid to late 50s early 60s working it out on fill ups, car as done about 1800 miles in the month or so she as had it so not expecting it to be head gasket but not 100% Any advice please.

I believed the same but i shoot with a lad who has a wad wizard in his gold ten i have a 720 terror choke in mine much of the time and a .705 i use some times, and i will say the wad wizard suprised me how well it patterned i can not remember the exact percentages now but it was close to the .720 on percent with a CSB0 load of BBB we were patterning back then. Patternmasters the old original ones i do not know about the new ones had a good reputation in the 2000s but have heard some say they are not as good now. I will stick with the terrors but i do think this type of choke has some potential the wad wizard showed me that.

Get an older Miroku its not that there is anything wrong with the betinsoli at its price it is a good buym its just that the Mirokus are very well made they tend to take the years well and good clean used ones are good buys just take your time find the right gun.

Difficult with nothing else to go on what GA chamber length its a big guess and only safe answer is buy ammo for your GA and Chamber length and pattern test them. As a very rough guide 2s 3s or 4s for general duck in steel and 2s 1s BBs for geese. Brand and name of ammo is academic not knowing What The Ga gun it is.

Point one Well yes if your just tape a raiser on, but in real terms not really. Point two. Some theories suggest this but i think it could take a lot more hard evidence to prove one way or the other. Amd a new point three. Its the off season many have not settled down to off season activities yet and debate is slow in fact sterile on here. What we need is a good hard bitten picture filled pattern test thread to prove or disprove point two one way or the other . You got a twenty How you fixed for getting this done wymberley? .

Check your stock lengths, it could be that changing the recoil pad to a shorter one will bring you poa/ poi into line with what you are used to. The drop on the gun will dictate how much this changes things but comparing dimensions is worth a look.

Try the RC SIPE i have not found anything to touch them shop bought ammo.

You should have put your name down, you got to be in it to win it.