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Done and a letter to my MP Jacob Rees Mogg.

Hopefully it gets sorted for you. What a bad taste and experience this all leaves you with. You buy a lovely new rifle get all the excitement of planning a bit of shooting opening and admiring the product and this happens is so total **** . Maybe just maybe it comes back with a a stock thats better than average, least they could do.

Sorry to hear the bad news about your new motor but with the helicopter back up at least you will get there. Seriously it looks like a nice motor for summer.

Wow

I have an Air Ranger .22 (40fpe) it was just a year old and cost £500 as new. It has a 500cc bottle so plenty of shots. Its easy to use but not the lightest with all the gear on. If its cost effective fac would R/F be better cheaper and lighter?

If we stay in I will leave if we leave I will have to stay. I would love to move abroad but it has to be within EU or old commonwealth to protect pension. I would like to move to Greece but if we leave that would be out :-(

I have a slightly sloping clay field. I have tried to dam the field ditch to take water for a pond but it carries too much silt in flood. I have a spring supply but I need to calculate the flow rate and capacity of the spring to work out the size of pond. If I take out say half an acre thats an awful lot of clay to pile up somewhere and I have to think about the impact on the view and water run off to the rest of the land as well as bank stability. On one of our farms a 1 acre pond has just been put in to provide a rural sud's system. It took the earthworks company about three weeks to dig it out but it has a really neat balancing and silt removal system built in.

Starting to see some lovely kit.

Looks like he died Trevor Ablett and his handmade pocket and folding knives in his workshop in Sheffield, England. Trevor Ablett has now sadly died and this is the last of his traditional Sheffield made pocket knives

The villager looks good for some serious crop damage

Cracking shooting and video. Are there any left? Thx for posting.

Is it evident in young trees too? I planted about 50 trees here but avoided Ash and Chesnut (my large trees have canker) for fear of disease.

Exactly right our Dave has done a pretty good job on this. I think we all would like to see it stamped out (apart from the avoiders) but it is so difficult to do.

I remember the original leaflet from Government (Ted Heath I think?) suggesting we should join.

Inspired by some of the talk of knives and the winnie&bezza suggestion about a knife thread I thought I would kick one off. Here is my total rather pitiful collection. I started with the Opinel but it kept getting clogged up with bird detritus so moved onto the open folder its easier to clean. For me they are tools that I use most days have a good chance of being lost (although to date i haven't). They have to be easy to lock to save my fingers which the Opinel complete with bird detritus definitely isn't.

My former wife joined a scheme much to my displeasure. She said I had lost more on shares than she was risking. One night she came home with £45k and put it on the table. There was so such a pile of cash including about £5000 in Scotish £100 notes that we bought a safe to stuff it in and it wouldn't fit. It went into a few carrier bags and shoe boxes. Paid for a nice holiday in St Lucia and an extension on the house.

Perseverance paid off. You did better than me I looked at a couple of farms having had calls about crows on the barley, but decided against. Then off to a strawberry farm with a barley field but plenty there but thought it might be better in the morning.

Let me know how you get on. I am thinking of one for mine.I want to get some use out of it but my air rifle is so much sweeter at the mo.

Yes a big welcome back and looking forward to hearing about you and your boy bagging some more.

Cheers Matt. I would like to calibrate it to see what its doing with the lighter and heavier pellets. Daystate say its a 40fpe rifle but without a chrono you don't really know. My refill bottle has just gone out of test and i refilled it before i did. The chap in the dive shop said I would need a new pressure guage when its tested else it will fail (its a little bent). he checked the pressure on the guage at 180bar and then tried both the guage on the refill machine and a new guage against it for comparison. They all gave different readings which does not fill me with confidence when filling the rifle. Now I am going by the colour guage on the side of the rifle which I dont think is the best.

Thx for this it makes interesting reading. SME's play a big role. It must be the window cleaners

I wish my window cleaner was £5. Last week it was £25 and when they do the roof its £30. Not bad for 20mins work. Still he does have to pay tax on that.

When I bought the Ranger a number of people told me I would have to use heavy pellets to keep the MV down and retain accuracy. I have been running it with 15.6 grain pellets and its been spot on. Today I dropped a crow at 95m dead where it stood. The pellet went clean through the birds upper chest. I did have a great rest to take the shot but the accuracy and trigger on this rifle is superb. Its easily out shooting my cz 455 .22lr although I think thats mostly down to the trigger.

Of course we could and then pay the tariff barrier payments on top to sell to the EU. The EU subsidy limits were set by agreement so that we don't have to have tariff barriers within Europe across all industries.

Surely you expect to pay extra? (waist about 36/38" as far as I'm admitting )