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  1. It was a general point about actresses pretending to be tough guys rather than anything specific about that show or it's accuracy. Oh, and I prefer not be accused of being moronic if you don't mind. I do recall the very same actress in 'Line of Duty' running around London on foot chasing a Range Rover and loosing off bursts with an assault rifle. Credible or just plain silly? BTW, my father worked in bomb disposal during ww2.
  2. Awkward or just plain silly?
  3. Never watched any of it and never will. Plus I'm bored with actresses, especially McClure, playing roles where a woman pretends she can outdo, outbrave, outthink and outfight men.
  4. After trying about 20 different different guns from virtually every maker and with every configuration of rib known to man I bought a pre-loved flat rib CG Challenger in in 2016. The shop had 3 new Summits but I settled for the 2011 vintage Challenger which is essentially a grade 3 Summit. It came with paperwork including the original factory inspection certificate, signed by the inspector, and the really nice branded Negrini motor case ( much nicer than the later crummy red cases they supply now). First impressions always stick and I was immediately struck by the attention to detail such as the the forend wood being smooth and finished on the inside, unlike my SV10 forend which hadn't even been sanded smooth on he inside much less treated. As for the barrels... Suffice to say I can clean the bores to like new finish in 10 minutes whereas I could spend 2 hours on the Optima HP (Steelium) barrels on the SV10 and still not quite get them perfect. The Challenger is now 13 years old and the stock finish is still excellent - although I have dressed it with oil a few times per the makers instructions. So I still have the CG, and on a few occasions shooting with friends who are Invictus owners we've swapped guns, and TBH it's hard to tell the difference. The triggers are just as good, the handling is virtually indistinguishable and even the weights are comparable with mine which is 8lbs 3oz. Not surprising really as the only significant mechanical difference with the Invictus is the way the barrels are hinged. Of the many different guns I've tried, the only one which would drag me away from the CG was a Perazzi Hi-Tech, but as an elderly leisure shooter I can't justify spending that amount of money.
  5. This proves how unutterably stupid and misguided the "Climatologist" who insist CO2 causes climate change really are. This is long but brilliantly destroys the "groupthink" propagated by the IPCC and the totally biased BBC. This vid should be compulsory viewing in all secondary schools.
  6. The medieval warming and little ice age are well documented. There are still the ruins of farming settlements in Greenland, set up after the Vikings arrived in the 9th century. Some years back bodies were found in a derelict building and it's thought they died of starvation because the climate changed and became too cold for agriculture. However, it doesn't conform to the theory and doesn't fit the narrative so it's crucially important to ignore it. The world population has quadrupled during my lifetime and that's the real upcoming catastrophe. For example, the continent of Africa has the fastest growing population of any region in the world, yet in my lifetime has never been able produce enough food crops, hence virtually every year there's another drought somewhere and yet another famine and another mass migration due to malnutrition. And every year the charities and NGOs apply their usual TV appeals carefully crafted to maximise the emotional blackmail in order to get us to part with money for the food convoys which then get hijacked by the army and subsequently sold back to whichever charity will pay the most.
  7. One of my sons has an XC60 petrol and the stop/start on that seems to use the alternator to start the engine using the timing belt (or chain) as there's no starter motor noise.
  8. CO2 is not a pollutant, it is an essential gas and without it there would be no life as we know it. Unfortunately for the climate hysterics like the BBC, there are several other natural ways in which CO2 is released into the atmosphere and added together they account for 97% of the total. Emissions from human activity accounts for... 3% of the total yet governments are willing to throw their economies under the bus on the apparent coincidence between adding a mere 3% of the total CO2 released into the atmosphere and the current warming of the planet. Just as the Earth naturally releases CO2 without any help from us, it also has numerous ways of absorbing it. CO2 is a trace gas only and today's level of 0.04% of the atmosphere is still much lower than at other periods in the past. The 2000 or so comedians on the IPCC gravy train can't explain why the medieval warming period or the early 20th century warming period could have happened. Nor can they explain either the little ice age in the 15/16th centuries or the post WW2 cooling period when the "climate experts" were predicting a new ice age at a time when CO2 emissions were rising. What they do is pretend these things didn't happen or, in several cases such as the 10 year pause in rising temperatures of the early 21st century, they "adjust" the recorded figures to fit their theory. The real coincidence is that warming happens and like cooling, it always has. The committed disciples such as the BBC along with the IPCC and their acolytes won't tell you this, but ice core samples prove beyond doubt that CO2 increases are the result of warming not the cause.
  9. My 2011 Challenger has the Fleur de Lis stamp. All the pre Invictus CG sporters have the same barrels (apart from length) but I can't vouch for field models.
  10. Except that he's dead right about climate change unlike the mindless "groupthinkers" and the "CO2 is a pollutant" mantras. It's a shame he's a peer as IMO he would have been by far the best PM of the last 70 years. I like positive leaders who actually lead and get things done, and the dithering procrastinators we continually get lumbered with (from either party) are low achievers dominated by the wrong priorities. And I have no problem with poacher turned gamekeeper - it makes perfect sense to me.
  11. It must surely vary with the type of driving and the traffic conditions. If you spend 2 hours creeping round 40 miles of the M25 like I did recently, it might make a difference. Luckily my stop/start on that day was in error mode and not working because, as I later found out, the battery was starting to fail. I'd probably still be there if the engine had automatically stopped and started 50 times as it would have likely totally killed the battery.😊
  12. That's a good point. |Saving a 10th of a milligram of CO2 may sound good to the fools who believe CO2 causes global warming but like deep cycle clay trap batteries, stop/start batteries have more lead and thus more emissions during manufacture than will ever be saved by auto stopping the engine in traffic etc.
  13. £79 seems too cheap for a stop/start battery. I just replaced my Mazda battery at £87 for an Exide but some makes like Bosch were around the £140 mark. As for re-initializing the system, I found all I needed on the internet. In the event I didn't need to do the procedure on mine as after a couple of short journeys it just sorted itself out. Indeed, although there was an upside on mine as it started to intermittently drop into error mode because the stop/start monitors the battery condition. Without those errors I wouldn't have known my battery was going south.
  14. Many, many years ago when I was a scout we were out with a trek cart collecting for a jumble sale and a model cannon was donated. It was very like your one but was fully mounted in a wooden gun carriage, just like a full size one. Obviously we had to see if it worked, so we emptied the powder from a few bangers into the barrel, packed bit of cloth for a wad and dropped in a ball bearing. We used a couple of inches of Jetex fuse, lit it and stood well back. By golly they must have heard it go off half a mile away. The ball went straight through a wooden fence and out into some waste land never to be seen again Fabulous fun. Wish I still had it.
  15. I believe there's plenty of room in Eritrea...
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