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The game model is very light but the couple of sporters I've tried were a nice weight of 8lb 3oz which IMO is about right for a sporting clays gun. I liked the way the F16s shoot, with the fit very close to my CG. The triggers were pretty good too and much lighter than either of the 2 late-ish Berettas I've owned. For sporting clays I wouldn't pick an F16 over a CG, but I'd much prefer one to any 68x or 69x family Beretta.

We certainly didn't invent slavery and we didn't trawl Africa abducting people to be shipped off as slaves. What we did do was industrialise the trade. Without the North African slaving gangs we wouldn't have had any slaves to transport. I'm not making excuses for it, just saying that in demanding compo from the British taxpayer they are picking the wrong target and should perhaps look to the Arab nations...

I use half a cup of white vinegar diluted in about 2 litres of warm water and then use an old school cheesecloth or similar to clean the glass. Then I dry off with a damp leather and buff with dry kitchen paper. I've yet to find a so called glass cleaner that works on the inside of a windscreen. What I do need is something to polish the outside of the windscreen...

Okay propaganda. I've seen Russian people interviewed who totally buy in to the "poor little innocent Russia" rhetoric and who believe the west is evil. There may well be some carefully constructed disinformation by our government, especially during the pandemic, but when it comes to blatant propaganda, it's not in the same universe as Russia or China. Taiwan (originally Formosa) was once part of China but, like Hong Kong, doesn't want to be part of a communist state - and who in the west can blame them. But Beijing wants it back and the only things stopping them invading is the probability of the US getting involved and the economic consequences of losing most of their best customers. Ukraine is somewhat similar. They may not be a fully formed democracy, but they're much more free than the virtual totalitarian Russian state and they will fight forever to avoid being taken over by the gangsters in the Kremlin.

Despite the overthrow of the Soviet era and a sort of capitalist lite, semi modern outlook, Russia has maintained a permanent position of suspicion and restrained hostility toward Nato and particularly the US. They have also invaded or bullied several other sovereign nations prior to Ukraine. Russia is not a democracy in the western sense. There are no genuine elections, no right to protest and no freedom of speech. And all the while, Putin's media teams keep up a constant anti west propaganda rhetoric, mostly portraying Russia as the victim trying to push back against western aggression. This is why Russia always supports any nation, no matter how obnoxious, as long as by so doing, they can undermine the west. Of course the real fear In Putin's Russia and Xi's China is not western aggression but democracy itself, and having free democratic countries like Taiwan and Ukraine right on their doorsteps and the very real possibility of their regime becoming restless for freedom is what keeps them awake nights. I'm pleased to see the US stepping up defence spending and I hope every Nato member follows suit. The only negotiating position that monsters like Putin and Xi understand is the big stick one.

Yep. Seen all that and more. There's the unemployed and then there's the unemployable.

And that is the only way! Errr.. My point exactly. I blame parents and possibly grandparents with a poor work ethic and lack of aspiration passing it on to their children.

You can sneer all you want but the fact is that there is no real poverty in 2023 but there certainly was 70 years ago. Work at school, pass exams with decent grades, move on to higher education and study a "proper" subject, not nonsense social studies or textile design and be prepared to to accept employment away from the old home town. Then you have a life, a career and prospects as they used to call it and more importantly, opportunity for a better and self sufficient life. There're no short cuts, no amount of government initiatives or "levelling up" stunts, the only thing that works is initiative and effort based on an understanding that a better life comes from encouragement and support within the family. The one thing that is the same today as it was 70 years ago is that without education you'll always be bumping along at the bottom of the heap, except that now, there's a basket of benefits and tons of free stuff.

Spot on. It's all very well scoffing but no one under about 50 today has the slightest clue what it's like to be truly hard up. I'm talking about things like waking up to frost on the inside of the windows and getting out of bed onto bare lino. Both my mother and my wife's made most of their own clothes, as well as some for us as kids and they knitted every woollen garment for everyone in the family. My father in law had no central heating until 1989 when he was 83 years old and my mother didn't have central heating until 1985 when she was widowed at 70 and moved to a modern house. Every single benefit today - and there are many - is wide open to abuse and most benefit recipients and also many employers, especially the supermarkets, know exactly how to manipulate the systems. We now have a huge percentage of the population who simply make a lifestyle choice to live off the taxpayer rather than take up regular employment and make a contribution to society. Only a tiny minority are in dire straights through no fault of their own - funny how the BBC can always find them! On our allotments they came up with the wheeze of a box where we could donate any surplus produce to the local food bank. Stupidly I suggested that since we had about 10 vacant plots we could offer them free of charge to the food bank users so they could grow their own. Surprise surprise, there were no takers. Some wit suggested it was because they'd never seen any veg that hadn't been washed and wrapped in film.

Americans get paid holiday breaks. In my day it was 2 weeks - and they didn't like you taking more than 1 week at a time. If I had my time again I would take the opportunity to emigrate to the USA. I dislike the controlling culture that wants to ban or limit so many of our historic rights such as free speech. I so miss the freedoms I knew back in the 50s, 60s and 70s to live and function without constant interference and regulations.

On my Android 12 phone it's under "Passwords and Security".

That's about right in my experience having made many business trips to the USA. Per capita, Americans are also far more productive and much more loyal and co-operative with their employers, including the fact that they don't receive or expect 5 or 6 weeks paid holiday. Also, no one will ever convince me that the majority of people working from home are anywhere near as productive. And now, the liberal loonies are trying to get a 4 day week to boot. There really is no hope without a Thatcher style PM prepared to kick some life into the non-working classes.

Let us know the outcome. There are so many new treatments coming on stream that we men don't need to live in fear.

For the last year or 2 of the 692 Beretta fitted non selectable ejectors, quite different from the Silver Pigeon style in the 2nd vid above, as they use little puck type retainers. Previously they used the selectable type carried over from the SV10s. If yours are the selectable ones the problem could be with the selector itself as they have a history of breaking the tiny little nibs that select eject or extract and also eating the O rings that are intended to stabilise the selector in it's housing. If you remove the selector, the ejector itself might remain jammed in the groove as the above nibs can cause burring of the ejector body, in which case it might need a little help with a wood drift and a small mallet followed by some careful work with a stone. That style of ejector was trouble from day 1 on the SV10s (ask me how I know) and it was madness to carry it forward to the 692. They spent 10 years failing to correct a problem on a feature that hardly anyone wanted.

Because it's more cost effective and therefore better for the taxpayer than letting 250 tech companies go to the wall.

But there is doubt Henry. Ask yourself if the current level of CO2 in the atmosphere of 0.04% could possibly affect climate. It's what's called a trace gas which by definition means it has no significant effect. There are several other trace gases and all together they amount to less than 1% of the atmosphere. The best science around at the moment describes magnetic cycles of the sun which fluctuate in 40-50 year periods. They directly affect the earth's cloud cover which in turn changes surface temperature. The late 19th century and early 20th was at least as hot as the present day. In the 1920s, wildfires in Australia were several times larger than the so called "record breaking" fires of 2021/22. During the mid 20th, temperatures cooled bringing the freezing winters of 1948 and 1962/63. I could quote reports in the Guardian and NY Times in 1970 quoting scientists warning about crop failures, famine, mass migration, wars etc. due to climate change. Exactly what we read today, except that in 1970 the panic was over climate cooling and predictions of a new ice age! Whether deliberately or not, the climate hysterics always compare today's temperatures with the 1950s or 60s, never with the early 1900s. The real science, which is carefully ignored by the sensation loving media and the "climatologists" making fortunes from governments panicked by the IPCC, indicates that we are about to enter a new cooling phase which, looking at the weather for the next few days, may have already started.

When someone can produce genuine, repeatable, peer reviewed, unimpeachable scientific proof that the almost infinitesimally small level of CO2 in the atmosphere makes the slightest difference to the climate, or even that the so called greenhouse gas effect actually exists, I'll eat my boots.

I recently bought a pair of Teague titanium flush chokes. I use a tiny amount of Schmierfix grease (from Alan Rhone) and nip them tight with a taper key. Mine don't come loose during a 100 bird round. I'm with Wylye on this one. They will treat you fairly.

Keep shooting the thing. Your shoulder will get used to the increased recoil.

I've used ZoneAlarm free for well over 20 years. There's never been anything better and It now includes anti virus and anti malware protection. After 40 years in the computer industry I still don't trust Windows enough to use the built in firewall.

It certainly affects battery life and also battery cost as they fit special start/stop batteries that cost about 3 times as much as conventional ones.

Your doctor's confidence is misplaced I'm afraid. I know a guy with PC who's normal level was 0.2. The last year has taught me that most GPs know next to nothing about PC and the treatment regimes, so keep insisting on annual testing and always bear in mind that it's often hereditary.

I too have prostate cancer except that mine's not contained. I woke in the night of 23rd December 2021 with agonising back spasms. The duty GP was a young locum who prescribed pain meds etc and made an appointment for me the following Friday at which she took blood. It was New Year weekend so on the Tuesday she rang at 8 am to tell me my PSA was 2,293 and explained that she was setting up for me to see the right people at Cheltenham hospital. I've no doubt she was 99% certain I had cancer and that it had migrated to the base of my spine. The Urologist confirmed this with a bone scan and started hormone treatment immediately. He also referred my case to oncology. No surgery and no radio, just straight in to chemo for 18 weeks. I had a call from the oncologist in early September to say my levels were going the right way and he'd see me in November. My last blood test was November the 9th and my PSA was down to 8.4. He told me to relax and enjoy Christmas and he'd see me again in 6 months and that if the PSA was creeping up again at that time there were several options he could choose from to keep it at bay. I'm lucky to have Cheltenham General which is probably the best cancer hospital in the west of England. One thing to keep in mind boys; prostate cancer is hereditary. It wasn't what actually killed my father but he always had a damp patch on his fly so it's 10:1 he had it. I have 3 sons and they've all been nagged and will go on being nagged because even if they're clear now it's handy to have a benchmark for their individual healthy PSA levels.

BEM have always imported a few non x25 series that were simply badged Citori. It's the exact same action as the contemporary 525s and every bit as good as any other gd 1 Browning Citori variant.

Basically a Focus on steroids and prone to the same suspension problems at high(ish) mileage. Over 80K miles expect to start spending money.