CaptainBeaky

Just voted - 69.5 - 30.5 in the NO camp

Ok, that didn't work too well - needed a lot of adjustment to get it to catch ejected shells without jamming. If it is set too low, it didn't catch every one. If too high, the second case bounces puff the first, back into the port, and causes a jam! I have got it working now, but it looks a bit second hand from multiple ...errrr.... adjustments, so I will be making another one, incorporating the proportions established in my extensive trials, and forgoing the layer of paint, which doesn't last very well

Use fibre liners between the wood and the metal. Protects the metal and looks nice.

Update - it is built and mounted, on M5 screws, using neodymium magnets. The Dutch chap who made the one in the video was very helpful when I emailed him It catches ejected cartridges when manually cycled as far as I can manage - I'll hopefully get to shoot it at the weekend, so photos and possibly even video then.

How do you define "not worth repairing"? Someone with more time than money might be glad of the chance to have a go at repairing a free gun

Great read - a bit of father/son bonding is always good, and if it gets you a keen shooting buddy, even better Doing some informal clays next week with No 1 son (same age as your lad), to get his eye in again ready for some outings on the bunnies.

Nice little piece. Handle maybe a bit short for the size?

Nice job What next with it?

Of course he will - resistance is useless!

Hideous! Ugliest thing I ever saw. Purely as a public service, send it to me and I will err... safely dispose of it for you No charge

That was Clarence! Bloody kids! (Mutter, mutter, grumble...)

And that is certainly nothing like objective journalism!

Get thee behind me, bosher!

Try York Guns - they are the importer, and list them on their website.

So sad - words fail me. My condolences to you and your family.

1. No problem2. Eminently reasonable, so probably won't go anywhere. 3. What good would that do? You need to show entitlement already to purchase, putting ammunition on ticket as per section 1 just adds more bureaucracy and cost to the public purse. 4. Again, sensible and quantifiable - probably too sensible to happen. 5. Haven't we already had this argument over airgun licensing in Scotland? If it won't persuade Scots scrotes to register, why think it would work with English scrotes?

Smoker for applying lamp-black?

News to me, too! I know you're not supposed to shoot hares or other game with a self-loader, but as I read the regs, bunnies are fine, as they classed as vermin. I would query that with BASC.

Your lock knife only comes under the offensive weapons times if there are other circumstances e.g. you are waving it around during an argument in the pub. The rest of the time, your problem is the Criminal Justice Act 1988, section 193, "having an article with a blade or point in a public place". A non-locking knife is allowable without good reason, a locking blade or fixed blade is allowable with good reason or lawful authority. That said, if you wave your non-locking knife around in the aforesaid pub argument, the off-weap rules kick in regardless. As for a recommendation, for when you have a good reason, use a fixed blade Mora. For when you don't, there are still a few makers in Sheffield making traditional folding knives in the £20 range. For something a bit nicer, you can't go wrong with a Spyderco UKPK- the current incarnation is reasonably priced, or a Pingo if you can find one. Check whether it locks or not - a lot of them do.

Hi

This, in spades!

What he said...

Threw it down last night in the Sevenoaks area, lots of thunder & lightning. Fortunately, the edge of the rain stayed about a mile away from where we are performing, but the third act of Lear (the storm on the heath ) had a real storm in the background. Couldn't have arranged it better if we tried

What has that got to do with their ability to play football?

Well done, that lad!