Keith 66

If it didnt find anything how can you say its good? A few years ago a local computer guy recomended super anti spyware to me. I just use the free version so any updates have to be installed every few weeks, which is fast & easy. Run a quick scan & it always turns something up or run a full scan which takes longer & turns up more, usually tracking cookies but often other **** as well.

My late Dad got me one of these for my 16th birthday, great little gun. As Gough Thomas said they are exceedingly well balanced. Mine came from Elderkins wearing a full choke barrel, everything it hit was smashed to jelly. The barrel went back a few weeks later & the choke taken out to imp cylinder. It was transformed & threw lovely patterns. For snap shooting bunnies or pigeons it excelled. I used to take it out on the marsh wildfowling though i must confess eley maximums did tend to make it kick a bit! When my parents moved up north he took it with him & i got it back ten years ago when he passed away. I never found the lack of a second shot a handicap as they can be reloaded very quickly. What you will find is every bloody time you take it out in company some wag will say "The Zulus are coming!" The worst single barrel was the pedretti folder, dreadful lightweight things that kicked like an elephant gun.

Bought a top of the range Buff river gun cabinet of there last year, real bargain. I try not to sell on there as too many messers & time wasters.

Anyone rented or acquired saltmarsh lately? what sort of money per acre these days?

I asked my Doctors surgery last week, gave them the forms on friday morning & they were done ready to pick up monday evening. £50. Cant be bad! Im in Essex.

Not all pest controllers have the right tools. I was actually asked about ten years back if i would dispatch foxes for a guy. He was trapping in East london driving down to Essex & releasing half a dozen at a time on a local urban recreation ground. He had criminal convictions so was barred from having firearms. I politely declined.

84 I was 22, I had just moved in with the lady who would become my wife. That year we launched a boat i had built & did a lot of sailing. I also went self employed & set up a decent workshop to do boatbuilding in. Down the pub often & carefree times. Did a lot of shooting. No worries about money as there was rakes of work about, I cycled a lot & was fit. And then i got older!

I attempted to fill in the Transition to lead shot survey last week. Came to the last question & it kept refusing to allow me to finish it. I emailed Basc survey dept Querying why the survey would not complete & recieved this answer. "Thank you for your email, and please accept our apologies for the confusion. Unfortunately, we were very restricted by the limitations of the survey software and that question requires a different number for each of the 11 row options. Once each option has a different rating number the survey will allow you to move on. That question is the last one, so you will not have missed any others. Thank you for helping us with this project. Kind regards. Surveys team I replied, "Thanks for the swift reply. So I have to put a different rating number for each question? Not allowed to use the same number more than once? Surely that produces a meaningless result! Regards Keith Their reply "No problem at all. Unfortunately, that’s how the rating scale in the last question works, no two rows/options can have the same rating. Kind regards. Survey team At this point i finished the survey by simply putting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc & it completed. I have been a BASC member since the Wagbi days & frankly i was amazed this survey was thought fit to put out. If you put surveys out like this it is counter productive, we are not thick & a survey set up in this was is flawed by its very nature to give a skewed result. A surveys results should show what the person filling it in thinks. Basc should scrap this "survey" as it cannot be relied upon to give an honest result.

Two good ones i have seen, Bemuzic, lady who plays a cigar box guitar etc in Cambridge, nice gentle stuff with a lovely voice. Lewis Floyd Henry, this guy is like Hendrix reincarnated, does his own fusion of rock & metal with a rap twist, stunningly skilled guitarist, often plays Brick lane in London.

An interesting take on this story was that the passengers exited the plane obeying instructions with none trying to take luggage with them. It was reported that in the Dubai crash a few years ago (Emirates flight 521) passengers tried to take luggage from overhead lockers & made the evacuation a lot longer than it shoud have taken. This attracted heavy critiscism at the time.

I must have missed you! Aah the curse of facebook! I might have known.

Lead oxide is said to have a sweet taste maybe they are after that? Or just sharpening their teeth. My wife used to be a pest control officer & saw several instances where rodents had gotten into houses by chewing holes in lead pipes.

How many of those on here used to use the private wildfowling forum? Had a look on there today & its still online but no new posts for about a year. Used to be some good lively discussion on there. Why did wildfowlers stop using it? Why did you stop using it if you went on there?

My parents lived at Crag foot next to Leighton moss nature reserve, Every winter would see big murmurations & people would drive miles to watch them & still do. It is considered to be one of the biggest gatherings of starlings in the country. But it pales into insignificance to what i saw growing up here in Essex, we lived on the edge of Hadleigh country park & the starlings would flight over our garden in tens of thousands. The flight to the roosts in the woods would go on for over half an hour & they turned the sky dark. In the roosts in the hawthorn scrub the branches would be covered in birds & the floor was 3 inches deep in guano. I have no clue how many there were but they came in from several directions to those woods.

Here in South Essex quite a few teal & widgeon on the creek now, lots of mallard about & canadas too. Nearly trod on a woodcock yesterday on Hadleigh country park, made me jump when it erupted upwards!