Keith 66
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^^^^^ This is the best option, plenty of these about & they cost peanuts, The spring cartridge guide is very thin & even a skilled welder is going to have fun, time he fixes it it will be cheaper to buy a spares gun & scrap the rest of it afterwards..
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**** law dictates that you are virtualy guaranteed to hit the pipe. I found this out the hard way myself. Back in 2017 our dog (aged 13) had to be put to sleep one friday. It was a bad day. We bought him home in my car & left him in the boot covered in ice packs as it was september & very hot.
We had been grubbing out a small tree in the front garden & to make it easier to dig had soaked the ground with the hose. Thinking that the hole was already there we decided to put the grave there. So at 6:00am im out there digging the hole putting the earth on a tarp on the lawn. Nearly deep enough & i hit a tree root, go get the axe & wallop, A great hiss, Aaaaarghhh ****!!! I have just chopped the gas supply. What was already a bad day gets much much worse.
My wife phones the gas company, Meanwhile im swearing mightily & squashing the pipe flat with a g clamp to stop the leak. An engineer turns up, sucks through his teeth & says "That will be expensive if we have to go under the path". I just reply " Best shoot me now".
So my son & i repair to the back garden to dig a new grave, the clay is baked hard like concrete & we toil in the blazing sun. At some point three gas blokes poke their heads round the corner to see how we are doing, they are waiting for a part. Wife plies us all with lemonade & the gas pipe gets fixed.
We get the dog buried about 11:00am & rush up the top of the hill to watch the blowdown of the Isle of Grain power station chimney.
I can laugh about it now but its not a day i will forget in a hurry.
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17 hours ago, old man said:
It would be illuminating to know whose mates/relatives are too close to the above companies receiving the contracts?
I bet the FOI act doesn't cover that?
A look on companies house website should tell you who the directors are, But its going to be murky working it all out!
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2 hours ago, Madhatter2132 said:
I know it's a vague question but hopefully it may help sway me one way or another, it's that or a smooth bore baker rifle so I can pretend to be Shaun Bean
Well i remember when Sean bean was playing Mellors in the BBc adaptation of Lady Chatterleys lover, Me & a bunch of mates were in the pub & it was on the telly in the pub. It came to the scene where Mellors was rogering Lady chatterley doggystyle in the potting shed.
Honestly when that came on the screen the whole pub roared & cheered like England had scored in the world cup, Hilarious!
Chance would be a fine thing these days.
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I didnt have any bids on the sealed bid auction, probably would have been a divorce as i had picked up a couple of nice antique percussion pistols in the main auction. With the fees not cheap, but certainly well below prices dealers are asking for similar pieces.
Looking online at well known dealers prices im staggered how high they are, Do they ever sell any or is it a case of them having to try & get their money back having paid too much years ago?
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Housing migrants in old military bases & hotels is nothing new, Its been going on for years & years, at least since 2010.
Five major companies have been awarded £5.8 Billion quids worth of contracts since 2010.
Serco £2.18 billion, Mitie £627 million, Mears £1.15 Billion, Clearsprings ready homes ltc £996 million.
Its big business & lots of high up people have fingers in the pie, probably why they only huff & puff when an election is coming & votes are needed to stay in power.
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6 hours ago, Rewulf said:
I think there's more chance of becoming an MP 😂
Unless you're a yes man at basc, you aren't getting on council, and even if you did make it, very little chance of doing anything 'useful', whatever you think that might be.
BASC decision making appears to be about as democratic as the system they have in North Korea.
I was only joking, But thank you for rising so beautifully.
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You might get a brown envelope! Seems to work like that with councils.
Or you could do something useful & stand for Basc council.
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I just had a look at several houses T&C's, Holts doesnt seem to list a sellers premium though i might have missed it in the pages of prose! Buyers commission 25%
Anthony Cribb lists a flat rate sellers commission of 15% & Buyers comission of 25%, Then of course you will pay 5% vat on the premium.
Most auction houses are charging similar including local ones.
In the end nobody has to use them & we all know a private sale is (or was) the best way to acheive a top price, Trouble is finding the buyer, its why auction houses exist.
A couple of years ago i had to get rid of Dads camera collection, about 35 good quality cameras some of which he had thought valuable, In the event they proved harder to shift than guns, I ended up selling them to a dealer (london camera exchange) They gave the best price by far but they only fetched a fraction of what dad had thought they were worth, Dealer will offer 30% on anything as his markup has to cover his costs & profit if any, It was better than dealing with a load of scammers & loons on ebay or fb marketplace!
Someone has to pay for the range rovers & driven days......
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A buyers premium is how auction houses earn, how else do they make any money? Its all about shifting stuff that people cant sell any other way. Its business.
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My first bandsaw was a 30" wheeled Wadkin, one & a quarter tons of cast iron, Wish i still had it! I now have a Startrite 352 s which is a lovely machine.
A few years ago i was given a Rexon BS 10ka, Quite a compact machine & to be honest with my prior experience & ownership i didnt expect it to be much cop, I put it in my boat shed next to the motor launch im rebuilding & it has turned out to be a cracking little machine, Well made, accurate & easy to set up. I cant fault it.
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With that gun the nipples were definately angled outwards, so hammers didnt land square, effect was the same, an instant very hot tattoo!
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I will give you that! Unfortunately i dont own a flintlock yet, all my muzzleloading has been done with percussion guns.
I started with a horrible quality Indian 12g bengal carbine, that went long ago, then a pedersoli double, that shot well but had the fault that its nipples were angled outwards, this meant a significant portion of the cap explosion was diverted out & down the side of the gun, If your hand was far back on the fore end your wrist got blasted. Got rid of that & got a Navy arms, much stronger & better made gun & still got it. Also shot a bland 9bore live pigeon gun for some years. I picked up a Williams 6 bore live pigeon gun a few years ago, its bore is perfect so i think i might have to bring that one back into service for a while!
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One good bird bagged with a muzzleloader is worth ten shot with a newfangled breechloader.
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So you leave a members organisation & state that you will not be rejoining, that is your perogative. So now you are not a member, have no vote & now cannot influence how its run, whinging on a forum is hardly proactively saving the sport.
Did you join another organisation to help the cause if you thought Basc were not for you? If so good.
I just had another look at the Council candidates, most seem to be a quite ordinary bunch to me. I have cast my votes. Good luck to them.
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^^^^ This is very true. But for many sellers there is no alternative, a friend of mine passed away recently, he had a huge collection of airguns, where the hell do you shift the best part of a thousand pieces? The relatives only realistic option is an auction house. Try & sell to a dealer, you will get 30% of its value at best, Its the same with anything not just guns, Its all about shifting stuff.
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In the end BASC is a members organisation, If you are a member you get your member benefits such as insurance, access to their Firearms dept (I have had need to use them & they were bloody good) & everything else. If you are really committed you can stand for Council, In any case as a member you get to vote on who is standing for council! Either way you have a say!
Continuous bashing of a members organisation you are not a member of is akin to objecting about a Golf or Yacht club's rules when you havent joined in the first place!
It is better to be in the tent ******* out than standing in the cold trying to **** in.
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Look at any sucessful auction house, they will all be charging similar amounts of fees, Its a lot of marketing & paying your staff every month with just a few weeks earning a year. I have bought a few things off them & am so far happy with what i got. Several i regard as bargains.
Look at the prices dealers are wanting for antique firearms then look again at prices realised & some dont look so bad then!
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I dont know them but have voted for them, Why should they need anyone to vouch for them? the fact they have the committment to stand for council should tell you all you need to know!
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Im still a Basc member, i have said before that there were things i didnt agree with but on the whole its the biggest organisation with the most clout. United we stand divided we fall & all that! I remember back in the days of Wagbi a high proportion of wildfowlers on Council, this changed as clubs memberships aged & people stopped voting.
When i started as canvey sec too many years ago we would exhort members to vote for wildfowling candidates & sometimes it worked. But apathy set in & these days if you suggest at a club meeting that members vote for council you are met with blank indifference.
There are two wildfowlers up for election to council, I have just voted for them & suggest others do too.
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I have never gambled & dont think i will start. But a few years back i was working in a secondary school & the number of kids doing online gambling was frightening, some were as young as 12 & addicted to it already. It was strange how most came from families least able to pay when it all went pear shaped as it inevitably did.
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As Above, the next round of elections in May will require Voters to provide Photo Identification, On the radio this morning it was stated there are 20 types of Photo ID that are acceptable. I asked my wife who is doing presciding officer for a polling station in Basildon district if a Shotgun or Firearm certificate was acceptable as photo ID.
She wasnt sure but said "I will ask the question" & emailed the question.
So this afternoon an email from the Electroral Services Administrator returns, "Unfortunately a shotgun/firearms licence is not an acceptable form of photo ID".
But you will be fine with a Passport, Photo Driving licence, Older or Disabled persons bus pass, Oyster card, Welsh concessionary travel card etc etc.
So there you have it folks, Dont bother turning up with your SGC or FAC with photo & duly signed by the Cheif Constable as they wont accept it!
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Talking to a club member who is an rfd recently, English guns were seen as a cast iron investment that steadily appreciated he reckons the **** has dropped out of the market, You only have to look at the prices realised on some of the auction houses to see this is true. A lady i know lost her husband recently & his fine English guns fetched a fraction of what he had thought they were worth.
A couple of years ago my mum was terminally ill in Lancaster hospital, after visiting her one day I thought i would have a shufti round Lancaster antiques market, Its located in the old cattle market, hundreds of booths & stalls covering many acres. Shed after vast shed full of brown furniture & heaps of lovely old tat that nobody wants.
Trouble is that youngsters rarely collect anything these days & the only people who you see in places like that or at telly auctions are all white haired & old, In 20 years a high proportion will be gone & the stuff will be going for recycling or landfill.
Guns are affected similarly except now theres a looming Lead ban & the prospect of more increasingly onerous legislation.
Means there are some right bargains out there!
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Im glad someone mentioned Rory Gallagher! I have an eclectic taste in music & there are scores of superb guitarists, but what about Buckethead? Or Satchel from Steel panther? Zal cleminson is another master of the guitar, Or Billy Gibbons, too many to count!
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What happens if there is a power cut? A mate of mine has just retired after a long career in the cegb later national power, He was telling us a few years ago that if you took out just a couple of key substations most of London would be out of power for weeks, Spare transformers? they scrapped them all years ago.
Or a big solar flare or Carrington event, didnt bother our victorian ancestors but it would proper ruin our satelites & servers.
Cash is an essential backup for society.