Bangbangman

Watch this clip of the public accounts committee questioning a Hunt lackey and ask yourself if it inspires confidence: Grrclark, your post is full of technical accuracies but is devoid of real-life actualities! For example, Drs can't opt out of EWTD to get more pay- if they stay beyond their shift they don't get paid, though they might exceed hours for eg. Training benefit or to finish a job. The hours monitoring is hugely flawed and most data-collection is a work of fiction (the Drs have to fudge the hours to make their hours look compliant with EWTD in order to avoid a new shift pattern being imposed that is even worse for training.) The new contract claims to restrict number of hours worked in a single week yet it also removes the penalties on trusts should this occur, in other words, it does nothing to limit hours beyond paying lip service to the concept. If the new contract is fair and safe, why would 98% of a high-turnout ballot (of a historically non-militant workforce) vote to strike? Of course pay is, and should, be part of it. Why the hell not. Why shouldn't it be the only issue. A line has to be drawn somewhere and I'm glad they are making a stand. It may make the government pause before coming after the nurses, midwives, radiographers, porters and us fatcat consultants!

1. Junior doctors already work weekends, and nights, and bank holidays. 2. The new contract has always been within the same "pay envelope". There has never been any potential for additional pay. No version of this contract could give junior doctors a pay rise. This is not why they are striking. 3. Any "pay rise" you may have read about would apply to basic pay only, and is offset by cuts in pay for compulsory out of hours work. THIS IS NOT OVERTIME! For those that do the most out of hours, including Emergency Medicine and there will be a drop in overall pay. See point 2. These are the same specialities that already have the greatest recruitment and retainment problem. 4. Jeremy Hunt has never been clear about what he means by a seven day NHS. We already have one that provides for emergencies 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This is done well, and there is data to demonstrate it. 5. If he wants more planned clinics and operations at the weekend we either need more doctors, each doctor to work more hours, or to work less hours Monday to Friday, thus making any "weekend effect" an "all week effect". This is just simple maths. This is the patient safety issue junior doctors are striking over. 6. We are in the middle of a recruitment and retention crisis. Applications to medical school are down, and around 50% of this year's new doctors will leave the NHS after two years to go elsewhere. Rotas are unfillable and loss of good will and locum pay caps make it impossible to find someone to do the extra work. There aren't enough doctors to staff the NHS for five days a week, never mind seven. See point 5. 7. The NHS is in trouble, and you will miss it when it is gone.

I am a 42 year old Consultant surgeon. I choose not to do private practice. I live in a rented 70's bungalow, drive a Ford Mondeo (56 plate) and haven't had a holiday abroad in ten years. I'm not complaining but I think there has to be balance, too. My salary is by no means poor but I earn the least out of my peers from school/uni who didn't do medicine. I was a lot brighter than most of them but I couldn't do what they do for their substantial £100K plus pay packets; I'd go mad. I could do private work (in my field I'd be paying about £45-50k per year indemnity and a big heap of tax, of course) and lose my weekends and evenings (unless I give up NHS work.) I'd be raking it in but I doubt I'd be happier, so I don't. It is an oft quoted cliché, but I really didn't go into this career for money. However I know what I'm worth, Imhave self-respect and I'm not going to get **** on. I left England in order to stay on the old consultant contract and if that is changed or if they mess with my pension any more, I'll leave the NHS and set up an LLP with the many, like-minded consultants I work with. Since the Jr Doctor contract dispute started, we have had a 5x increase in applications by English Drs to our Jnr posts; we had a post unfilled for 2.5yrs until now! The recruitment and retainment crisis will really bite in a few years, at which point NHS England will be screwed. The government will blame those greedy Doctors and the readers of the right-wing press will lap it up!

You have a fundamental misunderstanding of how Jnr Drs work and are paid. They do not get to ***choose*** to work 90 hr weeks and nor is there ***elective overtime***. They are already rota'd to cover weekends and out-of-hours periods: they cannot opt in and out of this. They receive a higher rate of pay for these anti-social hours. Hunt wants to expand the periods which are classed as sociable. His motives for doing this have nothing to do with improving the spurious weekend effect (you are most likely to die in hospital on a Wednesday and the stats and definitions used in the NHS England commissioned paper that Hunt repeatedly misquotes are dodgy in the extreme) nor is he interested in improving patient safety. His goal is to bring about the demise of the NHS (in its current form) from within. He wants the Drs to strike, leave, form private agencies that sell their services back to the privatised "NHS". This is already happening. No government can abolish the NHS, it would be political suicide. Getting it to fail via a mass-exodus of workforce is another matter. Hunt knows many Jr Drs will not want to emigrate, though plenty will. But he also knows that they may resign on mass, after their pre-registration or foundation years and form their own private enterprises and sell back labour on their own terms. Hunt, like many politicians, has connections with private healthcare provision and may have a tasty board position lined-up for his "retirement." This isn't about pay, patient care, weekend mortality, nor hours worked. It's about dismantling the free-at-point-of-use NHS.

Thanks but just noticed they are Europe 52, which is about 36" waist. If they are a "generous" 52 they may still fit but I normally take 38" waist.

If Stumfelter isn't having these, I'll take them please.

Static can make powder "stick" to surfaces, too. Get a proper funnel, as above. Lee do a "universal" one that simplifies this. As for the bullets=heads debate, it might seem petty but the "head" is the opposite end of the round from the bullet, hence "head stamp" (where the manufacturer's writing is.) If "head" is used interchangeably with "bullet" then is case-head separation either: A: the desired result of firing a rifle? B: a result of dangerous over-pressure?

"In all cases, phone ahead" would seem to be the order of the day!

I was in there last month and they said they'd have primers but I didn't ask about powder etc. I've previously had bullets off them, too.

Keen's Tackle and Guns are not far from you but phone ahead to check what they've got. 01656 720807 Aberkenfig, Bridgend CF32 9AP I'm further west than you, the following RFDs all sell reloading components but might be further than you want to go: Andy at Haylett Grange Shooting Supplies , Haverford West 01437764493 Ed at Western shooting supplies (Ammanford, by appointment) ed7.62@sky.com tel 01269 591826 / 07968 306084 A1Guns near Pontarddulais 01792885892 I don't reload 22-250 so can't advise on actual loads. Obviously you should get a reloading manual and read it, then work up loads accordingly.

Both kids schools held an Eisteddfod. Welsh cakes and cawl on sale. Son baked some "welsh cakes" to sell at school.

Interesting post- thanks. For comparison, this is my Hushpower Mossberg .410 pattern at 25yd with Subsonic Eley 3" 18g no.6 Not a nice pretty target, I just wanted to get an idea of POI v POA with the mod, and pattern.

Both .22LR and .17HMR are down on my S Wales FAC as OK for fox. Mind you, I moved here with a FAC that had been issued elsewhere originally. Not my first choice for fox, of course.

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B-Square Universal Cantilever Mount-Ribs up to 3/8-Inch, Matte Black Finish I think this will do what you want but rather overpriced in the UK (>£80 on Amazon UK) but not sure of availability from US ($39)

Groups were 5 shot and I fired two. Each group had one flyer (one went high and the other low) - vertical dispersion of the remaining four shots in each group was less than an inch (I have measured the actual value but can't remember what it was without looking it up in my log.) There was no difference in elevation between the two groups. Land was flat, crosswind 5-10mph. I hadn't sorted/screened this batch of ammo by rim thickness, which I've tried in the past as a means to reduce fliers (since it head spaces off the rim.) I chrono'd this ammo at an average of 961fps, which is slower than Eley advertise. By comparison, Eley Club chrono'd at 1050fps and I subsequently started hunting with this instead. I was happy with the performance of the Eley subs but finished the batch and had plenty of Club to use. The Quad now wears its 17HMR barrel and .22LR duties are with a tricked-up 10-22 which prefers Win subs. If I start using the 10/22 for comps again, I'll probably go back to the Quad/Eley combo and would retest a new batch.

It may seem like more drop compared to your experience but these are actual measured drops from multi-shot groups using my rifle, in one session, not extrapolated or generated by ballistic calculator.

I'm not surprised, though it will vary depending on scope height above bore axis and, to a lesser extent, barrel length/twist/actual bore diameter. Of course, if you zero at 100 you'll get quite a different chart!

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I'm no wildfowler but I've signed the petition. Has everyone signed the petition against EU legislation to tighten firearm controls, including semi-autos and "military-looking" firearms? We've got to stick together as we are a minority even if all shooting disciplines are lumped together.

I didn't notice any reduced killing effect when I used subsonic solids (Eley Club for eg.). However, the HPs don't always exit and if they do, presumably retain less energy.

Win HP subs in the semi-auto 10/22 Eley Sub HP in Sako Quad I will try the new 42gr win subs once available. The HPs do expand: