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When I was a young lad, they filmed The Battle of Britain near us in 1968 I think it was. As a 10 year old, it was the most exciting thing I’d ever seen or heard. Not sure that my dad was so keen.
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Is the freestanding one from IKEA? I’ve got one tucked away for my cartridges, cleaning stuff and all the odds and ends.
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You’re all making me feel lazy. I’ve had the most peaceful few weeks reading, listening to music, watching songbirds in the garden with a few domestic chores on the side. It’s nice to have the excuse not to feel the need to run out doing things.
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Really interesting read, thank you for posting. Different cartridges I know, but I’ve found the Fiocchi F3s to kill very well.
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On an entirely unrelated note because I’m a bit bored, a few sim days ago I took all the odds and ends of fibre wad cartridges I had to tidy things up a bit. 21 and 24g from Eley and Hull were pretty much identical in recoil, but the Eleys seemed to be loaded with confetti. 30 and 32g game cartridges had a bit more thump, but nothing outrageous. The worst of the lot was Lyalvale Express English Sporter 28g.
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Chap on Twitter (sorry) says you can make yeast using dried fruit. The white bloom on it is yeast. Soak for a few hours to get yeasty water and add flour as you would for a sourdough starter. Sounded reasonable.
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Years ago, there was a place nearby that did house clearances. All the good stuff went to auction and they also had a shop that sold to the walk in trade.
There was always a couple of crates of bits and pieces no doubt from old chaps’ sheds. I used to get the occasional decent tool, but the bulk of it was strange things with that oily, surface rust feel that had me thinking ‘now what on earth is that?’ Just like the OP’s photo.
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On 29/03/2020 at 17:35, redial said:
As a schoolboy in the early 70's I used to try and find some at summer fetes.
Loved all the adverts and would cut out the slips to send for gun and equipment brochures.
Always remember the ads for Grey squirrel tails and Jay wings.
Happy days.
Yes! Me too. My dad kindly ordered it from the local paper shop.
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Ha ha yes. I bet I’ve put more through the Beretta in the last year than the other two combined have had in their entire lives!
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This is the rag from my hammer gun and an old s/s that I had a go at this morning. Much less muck than the Beretta, but there are fewer nooks and crannies and I do take better care of them. Still, I’m not proud of myself.
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The muck took 25 years to build up, so I suppose I shouldn’t feel too bad. I’m going to have a go at my hammer gun tomorrow and that’s had a century.
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Having nothing better to do while under house arrest, I thought I’d give the Beretta a deep clean. I give it what I thought was a reasonable going over after each outing, but I was deeply ashamed at the muck I removed! It’s probably half a kilo lighter now.
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Lovely little birds. Blue tits used to peck through the top of our milk bottles on the doorstep when I was a kid. I’m sure I’m not the only one on here it happened to.
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As above. When I was made redundant three years ago, I raced about looking for voluntary work and jobs around the house. Take time to savour your leisure after decades at work and don’t rush into anything. I now love the peace and quiet, have the time to help out family and do what I want when I want to do it.
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Just finished Fighting through to Kohima by Michael Lowry, a memoir about the same theatre.
I was struck by precisely the same thought when he described he and his men having great fun shooting at fleeing Japanese. Different world!
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Definitely 21g. Anything more will hurt after a bit (and I’m not particularly recoil sensitive).
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Do like a drop of Ballantine’s, but not seen the 12 year old.
My brother gave me a Welsh whisky (Penderyn) which is lovely and a bit different. He told me it was villainously expensive, but I’m worth it.
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Has everyone seen the news item about Tesco Christmas card supplier in China using prison labour?
Provided the conditions are humane, I really can’t see the problem. It’s hardly chain gang stuff.
Have I missed something? Any contrary opinions?
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If they put a red rosette on my wheelie bin it would be elected down our way, so a couple of half-hearted ones from Labour and one from the teenage Conservative hopeful.
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I have a pretty much identical one in 20b. Mine is early 1920s.
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Really enjoyed that, thank you for posting. You don’t miss many!
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On 23/11/2019 at 08:49, Walker570 said:
Would you believe this is the first time I have scrolled through this section and am impressed by how many old guns are saved from the scrap heap to live on.
I have three sxs shotguns, one is not worth talking about but the other two have some history. The 16 gauge Army & Navy is, apart from the stock original and almost by the skin of its damascus barrels went to be scrapped. Fortunately one of my colleagues saw a lady about to hand the gun in for destruction complete with it's origoinal case. He advised that even though the stock was broken it was worth some money and she could easily arrange to sell it. He told me and I went and did the deal. It came available because her husband had been struck with a stroke and could no longer shoot. I had it restocked to my measurements and used it almost exclusively for driven birds for many years. I then stumbled and broke the stock again and Bob who was the gunsmith alongside Garlands restocked it for me and was sad to hear he was no longer with us. The second sxs is my Grandfathers 12 gauge, a simple basic BSA and I am not sure how old. I think he purchased it just after WW2 as I seem to recollect it when I was but just a child and remember growing big enough to shoot it when I was 12ish so 1952.
He damaged the barrels shooting some old WW2 cartridges, believe maybe steel shot. I know he had a large box full of all sorts left over from Home Guard days. Anyway the gun was re sleeved and when I took possession when he past away I had the stock adjusted(bent) to fit me by the then stocker at the Grange Gun Company near Redditch. It gets an outing now and then on a dry day and still does the job. I have memories of my Grandfather flicking two grey partridges out of a covey flushed from a field of mangols and he had a problem with his right arm and had to shoot almost from the hip.
One memory which sticks in my mind was when he would visit the gun quarter in Birmingham and take me with him. The sights and smells as we moved shop to shop up Steelhouse Lane and Lower Loveday Street, entering earie dark passages and winding wooden staircases, passing small workshops with men bent over vices fettling small bits of metal. Last time I was in that area it had almost all been demolished. The history of the great British gunmaking industry destroyed.
Thanks for taking the time to post. It must be lovely to own guns with a personal connection like that.
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6 hours ago, lancer425 said:
Used cci its good, as discribedre application. I have tried a few oils typical linseed oil teak oil etc over years, but pure tung oil is good on wood. bought a litre of it of fleabay £12 its gone up a bit now at £14 but its cheap and it will last you years just maintaining a finnish etc.
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302200713043I’ve got some tung oil. The instructions talk about removing previous finishes. Is that necessary? My stock is oiled and I used CCL a couple of years ago.
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I had the pleasure of a trip for work to Lagos in Nigeria a few years ago. I was picked up each morning and evening to join a practically stationary queue of cars, all maintained as well as you might imagine judging by the exhaust fumes. It struck me that it was one road in one city in one country in the entire developing world, so anything we do about the environment is practically meaningless. I was feeling guilty at the time about having a car with a 2 litre engine too.
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I carefully filled up the Sunday before this all started, thereby missing out on cheap fuel.