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  1. 21 minutes ago, Fil said:

    Hello G. 

    I once had a Laurona .410 sxs in for something and I measured the chokes for the customer. Left brl - .038  Customer asked, "what is it?"

    "A bit tight." was my reply. 😂

    Take care,

    PT

    There are a lot of guns like that out there, one of the reasons 410 has bad rep for patterning as at that choking, patterns are all blown and don't hold past 25 yds.

  2. Wood burns at lot lower temperature than coal.

    coal is fed air from below and generally burns as a solid whilst wood is fed air from above and generally burns as a gas.

     

    Hence need for a grate for coal (multi fuel burner) as allows air under and prevents damage from overheating to base of stove.

     

    I used to have a wood stove\multifuel stove with additional grate and backboiler. Only the coal got the flue to orange.

  3. 2 minutes ago, Zoli 12 guage said:

    AND it took 'em 3 shots as the first 2 missed🙄🙄🙄

    imagine the misses being Sig/Glock 9mm or  .40 rounds hurtling through your kitchen window😮

    Tasers are only good if you are standing still..... You know like Joe public standing off an officer... If some one is moving fast with a sword, tasers are not effective

  4. 13 minutes ago, wildfowler.250 said:

    Central Scotland . There doesn’t seem to be many shops up this way. Easy enough to find gun shops but a decent airgun shop, I don’t think we have one.

    If they are still open, Livelines in Armadale are airgun specialists.

  5. 52 minutes ago, oowee said:

     Meanwhile Russia stokes the flames of discontent. 

     

    The only people sowing discontent are as Milei puts it are the "left-tards" and they got given more than an inch and have in effect destroyed the Western countries.

    Another older saying is you cut your coat according to your cloth

    No so called progressive government has done that in tha last 50 years, hence the doodoo we are in now.

    Unfortunately, most lefties (and even most centralists) can't see any further than more taxes to pay for more benefits, instead of the opposite, less taxes (on inputs especially such as energy, gas, coal, electricity, diesel, food, etc etc etc) to allow the economy to grow and compete on the world stage.

    Why is the US economy still holding up?, they are reasonble self sufficient in oil, gas and electricity and they do not tax those inputs as the European countries have done, as such they allow people to afford things and businesses to produce things and therefore the economy grows.

    Why is the Russian economy on the up and up? No longer paying a tithe to the Western companies and banks thanks to the sanctions, supposedly to punish Russia but instead sheltering Russia form Western markets, cheap electricity, oil and gas for Russians but making energy expensive for Europe (including the UK) and industires are closing down and moving out and people wages go on energy and tax.

    Money is effectively a store of work (or energy), inexpensive energy means a productive and competative economy, inexpensive energy is and always has been the key to modern civilisation.

  6. If you recieve a notice through post and you have the ticket, when you write back to them you should include a photocopy/scan of the ticket but also a note stating that should they continue to pursue this matter, you will be seeking full cost recovery at the rate of £250 per hour for any further time they cause you to spend on this incident.

     

    That is the last you normally hear from them.

  7. 1 hour ago, Conor O'Gorman said:

    There has been lots of research providing evidence for birds suffering ill effects from eating lead shot as grit in the UK and worldwide. That's a key issue and if you are interested to find out more a good place to start looking at the evidence is the GWCT website.

    I wonder what the long term effects of birds using rusty squared off (sharp)  iron shot and broken bits of oxidised bismuth are....... all heavy metals in their bio absorbitive form (usually oxides) are poisonous and hard metals cause internal damage whilst passing through.

    For instance......

    Large chunks of iron can cut your internal organs, and high concentrations of microscopic iron can cause iron poisoning.   The symptoms of iron poisoning are fever, headache, dizziness, low blood pressure, fast/weak pulse, shortness of breath, fluid in the lungs, grey/blueish/jaundice skin, and/or seizures. Iron poisoning can eventually cause death by liver failure or circulatory system shock.

     

    As there have not been comparative studies, the PTB have no idea if lead shot, bismuth shot, tungsten or iron shot are any better than each other. There simply has been a focus on getting rid of lead.

  8. 34 minutes ago, BobbyH said:

    So just looking into home loading .410/12 bore for steel shot.

    looking on the sites I have found the following for .410

    5kg #9 Steel shot £19.50

    500 cork wads £13.50

    2.2kg powder £45

    300 primed 65mm cases £46.98

     

    So without the cost of the reloading dies and the setup, can I reload 300 rounds of .410 for under £100 or am I missing something?

    But I’m guessing all clay grounds don’t allow home loads?

    Missing Over Powder Card to act as seal behind cork wad and if RTO finish, Over Shot Card - I also assume you mean 1/2kg powder for £45.

    But no you aren't missing much.

     

    With regards equipment, Powder measure (I use a Lee Perfect Powder measurer), ramming dowel, electronic 100g 0.01g max min balance/scales and RTO tool are all you need if you have a drill press and are using primed cases.

     

    With regards using homeloads at clay grounds, they are banned in competition but who is going to tell them if you are out shooting a round?

  9. It is the horse owners responsibility to fence their animals in, in a way that they cannot cause damage to others property as owners, they are liable for any damage caused.

    Make them aware that the cost of replacing the damaged saplings is X  in writing and that you expect them to pay for it if it continues.

    If they are friendly neighbours, they should respect you and run their own top wire electric fence, problem solved.

  10. 2 hours ago, Rewulf said:


    The 'anything is better than Trump' camp would rather see a reincarnated adolph hitler in the White house :lol:

     

    They want Stalin or Mao.........  apparently Hitler didn't kill enough of his own countrymen....... 😮

  11. More ISSF enforced ******** based on nothing more than prejudice.

    There are generally no unsafe guns, merely unsafe shooters.

    17 hours ago, Scully said:


    He was using a Beretta auto he said he’d ‘built’ himself, although I didn’t ask him what that entailed. 
     

    Custom springs recoil/magazine, larger controls, re-worked trigger, on a gas gun.. enlarged ports, polished magazine slide, polished internals including bolt, bolt slide, stronger extractor, custom stock/foreends, custom loading gate,  etc and then normal extended forcing cones, custom chokes, possibly re-ribbed, custom bead sight, etc

    There is quite a lot you can play about with.

  12. 1 hour ago, oowee said:

    ^^^^^^ This. Not sure Putin's demise will be enough looking at the FSB grooming of replacements.

    The attrition of Russian cannon fodder is unreal and it's clear that that much of the munition fire rate (apart from artillery) is limited to production rates. Maybe there is hope from within Russian society standing together against their own slaughter. 

    The only good we can hope from this is that we are seeing a far stronger European commitment to self defence. 

    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

     

    Ukraine has lost over 1/2million soldiers so far, Russia is still sub 100,000 and those figure track with the American funded and supported data collection organisation (i.e. not Russian figures but Western).

    Approx 96% of casualties are being caused by bombs, artillary and mines with only 4% being rifle bullets.

    Again for repetition, the Russian aim is not to take ground at this stage, it is to demilitarise ukraine and reduce it's army to a non-capable fighting force by grinding it down and killing large numbers of troops which is what they are doing.

    Russia has something like 300,000 bombs in warehouses , and is dropping 100 plus FAB's (Glide bombs from 1000lb to 6000lb) per day,  Russia is firing up to 20,000 shells a day and hundreds of drones, they are clearly producing sufficient hypersonic and cruise missles that they have no issue in using them liberally as well as long range drones.

    whilst Ukraine is firing up to 3000 shells a day, no bombs and a couple hundred drones, ,  Ukraine has virtually no anti aircraft missles left (or units left to fire them), down to last few dozen stormshadow/scalp missles, few aircraft and fewer and fewer artillary pieces as they are eliminated at a rate of 5 to 10 a day.

    As for the Russian people, they are solidly behind Putin, of whom 40% even think he is being too soft on Ukraine and would sanction using tactical nukes to 'solve' the Ukrainian Nazi terrorist problem permanently.

     

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