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Might the two shots have been an almost instant bang-bang?
I have seen that happen when an ordinary single-trigger O/U was being held rather loosely in the hands (not against the shoulder). The gun moved back under recoil from the first barrel (so that the shooter effectively released the trigger) and then moved forward again to make contact with the trigger finger and discharge the other barrel.
In that instance the gun was being held in front of the man’s chest, pointing skywards, so there was no danger to anybody, but it gave him a bit of a shock.
Why was he doing that? He just wanted to fire a shot into the air and scare some birds, something he had done dozens of times with his old double-trigger gun.
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If holding the muzzles in boiling water doesn't cause enough expansion, you might try the chip pan (cooking oil boils at around 300oC). Certainly a lot safer than an oxy-acetylene flame (3150oC).
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Thank goodness there is at least one person left alive who made his own catapult rather than buying one from a shop.
3 hours ago, Bobba said:Looking back it was a lethal mix of boys own armoury.
I always took a cut-throat razor to school in the early 1960s, because it was an essential item in the dissection kit for anybody studying A-level biology. Perhaps no more lethal than the sheath knives carried by all those scouts and guides.
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Back in 2016, Cameron wanted the international community to provide more support for education of Syria’s children, encouraging them to stay in that region rather than flocking to Europe.
"A generation of refugees left out of school means a generation of young adults not only unable to get work but also more vulnerable to extremism and radicalisation,” Cameron warns. Unless the international community does more to help the countries on the border of Syria, he warns, hundreds of thousands of Syrians will continue to “fear they have no alternative but to put their lives in the hands of evil people-smugglers and risk the prospect of freezing to death in the Balkans or drowning in the waters of the Aegean in search of a future."
I am not a great fan of his, but I do think he was correct on that point.
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1 hour ago, London Best said:
Yeah! What could possibly go wrong eh?
You could be overcharged if the the system got wet. Maybe it was the wrong sort of rain.
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I was told, quite a long time ago, that a windscreen can usually be repaired if the damaged area is no larger than a one pound coin. Can anybody say whether that is still a reasinable guide?
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1 hour ago, Manish said:
It wasnt just stuff from Africa they were going to ban it was anything not taken in the UK. Eg if you went to spain partridge shooting and bought yourself back a feather you would be breaking the law
Are they seeking a total ban on imports of meat and other animal products?
Or is it considered OK to import a carcase if people want to eat it, but not if they want to look at it?
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Shotgun prices from the same 1958 catalogue. That year I paid a retired headkeeper £4 for a Harrington & Richardson S/B .410 (big step up from my BSA Cadet).
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1 hour ago, London Best said:
Eley “Alphamax” were available in the ‘60’s/‘70’s in 16 bore with a 1 1/8 oz load.
.... as published in the Parker Hale 1958 catalogue:
Right hand columns show basic price & purchase tax.
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19 hours ago, discobob said:
Apparently Saddo Khant has signed everyone up in London to going to some World Diet Sustainability model by 2030 which means a vast reduction in Red Meat
Is Khan suggesting that muslims in Greater London (said to number around 1.3 million) ought not celebrate Eid-el-Adha and Eid-el-Fitr with a feast of meat? Bad news for all the Halal butchers.
12 hours ago, Acerforestry said:Ayone thinking that because Khan has proposed this its predominantly a UK issue is way off, here.
How are populations such as the Masai and the Sami expected to survive in future? Do the anti-meat campaigners have much experience of growing food crops in places where the climate is hot and dry, or very cold?
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Perhaps easiest to use either OpenOffice or LibreOffice instead. Both are free downloads, and containmany of the extra features that have been added to later versions of the Microsoft products. I generally work with MS Office 2010, but occasionally need to use OpenOffice if somebody has sent me an email attachment created in the latest MS software.
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5 hours ago, Kalahari said:
North Yorkshire? Surely you mean the North Riding!
Nostalgia - come on holiday from the land of Ballykissangel to the land of Heartbeat.
To invert the OP’s question, where would one go to find “Old Ireland”, that paradise described in Gerald Fitzgerald’s book “Pot Luck - Rough shooting in the West of Ireland”, where snipe and duck shooting seemed to be so readily available? Has it disappeared, like the earlier world of “The Irish RM” as portrayed by Somerville and Ross?
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For the benefit of those who have a pair of guns and a loader, here is an extract from “The Shotgun”, by T D S Purdey and Capt J A Purdey (first published 1936).
I am definitely not qualified to comment further, as I have no personal experience of double gunning, or of top quality hardware. I hesitate to question the words of Messrs Purdey, but I would have thought that if one barrel had been fired, the other lock would still be cocked, regardless of the position of the safety catch.
The gun I generally use would be better described as “Eiber Unadorned” rather than “London Best” (an AYA No3 magnum, with a beavertail to prevent the left hand from getting too hot). However, I did in student days (mid 1960s) possess a tweed sports jacket with knobbly leather buttons.
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What’s all this? Driven game, grouse butts, double gunning, without any mention of walking up, roost shooting, decoying, wildfowling? Has Scully joined the gentry?
Returning to the serious point, I am sure at least one old book mentioned auto safety catches in relation to the risk of triggers catching on a twig (yes, ought to have unloaded before pushing through that sort of vegetation) or on those knobbly leather buttons that were once commonly found on tweed jackets. Presumably such accidental discharges have occurred, but do any PW members know of actual instances?
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6 hours ago, Fargo said:
..... an unpaid Dartford crossing both ways in a day (£6) which I seemingly forgot to pay a year ago.
Because of a house move I have my post redirected and genuinely have never received any letters from them.
Perhaps worth considering:
- Is it probable that you did actually make the crossings on that day?
- Have you been provided with copies of the original demand and any reminders?
- What dates are shown on those copies, and to which address were they sent?
- Was post being redirected by Royal Mail, or was there just an informal arrangement with another person?
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Father, I cannot tell a lie, I did it because I wanted to become famous. Check out social media to watch the video of me with my chainsaw.
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18 hours ago, Bigbob said:
So now a few shops are chipping in to pay for there own police ....
Is private security the way ahead? Do security firms improve the situation for the whole community, or just persuade criminals to concentrate on people who cannot afford to pay for protection?
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/cambs-town-hired-private-security-27780714
When I was growing up in that area the village had its own bobby who lived in the police house, knew nearly everybody by their first names, and rode out on his LE Velocette (at any time of day or night) in response to phone calls from farms in the area. Not much serious crime in those days, all a bit like “Heartbeat”.
Perhaps fewer people had anything worth stealing (Kimbolton has become rather gentrified since I left, almost 60 years ago), and the light-fingered locals probably had only a push bike for a get-away vehicle.
Shoplifting wasn’t so easy when the goods were kept behind the counter, and I imagine it still wouldn't be much problem for Argos or Screwfix. The situation with supermarkets and shoplifters reminds me of what George Bernard Shaw said about marriage - it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
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1 hour ago, Red696 said:
How do I get the firing pins to retract? I have put the barrels and forend back on but the slide catches the pins, have I screwed it?
Re-cock the gun (as explained by JohnfromUK), and hopefully the problem will be solved.
If the firing pin still sticks out, try pushing it back. It might go back fairly easily, in which case the little retracting spring is probably broken.
A new spring wouldn’t cost much, but unscrewing the retaining disc (the one with three holes, shown in your photo) can be a tricky job. Needs a three-pronged key to match, and attempts to do the job using a hammer and punch can make a nasty mess.
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Has anybody considered casting a female thread around the male thread? The fitting for a standard lamp would not be very highly stressed, and would only occasionally be removed and replaced.
I would be inclined to wrap the male thread in clingfilm, wind copper wire loosely around it, and fill the gaps with Araldite. Any available tube could be used for the outer mould - ideally something that was a snug fit over the circular base below the male thread.
I have repaired lots of broken objects using Araldite reinforced with wire. It might or might not prove satisfactory for this tripod thread, but the cost of trying would be negligible.
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1 hour ago, London Best said:
I keep toying with the idea of having my Dickson nitro proofed.
It dates from 1865 and has non-rebounding locks.Nitro proofing won’t make it stronger. Even if it passes, the abnormally high proof pressures may actually weaken it.
If it failed, what would you do with it? In the worst case, a beautiful example of the gunmaker’s craft could have been converted in to a heap of scrap metal. If it was returned intact, you might perhaps continue using it with black powder, or else hang it on the wall, but it wouldn’t be saleable with defaced proof marks.
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22 hours ago, oowee said:
The average daily car journey is 24 miles.
19 hours ago, oowee said:In a past life i helped develop the UK investment strategy for ev's in partnership with motor manufacturers.
An average of 24 miles per day is totally irrelevant to the potential purchaser of a vehicle. It would be equally true (and equally useless) to point out that a car’s average speed over the course of a day is therefore only one mile per hour.
A much more important consideration is how far a person might need to travel at short notice. An EV plugged in at home overnight could travel quite a long way next morning, but that is not much comfort if somebody needs to be rushed to a hospital 50 miles away in the early evening, before the battery has been recharged.
There are already lots of people who are very happy with their EVs. If development of batteries and charging infrastructure make an EV the obvious choice for the majority, that is what they will buy, without any need for legislation. If a tiny percentage living in sparsely populated rural areas find IC engines more suitable for their needs, those will make negligible difference to the country’s overall environmental impact, so why stop them?
Why do politicians want to ban the sale of petrol and diesel cars? Virtue signalling? A desire to exercise ever greater control over the population? Pressure from a group who helped develop the UK investment strategy for ev's in partnership with motor manufacturers?
What I do notice is that EV owners often seem enamoured by rapid acceleration. I suspect concern for the environment was not their top priority.
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56 minutes ago, elmar fudd said:
I don’t really want to leave it in the car until we shoot
Not especially risky if you do things in that order (look round the show first, then collect gun and shoot, and then go home).
Perhaps not advisable to shoot first, then be seen putting gun into a car and walking away to looks at the stands.
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First of all, check that it is not chambered for the old two inch cartridge. These are still listed by JustCartridges (Eley Fourten).
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By brooks too broad for leaping
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The rose-lipt girls are sleeping
In fields where roses fade.
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