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  1. My last few places have been chosen for their ability to work on some loupes but the last chap was definitely keen to talk shooting (I have never felt the need to use anything other than my usual glasses).
  2. Seems a sensible approach, he should be able to use it to drag the french kicking and screaming into the modern world.
  3. Last place I think was £30 a year which included insurance for the year and then £7 for the fifty clay shoot. The place before that I think was £45 a year and I can remember what I got for it but I remember working out urban paid for itself inside two months.
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    glasses

    Might be worth popping down to screwfix and getting better a few different shapes and styles of safety specs to see if you can find something that doesn’t fog. I find my workshop safety specs tend to fog but reckon that is due to the shape.
  5. I went from shooting right handed to left handed and I am convinced the fundamental design of a double trigger side by side was meant to be shot left handed. The positioning of the rear trigger to the left is so natural when shot from the left shoulder and very much more awkward from the right shoulder. It does seem to need a longer length of pull than a single trigger to work well though. The top lever also feels like something designed by a leftie.
  6. I shoot both eyes open (even for the rifle) strongly left eye dominant. I am right handed but shoot left handed.
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    glasses

    Oddly I’ve never found it to be a problem when shooting, it is a nightmare when cycling though. Is it something in the shape of your frames or how far up or down your nose they sit?
  8. My over under is probably my least favourite gun. Trying to find a side by side with a decent length of pull, and a comb height to suit, even before contemplating the fact I shoot left handed is tricky. People were shorter it seems back then. I borrowed a wonderful aya the other day for a 100 clay shoot. It was fitted with long heavy barrels, a nice high comb, and a weight on a par with my over which I would love to buy for days on the clays but the owner won’t sell. Most side by sides seem to be too short in the stock, too low in the comb, and too light weight for most of my use. Though I do have a lovely sidelock for walked up stuff but it was very hard to find and needs a slip on stock extender to fit. If I could find a left handed matador or something like the above mentioned aya I would be very tempted.
  9. I was rather miffed to spot mole valley (admittedly not an independent) selling ‘heavy duty’ tow hitches for £60 that are rated for 1500kg. The 3500kg rated version of the same thing be available from other people online at £30 including postage.
  10. Riding on rollers rather than an exercise bike is a whole lot more engaging...
  11. If you are going to work on it yourself and are clever with the newfangled electrical systems they are probably ok. Im not that good so won’t go newer than disco one.
  12. To be fair my current employer have been known to fire people for answering questions of the nature of the origional post with anything other than a tale of milk and honey.
  13. Last I looked LPG only made sense if you were accidentally filling your car from the heating tank. Massively more expensive than oil or electricity (though that was a few years ago).
  14. I bought Batha’s breaking clays. Found it easy to read but shortly thereafter moved to somewhere I get to shoot much less so I can’t say if had any impact on my shooting (I now shoot much worse than before moving).
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    Wage packets

    I have had work paid in cash but I suspect it may have been never put fully through the books. My main income goes through paye and arrives (usually) in my bank account.
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    Smart home

    Mine has electricity to every room including some of the sheds!
  17. Probably an innocent cock up. When doing work on timesheets I always take a photo now before submitting, and always check what is paid against my records, I have never yet worked somewhere that always got it right. Many of my colleagues just accept what must be regular underpayment so I can see why places try it on. Assuming you have records of what you worked this should all work out but I rarely get these things settled in under three months. You could issue a notice before action which I think gets you base rate plus eight percent from then to payment but if you want to keep working for those people or get a reference it may be ill advised.
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    Christmas Greed

    I bought 12 whole salmon one year, kept the pair of us having salmon twice a week for close to a year. It was lovely.
  19. If you want 30-40 x magnification (a lot!) a spotting scope and tripod is probably more appropriate. I have a set of 8x42 leicas which are fantastic but out of your price range, a Chinese 7x50 which are much lighter and nicer to carry but since getting the leicas the image feels awful.
  20. If you want left handed I think they still make the lefty 452, but not a lefty 455.
  21. I use rape when available for the right price. Most of the cash and carry stuff is soy with additives that are supposedly rather problematic, even then it tends to be 90p a litre around me and you do then have to tell HMRC how much you used and pay the additional 15% vat. Some people claim to run it without problems though. Heating oil is insufficiently lubricating for most systems but is legal in my understanding if you declare it and pay the extra tax. Some engines allegedly run well on a mix of white/red and heating oil You can register quite easily as a disposal agent so takeaways can give you their oil but again around by me they expect you to pay them for it. For my mileage (12 tanks of diesel a year) I don’t tend to bother these days as I couldn’t make significant annual savings. If I was doing a job needing a commute I would look at getting something on lpg, there were some factory astras and focuses that ran on it plus various small vans. I had a mate who could get ibcs filled by a chap who was importing the stuff by the hundereds of tons, even then the commodity rate at present would be about 61p a litre before paying transportation from the mill, mark up etc. You would probably need to be doing a lot of miles to make a substantial saving, especially given if a private user and so inclined it may be substantially easier and cheaper to budget for the fines for being caught on red. I don’t do this due to the nature of my work but many do. If and when I need to burn more diesel I will probably try and contact mills about filling ibcs and see what kind of price they can do.
  22. I have a 452american and love it to bits. I dont remember a huge amount about the different variants, I jumped on the first left handed one I found at a good price.
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    Knives in cars

    I only ever use locking knives. I rely on my hands to make a living and have seen enough accidents with folders to prefer my chances with the cps choosing whether to pursue the law. My usual knives are a small carbon opinel and a Swiss army job with a hoof pick and a locking blade.
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