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Wb123

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  1. I heard the really expensive leather lined ones are made in france but the rest in morroco. Aigle I understand still make everything in France.
  2. I dont object to paying for quotes and suspect it would be a better way to do things. Most of the people i send privatewards will phone secretaries for rough estimates of costs before choosing who to see for a serious paid consultation with a view to quoting for the full job. Do you really want to pay the extra it takes to cover your man going out and quoting five more jobs to get his next bit of work? If you pay for the quote or pay for the job it is included each way but you dont pay for the other four quotes he spent the time on and didnt get.
  3. Even as a conservative voter i do feel a credible opposition is important.
  4. I aleays buy my cartridges from places i want to keep in buisness for when i need an rfd nearby...
  5. I have some dents leather and wool ones i rather like.
  6. I quite like wind turbines in a strange way, less keen on the solar panels.
  7. Eat less do more. Very tricky to do. I find if i cycle to work, always take the stairs, walk briskly, and walk to the supermarket for every shop i can eat like a pig and stay a 32 inch waist (just). A few years ago i got fat and had to really watch what i ate, it was bloody miserable. Fortunately throwing out every item of clothing as i could fit into a smaller size meant there was no way back, and the habits gained have held up. Stopping eating when you no longer feel hungry rather than eating everything infront of you for the sheer pleasure of it also helps (it halved the amount i was cooking).
  8. I always used to give the cylinder a quick hone to deglaze till just rough to the thumbnail when changing rings. Never worried about running in after that and seemed to get away with it. Is it definitely blowing past the rings? Could you have cooked or unseated your valve stem seals?
  9. The problem is that they arent a government body. Your local health board is, they contract out to your gp. The firearms work is not in the contract and thus not paid. Other good examples of chargeable work which you might also think are one government body instructing another are fostering or adoption related medicals, driving licence medicals, medicolegal work where the police want reports or any professional opinion (witness statements are slightly different on paper, in practice not really different), cremation forms, school letters. As any other buisness some will do some work for free or as a good will guesture, others will run a tighter ship. If you dont like it you can vote with your feet and take your registration elsewhere. Depending on how profitable you are on the work that is actually paid you may find they are keen to keep you, or alternatively very glad to see you go.
  10. We have all done such things. It hurts a bit less when you can at least share the blame but in this case i would just take it on the chin, repair and crack on. If feeling charitable id put some marker on the sleepers for the next chap, it sounds like you wont have been the first or the last to hit them.
  11. Met in a nice relatively busy rural pub. Explained the situation on arrival to the landlord who set us at a nice big table by the fire and asked anyone else entering the oub where they were planning to sit. If up our way he explained what was going on. No trouble, good chat with the locals, all on cctv, decent beer, what more could you want.
  12. I have the chris batha book. The youtube videos i find much more useful than the book.
  13. To be fair what you and i do is likely very different to what people who compete for a living do. For a quick blast on the clays my light flicky side by side is wonderful, no way in hell would i shoot a 100 clay competition with it, let alone 200-300, or do 1000 a day of practice with it. Get whatever works for you, if shooting vast amounts over a single day something long and heavy may fit the bill, if going for a quick bit of fun, walked up roughshooting, or a game shoot, light and flicky can be just the ticket.
  14. I wonder if doing an inverse amnesty international would work, we could all write begging the maltese to keep him.
  15. Looks very much like my last one, check the dimensions of the other pin against this site... http://jefenry.com/main/FiringPinFabrication.php I couldnt find one off the shelf and ended up getting one made, again id be glad to put you in touch with the chap who did it.
  16. Whilst i am sure Mr Digweed could shoot a decent round with a potatoe gun my understanding is that the top end all use long barreled relatively heavy sporters for competitive sporting clays. This might be because their sponsors want them to as such a gun is supposedly easier for mere mortals to shoot, or it might be because they shoot so much in practice and competition that a light gun would be unmanageable. I will happily shoot 50 with my nice light side by side. 100 would be uncomfortable, 1000 a day in serious practice impossible. I do seem to shoot better with the side by side than the over under though for the first 50.
  17. i had the same problem a while back with a cheap gun without a pin readily available. The first time done by local gunsmith for about £50 and took six weeks. The next time i got one made for £20 and fitted myself, turn around time four days. I will happily pass on the details of the chap who made it if you need.
  18. A mate was reconditioning and selling on a load of old gear that would do this. I think he was charging £150 for a reconditioned set. This could work out a good deal cheaper, ill see if he still has any listed on ebay. He doesnt seem to have any listed but with kit available from £40 its probably worth a punt to see how it does.
  19. Hello patentable cannabinoids have been tested and licenced without issue, and seem to work well for their licenced indications. This debate however seems to be more akin to 'herbal cannabis has anecdotal evidence of effect in all manner of conditions, why cant it be prescribed for them?' Where an indication appears well founded and a viable market for a drug exists that will allow adequate return on investment we all trust the free market to embrace development and produce adequate supporting evidence of safety and efficacy. The problem is we dont seem to be looking at a clear indication with a viable market. People seem to be asking why we do not use a readily available substance not open to commercial protection as a licenced medication, to do so cannabis should be subject to the same scrutiny of safety and efficacy as any other medication. The unstated assumption from many contributors seems to be that the large part of the costs involved in drug development are in finding a suitable chemical or group of chemicals, which in this case is already done. The problem comes that actually 90-95% of the development cost comes in the clinical trials and licencing applications process. For a single indication one would expect costs of the order of a few hundereds of millions. Once licenced for one indication much of the phase one data would likely be transferrable but phase two and three (the really expensive bits) would need doing again. Clearly industry funding is a nonstarter if there is no potential return. Charitable or goverment level funding could be an option but such work is not without risk of harm. We know drugs of potential abuse with licences are regarded by the 'unprescribed users' as safe, and unregulated consumption becomes an issue (in part due to availability of supply as well as perceptions). personally i strongly suspect from tales my patients relate cannabis in one form or another (tea seems to be most commonly reported where i have worked), can be a useful agent for some people with some symptoms. Some of the compounds likely to be responsible have been licenced accordingly, although costs are such that they are not widely prescribed. When these drugs come off patent they are likely to become much more widely used, new compounds may be licenced for new indications and patents may be extended. Nobody will be able to support the financial cost of producing licenced medication level data about cannabis as a street drug. To do so would also come with significant risks of harm to the greater fabric of society which would have to be measured against the potential gains. The big issues with encouraging recreational cannabis use for me are lung disease (you see some spectacular cannabis related damage, the last rough estimate i heard was that it is about 50 times more destructive than an equivalent amount of tobacco), mental illness (chicken and egg issues here), and perhaps most profoundly it takes so long to metabolise to a level of impact on reaction time comparable with the drink drive limit that after a dose one should not be driving for several days. This is a huge issue where driving is so central to how our society functions. Watch this space for when the current medications come off patent and become cheap enough to use for unlicenced indications, but until then cannabinoids are not going to fly clinically for the myriad of untested applications the popular press advocate.
  20. nabilone, sativex, there are a few licenced cannabinoids and have been for ages. If you want to do the research required to match the level of evidence needed for efficacy and safety it will take a good deal of cash which there is no model to get a return on investment for with the 'herbal' form. By all means stump up the cash to do the work charitably, but the level the bar has been set at for drug licencing is such that the sums required are huge. It would take the biggest fundme of all time to run the trials required for even a very simple and straightforward licence application.
  21. He probably doesnt know ownership has changed. Have a pleasant chat with the chap down the pub about it before getting worked up.
  22. Id love to but given no idea where i will be come August it is hard to meaningfully approach a club.
  23. Wood. I know all the rational arguments favour that plastic **** but it just seems wrong!
  24. I rather fancy one as a deer rifle, i contacted the importer for a price and never heard back.
  25. Pah, i have an even cheaper way! Not a borehole, currently living in northern ireland so the mainland tax payer covers half the water bill, the local tax payer covers the other half. People here seem to have no idea how much it costs to run a water network, they just think water is free as it falls from the sky. No concept of treating, delivering, and removing the stuff.
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