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Wb123

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  1. What is different to stock of cartridges vs stock in BT or the like? You sell at the best price you can get when you want to sell.
  2. Of course not, that is just perverted.
  3. I will be at work, so possibly toast, but with luck the canteen will send us some food.
  4. Curses, I will have to trawl the dark web for tonights selection of penguin death clips. I'd just stocked up on baby lotion in anticipation of quite the bonanza. I must write to the director general of the BBC at once!
  5. I would absolutely use the bolts that came with it. I used expanders last time and it was a sod when the time came to move. I couldnt get the last of the studs out but mercifully the landlord didn't inspect the inside of the relevant cupboard. This time i used expanding bolts again but tiny ones and big repair washers, in the hope they will budge when its time to hit the road again. My FEO was very reasonable about this. Next time I will be using ones like yours.
  6. Wb123

    Bonfire night

    I love firework season, I'm all for fireworks all year round. If we object to fireworks (which are hardly an all year or all day issue at present) I don't think we have a leg to stand on regarding complaints about shooting noise.
  7. Not perfect but unless a functional issue I'm not sure it would bother me.
  8. My other half lost hers, a quick email followed by a letter and a cheque for £2 got a replacement by return of post.
  9. A northern ireland board could be handy, there is shoot ni but it seems pretty deserted.
  10. Entirely hypothetical for the avoidance of doubt. Elderly relative in full possession of their faculties is moving house and considers passing on two firearms. Both have been in the family for two previous generations and neither have ever been documented officialy as belonging to anyone. The relative has no licence but has been using both until about twenty years ago. Now one (walking stick .410) has spent 15 years by the front door, and the rifle has been in the broom cupboard for the last few years. Is there any way for them to go into legal ownership without dropping said relative in a pile of muck? (if they existed of course).
  11. Ring your feo. I have been very impressed with the ones i have dealt with here. Failing that any clay ground should fill out the permission form for clays only, that should get the ticket, then you ask your farmer to provide one for vetmin and send it in.
  12. I tend to buy lasers around the £35 mark and have no reliability issues. Justbmake sure you get one you can refil rather than needing to buy a new toner cartridge.
  13. I'd go cheap and disposable or more expensive. I still use a macbook I bought in 2006 as my only computer but then I paid through the nose for it. The new ones don't seem as user serviceable though.
  14. I hate being in the position of straddling both sides in the matter. No group is happy with this mess but everyone blames each other. A well coordinated resistance from all sides would nip the matter in the bud to everyones benefit but instead we just argue and try to avoid looking at it from each others perspectives. For anyone in doubt: Shooters - a silly expensive extra hoop to jump through. Doctors - a risk dump taking time and resources away from the work in gp land they are paid by results to do (this is unpaid unless a charge levied, and costs time that could otherwise be making money whilst also adding to medicolegal risk). The BMA - a chance to be a bunch of 'socially responsible twunts' in the governments back pocket by supporting this pile of **** and shafting everyone else (i want my union, who i pay handsomely, to represent my interests and mine alone). The police - a chance to transfer legal risk to the doctors and thus any claim for compensation onto the medicolegal insurers The insurers - (who currently charge a around £15k pa for a full time gp) have yet to pass comment but this sort of thing they are known to exclude unless substantial extra premiums are added. I suspect they will price it out of the market in time by asking so much to cover such work that the fees that would have to be charged are unviable, if it is allowed to go on for so long. Basc - stuck between a rock and a hard place. My preferred option for people to take is to write a short note to your gp along the lines of 'sorry to bother you with this rubbish, as you may remember i dont tick any of the pertinent boxes. I feel it best to avoid this kind of work being pushed onto the medical profession when already so stretched, and I would be most obliged if you help resist the imposition of this extra work and help discourage any expansion of such work dumping by not responding'. The last analysis i found for costs of running a surgery reckoned one needed to be 'earning' circa £200 per hour per doctor to cover staff, building, and indeminty costs, so a 15 minute review of the notes with a very quick reply (optomistic if this includes the old paper records) for a fee of £50 plus is entirely reasonable to my mind. The coding system is suitably unreliable that i would most definitely want to skim the notes and letters before responding.
  15. Assuming an EMIS system codes seem to split into either 'current problems' or 'past problems'. Often something very pertinent and life long ends up in past problems reasonably well hidden away with forty instances of viral illness, athletes foot, and all sorts of detritus, whilst something entirely self limiting and uninteresting from two years ago stays in current problems. In theory at least that is the best place in the system to place such a code where it might be seen in a consultation (not that I ever tended to read the 'current problems' list when doing a GP stint, I asked the patient what else was going on). The whole system of medical records is entirely unsuited to this sort of thing. When warning flags for children at risk or violent patients not to be seen by unescorted female members of staff etc disappear into the ether the concept of these flags being robust is a joke. It is a shameless risk dump from the police adding unpaid work to GPs, who consequently should charge like a wounded rhino or refuse to do it. Shooters in turn should also challenge what is a bonkers system by asking their GPs not to respond where appropriate.
  16. Very interesting. I have always gone for the most open chokes (currently shooting skeet and skeet in my over under) but might try sticking a 1/2 in one barrel.
  17. Last time i looked at reloading it was not cost saving on cheap clay bangers. For anything more exotic it did however seem to slowly save money, if you regard the process as worth labelling as entertainment rather than work. It did work out cost effective per hour as work but only once i worked out my take home hourly rate for local extra work after all costs and deductions.
  18. I love my BPS to bits but would like somewhat less choke. It seems a crime to have the original full choke opened up, but where would one look for another barrel (12 and something open enough to consider steel).
  19. I wish my local ground was open Sundays. When i moved here spending dropped to third of the amount on clays and cartridges. Good for the wallet, bad for my aim, and a shame for the local ground.
  20. In the process of moving house the girlfriend has lost her set of gunsafe keys. Fortunately i still have mine. To make spares the local locksmith want £35 per key plus the cost of the blanks, for less than that i can buy another gdk safe and swap the locks over, surely though somewhere has the locks for sale. The mounting bolts seem to be on a 10x70mm square between the centres which is larger than all the locks i can find online. Has anyone been down this road before and found the correct locks for a good price? Another potential avenue would be to get the keys cut mail order from the codes on the heads, but i cant find anywhere offering this type of key online.
  21. Contact Wabbitbosher. I was most impressed with his gunroom which appeared reasonably easy to replicate (to be fair without an actual discussion about how he secured it, I felt it would be rude to ask under the circumstances).
  22. Old enough to predate the serial number based letter codes, I'm not entirely sure what it is. If you can decode it the serial number is 506267. (under the top lever, no letters)
  23. Very old Miroku has its dangers. My better half bought one and it kept intermittently miss firing on one barrel, after a few trips back to the dealer she bought it from they stripped it entirely and found a hairline crack in one of the mainsprings. No spring was available to order at all but they eventually found one somewhere to replace it. That said the newer ones apparently have excellent parts availability.
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