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  1. Its not unusual to see people on the train with a shotgun slip, or wandering round the market at home. This is admittedly in a town with a large and very popular gunsmith. I wouldnt think twice about taking a slip on the train or around town if i had good reason, ie picking it up from the smiths and doing a few errands on the way back to the car. I normally leave it in the slip on the back seats however when going to the supermarket after a trip to the clays.
  2. Three colleagues and i were sent from hull to oxford for a weekend a while back, it was all planned and confirmed weeks ahead yet they still bought us fully open tickets at roughly two grand for the four of us. I used to get to the southwest from fife for £12.50 on the other hand when trying to go as cheaply as possible. Plan ahead and the train can be excellent value.
  3. Im moving to Northern Ireland in two weeks and keen to take up wildfowling. Can i get involved?
  4. Tullibardain 1988 was my favourite ever (a run of second fill ex bourbon casks finished in sherry buts bottled at 20yo).
  5. Fair play to him, let him shoot however he wants. I quite like the idea of moving the barrels further below a narrow rib to reduce the intrusion into ones vision.
  6. £650 ono Needs some welding to the rear end of the chassis and sills. Run out of time to do it myself and moving soon for work so it has to go. No MOT Head gasket replaced back in febuary Green High/low ratio and diff lock working, slight synchro crunch between first and second. Would go back on the road with a couple of days work or make a shoot wagon. In Cottingham, HY16.
  7. I have protacs and love them to bits.
  8. An update! I sent off a few quote requests, responses ranged from 20-60 pounds for a pin. I went with Dave of Blackwater Precision Engineering in Crawley who did a fantastic job for a cracking price. He trades on eBay as 500david and i would definitely go to him again. The gun now appears to work beautifully on the snapcaps and will have a go at some clays this weekend.
  9. Me and the other half spend £40 a week plus 200 cartridges at £150/thousand. Total about £300 a month, plus at least forty quid in fuel for related driving.
  10. Prices seem to vary massively. In hull the cheapest hull compX i could find were £180 per thousand. If i drive 250 miles to my parents place i can get them for £150 a thousand. Im moving to northern ireland shortly and have been advised to stock up ahead of moving, apparently the restriction on quantities really pushes up the prices. Here you can get a good price buying 5000 a time. A chat with the firearms licencing chaps in NI suggested the only way to get a good rate was to buy 10,000 a time (but still more pricey than the mainland due to the storage issues).
  11. Duncans guns denied having any firing pins, the first quote back to make one was £60. I will be asking a few other places for quotes.
  12. Seems fair enough, certainly all of the medical opinion i have encountered on the matter supports either refusing to respond or levying a charge commensurate with the potential medicolegal risk. If people stick to refusing to pay we may with luck see the removal of GP involvement. Its notable the BMA were reportedly completely against the current system but despite their complete objection are still quoted as having been involved in producing the current state of play.
  13. Wb123

    Lock Picking

    Ive bumped by way into a few places, all where rooms have the same locks and a high cut key is handy.
  14. Me too, if anything my impression had been a bbc bias towards leave but slight enough to make me think its pretty balanced. Im still very much on the fence.
  15. Many thanks for the help everyone. Currently near Hull. http://jefenry.com/main/FiringPinFabrication.php This looks very similar and would if correct provide measurements for someone with a lathe to work from.
  16. Bought a cheap lightweight overunder as the other half wont use anything with any weight. She likes it well enough so we go after clays everyweek but it is rather rough. A firing pin went last year and was £50 and six weeks to replace, another has failed. I wouldnt entirely object to going back to the gunsmith who did it last time but it would mean difficulty escaping to go shooting for some weeks and a total of six hours driving (an hour and a half each way for two round trips). Does anyone recognise what kind of mechanism this is? Is there an off the shelf firing pin that will fit? Pictures at https://www.dropbox.com/sh/nkibsexih3v51qh/AADWKai4FO48V1XCEC64Yjnha?dl=0
  17. Around where i am i see loads of vote out posters but find very few people planning to vote out. Im pretty much on the fence but the vast majority of people i speak to seem to be planning to vote to stay. I am starting to suspect the out lot are simply much more vocal whilst the unexcited majority favour an in vote.
  18. I struggled greatly finding used left handed guns. I budgeted for a new sp or similar browning but couldnt find anything within a two hour round trip with one. An akkar churchill was the best fitting gun i could find anywhere vaguely close and ive been very happy with it.
  19. Recently acquired a lovely bps 12g. Fixed full choke though so to stick some steel through it will mean either getting the choke opened out or finding another barrel.
  20. The bigger picture here is fears in GP land re liability. If they are expected to take the risk dump with no payment they may well stop answering requests from the police, im not sure that is conducive to getting new grants or renewals efficiently for you or anyone else in the area. Certainly where i work at present the partners are looking to set up a no pay no response approach to the letters from the police, we get two or three requests a week.
  21. My diastolic varies by well over 50 depending on machine and what i am up to. I would regard a change of 16 as well within acceptable variation between readings a few minutes apart for cheap electronic kit, and definitely acceptable for two readings nine years apart. My blood pressure gets checked a fair bit when i suspect equipment is playing up, a slow warm day will see as low as 70/30, when all hell is breaking loose 170/100.
  22. I was having a chat with one of the cleaners at work and was surprised to find they were on a good bit more than me, £18 an hour! Jump ship, there will be something better out there.
  23. They occur as the socket comes forwards out of the socket, the recoil is pushing in the opposite direction. Usually seen in recurrent dislocations but sometimes one unlucky one. Now I don't doubt that the recoil will hurt on a healing tear, but to have caused it the forces would all be in the wrong direction. I would be interested to hear the physic's thoughts, let us know.
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