RockySpears

Ice froth. They can get bigger: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ice+circles&atb=v34-3a_&iax=images&ia=images RS

So I don't need anything, not even an FAC, if borrowing someone else's gun, who already shoots on the land legally? That's like, well, an open ticket for people who do not even posses an FAC but have buddies who do. Kind of makes a bit of a mockery of anyone being given such restrictive Conditions in the first place. More nonsense in the Gun laws? RS

Result, "In this case you will need to send in your FAC together with a letter / note requesting authority to shoot quarry /vermin on land. You will need to provide details of one of the pieces of land that you have permission to shoot on together with the owner details or person who has given you the permission and which firearms you want to use (I assume it will be your .22RF rifle). Once the condition has been added to your FAC you will be able to shoot on other land provided you have permission of the owner etc. If you want to use your S.1 shotgun to shoot clays we can also add a condition to allow you to do this. There is no fee for this." Thank to Cleveland FEOs RS PS If you want to invite me along .....

If only I had mentioned Capita! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42885211 RS

This is exactly how money is laundered. You get a shed load of cash from your drug sales, how do you get it into a Bank that will not arouse suspicion? You start a Taxi firm or a restaurant or a building business and it does really well and takes in a lot of cash. You pay this into a Bank, with an accountant who shows it is all about the business doing well. Nice clean money in the Bank. You even pay tax on it! Market stalls, hairdressers and a bookies are also acceptable washing machines for cash. I'm sure there are businesses that you know, that never seem busy, but have been going for years and you never really see them as "busy". Large amounts of cash are hard to deal with without thorough planniing, but then again, so are small ones. I have been investigated for Tax purposes, so I know what they look for. Let's say you get a relatively small amount of cash each month from a new "venture", say £250. So you buy your normal things, groceries, petrol etc and do not need to draw as much cash out as you used to. IF they look into your affairs, and they do do random hat-pulls for investigations, they notice that your outgoings suddenly fall, over a year they will work out pretty much what the amount you ARE NOT spending is (they wanted 3 years accounts from me, not just my business, but all personal accounts, including joint and childrens). Now I was a good boy, and it was a pain in the butt and quite expensive for me to go through, but they were thorough and made you feel guilty at every opportunity, even with genuine mistakes, however small. They hate cash. They want rid of cash and they will make it look like they are doing it "with the countries best interest at heart". In the end, it is about control, RS

Cheers all, email dispatched. Does this count as a "Variation" and a request for another £20 ? RS

So I can go out with a shotgun any where? No permissions needed? My FAC is for target shooting only. So I need to have my FAC conditions changed if I am asked out Rabbiting I guess, RS

if I am asked out on a shoot, not at a club or range, but over farm/moor/rough land, do I have to check if that land is suitable, or do I have to check ownership etc etc. Basically I was invited out last minute, but could not make it and would not have had time to check anyway. Can I say "He said it was OK", or do i have to check with the Police first? Is a piece of paper that appears to show permission good enough, or do I have to check myself? I'm a novice, so simple answers are appreciated, RS

Total it all up I bet it comes no where near £3.4 billion. Top exec pay is mostly irrelevant as using the money for the lower paid would give each employee a negligible amount, let's say that the top guys are over paid £10,000,000 a year, by 20,000 employees that is £500, not going to change much is it? Not even a new gun. Pensions are not the companies issue are they? That is for the Pension Trustees to sort out, surely the company is only on the hook for their legally required contributions and not any deficit incurred by mal-investment or poor yields? The numbers are just too big, the debt and the losses too much to pay back even at 0% interest because the money borrowed was to off-set losses or buy-back shares and not invested in the company to produce better profits from increased productivity. A lot is said about productivity these days, and the way the MSM portray it it is due to lazy employees, whereas most increases in productivity come from investment in new machinery/systems and processes and that simply is not happening. Could be that inflation will save the day, good dose of inflation lessens the debt burden tremendously. Many of our parents/grandparents had huge chunks of their mortgage inflated away, leading to them doing well for the most part, but the legacy is coming home to roost. The Bank of England (and all the other Central Banks) have created a monster they cannot control any more. Reducing borrowing costs to near zero means that every one has binged on cheap credit. If inflation continues its climb, the only tool the BoE has in its toolbox is Interest Rates and normalising them will kill all these companies all the quicker with the interest due on Debt. The mortgage holders will struggle, which means that they will not buy extra things, which, paradoxically, leads to Deflation, probably a more deadly economic situation than Inflation as people (especially those without mortgages or debt) put off any spending today, knowing things will be cheaper tomorrow. We live in Interesting Times, RS

It is not just Carillion though: I took a quick look at the UK contractors for HS2, only 3 out of 10 at first look are British: Balfour Beatty - Pension deficit £3.4 Billion !!!! in 2017, other debt of £966 million. (figures from Motley Fool) Sir Robert McAlpine - £100 million pension deficit, £100 million loss in 2 years, 2013-2015. Profit for 2016 £1.6 million Costain - Pension deficit £33 million, Revenue £1.1 billion which gave them a profit of £28 million or 2.5% before Tax Can any one see good news here? RS

Many Government schemes are still Defined Benefits, teaching for example. When my wife retires she will get a proportion (according to her length of service) of her average salary over her last 3 working years. Even as just a standard teacher, not management, she is looking at a Pension in the region of £25-30,000pa after 35 years service. This does not relate to what she has paid in at all and any shortfall will be made up by the Tax payer. The same for Police, Firebrigade etc etc. It is for this reason that many of the terms are being altered to get away for defined benefits. Crazily low interest rates and "Money Printing" by the Bank of England are going to bring many companies to their knees, Carillion is not the first and is probably just the beginnings of a series of major collapses on the way. Companies have borrowed huge sums of money on very low rates, but have not invested this money in production or increasing productivity, instead choosing stock by-backs (basically buying their own shares to increase the share price), mergers/acquisitions etc. Now this money needs to be paid back, and as interest rates creep up, paying this back will get harder and harder, until - Carillion. RS

Fired off 20 pairs today, no "extra padding". Both barrels every time. Thank you all for the help and the learning. I can now disassemble my gun and make a mess of it or make it work. Looks all OK now, thank you all. I will have my father in law make me an inch or so extra "solid" extension. He like doing things with wood and it keeps him busy. As a note, the safety is put on after each cocking, the bar is still in place and all seems OK. Thank you, RS

Thank you all for not thinking me an idiot. Tomorrow I will try the " no extra padding" route as it seems my gun works fine (so long as I bang it on the floor), and there may be operator error. Gunman - " I should have said barrel selector " this feels very positive (from the switch side) whether It actually does its job, is another. Thank you all, RS PS. If my shoulder is in harms way, I may need a semi-auto 2+1, gas operated.

Gunman - " ,left hand one looks to be very compressed " it was, but I got the 2nd barrel to fire (eased the inertia block over) and both springs are relaxed OK, Cock, safety off, dry-fire 1st barrel OK, safety stays off, but no 2nd barrel, bang gun on the floor, block that is lifted by trigger moves across, 2nd barrel fires. Re-cock and everything moves to its starting position and the safety is reset (but I have read that some guns do this, so that is OK). But this does not happen with live fire. Is it possible to absorb too much recoil? The gun is a bit short for my liking, so as well as the recoil pad fitted, I had two other pads, one rubber, one leather to extend the stock. Could I have taken out too much recoil? Remembering back, it was intermittent, but frequent, that I had the issue (and intermittent problems are the worst). I feel I am about to be called a bit of a numpty. Please remember Fair Imogen's request for 2018: Thank you for your help. Will try out a live test, tomorrow if possible, RS

Which bit gets reset by the recoil? I did not realise there was any involvement of recoil? Would it be the "inertia block"? under the safety switch? (the name fits this description). I could maybe do this by hand if it is OK to dry-fire with the stock off, Thanks, RS

Firstly, apologies for my total lack of correct terminology, I know the words, but not yet which is what. The gun fires for real (not just dry-fire) Dry-firing get a click both times, just the safety get re-applied between shots. The block under the safety (inertia block?) engages the sears? fine, and the barrel selector switch, mounted on top of the safety, changes which sear? is selected first. My thought was to dry-fire without the stock, but with the barrels, and see what might be pushing the safety off, my guess is that it is the long bar from the safety that goes into the housing containing the firing pins. Question: Will dry-firing without the stock on be an issue? Springs and things are not going to ping off because the stock is not there to hold them in, are they? "Check the safe selector is positive so that clicks firmly from one side to the other so the block engages on both sears and that it is not loose" - actually it just slides back and forth, there is no positive "click" or lock when moving the safety forward (off). Will look more tonight when I get home, Thanks, RS

Wow, Stock off, lots of 1/4" extension bars and 12mm socket. Sadly, or not, it all looks clean and tidy inside, light oil all over, assume that this is good. Open to suggestions:

There is a screw under the trigger guard but I can see no way of removing the guard. I can see a bolt(when the butt is off) but it has to be the deepest socket I have ever seen and it is 8" down inside the stock! I feel a new set of tools coming on. Can't believe there is not an easier way in. and on the outside:

Now just to confuse things, I have recently acquired a "Lancer" O/U and it does exactly this. Each barrel fires, but the safety interjects itself every time. Push safety forward again, second barrel fires. Keeping the safety forward does not work, you must pull it back and push forward again (dry-firing snap-caps). I tried this evening to have a look myself, but, unlike my Winchester Pump, which I can strip down, I cannot seem to do more than break it into 3 bits, forend, barrels and stock. I did not spend a fortune, but I thought I would get some use out of it for social shooting. Any ideas on getting inside? I can at least clean up inside if it is "swarf" or such. There are no screws or or pins visible to have a go at, Thanks, and apologies if this is hijacking the thread, RS

What if the key is OEM? OEM keys are tied to the components making up a pc/laptop, so it may not let you do this as the new laptop does not have exactly the same components. Look at the label with the Key on it, it should say if it is OEM or not, Just thinking, RS

If you have any device used for watching/recording live TV, then you still need the licence. Even using something like a friends SkyGo, on your wifi at your unlicensed home is a no no. RS

Watch out you are not "converting" your personal account. Once it becomes a business account you cannot change it back. RS

Have to say, destroying one habitat to provide a different habitat because it might get pretty, fluffy things that people will pay to come and see is a bit off to me. But the environmentalists will think it a great idea though. Sorry, not a good idea, IMHO. Nice walks too apparently: http://www.christophersomerville.co.uk/?p=250 http://www.doddingtonnorthforest.com/ RS

How about the various enclosures by people like Maplin (or ebay or amazon etc etc) ? There is bound to be one the right-ish size. https://www.maplin.co.uk/search/?text=enclosure Yours, RS

If you do not have the cables newly laid to your premises by the likes of Comcast/NTL/Virgin/any other "cable" provider, then you are using BT infrastructre. As a one time Frames Engineer (Frames are where the actual, physical connections to your home are made) I can assure you that whether you have Sky, Talk-Talk, Orange etc etc, the cable, junction box etc are the same all the way back to your exchange. It is an OpenReach engineer that connects for Sky, Orange etc, they do not have their own engineers (or at least, did not when I left them a couple of years ago). So those getting "better" than BT are, in fact, using the same physical cables as BT, they own the cable from your house to the exchange, that is who the line rental fee goes to. In the exchange, there is equipment belonging to the different BB suppliers and this equipment is connected to the BT Frame by OpenReach engineers. Other than a few individuals, no one has fibre connected to their home. It is fibre to the cabinet, then crappy copper cable to your house via the telegraph pole for the older houses, or via the underground cabling system for newer homes. If you have a telegraph pole, then your cable could be 60-70 years old, and may NOT even be copper as, during the Uganda crisis, aluminium alloys were used. For those in the countryside, you may not even know where your exchange is (it can look like a lock-up garage to be honest, and they generally have no external indication that they are BT property. This is an attempt to stop scrotes stealing the cables. You can find your exchange here : Timperley, for example WA15 7UN, is 2Km from the Altrincham exchange. Hope this is of interest to some at least, Yours, RS