Walker570

Glad it happens to s9omeone else.... pleased you sorted it....now all you have to do is choose between positions A B C D E but that should not be difficult for a man of your experience?

Probably why there were not many men in Morrisons this morning, had to avert my gaze and nearly got crushed against the bake beans twice.

Like it ...LIKE IT A LOT!!!!!

I second that. Once you have learned where it wants to go and make the right moves, it goes in it's bag like a well trained .......dog ...tempted to say wife. My T Pee has enabled me to ambush lots of stuff I would not have been able to. I have a Stag chair which I made a rifle rest for and the combination is pretty final for any tree rat or deer which comes within a couple of hundred yards.

Very sad news. Condolences.

It was rare in my day and believe me we knew who they where, unfortunately in the 80s things changed. Another senior PC and myself approached our Inspector and pointed one out as if he didn't already know. Due to the subjects skin colour he said he could do nothing about it as it was political dynamite. Five years later I learned the subject had be arrested for laundering drug money. Having said that, before anyone jumps on me for racism, I worked with four other coloured officers who were the best in the business and also knew of the 'subject'. That is the one very big problem, the service has become 'politicised' without a doubt.

On my AA S200 I was advised to just lightly lube the rubber ring in the magazine with a molygrease(Abbey LT2) which they advised. Made one huge difference to the feed and I assume to pellet alignment. Gun shoots far more accurately than I can that's for certain. I just take a cotton bud and lightly cover it with molylube and then coat the rubber ring inside the magazine. A very light smear is all that was needed and I repeat about every 10 mags full. The magpies don't appreciate it one little but.

With regard to arming all officers, I have to say I would not like to see things going that way. For a start the training required would be ridiculously expensive then the cost of sidearms added to that with ancillaries, storage when off duty etc etc. I was one of the relatively small cadre of trained officers in our force tasked with being on call 24hrs a day if required. Today even better is the fact that we have trained officers on permanent mobile patrol in most if not all forces and certainly capable of attending any situation quicker than our team could back then. Our present day police have tasers and CS/Pepper which should cope with most everyday occurences. I worked with some great folks but there was a small number I wouldn't issue a gun to on any account.

Yep. The one on my AA S200 PCP is the 8x24X50. The only thing I wish they had was an automatic switch off for the reticule becaue I am terrible for forgetting to turn it off and cost me a fortune in batteries but a great scope. The one on my 17HMR is the 3 -12 X 50 I also have an Endurance with 1 inch tube side adjustment wheel 6-18 x 50 on my TX200 ...all do the job in spades.

I have Hawke Airmax scopes with side focus and they are superb. Illuminated reticule but of course if your putting on night vision that would not be required. One on my 17HMR and one one ach of my air rifles. Cannot fault them.

Yep, we had our black sheep but today as a police officer if I said that I would be out looking for another job....probably reported by one of my fellow officers and that is another whole big story of distrust within the ranks. One officer recently told my wife he no longer thought himself as a crime fighter but more or less a social worker. That brings me to another waste of police money. You will have heard/read where when a serious crime takes place, murder or serious harm, special trained police officers are alloted to act as social workers, support officers they are called. Now in my view that is not the prime job of police officers, certainly not having them on the wages list when they are not doing the job the public expects of them. Who thought that one up and how many are we paying for in our taxes. In my day we had local beat officers who knew their area and would not only check up on such things but would also keep an eye on other vulnerable people during their rounds, picking up information as they went through the day, but of course our highly educated managers think this is a waste of money so create a complelely new department of staff disconnected from crime fighting.

2nd Sept I will be retired from 'The Job' for 28yrs. B'ham, woman stabbed along with daughter having made a number of calls to police for help. In my day we would have arrived like a genie out of a bottle and with luck they would still be alive. Fast back to 1974, I wrote a letter to the Police Fedration Magazine outlining my views on the proposed fast tract promotion from Uni and then suggested it would see the end of British Policing as we know and expect. We now have a bunch of useless Managers at top level, some even promoting drug taking another saying 1 mph over the limit should be considered a speeding offence, these people are over educated idiots in La La Land. I knew the identity of a thief and went to a local police officer with the details..."No No No!! You can't tell me, you have to go through Crime Stoppers" but in my day the information would have been logged in my notebook and then passed to the Detective Inspector at my Station and a fair chance arrests would be made. Senior Officers in my day when I started on the beat where almost all ex military who had worked their way up through the ranks over a fair number of years...Sergeant maybe 8-10yrs Inspector 15 plus. They knew the trade unlike the modern day recruit who has to check their CV before they can make a decision.. Been there ..done it.

Had an influx and killed seven last week. I know of one more which evaded me and escaped over my boundary, but things have gone quiet again.

Brilliant pictures...love the lightening but the pair of antlers just protruding above the corn echo the story of my life.

I have been with Green Flag for many years and have the top cover without Europe, so am covered for whatever car I am in. Have been very pleased with their service BUT on a couple of recent calls they were not as sharp as usual and instead of no argument take you where you want to go and garage next day, now get all quiblyy about where and how they can handle the situiation. Their call centre is no where near as good as it used to be. I wrote to them and told them to cut the background noise out as sat on the side of a duel carriageway it is not always the easiest place to hear what is said anyway. Their old "be with you in an hour or else" has also vanished and last time waited almost two hours. The crews who do turn out have always, well all but one, been top class. The bad one smoked solidly for the 45 minutes it took to get to a service area where he unloaded us and reloaded onto another truck ...something about his hours but probably had to go buy some more fags. I am still with them to this day.

An old lathe can be worth it's weight in gold. I purchased a very old lathe. Ok it ain't no CNC machine but it does little jobs for me, like last week I had a 1/4 inch bolt almost the right length but needed a couple more threads showing to get a nut on tidy. Mounted in the lathe and reduced the inside thickness of the head in a couple of minutes, perfect and saved me a ten mile run to buy a new bolt. Paid a hundred notes for it which included a whole set of different gears which I have never used, two face plates big and small and two additional chucks of diferent sizes. Was originally driven from an overhead belt in a factory but now has an electric motor fitted. Great fun.

If you go with a drill then wrap the whole of the drill in tape, just leave the cutting edge and enough to let cut metal run, it would help to build the tape so the drill just fits the bore. I would do it this way BUT with a hand drill, remember those you can then turn it very slowly.

I have one self made with a pair of rotary foam wings driven by a Disco window winder motor. It works and have had birds pitch in right alongside. Have an intermittent switch fitted.

You only have one choice really. Apply and be honest. Does the club have secure storage, if so ask to have the rifle stored there. Best of luck. They are even suggesting ex criminals be made Magistrates these days.

Am I the only one on here that hates the ###### things ? YES! they should be kept indoors and away from indiscrimately killing wildlife and defecating all over my garden.

IMPORTANT as said above , do not let the food run out. Pallets are ideal and use some spare timber for a seat. Even better are some old potatoe crates with a door access cut out on one side. Check what your normal wind direction is in the season and put your hides with your backs to tha side. DO NOT pit hides facing each other. As safe as you all may be it doesn't take much to take a low shot in the heat of the moment. Do not shoot more than once every two weeks and I would even go three.

.....and with mobiles and texts it is so easy to say "THANK YOU". I always text my landowners/keepers to do just that and report on results and anything of interest. It takes but a few minutes and believe me carries a lot of weight.

Nice spot. Lucky man.

About right but for both eyes to register the gun on target then a certain amount of cast may be necessary. It's all down to ..do you close or partually close an eye when shooting. If both eyes equalise then the barrels need to be central.