Uilleachan
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I shot a sporting round a couple of weeks back at Auchterhouse with the chokes I've been using for DTL locally (see my last post above for the details). It went well, better than I thought it would.
Today, I was at braidwood and did a couple of hundred sporting with 2 x 3/8 2nd hand teague chokes top and bottom, that I'd patterned previously, and did better.
Confidence is everything, I concur with that, patterning ammo through various chokes and then going out and seeing the results has been key for me.
I was hitting some difficult (long range fast crossers) shots with the 3/8 chokes today, not first time of asking on those birds, but, getting them has shown me that edge on fast 40+ yarders are down to me, with that set up.
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Fibre formed wad cup is the answer.
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8 minutes ago, Savhmr said:
Quality is good. Just remember not to hack into bone as the edge is very fine and hard, so could be prone to chipping but the blade itself is strong due to the folding of softer steel over the spine. AUS10 is one of the best knife steels currently available (along with VG10). These are AUS10, but they haven't yet updated their advert details.
For the board, beech or bamboo (which contains natural antibacterial qualities).
Thanks for the tip, I only looked in on this thread as I need a new chopping board
Now I have a new japan made kitchen knife (thats meant to be the birthday present sorted, for the cook) plus a board, but the bonus was the "Spend more than £50 and get this fantastic chefs knife worth £49 enter this code at checkout: bla bla bla" which looked like a scam until I got to checkout and entered the code, now I'm thinking the cook may be better off with the chef knife and me the wee Damascus Jap chib, we can share the board 
Cheers for the tip, the buckshee knife offer's is only on for today.
As to chopping boards for butchery, I got on well with a section of pitch pine former church pew and a bag of course rock salt for cleaning it, sadly no more that board, but I still have the other bit which is my fly tying board. Beech is better, but everyone should have a 25kg bag of rock salt in the shed.
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Get onto a game letting agency and make enquiries for Stags in Scotland. Go for a package, which can be living in a local hotel for a couple of day and a day or two stalking on the chosen estate, or could be living in the kings suite in the estate castle full board for your entire entourage including family pets, with any number of days and stags. There's basically all sorts of deals to suit the purse of all sorts of individuals.
A stag is about £500 + tips + commission, add in accommodation travel etc. I'd reckon you could get a back end day or two, depending on the location, at the stags for around £1200 all in, which would include decent family accommodation to make a quality short family break out of it.
Ask round the agents.
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Well I handled one today at Cluny Country Stores, didn't get the chance to try it out as I didn't have time (I want to shoot a round with it rather than just popping a few carts) but I was passing close enough on the way through to Glasgow so thought I call in for a look.
Have to say that it fitted me surprisingly well, possibly no need to alter the LOP, and if I do a trigger adjustment will likely suffice and I liked the feel of it, more than I thought I would, so passed the initial feel test and I'm now planning a try in a fortnight when I'm down there next for work.
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5 minutes ago, Newbie to this said:
They are machine wasable as well, just put them in an old pillow case.
Of course they are, I don't bother putting them in anything I just chuck em in, with dirty boiler suits etc. on a 60º cycle
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Bore snake, a squirt of oil and a couple of tugs through after every use.
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23 hours ago, buze said:
I shoot fblu's as well, I find them excellent in my back bored gun. When I'm 'on it' I can do dust clouds at really impressive distances with them.
Thats what I've found.
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TT 1 (67mm) & TT 2 (70mm) are great carts, Fblu are better.
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For wood pigeons I'd have to travel about an hour east. We have very little in the way of arable crops locally so what wood pigeon we have are in balance and relatively scarce. They aren't a pest.
We've a couple of small flocks of rock dove, properly marked and relatively non hybridised. They not a nuisance to anyone and like our woodies relatively rare, rare also in the respect that there are few unadulterated populations remaining UK wide.
The avian pest species here would be geese hooded crows and some sheep interests would add ravens and sea eagles.
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Yeah, ASDA are green.
Two, one inside the other and they'll happily take a 250 slab too.
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Who would resort to the use of chemical weapons with victory in sight?
The old "he chemically attacked his own people" trope gets trotted out everytime the wests favourite head-choppers get their a-rses handed to them. Nothing but BS to get you onboard with GWIII
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Very many thanks guys.
Yep, I watched Lloyd's latest f16 gun short (and very many others) and now that I'm thinking of a dedicated gun for trap, a 2nd hand Mk 38 most likely, for the rest of my shooting I'm thinking a sporter and perhaps the f16 maybe suitable, but I would have to try one out to separate the fancy from reality.
I was thinking of either Cluny Guns and or Bywell, as both have a try before you buy ability, although the latter seems the cheaper and better in-stock option despite the distance. A distance I could cover visiting a cousin then Braidwood and then Bywell's own shooting ground, all close enough together in the borders.
I like the plain look of the standard wood (if I could get it dark enough), but it's the plain-jane dull grey action and slim look thats really winking at me if I'm honest. My upgrade, if I bit, would be on the length of stock options, 15 & 1/8". The stock alignment and length options and 10 year warranty, are a major attraction to me as a non off the shelf slightly out sized 6'4" guy.
Perhaps I'll go take a look.
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I've done a search but most of what I've found were initial impressions around the launch time.
Now that they've been around a couple of years and people will have had more chance to check them out I'd be interested in their opinion.
Many thanks
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On 1 April 2018 at 16:37, kenholland said:
shot oakedge staffs today 100 reg , I normally shoot 1/2 and 1/2 long Teague's flush but seem to shoot a lot more 3/8 now shot a 78 today a class cr%p, but how many pattern there guns these days ,
Worth the time it takes and thats for sure. Today answered the ammo conundrum for Saturdays DTL shoot. Which I'll be shooting with FBLU 2.4mm browning INV+ Full in the bottom and the tighter Teague 7/8 in the top.
But I think I'll be swapping barrels for the Carlson half & teague 3/8th I've been shooting sporting with, as the latter patterns tighter despite being more open than the former. Also, now that I've resolved the unexplained sitter misses I won't be buying any more fibre olympic blues for this gun. Eye opener....
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Where I am we've no shortage of hedgehogs nor have we a shortage of badgers, in fact we have an abundance of wildlife of all types across the board. We also have an abundance of habitat and very very little industrial agriculture. What we have of the latter is located in the sea, true to say it's not without issue regarding pollution and negative pressures on migratory game fish. But thats another story.
I don't blame farmers nor do I blame the badger, in those areas of the country with little habitat wildlife is forced into the ever decreasing margins. That there's going to be a rebalancing of species is a simple fact of nature.
The demise of the UK rural hedgehog won't be turned around by culling badgers, it's habitat they need. It's the same for all the flora and fauna of the UK. Blaming badgers is to treat a symptom rather than tackle the disease.
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On 5 March 2018 at 12:14, FreeShot said:
Comparing Browning factory Invector Plus chokes with Teagues actual measurements - factory chokes are more open:
1/4 - Browning: 0.004, Teague: 0.010;
1/2 - Browning: 0.012, Teague: 0.020
3/4 - Browning: 0.018, Teague: 0.030
1/1 - Browning: 0.031, Teague: 0.040
If you have Teague tapered choke key you can compare the actual restrictions yourself.
In praxis - with 1/2 (0.20) you are already well in the tight territory i.e. you don't get much by using 3/4 or 1/1...IMO
Just checked using the teague key and briley skeet is tighter than my browning 1/4, teague 3/8 is tighter than my browning 1/2 and teague 5/8 is tighter than my browning 3/4. Who'd have thunk it
Going to pattern the lot at some point this week anyway, but the above revelation will alter the order.
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13 hours ago, Westley said:
Lucas red gun oil for chokes, Lucas red grease for hinge pin and knuckle, both off fleabay. Oil should last around 6 years, grease for about 20 years, that is the length of time mine has lasted used on 7 guns.
No complaints here using Lucas Red Grease for choke threads. Tested to 280ºc, if my gun gets that hot I've got bigger problems on my hands. When it gets dirty clean it off with thinners and a toothbrush, allow to dry then reapply.
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5 hours ago, panoma1 said:
It ain't about charging, or even the charge! that is between the authorities and GP's......it was decided to go down this route as a public safety measure!..........So why should gun owners pay for something they didn't ask for, don't require and don't benefit from?
Ask the Home Office, I'm just as nonplused as you.
5 hours ago, sportsbob said:Because the NHS is already paying them for this time or do you think they will do overtime or work in their lunch break to actually earn these fees
The NHS pays them for NHS work, not non NHS work, there's no blank cheque.
When I go to the Doctors for immunisation injections or anti malarials etc. I get the consultation on the NHS, but not the drugs, I have to agree to pay for it and at cost, not on subsidised prescription rates. I pay the chemist who order it in, I collect it and take it to the docs who administers it.
My point is, only that which is on the public purse is on the public purse, it seems from GP charging and the very point of this thread, that review of medical records by your GP isn't on the public purse.
I'm not saying I agree with it and I'm not saying it's right, but I do understand why GPs' would want to make a charge for providing a service that isn't immediately concerned with providing healthcare to their patient.
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30 minutes ago, sportsbob said:
The average car insurance premium in the UK for comprehensive cover costs £485 a year, according to Association of British Insurers (ABI) data for the third quarter of 2017 so over 30% less than 700
More on topic though is the fact that our local GP`s earn over £105.000 per year whereas the average income for the year ending was £27.600 so perhaps when they come up with the figure they wish to charge us they should divide it by four.
So circa £500. Still a lot more than £76 for insurance and membership.
Yeah, doctors do earn well, although they do do 7 years earning now't accruing circa £50k - £60k+ of student debt into the bargain, and starting rates ain't £105k.
However it's not their pay that determines any potential charge, rather it's their time including overhead. No idea what the typical Doctors surgery charges out overhead cost at, but the old contractors labour charge out rate was 3 x what was paid, which included total overhead and profit.
So a doctor earning £105k PA divided by 48 x 40 hour weeks works out at a rounded off £55 per hour, x 3 we have £165 per hour which = £27.50 for a 10min appointment slot. How long does a doctor need to make a medical assessment of a patient? I'd say 10 to 20 mins, time to receive and address the request, a squint at the records and a letter/e-mail back.
Not saying I agree with the idea of a medical charge, but nor do I don't think doctors' surgeries should wave charges for time they can't recover cost on. I don't like working for free, so why should doctors?
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13 minutes ago, sportsbob said:
£700 wow , my car insurance is fully comp, with no voluntary excess, all the extras, group 31 is less than £250
Stagboy does say "average", Kids I know are paying £1500+ pa fully comp. I can well believe the average would be around £700, as in, the cost of all policies summed then divided by the number of policies.
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For HFT the rules (or they used to) state that there's no scope adjustment allowed. Unlike FT, where very high mag scopes are used for range finding, in HFT range finding is to be guesstimated simulating field conditions, rather than range conditions.
Lots of HFT shooters use a fixed scope in the 10x 40 class. Regular plain jane scopes without a parallax adjustment knob are fixed parallax and set up for a nominal 100y by the manufacturers, many HFT shooters re-parallax their scopes (done by adjustments to the rear lens set up, loosening the lock ring then turning the lens bell, done without breaking the scopes seal and is reversible without causing damage to the scope) from a factory 100y to say, 25y or some other suitably close range that would work with your set up.
The idea being that a clear sight image provides the shooter with a range reference. That coupled with the scope zero distance the weight and trajectory of the pellet allows the shooter to learn and use the deterioration of focus/parallax as a range finder/guesstimator for closer or further targets to assists with estimating hold under/hold over, for shots that fall either side of the flat part of the pellet trajectory.
I don't think you need to go mad buying a scope, also there'll be plenty 2nd hand scopes already set up for air rifle HFT ranges, being solid on by guys in the HFT scene.
The key will be set up, parallax distance pellet weight/trajectory and scope zero etc. Then getting to know it for kill zone shots in the 10 y to 50 y range. Worth talking to those involved for the best advice...
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Blaming the messenger rather than the BMA.
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5 minutes ago, zipdog said:
Its an interesting question. My first instinct would be if youre paying to shoot at a commercial clay ground their insurance should cover you. If you were to take a child for their first shooting lesson how many people get an insurance policy for the child before going? None I would imagine.
But then if this is the case then why does CPSA membership grant you insurance if all the grounds offering CPSA registered events already have their own liability cover. Furthermore, normally you cant insure something twice. So an accident occurs at a CPSA registered event. Who paying for it, the individuals insurance or the clubs insurance. I imagine there could be a long legal battle between the solicitors on both sides.
The insurance you take out covers you and your "legal" activity any where you are authorised to shoot. The insurance businesses carry is to cover them for liability exposure on their premises from their business activity. Two policies but each party is only insured once.
So you go to your local pay & play ground and get run over by a vehicle. The vehicle is privately owned by another customer. All three parties have insurance, victim driver ground operator. Yet the liability for the accident rests with the ground operator as the accident happened on their business premises. It's the same as getting shot by another customer, you don't claim against the shooter, it's the ground. The ground may well sue the shooter if it can be shown they transgressed the ground rules, i.e. they weren't wearing their safety glasses when they did the shooting or if it can be shown they otherwise behaved inappropriately.
Three policies but everyone still only insured once, everyone claiming, the victim from the ground and legal fees from their insurance to pay for it, the ground from the shooter and for defending themselves, the shooter for legal fees from their policy to defend themselves.
To be insured twice you'd need two policies covering the same thing, in your own name.
Yeah, bisley will have their own insurance.
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I'll take them if still available, PM inbound.