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13 minutes ago, Lord v said:
It was just as much for my sanity as it was any desire to help out. 😆
This is the longest period I haven't worked since I was 15 and to be frank its slowly doing my nut.
Imagine if you could go out the garden though, but keep your distance from folk, then it would be different.
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3 minutes ago, Vince Green said:
85% of care homes in this country are privately run. They charge anything from £700 to £2,000 a week and yet the media would have us think that its the Governments fault the homes haven't got PPE.
Someone said last week that their normal supplies had been diverted to the NHS and they were waiting for more, but your absolutely right, for the money they charge they shouldn't be having problems, and I doubt they need the spec that the NHS need.
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This topic is about lies so, why is Blair on the telly again talking about testing? Did he get brought back out the cupboard when Corbyn was removed?
While Piers Morgan feeds him tit bits about Boris Johnson not running the country because he's ill? As if Boris isn't talking to his team?
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12 minutes ago, Ultrastu said:
This test should have been done with 2 shooters firing both cals at the same time .
Not 1 after the other allowing the wind to gust or drop between cals .
Your challenge when circumstances allow.......
11 minutes ago, villaman said:was AA express and been using them ever since
I've got some to try, the only thing that concerns me is they are short pellets and folk say they've had trouble with short pellets in R10s
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On 20/03/2020 at 17:33, strimmer_13 said:
Were saving to buy our first house so moving is a option just not for another year if I can help it.
Does this mean your renting? If so I'd say get gone, obviously difficult with all that's going on at the moment.
I'm not sure I would be worrying about a fac licence if someone drove at my wife and kids.
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I met part way when I bought my last rifle, at a pay as you go rifle range, simple.
So it wasn't too far 😊
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There have been a few early frosts that have gone with the sun, if it had two or three days of that it might have caused the damage?
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4 hours ago, B725 said:
Well I've seen again but this one came onto my lawn not sure if its madam butterfly
Never seen that one.
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28 minutes ago, Mr.C said:
This one is interesting.
Yes good that
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9 minutes ago, villaman said:
He is not totally right on many accounts
cloverleaf did a very good write up on the subject on the airgun forum , which I can’t find at the moment
I've read that and it was very good, but it didn't compare 22 and 177
What I found interesting was comparing the speed of the pellets at 50mtrs light v normal. The light starts out faster but the weight helps the heavier retain its speed.
The article Cloverleaf did has made me look at light pellets for my 177, I was thinking jsb heavies but it was hard to overlook the light weights after that.
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This video, quite interesting with .22 vs .177 and light weight pellets vs normal let's say, fill your boots.
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On 20/04/2020 at 11:18, Mr.C said:
So assuming that we're shooting sub 12 air rifles with diabolo fields.
The 22 weighing 16gr @ 565fps and the 177 weighing 8.4 @ 780fps both making 11.35ftlb. The 177 will take significantly less of the equal strength same direction side wind? Just curious.
I watched a YouTube video yesterday comparing .22 & .177 initial speed vs speed at 50mtrs, and ft/lbs at the muzzle and at 50mtrs, it was quite interesting, I'll see if I can find it but I'm not sure how to do YouTube links.
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1 hour ago, old man said:
Yep and still waiting,
Rat or Squirrel I don't mind either. Squirrel just gone by on fence top to neighbour who feeds 100 crows a day, hope it visits on way back?
Get some hazelnut spread out, he'll pop in.
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On 20/04/2020 at 12:16, old man said:
3 on the bird feeder yesterday, hope they don't notice the hastily erected very substantial back stop.
Hades in .22 ready.
Did you get very excited?
1st rat says to 2nd rat, was that sheet of ply there yesterday?
2nd rat says no, and neither was the bloke in the window with the gun👍
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5 minutes ago, Rewulf said:
Quite why we cant produce some fairly simple PPE garments in factories in this country, absolutely baffles me !
I thought this was a national emergency ?Seen a few things on the news showing stuff getting made, but I guess it comes down to numbers available, I imagine everyone is screaming out for the stuff.
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15 hours ago, Ultrastu said:
It can be the probe banjo band coming loose this starts to make the gun feel rough. Then it slips completely and jams the bolt .
This is what happened to mine, felt a bit rough, then locked up completely, so best not to keep working the bolt if your not going to strip it.
I couldn't then get the bolt open and ended up sending it for a service.
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1 hour ago, Raja Clavata said:
I'm not sure what the approach has been in Japan but it will be interesting to see how they fare in Germany and other parts of the EU as they relax restrictions - not that we should directly draw too much by what happens in Germany as they have obviously taken a very different approach to us.
I had a read on the New Zealand lockdown earlier, I was surprised at how early they initiated lockdown and how few deaths they have had, Germany's approach has obviously been very different to ours but as someone said on one of the many threads, they accept being told to lockdown say Birmingham while Manchester carry on. It will certainly be interesting to see what happens in Europe as places relax the lockdown and I wouldn't blame our government for waiting to see how it goes.
New Zealand locked down in Early/mid March and are just relaxing it now in some places, obviously a much different country layout and population but here in the UK people are calling for the lockdown to be relaxed or lifted for the sake of the economy ? After just 4 weeks.
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3 hours ago, Raja Clavata said:
The thing is I'm hearing Boris doesn't want to relax the lockdown because he fears a second wave - without mass testing I don't see any credible way to avoid that,
It seems this is what's happening in Japan, they relaxed the lockdown and have a second wave.
2 hours ago, grrclark said:have used the example before in another post, but the demand for 1 item of PPE, disposable face masks, in Scotland in response to Covid19 is 4100 time higher than normal.
The amount of PPE being used is way beyond anything that could have been planned for or stored, but they are just about managing.
I heard something today saying gowns I think could be washed three times and still be usable but are normally only used once, it probably means the structure isn't in place to wash them but it probably will be by the end of the week.
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Two in my garden yesterday, beautiful little things, they really do look like someone has dipped them in paint.
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1 hour ago, Retsdon said:
But even then....the whole government response has been terribly lacking in direction,
You really don't like the British government do you.
When you look at the Furlough that's been brought in, the Nightingale hospitals that have been built someone must have direction and planning.
Things in hindsight can always have been done better but that's the beauty of hindsight.
If you compare us with Italy, Spain, France the USA then I don't see how we are failing, Japan are apparently struggling for Hospital beds, I've no idea how this is effecting the likes of Saudi or the middle east, Iran was on the news but I haven't seen it mentioned for a while.
People are dying every day but they always do, it's not normally on the news every day but hopefully we are getting on top of things?
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Xtx YouTube videos are really good, I watched them then bottled it and sent my R10 off to get fixed.
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I've seen magpies and crows taking young birds, blackbirds for instance just seem to stand there waiting for something to take them, same with sparrow hawks, we get the odd strike and I've been lucky enough to be at the window a few times.
We've got 3 or 4 pairs of blackbirds in the garden at the moment and at least one pair of thrushes, never seem to see any thrush chicks though?
Just about got to the point we could do with some rain now.
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11 minutes ago, discobob said:
Response in green
Toilet rolls from Amazon?? Wouldn't have even thought about it.
UK made PPE not being taken by NHS
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We've got a good few bags of garden waste shoved out of the way, you need an out of the way area.