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stu64

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  1. Try proteksupplies.co.uk (phone number on website) they have loads of webley pistols for sale and repro pistol boxes and new wood grips. I think they know a lot about webley pistols.
  2. better prices the more you buy. £178 for a thousand fibre olympic blues
  3. 15% off all cartridges at mole valley now. just picked up 4 slabs of olympic blue
  4. I hate to say the old line "every barrel is different" but I proved it to myself. my scorpion se prefered jsb and would not group at all with field target trophy. my r10se shoots field target trophy best of all. both .22
  5. I live on the edge of Exmoor national park, about as rural as it gets, jobs are not particularly well paid, and travelling to work is inevitable. A lot of youngsters buy a car they have saved hard for, sometimes no more than a grand or so, and then have to run it. I really can see problems for the lower paid people, young and old, in the future. I looked on auto trader and the cheapest electric car was £4500 and quite old, with a range of 60 miles quoted. The battery life expectancy of an old car is worrying to say the least. "Transport poverty"?
  6. Also, wish I only paid 12p per unit for electricity. mines been 14 or 15p for ages.
  7. I don't know much about electric cars but did hear somewhere batteries last 6/7 years? at a replacement cost of 5k-6k? some manufacturers "rent" you the batteries at a monthly cost. this obviously adds to the running costs considerably. I certainly can't afford a new electric car and wouldn't want a second hand one just to worry about a big battery replacement bill either. I can see late model petrol and diesel car prices going up as we near the time.
  8. That looks so much fun! I've watched a couple videos on that gun and often thought it would be ideal on squirrels. You don't see many secondhand about. A little bit jealous here.
  9. I understand what you are saying, but my point is teague's choke measurements don't agree with what teague themselves put on their website. Teague use 18.5mm as their reference/starting point and each goes down 5 thou. I'm not particularly bothered that they don't tally up, I just thought teague would be more accurate thats all.
  10. The barrel is stamped 18.5mm and this is the figure quoted on teagues website for that gun, used as their reference. according to teagues own choke chart each choke reduces diameter by a further 5 thou. It maybe that the chokes I have are mis-labelled-who knows. As I say, when the skeet choke arrives I'll measure that just to see.
  11. absolutely agree with you. I'll see what the new skeet choke measures up at to see if teague are consistent.
  12. I'm going to try to keep this short. I bought a secondhand marocchi from a dealer and with it came two new teague chokes- quarter and half.( it uses classic doubles chokes). it also had original full and cylinder chokes.I wanted either another quarter or skeet choke so I thought i would measure the original cylinder choke to make sure it was cylinder. Barrels are stamped 18.5 which is 0.728", the choke measured at 0.729 so good enough for me. Then i thought i would measure the teague chokes-don't know why- but the half measured 0.704 and the quarter measured 0.714. Going by teagues choke chart this means the half choke is actually 5/8 and the quarter is actually 3/8. The original full choke measures 0.686 which is within 2 though of being spot on. Apart from thinking teague chokes would be more accurate than this I'm not sure there's much else to say. I did order a skeet choke at 5 thou constriction and wait to see if it ends up being skeet or quarter. I've used the gun twice on clays with cylinder and quarter fitted-it shot fine-I haven't patterned it but may well just out of curiosity.
  13. she drove cautiously and below the speed limit away from the scene of a fatal accident she caused
  14. personally I would carry on as normal. you probably know how many shots you get from a full charge so a gauge on the gun isn't essential. if want a new gauge they are about £20.
  15. always go by the gauge on the bottle. I've had two gauges on guns fail-read empty all the time. Does the gun fire? what is the reading on the dial on the gun?
  16. I've got the other version with the 8 shot round magazine that uses 2x 12gram capsules. such good fun, love it!
  17. I used a few tins of huntsman and bsa excaliber back in the early 90's through my sharp innova. I remember taking a shoebox full of squirrels tails to the fishing shop to sell for fly making. those pellets did the job.
  18. I bought a new scorpion se about 2 months ago, the ultra se had too few shots for me personally. Mine is. 22 and is very impressive in accuracy and build. I'm not the best shot but was shooting bottle tops at 50 yards with the other day, when I had worked out the holdover. When I chronoed it there really isn't a power curve. Right from the off I get 70 full power consistant shots-17 fps maximum deviation. No need for a regulator. Mind you I also have an s410, there's nothing between them for me.
  19. Waiting for masonry paint to arrive, otherwise a bit of gardening /sunbathing. Don't envy you tarring a roof in this weather. Or any weather come to that!
  20. stu64

    Random Finds.

    there's a surf board in the woods on my permission.
  21. stu64

    Why do ....?

    +1. Much better than doing a three point turn in the road these days I think.
  22. I use an online calculator, normally the one on the Cometa website. click on "formulas" on the homepage.
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