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Any engineering workshop will be able to make one providing you give them adequate drawings. The gun breech won't need square or buttress threads, the strongest are Whitworth that's why they're still used today on high pressure systems. The chamber isn't necessary either.

Over the years I've shot thousands of the paper cased S&B cartridges and the only failures I experienced were my fault for getting them wet.

Ithaca 10, a heavy, bloody good reliable gun. Why do some/most labs look so bloody sad while clearly there're have a whale of a time. My current 10 year old red dog has a smile all over his face when he's out. All the previous labs were poker faced apart from one, the first I paid good money for. He was the best natural clever retriever I've ever owned but an absolute ******. I could write a book about his exploits.

Grey foxes are often mentioned in old Fell Hunting books. They were bigger, faster and rarely caught.

Too right.

Who stuffed them? Just joking, beautiful photos.

Do we not all pay the same national insurance? I honestly think the NHS and most other government run schemes turn into employment cows. Its one way of employing the educated unemployables I suppose.

I'm 74 and get them free, however in England if you're working it's £9:35p and item.

And free prescriptions.

Agreed, but I expected more from him Doris, he promised British values, truth and honour then flipped. We elected our first ever, I think, conservative MP and she too promptly stuffed her nose into the trough and disappeared. I worry for the young'uns they are sleep walking into a nightmare.

That's true, however he can't be trusted he just flip flops from one side to the other.

The AA did it to us. The assessor came into our house and promptly began to ******* me for not answering my phone. (We're in a bad signal area). He had a quick look round the internal damage, went outside put his phone on a stick took a few photos of the roof and said " it's fair wear and tare" and that was that. We were paying a high premium expecting good cover. Years ago we were with Saga for everything then their prices rocketed while the cover went down. Never again, we check every year now.

I'm old enough to remember when the plastic wads first came on the market and there was a lot talk about the risk to livestock and the environment. Tests were carried out by Gov approved departments and wads were fed to cattle etc without any side effects and were deemed perfectly safe. However as far as I am aware they were new clean wads, that is not contaminated with lead. The early plastic wad was so rare as we collected spent cases for reloading we would find and collect the used plastic wads as well. These plastic wads were reused and they worked perfectly even though we never reduced the powder charge (Nobel 60, 62, 80, 82 were the only powders available) . It was a few years later when Plaswad began selling their wads that we found out loads had to reduced by 10%. With hind sight we were lucky not to blow up some of the old hammer guns we often used. I'm not saying plastic is the sort of thing we should willy nilly scatter about or that steel shot wads aren't contaminated with lead or that they wouldn't do harm to livestock or wildlife. But if we habitually picked up any we see and disposed of them by the correct route perhaps any problems might be reduced to insignificance. The good ol' freedom days most of us survived them.

Be very careful with your loading I've seen two Grant 8 bores with pressure bulges in both barrels just past the chambers.