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They can be a pain but I'm not sure what it has to do with your oil level? Or oil changes? It's just a catalytic filter in the exhaust that collects the soot that is common from diesel engines under some conditions where combustion is incomplete. When they fill up to a certain level the ECU will inject additional fuel late or outside of the cycles to raise exhaust temperatures. When the filter gets hot enough the soot burns off. Some ash is left behind for impurities of from the engine oil and eventually the filter will be full of ash and need replacing.

That's where we are and I can't see that changing as an attempt to control what you choose to shoot birds with. If there is a lead ban it will on environmental grounds, not to stop you shooting a bird with lead and eating it yourself.

Actually, no that isn't a simple question and the studies have never been done to prove or disprove. What is known is that lead is a cumulative neurotoxin to humans and even worse for other wildlife. The risk may be low and I've always been happy to accept that, but if the consumer of food doesn't want to take that risk and reasonable alternatives exist then people need to get over it.

I think Scully is spot on with what he is trying to say here, but sometimes we are too close to the issues to see the big picture. Change is happening, it's not clear exactly what the end result will be, but pretending it's not happening is just insanity. The organisations have got a lot of stick from that group, but I think they have also been right. Whilst we still have a choice they have push manufacturers to develop viable options, rather than overnight being left with nothing. My view is simple. Game shooting, especially commercial driven shooting is nothing more than a sport derived around a method of food rearing and harvesting. If the consumer of that meat does not want lead in it then it shall not be shot with lead. simple. Also the impact on the environment and wild birds needs to be considered. My shoot in SSSI has agreed to transition to steel in the conservation plan. I've started on Eley pro eco 32g 5s. So far I've not found them to be convincing at anything but short ranges and hit with good pattern. I've just got a slab of 3s and will evaluate them. Ballistically they should be perfectly fine out to 40yrds, which in my book is actually a long way for game. I'll report back.

Hi are you able to post? I may be interested in coat or smock? Medium type sizes 170/104? Let me know if you have anything.

Most cookers are on 32 or 40a cooker switches but depends on how big a cooker it is. 13a seems too low, that's only kettle or toaster oven region. Also generally I don't frequently turn the cooker off at the wall.

You don't want to use acetone as it will likely damage the surface of the PVC. Most stick adhesives are quite polar so alcohol is the way to go. Meths or isopropyl alcohol and the won't damage plastics.

Any more videos coming up this season? I love them especially when you are having a tough drive. So much more realistic that the guys that are always having the perfect drive!

The firing pin pits very quickly but then has no effect of firing. No need to be taking things in worried unless you actually experience problems and then as said above clean the pins and channel and that will probably solve it. There are also reports of people carefully cleaning up the tip with fine wet and dry and reporting success. One theory floating around is that the pins are actually a fraction too long to start with.

Try them. It's nothing to do with kreg using them. The taper if the square drive actually hold a screw firm on the bit to screw at maximum reach one handed. No need for magnets that never work or anything, just the best engineered solution. There are whole books an the subject of screw types and most agree. Slotted are obsolete. Phillips is actually designed for automated assembly and possi is a poor improvement. Non of these should be in use, yet they remain the most common.

Nasty video. Just reminds you every time you go out something random could finish you off and there isn't much you can do about it. Why is it always that the low lifes that cause these issues just jump out like nothing has happened. It's exactly the same on police interceptors where they roll a stolen car 5 times over a roundabout and immediately all four doors open and 5 chavs bolt in all directions...?

Well he's an adult so has the rights and therefore responsibilities of everybody else. I don't think age is a factor here just that some people are unreliable and shouldn't be trusted with that sort of responsibility.

Square drive screws are well known to be the best but sadly not common place in the UK and therefore expensive.

Just read the article. It looks like a wild justice effort but the DEFRA response seems more reasonable. I'm surprised by the figure that 160000 are shot each year. Most places Ive shot at don't shoot them and where they can be shot most people choose not to. The experience from our shoot is that two other factors have a far larger impact on native woodcock than shooting. Climate change means that the climate is drier and hotter which doesn't suit them. And the state of the woodlands. They seem to much prefer woodland at a middle development stage. When it gets too mature or isnt managed in any way they don't like it anymore. Although I have no issue with changing the season dates if it benefits the species. Although I think the whole shooting season could be moved back a month these days.

Interesting. I should say in my final sentence it's says we are far better off then the 1970s. This may be true financially but it may be a different answer for quality of life.

I plugged "cheap" £40 in 1975 into an inflation calculator and got £251 as of 2021. So we are not really that far off those levels. Remember the 70s was also tough financially with fuel and other costs. The economy is cyclic and when we go into a tougher period if feels much worse. What is clear is that we are getting less for the **** birds. On the other hand meat is far more expensive and every bird you eat is a greater saving and if you start telling people what good value shot birds are and how tasty it is the price will go up. At then end of the day we choose what we want to do and make space for it. Some years it's easier than others but overall we are far better off than in the 70s.

That was the price including proof. I've gone £90 + shipping for choke modification. Partly as a steel test exercise before deciding what to do with my better guns and due to the likely impact on the pattern of shooting steel through tighter than 1/2. In retrospect I should have patterned the gun before sending it off to see if that is tosh as well. Then I would have been able to contribute something useful to the forum and potentially saved everybody money.

Yes. For me as a lowland shooter standard steel looks like all I will ever need and I made that very clear but was told on the phone that if I was having the choke opened up to shoot steel then I would need to have it steel shot proofed at the same time. In the end I've just decided to have it done but "stick with lead" through the local gun shop. It's a £600 gun so not throw away, but sinking £240 into getting one barrel modified doesn't make financial sense.

I can confirm this is true. I spoke to teague and was disappointed to be getting erroneous advice even though I made it clear I only ever expected to shoot standard steel. Adding £125 to the cost for a cheaper gun just does not make sense. Also as Scilly has said many times before. Why pay for steel proof when you can just go and shoot it to see what happens. Either way worst case is a ring bulge except if the proof house do that they will then send your favourite barrells to the scrap man! Having said that, and why I wanted it done, by all accounts you will not get good patterns tighter than half with steel.

Ask on here for local pigeon shooters or at a local pub if they have a guy for pigeons. Buy a bunch in the feather, prep them for food and keep all the wings you pull off. Put them in a Ziploc and freeze them. That way you have a ready supply of meat and wings for training.

Good news Jim. Well if anybody wants a Makita drill same model as above with charger and case. No batteries. Let me know. I'm in Essex though and it probably would be worth paying much postage.

Well I guess so but I better give first dibs to Jim if his fix doesn't work?

Good luck with the fix. Shame to throw stuff away. If its a no go then I have a spare new one of those you can have for just a few quid?

This law has been around a lot longer than the recent knife crime trend and isn't intended to directly stop that. Its there to stop people carrying potentially dangerous everyday objects either routinely into the wrong environment or purposefully for protection. Think about the difficulty in doing to law differently, somebody needs to be there to understand the situation vs the reason given.

The law is actually perfectly sensible. It doesn't stop you doing anything and remember the same law applies to knitting needles, scissors and screwdrivers. The issue is that it relies on the police officer to interpret it. Unfortunately the world has changed and a police officers view on what is an acceptable reason has also changed. Strange that you never hear of people being done for accidentally having their knitting needles in public though.