SainIT

I am in tears again. Rest in peace Your Majesty.

I shot on Wednesday, 37°C, and used a damp towel, which works quite well. You just have to dampen it regularly. My rib is still attached! Yesterday 33°, the same. From Wednesay (competition starts Thursday) it is supposed to be from 36 to over 40°C. I really feel sorry for the British and Scandinavian shots!

Thanks,I think I will try a moist cloth then. My biggest fear was warping but Smudger is right, the heat distribution is uneven so a clammy cloth shouldnt be a problem. The radiating heatwaves is probably more of a mental disturbance than a physical problem. On the same topic, and one of the reasons I asked, In South Africa I had a very old Perazzi MX8 which I bought secondhand, 60's model. When you shot it hot on American trap the pattern moved up as the round progressed!

In Italy at the moment (and it will definitely be the same at the FITASC Sporting World Cup in 10 days time) we are shooting in temperatures of 36C+ and barrels simply don’t cool from one FITASC Sporting stand to the next. I don’t look at my barrels normally, but the heat waves emanating from the rib catches my peripheral vision and cause havoc with far targets, particulaly crossers. Can I cool the barrels of my Browning Sporter One with a wet cloth while shooting? Or at least cool the rib? Won’t they warp or get damaged? I would really appreciate some advice!

I'm in Italy and buy from a very large gunshop near me. Cheddite Smart Strike 28g (the only cartridge that i use) went up from £177 to £208 from February this year. I actually expected your prices to be higher due to transport costs. The problem is apparently the cost of lead from China but I think the manufacturers are trying to make up for the Covid loss of sales.

Thanks to all and especially to JJsDad! I've had a B25 restocked by Manuel Riccardo before, but it had a pistol grip to start with. I didn't know the roach-belly would be a problem! I think I'll pass.

Can anybody identify and grade this gun from the attached photos please? It is advertised only as a "lux" model but I would like to know what it is before contacting him. Unused, 30in in a pristine Browning leather case. It is a "roach belly" but I will have it restocked. Brownings have a very low secondhand value here in Italy so I should be able to quibble!

Rest in peace SIR. A true gentleman and example to all.

It is, unless i am orribly mistaken a Taylor's Eye Witness Lambsfoot. I got mine 51 years ago, also from Grandfather. I wonder how many lambtails mine has cut? Many many thousands! (In South Africa). Still my favourite for eating biltong in front of the tv.

Wish I was living in Scotland! Just my luck to have fallen head over heels for an Italian woman! We are being very very careful. I am the only one who goes shopping and I dress like a martian when i do!

I'm in Tuscany, about 30km from Arezzo, our nearest city and 70 from Florence. Tiny village called Foiano della Chiana. We in central Italy have been lucky, only 5000 cases in Tuscany, but our economic locomotive in the north is on its knees.

In Italy over ten thousand medical personnel are among the 135 thousand positives. By yesterday more than 100 doctors and 30something nurses dead from CV. And at the height of the crisis several positive medical personnel had to keep working. The govt freely admits that the deaths are many more than the 15 thousand declared. The 15k are just the dead that were tested or died in hospital. Many, many, never saw a hospital and died at home. The only positive thing, I have never in 12 years here seen the Italians working together in such a tightknit group. If we can only keep it up after the crisis. I see the same thing in the British press (to a large extent). It is really a "war" attitude!

Diversifying now is pretty much impossible! On the LSE I have taken a moderate knock, but nothing like the almost 70 percent I took on the Milano exchange. And the US is also doing better than expected. Luckily both UK and the small piece I have on the NYSE are all in investment grade bluechips, whereas in Milano I speculate. But the problem is that everthing is in shares, I don't trust bonds because they earn little....until the markets crash like now! But being an ex South African there are a few kilos of the yellow stuff in reserve as a last resort.

Not little cooperation, no cooperation. Italy and Spain have been helped by China, USA, Cuba, Ucraine, Russia and Albania. How many European countries do you see listed here? As for the socalled "Coronabonds" that we are hoping for to save our economy....Germany has decided it wont happen, so it wont. As soon as this crisis is over my Merc and the wife's Citroen are gone! I'll buy Japanese in future. This 4th Reich makes me puke! Frau Hitler rules the roost. Thank goodness most of my pension pot is in the UK.

D's are scarce. Only remember one since i started thinking about this in November. It was listed at €4500 if I remember right. Can't remember the number but I THINK it was a D3 but with a straight stock without pistolgrip. This C3 is listed at €2700. A new possibility has however now opened up and I am in a serious quandary. It is, if not downright illegal, at the very least not quite cricket. I left my D3 to my son in South Africa when I emigrated here. When I spoke to him this morning he told me it is still in the safe, he never sold it when he bought his Krieghoff (blody snob!). He suggested I buy a cheapie Browning, bring it to SA and we just transfer the numbers from one to the other. It won't be a problem when I bring it into Italy, but it may be a problem when I bring it to the UK for competitions. This needs some serious thinking! I live clean here, don't fiddle taxes, model citizen and I would prefer to stay that way.