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  1. i wear macwets all year round. like a second skin once theyve streched in if you buy slightly too small.
  2. Sweet11-87

    Synthetic stock

    if its the origional basic stock youre after, google howa 1500 hogue stock plenty of them about as new spare parts for about £40-45 quid mate. with the 1500 being probably one of the most customisable rifles youll find 2nd hand ones on ebay for cheap aswell. hope this helps
  3. ive always seen it as a free service followed by a gift of a small token sum of cash. soon as you demand minimum wage then its offically a job and you will be taxed and like any employment it falls under the rules for health and safety etc and the shoot becomes a workplace with liabilities. the amount of red tape surrounding a shoot would be unreal. i cant think of any part of the days ive been on that wouldnt have been an audits wet dream.
  4. i found a recipt the other day dated 2020 when i bought 1000 olympic blues for £198. knocking on the door of £300 now. who needs to hark back 33 years, 3 is plenty for the rose tinted specticles.
  5. usually very prolific and hardy trees, but if the root hairs dry out they can be dead before theyre back in the ground. was it root balled and bagged when you planted it or was it exposed?. if it was rootballed then chances are thats the roots havent broken out yet and are also waterlogged. the wet will kill em faster than dry soil once theyre in the ground
  6. looking at the photos its more than just a 16 year old. as someone whos felled alot of trees whoever did the cutting did a fairly clean job. gob, hinge and back cut are all very neat. id honestly be very suprised if a 16 year old has done this alone.
  7. if its not completley all the way round then its not technically girdled chances of survival/ effects depend on level of cambium stripped. if its 50/50 thats plenty enough for it to survive and with the tree now about to enter its dormant stage id just leave it and put some kind of guard around it until its big enough that it wont get bothered you can graft bark from other parts of the tree onto the effected area and then wrap it in cling film for the winter to keep disease out but chances of that working are probably not worth the effort if its that centimental to you wait until january and cut a half dozen foot long ends off and put them in damp sawdust until march, if the callous has formed the stick is still alive, bang them in some peat soil in pots for a year then bang them into the garden the following march. out of 6 youll probably get 1 or 2 to root. also a free app caled picturethis will identify the type of apple tree it is with a photo. and give you a tonne of info on what its crack is.
  8. i think its more the fact that they no longer want the responsibility of being an armed officers when they can end up charged with murder based on the situation looked at with hindsite and not from how it apeared at the time.
  9. i mean this isnt news this is stating the obvious. Pretty common knowlege that the planet and life has always found a way to keep the status quo. if a population explodes no mater what species somthing comes along to sort it out eventually. and well heres a graph...................
  10. its not uncommon for a even a 30kg roe deer to run 50 yards or more shot in the heart with much bigger rounds than the 5.56. dont care what drugs people are on theyre not doing that. its not really a fair or practical measuring stick using larger deer as the benchmark for whats considered a good military round.
  11. most valid question in the thread. be intresting to find out if anyones noticed any patterns.
  12. the diamand shot is still dropped in hull unless im mistaken. so the lead is still going over the atlantic. and im sure some of the loads were made in the uk "Kent manufactures a wide range of shotgun shells, loaded at our factory in West Virginia. We also have a sales and distribution office located in Ontario, Canada, servicing our friends to the North. In addition to the two North American locations, we also have a sister company in the U.K., the Gamebore Cartridge Company, that manufactures our proprietary shot such as Bismuth®, Tungsten Matrix®, and our premium lead shot, commonly known as Diamond Shot®." ripped directly off the kent website.
  13. i use it after i do a full gun stripdown and degrease. for instance my foreshore gun at the end of the season to get rid of any salt water or mud that may have crept inside then before i reasemble things like magazine springs, tubes and the trigger group ill give a blast then let it dry. pushes out any moisture and give everything a light film that will dry. for evey day use i use it down the barrels let it sit for 2 or 3 minutes then a pull through and barrels are gleaming. before stuff goes in the cabinet ive got a oily rag thats got a mix of spray on oil and lucas gun oil from a dropper bottle its not a special recipy just its the rag i use to wipe off oil so now its oily it works to wipe oil on :D. bit honestly i see legia as more of a cleaner than a lubrincant but the fact it does that and water displaces its just an added benefit.
  14. well as it stands guard regiments use the sa 80 with horrid black velcro covers over the green forend and optics. and if a a bayonet is so desperatly needed for drill or other requirments the beauty of the m-lok system is they can just add a bayonet mount for the US pattern bayonet with an allen key like any other accesory or even have an entirly new one machined. while i do still think a bayonet has a place i think the micro supressor is infinatly more useful modern day for reducing flash, report and controling what little recoil a .223 has. but like i say i reckon it wil be a long way in the future before this gets wide spread issue. a big part of the royal marines have been using an AR platform made by colt canada for about 10 years anyway.
  15. i hope we get it but i think it might be a good while before this is common place and standard issue. still havent roled the A3 out to most of units and that was designed to take us up to 2030 eariest
  16. Well pretty much all of the worlds armed forces and all of the major ones switched from .30 calibre firearms down to .20 calibre firearms about 50 years ago and after about 1000 conflicts none of them to my knowledge have decided to go back to a heavy battle rifle. it’s a bit of a design flaw having a standard issue weapon for your army that’s not effective in war. Can’t imagine every major force, on the planet has dropped a clanger together and haven’t got round to putting it right.
  17. im sorry like but youre not still in the fight if youre hit centre mass with 5.56. might not kill you outright but you are most definatly man down
  18. id like to know the cost. i know kent cartridges in the US are made by gamebore and theyre about the same as here even after shipping lead over the atlantic.
  19. my final comment on the matter is altough i dont like them, want them, or understand why anyone else does, i do recognise that for whatever reason people do. and as a gun owner ive been on the reciving end of being a minority that the majority dont truly understand and want rid off somthing that i enjoy. So im very very hesitant and reluctant to throw my vote into the "complete ban" on anything thats legal really. what i do heavily support and will always vote for is not necessarily stricter laws but better enforced laws and better funded governing bodies. if these breeds and ownership of them had been better managed early doors instead of a complete free fest then not only would half of these deaths and attacks probably not have happened the responsible owners and breed wouldnt now be in the spotlight and firing line becasue lets face it theyre gona ban them after the fact and we all agree its not gona real do anything bar hit the good owners hard. same thing with guns i think if the licencing structure was more robust and funded perhaps the perpetrators of the events that have triggered knee jerk bans might have been stopped beforehand.
  20. i know that the browning legia spray is a popular spray oil ive used it for years aswell picked up a tin of this on amazon for £10 for 750ml used it a couple of times smells and works the same and has the browning uk address and olin corp on it i think this is just re-labled legia red at less than half the price. thought id pass on the deal.
  21. and that argument is valid. it infact supports my point we are asked why we need any calibre firearm and the reason needs to be valid and justified. massive dogs for protection and "becasue i think theyre cool" should be an instant decline. just like it is for section 1 i dont want guns or dogs in the hands of idiots for the sake of the everyone else
  22. couldnt agree more mate, but i noticed the OP was in newcaste and will more than likley fall under the same police force as me and basicaly say if its his first ticket thats the deal if its not then it should have already been changed and to read the print on his ticket. mine used to say over land cleared by the chief of police now it says that i have permission over or somthing to that effect.
  23. correct but the statistics show that these dogs have repeatadly attacked people and other dogs to devestating effect. i apreciate that some good owners will think it unfair but frankly these dogs are very new in the uk, very few and far between and have built a reputation faster than any ive seen becasue of actual events, deaths and frequent attacks. im not really bothered if other dogs are more bite prone, its not pound for pound you could catch your thumb with a pin hammer 2000 times and with a chainsaw once the pin hammer is not the more dangerous tool. i personally dont get it. if you like the american pit bull breed fair enough but why not have a standard, pocket or a classic one? they are robust enough dogs at that size they look the same have the same traites and are managible. why do people need a pit breed that size other than to intimidate? they certainly arnt using them to work.
  24. i get what youre saying but most if not al of the previous status dogs were old breeds picked becasue they were intimidating and powerful but were infact old working dogs of purpose like rotty, the doberman, akita. all of which had a bad reputation with ahrd to find fact and figures. pit/fighting dogs were bred for sport and theirs a reason they were bred small/medium build. if you breed strength, fearlessness, stamina, jawpower and a high pain tolorance into a predator its fairly obvious that then breeding it to be XL is gona end in tears. if it had no drawback all pit dogs when it was a legal and popular sport would have been the size of cows.
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