Sweet11-87
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soon as i get home the gun comes out of the sleve and sits on my cleaning mat on my desk for an hour or so then it gets cleaned and oiled and back in the safe. unless your house is inherently damp, what will put damp in the safe is putting cold guns youve had out in british weather into a warmish safe and then locking the door.
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decathalon/solognac 500 neoprene waders. had them 3 seasons at lindisfarne they get worn in the river fishing in summer. cannot fault them. shoulder buckles on back away from gun mount point, heal moulds for mud patterns, shell holder, phone holder, repair patches and 2 year warrenty.im so sold on all the solognac gear i should be a rep by now. all my pigeon gear is the same until they pulled the line from the UK.
even the binos stand up price to performance wise
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i use a 261 daily for work and honestly it has no guts with 20" bar. 18" and it ok.
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being a member of a club ive got a good few spaces for .22 on my ticket and ive had a good few. if you dont mod them the 10/22 is the worst out the box also it is small, very small infact im not a big bloke and i feel like im all over the thing so if youre remotely adult bloke size its gona feel small (picked it up for buttons of a bloke on here a few months back actually).
rem 597- probably the best trigger and most accurate i found but least reliable.
probably unpopular opinion, if i was after a cheap 22 semi auto id probably get a 15/22 easy to strip, accurate, decent enough trigger, reliable as far as 22lr goes, light and as good a magazine as ive used, way oversized but probably a bonus in the dark with N.V. plus with it having rails and m-lok you can strap all manner of gear to it.
main downside i see is if somone calls the police when youre out shooting rabbits i just think them and the police will get way more exited by the fact it looks a bit military
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8 hours ago, peejay said:
what about these slime balls that pm a potential buyer to tell them not to buy something from you, when they have shown an interest?
depends what they say. could be being a good samaritan could be sabotaging. really depends on whos selling, whats for sale and whats been said.
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as with every comment it depends how its worded. can tell someone nice or tell somone nasty.
but again, it works both ways, when an OP comes out the gate with a comment like "no time wasters" or "no offers" followed by somting for sale way above the going price bracket. i tend not to waste his time, i let them waste theirs when the listing sits for weeks without a sniff.
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i wear macwets all year round. like a second skin once theyve streched in if you buy slightly too small.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...................
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22 hours ago, London Best said:
That will be why it’s not legal for larger deer then.
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.
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5 hours ago, Gas seal said:
How many shooters notice on a ‘good day’ that the birds crops are empty or how many have milk glands the condition of the birds ( or have garden birds seeds in their crops) . When we had more pigeon shooters some years ago these were the things we talked about not about cartridges or different decoys ( until the magnets came out). We never talked about how many we shot only when very large numbers were shot in one go.
most valid question in the thread. be intresting to find out if anyones noticed any patterns.
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4 hours ago, shotmaker said:
Kent cartridges are made in West Virginia, USA, they're not exported from the UK.
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.
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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.
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6 hours ago, Centrepin said:
My regiment not being known for drill or even its turnout it's one of the things I never considered.
It was always a talking point if bayonets would ever be needed or used again. The current bayonet is a poor quality badly balanced "knife" with other uses. A leatherman multi tool is a more useful item to carry.
I just can't imagine a Gaurds regiment on parade with moderators fitted, it doesn't go with the image. Perhaps it's a time for pageantry to return to wooden furniture on a more traditional looking rifle, a Lee Endfield or even a Baker?😁
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.
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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
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2 hours ago, ordnance said:
Man down could still pull a trigger or a pin, you shoot a man in battle you want to kill not injure him.
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.
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1 hour ago, ordnance said:
I think that was more spin than anything else, if you shoot someone in battle you want to kill them end off. Wonded soldiers can still fight and kill you.
Anything would be better than the SA/80.
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
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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.
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would be nice if they gave you a refund on good faith given that you have traveled 5 years in a row, but sadly thats as far as you can take it, T&Cs are the same as every even like this. none refundable, none transferable and non negotiable. if its through redbox events you can insure your ticket at the checkout, and they will be glad to remind you of that when you call.
fingers crossed for you mate but if you get a refund in this after the events already happened youll be the first ive heard of.