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We have an independent Esso garage nearby,today it is £161.9 for E10,£1.76.9 for diesel.Over 10p cheaper than the supermarkets.

If anyone is interested in a 50 bird sporting shoot on 21st August 11-3,Many classes include side by side,.410 (30 bird),ladies,etc, Refreshments and a raffle.Minwear,South Pembs SA67 8JB Challenge Trophies in most classes Fibre Wads only!

Think it’s got more to do with hoping to make money from fines,like the 2 mile stretch further west near Morriston.

I am amazed Port Talbot is still going,they claimed to lose a million pounds a day years ago,and now energy is trebling.Somehow I expect it will continue to be subsided by the tax payer,if not Tata will move out.

Sad to hear,not very old, she had a fabulous voice!

It is 50 years this month since I got my first shotgun certificate age 14, it cost £1 I believe then and lasted 3 years. No need for a cabinet in those days,we could keep guns anywhere really,and some were hung on the wall.Cartridges were about £1 for 25,or £9 for 250. Who can remember even further back than me?

Inflation is far higher than we are told on the TV, In one year energy has more than doubled,petrol up 40%,Milk up from £1.09 to £1.45 (33%) Every 40p tin is now 50p+ Honestly average it all out and inflation has to be 25% up on a year ago!

One of the few benefits available with unlimited savings is working tax credits.My brother deliberately works only 18 hours a week and claims the top up for him and his wife,even though they own their home and have £100,000+ savings.Being on tax credits then means they get the maximum cash handouts from governments like the £650 for being on “low income”.Even got a full new central heating installation free of charge.With a benefit like that available why work full time and pay taxes?

I have always thought Auctioneers take too much from sellers and buyers,with the Vat included it can become almost half the items value. If I put. gun into a sale and it fetches £500,the buyer pays £600 including a buyers premium,I get about £400 probably clear. So in a minute of the sale,the auction makes over £150,and the government gets some Vat. Thats how they become a rich profitable business I guess!

I used to use millers additive in my 1999 Passat TDI,I thought it was good stuff and cleaned the engine,but wouldn’t expect to get that much increase in mpg. 5% at best I would say!

Come to think of it Baikals are probably a big part of why I now have continuous Tinitus.We never used any ear plugs in the woods and fields years ago!

I used to buy these as a teenager,because they were the cheapest! 40p for 10 in 1975.When you bought a box of number 6 shot 32 grams you got a mixture of 4,5,6,,and some egg shaped shot! They bang was always different to other cartridges,and more smoky!

Nice wildfowling gun, but as it’s over 10 years old I doubt it will be proofed enough to take the 3 inch steel at 1370 bar.

The thing is if by some miracle costs returned to what they were 2 years ago would the prices? I don’t think so retailers would maintain their prices as long as the gullible customers would pay them!

Just a small chips and curry sauce £3.40 here,was £2 a couple of years ago!

Just shows how times have changed in 50 years.Back then a BSA Snipe 2nd hand would cost about 3 days wages,now less than half an hour,even at a dealer 2 hours maximum!

Very nice offer! When I was 15, offers like that weren’t available,even single barrels had a reasonable value,I had to pay £13 for a second hand BSA Snipe in 1972, (equivalent to £250 today)my first shotgun at 15,today hardly anyone wants a single.

I have a full box of 3inch 34 gram magnum steel cartridges for sale, £11 collected,Neath, South Wales.

Exactly,I pay £10 for 50 round of sporting,anyone can turn up on a Sunday morning,I know the posh grounds like Churchill’s in West Wycombe have overheads,but also buy in bulk.’No bird’ broken clays have to be taken into account,so at 10% possibly we are paying for those too.It seems like many grounds will charge quadruple what ever the clays cost them.Naturally we have to pay a bit more when staff/ scorers are employed,than when we do it ourselves.

Must be where all the rich people live.😊

Interesting that clays have quadrupled in price in 20 years,yet wages have less than doubled.Typical of many things I suppose! Cartridges were £100 a thousand then now £300.

Luckily here we have a small local ground for sporting we can go to on a Sunday morning £10 for 50 (5 stands) At that price the owner still makes a profit to cover his investment of traps etc,what do clays cost now £5 for 50 probably, Under £100 a thousand anyway if bought by the pallet.Other places around are £30 a hundred targets,with some at £35. I set my limit at 30p a clay,any place wanting more won’t see me there,and once a month is plenty!

I got a box of them among hundreds of others I bought in an auction this year, paper case,all shot perfectly though cases a little swollen,a dirty cartridge but did the job on clays!

Last year my standing charges were 21p a day,now it’s 75p a day,(360% increase) on top of huge power price rises! So £275 a year without using a spark of energy...