Windswept
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It's been the Consumer Rights Act since 2015. You would also need to claim against the seller not the manufacturer and being 2nd hand also complicates it.
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On 22/08/2021 at 08:05, cervusman said:
A manual is very useful to read up on techniques, but with so many powders now unavailable they aren’t much good. Most powder companies now put their data on the website, so you can look up the powder that’s available to you
You often get a different set of data in a reloading manual compared to the powder data. Different bullet makes, different barrel lengths, different cases & primers. Worth looking at both IMO.
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14 hours ago, Centrepin said:
As for cars, forget these that need charging, things evolve.
Next generation are self charging.
Buy a car, don't exceed 40mph, never use any fuel. That's 95% of my journeys.
As I understand it this is old technology where the petrol engine charges the battery along with energy recovery from breaking etc. So, once the battery is exhausted the petrol engine will run, even if you never exceed 40.
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1 hour ago, TIGHTCHOKE said:
Do you really think the prime grain is used in bird food?
Of course not, but what about the sunflower seeds, niger seeds, peanuts etc etc, are you claiming they are all completely waste products, not even fit for biofuel?
There are also other problems with feeding, many people don't clean bird feeders regularly which spreads disease. I gather this is one possible reason for the demise of greenfinches?
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55 minutes ago, islandgun said:
This is the thing ! We all believe feeding is a good thing, now according to this article we are causing an imbalance, resulting in less nesting sites for some rarer species. I wonder what the Songbird Survival or RSPB will make of it.
I hardly ever feed the birds around here but concentrate on allowing natural food sources to flourish, for example allowing thistles and dandelions to go to seed. (I don't have any near neighbours to annoy). At this time of year there's hundreds of finches about the place.
When I read the article I thought it was about time someone questioned the amount of feeding of wilds birds and the imbalances it makes. I also wonder what damage is done to the environment with all the land taken up growing bird seed.
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1 hour ago, Rimfireboy said:
Yerr, but they’re really slow. I chrono’d them at 750fps through hushpower. As you say though, really quiet.
Have you chronoed other carts? The Eley 2.5"s are listed as 1300 fps at the muzzle. They do seem to be as quiet as the 3" subsonic load in my modded .410, the normal 3" carts are noticeably louder (and are listed as 1375 fps)
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19 minutes ago, Zapp said:
According to the app on my phone it's a highbush cranberry.
I think that's the related American plant. This is more likely to be Viburnum opulus i.e. guelder rose,
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9 minutes ago, mgsontour said:
Writers write so readers can read. . . . just because you can write it doesn't mean you can read
I don't know if you're agreeing with me or having a go. 🤣
To clarify my point. I know what @Sprucey wrote but I'm querying did he actually mean 'refused' in a legal, insurance, meaning? I.e. will DL still insure the vehicle if cartridges are not carried?
I will also add, did the call centre person mean what they said? More than once I've been told the wrong thing so I would ask to speak to a manager or underwriter to clarify exactly what is covered.
There may also be confusion over words such as 'transported' as they may think you're delivering cartridges as opposed to personal use.
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2 minutes ago, ninjaferret said:
The details in the small print, he says " They refused to insure me " .....
I know, but there's a difference between what someone says off the cuff and a legal definition. Most, if not all, insurance companies will exclude things (such as racing) but that doesn't mean they refuse cover.
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It doesn't like he has been refused cover, they will just not cover the carriage of shotgun cartridges which, if correct, would apply to all Direct Line customers and possibly many other companies.
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I've been trying to sort something similar out with the NFU for years. There does seem to be a reason to limit the carriage of certain items but I don't think the insurance people understand what they are doing.
To answer the OP, I don't know what policy you have but looking at the policy booklet online does not show any exclusions for cartridges or explosives so I would go back to them and ask them to point out where the exclusion is documented.
NFU used to exclude more than 2,000 bullets/cartridges unless you asked to carry more. Now they've changed the wording yet again it it does not make sense.
Their current policy now states "WE will not pay for any claim if YOUR CAR or TRAILER is being used for the transportation of high explosives such as nitro-glycerine, dynamite or other similar explosive. This does not apply to the carriage of live shotgun cartridges for FIELD SPORT ACTIVITIES".
As far as I understand cartridges, bullets and reloading powders can be described as explosive but not high explosive so I can carry them. Which makes the reference to 'live shotgun cartridges' pointless.
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24 minutes ago, Newbie to this said:
Buy British
Is there much difference these days? Aren't most primers, powder, wads, shot and cases made abroad even if the cartridge is assembled in the UK?
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10 minutes ago, PeteThePigeon said:
Should of said that this is for shooting with steel.
Are these suitable for shooting with steel?
This is the link to Clay and Game: https://www.claygame.co.uk/12ga-fibre-shot-cups-pd82
It may be worth emailing / phoning them to ask, I've found them helpful.
Edit to add, just re-read your original post and you mention 20g, the cups are only listed for 12g but would still be worth calling them to ask.
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I've probably only shot a 1000 or so .410 cartridges, mostly Eley 2 1/2s but a few hundred Lyalvale 3" subsonics and a few Lyalvale 2"s in a few different .410s and never had any melting like the pic at all.
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Have had less damaged cartridges when I've shot 3" carts in a 2 1/2 chamber. The damage was neater than those, what gun were they fired in? As mentioned I'd contact Lyalvale, they've been helpful when I've asked them questions in the past.
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I've done this. The only problem is when you have to clear it out to put another gun in...
On a serious note, take care of the weight if it's going in the attic and you're tempted to fill it.
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I think aberisle want to load his own.
There's quite a bit of data on the Hodgdon site for H110 powder: https://hodgdon.com/h110/
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24 minutes ago, mel b3 said:
My work has also removed the recycling skips from supermarkets, the public are completely to blame for this . As soon as the first person is too lazy to put the waste in the skip , and drops their bag of recycling on the floor , every following bag will just get dumped on top of it .
It's interesting to hear the other side of things. I agree people do dump stuff next to the recycling containers down here but that's either people on holiday (there's no general refuse bins nearby in the supermarkets) or, far more often, down to the fact the recycling containers are left to overflow. Last time I went in the glass bank was removed for emptying and no replacement was left. I would say the council are to blame for these problems, especially as they are gradually withdrawing any meaningful recycling from people.
Domestic recycling involves putting paper in one plastic sack, cardboard in another plastic sack and plastic in a flimsy plastic crate. (Interesting to hear that weighted bags exist, our council don't use them). The result of which is loads of plastic, card and paper blown all over the roads when it's windy and we're in a windy part of the country.
I don't think our council is interested in recycling, all refuse goes to an incinerator so I expect, unofficially, they want all plastic, paper and card, to be chucked in to be burnt.
What I find most strange is each individual district has it's own refuse and recycling set-up and they're all very different.
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Reading this thread it seems everyone has a better council than we do. Our local council has gradually increased the size of it's vehicles so they do not fit down many local roads. They expect people to leave their refuse and recycling at the end of the road, for me that's half a mile away. They also expect recycling to be put in flimsy bags and boxes which blow away so it makes recycling impossible. They are also removing virtually all the recycling facilities in super market car parks so basically forcing many to chuck everything in landfill. Luckily I compost all green waste as they don't even provide the option for me to pay for a bin. As for fly tipping, the council do a fair amount of that as they often drop cardboard, glass and plastic out the back of the recycling lorries.
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Wymberley, did you mean CFL or GFL? Did you find a true English 7 and what do you use them for? (Just looking at a 20 bore myself).
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Have you looked at the Viht site? There are a few recipes.
https://www.vihtavuori.com/reloading-data/shotshell-reloading-data/
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11 minutes ago, Win96X said:
Hi
Am I understanding the photo of this gun properly or is the photo a mirror image as the one pictured is a left handed gun?
Thanks
If you click on the advert it says "GUN IS RIGHT HANDED PHOTO REVERSED"
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40 minutes ago, Walker570 said:
Exactly. Some semi woke person came up with the term and now everyone thinks that way. They are bullets and when in a case with powder and primer they become a cartridge.
I doubt it's down to that. I may have occasionally used the term because the place I've bought bullets from uses the term 'bullet head'. https://www.henrykrank.com/reloading/bullet-heads.html Probably more down to the fact people use the term bullet to refer to a cartridge.
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On 27/07/2021 at 14:01, aberisle said:
From ebay here is a link to a place that sells it, the price goes up and down at the moment it is quite high, i have had it for as little as £17 per kilo.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/303968878148?hash=item46c5f4fe44:g:Sg0AAOSwlLdcgiko
Thanks for the link. Do you need anything for flux when you alloy with the tin at all? I have a tub that I use when casting lead which might work.
Brass 12g shotgun cartridges.
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What cases are you loading? I know the Magtech cases take a large pistol primer.