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  1. 5 minutes ago, ditchman said:

    christ dont apologise ....its a bloody mine field on the net........think i have found it i guggled Halo by steven speilberg.....trouble is i cant track down the DVD's for it...it might be because it has only just been released..........i watched the abridged version the other night on channell 5 HD and it was pure quality...shoot em up for the first bit but then the story line kicks in........i watched it on the big TV with the lights off and HD is really good and my woofers really kicked in....i need to watch it thro my top of the range blu-ray machine and it will be totally awesome.........

    Have found this D, not sure if it's what your after but it is def not animated and looks like the full series to date. (see attached)

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  2. 20 minutes ago, ditchman said:

    that is the problem..........THAT IS IN CARTOON FORM........its not what i watched the other night...........

    what i watched was like a cross between bobba fet and the mandalorian except much more expensive made...it was done by steven speoilberg

    OH! ok sorry, Didn't realize this was an animated version, there is nothing in the link to say that it was. 

  3. Yes, Well said and well done sir.

    May I take this opportunity on behalf of my self and our fellow forum members to say thank you very much indeed for taking the time and trouble to lobby the MP's concerned regarding this issue.

    I am also wandering if it would be a practical and feasible option to contact a member of the administration team with regard to the possibility of raising a petition to add the weight of signatures from the membership in support of your correspondence.    

  4. As I see it you have a couple of choices, you cannot directly transfer data from an SD card to a flash drive as without some kind of input device you cannot instruct the SD to transfer data to the flash drive.

    So, choice 1,   assuming both your camera's have charging/data leads that are standard usb one end and micro usb the other. Purchase or borrow a small PDA that has a usb socket of the standard type (you will need this to connect the flash drive ). Create a file folder on the PDA to store your footage, connect a usb type card reader to the PDA and transfer the footage from the SD card to the PDA via the file folder you created. You can then insert your flash drive to the standard usb port on the PDA and then transfer your footage to this.  "example of PDA is anything like a small Asus note book or pad " which will easily fit into a back pack or panier.

    However, option 2, will be a lot easier for you, you don't mention whether you are camping out in a tent or not but in any case I will also assume you will be, in which case, simply find an internet cafe close to one of your stops, have a coffee and a half hours worth of internet access on one of their computers transfer your footage to this computer as in option 1, then download it to your flash drive. 

    If this all sounds a little to involved for you, you can always go into any McDonalds and just about ask any kid with a hand held to do it for you for the price of a burger of course.😁 ( see attached example of usb card reader and PDA )   PS I also believe any photo processing shop will be able to do it for you.

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  5. 55 minutes ago, Smartboy123 said:

    Beretta 20 gauge shotgun for sale with beretta gun bag

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    Hi Smartboy 

    Sorry but your pictures are not viewable for some reason, but it looks like they are in .jpeg format so you should just be able to drag them from their location,( presumably pictures folder ), into the bottom of your post. 

    To do this, first open your pictures location , place the mouse cursor over the picture and hold down the left mouse button , then simply drag that picture into the bottom of your post, where it says " drag files here to attach " .

    You may also want to state the guns barrel length and length of pull, most buyers will require this info.

    Hope this helps.

  6. Yes, in theory there should be no problem with this. Apart from your solar cells you would also need the actual charging unit plus a charge control unit, this would prevent the battery from overcharging. 

    I use this system myself to keep the leisure batteries for my caravan topped up, it works very well for this and best results are obtained by making sure the solar panel/s are angled towards the sun whenever possible.

    Shopping around will get you a reasonable priced kit, (see attached example)  which are easy to assemble and wire up. 

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  7. 5 hours ago, TIGHTCHOKE said:

    Do you have a diabetes Nurse?

    They are very knowledgeable due to specialising.

    Bulk buying Gaviscon may be the route forward!

    I take 10 ml if it wakes me up.

    Yes I do have a Nurse, she comes to the doctors surgery every now and again to take my bloodwork samples and give me a check up. 

    On her last visit she took me off Metformin (500mg) and put me on (750mg) prolonged release, I think it's these that are causing me problems.

    Gaviscon!!, Yeah will have to give that a try, didn't Glen Campbell sing a song about that, went something like " I clean my gun and think of Gaviscon.😁 

  8. 2 hours ago, TIGHTCHOKE said:

    Tonka, welcome to the Metformin Club.

    Well done on getting out there, seeking help and getting it sorted.

    Keep up the good work.

    Thank you so much for your kind words TC, much appreciated. Hopefully the issue I have been having is a thing of the past. 

    I have to admit it worried me, I thought that I was maybe starting to lose my sight, it never dawned on me that losing a bit of weight could make such a difference to a gun fit carried out less than a year ago. Thinking about it now, the warning signs were there , My watch slipping round my wrist, clothing being a bit looser but as luck would have it, the gun fitter at lakeside picked up on my facial weight loss from the photo on my certificate.

    Not sure about the long term benefits of this Metformin though, Doctor says it's  keeping my cholesterol levels down to a dull roar but I am paying for that with night time indigestion, stomach ache and morning joint pains. 

  9. UPDATE!!

    I have this morning (22/5) been up to Hadfield Guns at Lakeside and subject to a discussion about my issue I have had my gun fit and mount checked.

    The long and short of it was that the fit was out by a good bit, Since the original fit at Orston, which was done nearly 12 months ago, my face shape has changed quite a bit in that time and as a result this caused 2 problems with the fit and 1 problem with the mount.

    Due to my age (68), and medication for type 2 Diabetes (Metformin), my face has become more gaunt, this resulted in my cheek bone sitting lower and further to the right upon mounting the gun, this resulted in a subconscious canting of the gun to the right as my brain tried to compensate for my pupil looking down the right side of the rib.

    So, temporally fixes to cast and comb height applied and a realignment of my forend grip mastered, it was out to the pattern plate, four cartridges later confirmed both a 60/40 spread at 25 yards and that I was now hitting what I was aiming at. remainder of the box used on various stands resulted in 17 out of 21, so an immediate and vast improvement.

    LESSON LEARNT. Gun fit and mount checks will be carried out on a regular basis from now on.     

     

  10. 59 minutes ago, wymberley said:

    Pattern plate is good. Now, you have to start somewhere so looking at the rib is initially OK, but ideally you want to forget about it as soon as is possible and start concentrating on the target. To this end, once you've been to the plate and have bodged/padded up the comb until you're centering the pattern where you think you need to, go home and shoot yourself in the shooting eye in a mirror, mounting several time until you're happy and then do it several more times and take the average height which you figure the barrels appear below the reflected eye pupil. That's the information you need to work with. Unless you intend shooting at the Olympics in a few years, it's worth remembering that the human body is a magic bit of kit and can adapt to most guns to a satisfactory level with a bit of practice. Of course, it goes without saying that you can't beat going to a good competent fitter and coach, but it's horses for courses and the level which you want to achieve - or more appropriately these days, can afford. Good luck and good shooting.

    Again great advise W.  When I took up shooting I purchased my first gun from Orston shooting ground. I had an initial fitting done in the gun shop to make sure the gun wasn't miles away from a good fit, I then pattern plated the gun with my instructor prior to taking a course of 6 lessons, during which the instructor "tweaked" the initial fit.

    Two thirds the way through these lessons I purchased a Browning 725, again from Orston , but this time the fitting was assessed in the shop and the remaining lessons were taken with this new gun without the benefit of pattern plating or fit tweaking as I appeared to shoot well with it as it was.

    It appears I would benefit from having a proper fitting of this new gun and again pattern plating it. Another club member has suggested that what may have happened is that my initial mount as a beginner has now changed and as something as simple as an altered cheek pressure on the comb can drastically change the mount and fit of a gun, that may be the answer.

    Thanks to all, some great advise and points made, definitely should be a cure amongst it.       

  11. 4 minutes ago, wymberley said:

    Try practising a few minutes a day at home. Stand in front of the longest internal wall and start to mount in one upper corner and swing along the wall/ceiling line. From what you say your line may be low so if it appears so, treat the gun as though it has a bayonet fitted and push with your leading hand as you would if using the bayonet. What you then achieve is to stop  the mount pivoting about that hand which causes the muzzles to drop and the gun should now come up on the correct line to start with. 

    Thank you wymberley , that sounds like a plan. My assessment is the same as yours in that my eye is very low on the rib and as a result my line of sight is a bit flat.

    I have been told that ideally, I need to raise the comb and use a pattern plate till I hit where I am looking, then make a note of how much rib I see at that point and continue from there to set my mount seeing this same amount of rib every time. so many schools of thought though. 

  12. 3 minutes ago, TIGHTCHOKE said:

    Double beads are for the pre-mounted disciplines i.e. the trap stuff.

    Clays and game and woodpigeons should be shot with the gun initially out of the shoulder, you move, mount and shoot.

    But the gun MUST fit and you MUST have a consistent mount.

    Points taken TC. I think my mount is fairly consistent but it is still a work in progress that's for sure.

    But my problem is , I think,  using the mid and tip beads as a front and back sight both to align and set gun angle.

    Now, having lost the use of a mid bead as a means of setting the barrel angle I am seeking an alternative method. 

  13. Not been shooting that long anyway but on certain clays my line is good but the shot pattern falls beneath the clay.

    Rightly or not, I have put this down to my sighting picture, I have been told my mount and stance is OK so I have concluded it must be a sighting problem.

    To explain this thought train, my initial starter gun had both a mid bead and a tip bead, My lessons instructor explained to me that the purpose of the mid bead was to help with parallel alignment of the eye and the tip bead primarily, however, a secondary use of the mid bead was that for new shooters, it could also be used initially to set the rib angle in relation to the sight line.

    This was achieved by lifting the gun angle until the eye saw a "figure of 8", formed by the tip of the mid bead being the bottom loop and the tip of the foresight bead forming the top loop. After a while, when my gun mount became second nature, the functions of the mid bead would largely become obsolete as the angle of the rib would become muscle memory.

    This worked great for me and my scores steadily improved as I developed my clay sight pictures.

    Then I purchased a new gun with a tip bead only, thinking that muscle memory would kick in regarding the sighting angle, and for a while it did, but shooting once a fortnight plus any odd days that I could swing has not been enough to maintain this muscle memory.

    So guys, I would much appreciate any good tips or techniques to help with re-establishing a good sightline picture with a single front beaded gun. two tips I have been given so far are raising the comb or  taping an object the thickness of a pound coin one inch along the rib and lifting the the forend till the tip bead can be seen over this object.             

  14. 1 hour ago, steve_b_wales said:

    That's quite possible  The clue for the 'O' was 'experts in their field - 4 letters ending in S

    Can only think of two answers for experts that are four letters ending in "S", they are dabs or boss. So boss would fit and give you the "B" in beetle

  15. Any members out there have a spare cap to fit the base of the pistol grip on an SKB 500 Sporter,  The original has come off the gun but looked to be made from a piece of black ebony.

    Having said that, any generic cap will be fine as long as it fits, or can be made to fit.

    Cheers

  16. 20 minutes ago, serrac said:

    Does Chrome actually require an activation key - according to Wikipedia it's proprietary freeware?

    Also worth considering how full the SSD is now - they are known to slow down as they fill up so installing a larger SSD could stave off that problem for longer.
    https://pureinfotech.com/why-solid-state-drive-ssd-performance-slows-down/

     

    Yes agreed,  a bigger SSD would certainly help, or even just deleting or moving some older data to a flashdrive.

    And yes, if the Chrome operating system is freeware, then it should be activation free, tbh I don't know as I have never used it.

    It may also be worth mentioning (for those that don't already know), never ever defragment an SSD drive. They are not the same as ATA or SATA drives, they do not contain the spinning data plates and nothing will shorten the life of an SSD quicker than defragging it.  

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