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What does "41" equate to in Regard to inches across the back from armpit to armpit seam at the bottom of the arm hole.? Get a tape measure.

I used to be a member of basc but at a country fair one year they had a stand and it was manned by a slick type salesman and a couple of Dolly type females. All they were interested in was for me to get my wallet out and get their fingers in to remove as many £20 notes as possible, my thought was.. I am paying an annual sub to basic to support shooting and shooters interests. So WHY are they paying third parties to harass my to buy quantities of raffle tickets at extravagant prices for junk that I didn't want or the slick salesman Trying his best as if his life depended on it for his job to sell me draw tickets for a CHANCE at winning a car. I informed him that I would have to go to the bank manager to arrange a draw on my properties to get the CHANCE IN THIS DRAW. Was there anyone to offer a cup of tea or a good biscuit... Nah. Was there anyone to speak with about anything to do with shooting, hunting, guns, dogs or anything that was to do with the object of shooting sports.. Nahh. It's as if the organisation was infiltrated by person's who were totally opposed to anything to do with shooting and just use the funds to buy or obtain lovely shiny land rovers or range rovers, I forgot the new media centre. Then there was the business of the wildfowling leases. The dsc courses, and the doctors certificates. Then there is the situation where some bright spark who came up with the idea of making it "Policy" that WITHIN.!! 5 years there could be no lead OR plastic on the shooting field.! This barm pot idea was made and promoted several cartridge manufacturers to make a statement on a their Web pages totally rubbishing this idea by the fact that there was no way this could happen because of component availability. And the shear arrogance of promoting the link to their site above to a totally useless reloading guide as if basic was higher than anyone else. It's this nonsense that is typical of basc. That's why basic keeps getting bashed on all sorts of forums. I love shooting sport and that is why I have taken the time and trouble to type this out. If I didn't care, I'd have just gone and done something else.

I saw the channel Islands storm weather on the news,,, but here... in tropical South West Kent a lot of it seemed to go around us. Yes it blew and rained but something has surprised me is that local low laying fields and places that flood aren't. There is the odd area with some flash water but that will soon soak in because the dyke levels are quite low.

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What a well written piece. What else would we expect from basic. 😃 Now my father used a bike spoke to knock the primers out and wood blocks and a wad cutter on FELT to make wads. Needs must when the devil drives. Still nowadays I use 3 different MEC loaders in 28, 20 and 12. Although I don't use the 12 much. What else would we expect from basic. No change there. Total waste of space.

Yep the pressure is now up from 960 ish around lunchtime to 978 just now at 18.52. The STORM was a bit hyped up. Yes it was a bit rough but not that bad.

Yesterday was odd here,(South West Kent) there were spells of monsoon rain showers of silver bullets and stair rods delivered by heavy black cloudsI but with bright sunshine at the sametime. In the afternoon the rain stopped and I was able to get outside and have a good look around to see if a anything needed securing. It was breezy but nothing to be concerned about. The situation was like that into the evening. At one point I looked outside and there was horizontal rain going past. BUT at about 1 AM the road was bone dry. It reminded me of the night of the hurricane in 87. That night I went to a basc roadshow at a school in Maidstone and the weather had been very bad and how when I left the car park was bone dry. It was breezy with leaves blowing about. About 3am the wife woke me up and the storm was in full performance.

Well I went back to the site and filled in all the necessary sections and pressed the create account button but it didn't happen. I reviewed the application form and checked that all sections had relevant data but it didn't progress forward. I did manage to access (limited) a small area of the site online, but that's all. The thing about the set up form is that it doesn't show where there is any problem so I can't correct or modify it, so it goes no further. Shame because smallbore rifle shooting has no real mouthpiece.

I'd love to be part of a forum for smallbore shooters and due to your previous post I'll go back and have another look at it, but with reservations. I think that the days of shooting are numbered for the majority of shooters. Unless you own or have access to a fair amount of acres you've potentially got problems of antis disrupting your shooting or accusing you of some sort of wrong doing,

That was always a bit of a random setup. It was always smoke and mirrors stuff. A good product with a lot of good recommendations. But it always seemed as if it was secret, as if any enquiry was received by suspicion and he wanted you to buy a lorry load. At one time he was touring around flogging powder out of his vehicle to individuals into their own containes.( plastic milk bottles or whatever) always to far away. Strange bloke, strange setup. Don't understand how someone who must have sunk a lot of money, time ,knowledge into a project to produce a good range of products but couldn't or wouldn't liase or communicate with the customers.

I am a smallbore shooter and I have never heard of that forum so I went to it and started to fill in the registration form but it wanted to know EVERYTHING. FAR more than I was prepared to put on an anonymous forum so I removed all of the information that I had entered on the form and removed myself. It might be a brilliant forum but I'm not going to contribute to it. Shooters are under more than enough pressure without having to go through another hoop.

The politicians (thieves, liers, crooks and general Good for nothing types don't have the want to sort it out. And that is to remove all of the chief constables and disband the county force structure. Have a proper professional structure and not an old boys network heavily allied to the masons. The country doesn't have county armies, airforce or navies. So why should there be county organisations of any sort. Modern communications and computer systems should have meant that we aren't policed like back in the days of Morse.

Not very good is it. The police in general are a complete shambles. They've never been honest. Back when I was a kid the family along with most of the population used to go to bonfire night. The plod had been confiscating fireworks from lads who had been throwing bangers into the crowd ( fair play) but Father knew some plod and they gave father quite a lot of these confiscated fireworks. (Wrong). Ever since I was a kid I've never seen any valid reason why plod should be given respect of any sort. You only have to see the amount of fiddles, serious crimes and serious lies that they are found to be guilty of. Look at the hundreds of officers that have been sacked and are subject to disciplinary action. The met recon that it will take two years to sack the sackable ones. I think that is a rate of about two a day. There's plod that have criminal convictions, some with serious things as long as your arm. Only the other day two were sacked for arresting those two athletes for no reason. Three others should have been sacked but got disciplinaries. And that took three years to get sorted. Other plods have crowd funded and I think that over £60,000 has been raised from the ranks. And this is for basically breaking the law. How can the general public have confidence in the police. I know that they have a very difficult job dealing with the sludge of humanity but they really don't help their cause.

Some winchokes are the same except the key flutes are a bit different. Smaller flute

Haha. Sulphur,, haha... One year the wasps decided to make a massive and aggressive nest behind an air brick at ground level in mothers house. I couldn't see any effective way to deal with the problem. Then DING,,,, I had a plan. I had found a few sticks of sulphur (something to do with drying hops years ago) and there were a few planks about 8ft long left over from a job. So I used 3 planks to form a tunnel to the air brick. At the other end I made a small fire of sticks and grated some of the sulphur stick onto the fire. I fanned the fire up to full chat with a bit of ply. Vast amounts of thick toxic yellow smoke went into the air brick and as wasps came back trying to get anywhere near the air brick they just fell out of the air onto the ground ,,, dead, stone dead. After a couple of minutes I took the planks away and put the fire out. The Wasp problem was eradicated but so was the grass on the lawn,! The sulphur had turned the grass bright yellow stripe. Mother was not best pleased by the yellow stripe from the fire scorched site of the fire to the air brick and the stink of sulphur in the house. I opened all of the house windows, got a spade and dug the yellow landing strip out, got the garden hose and blasted the soil, found some spare turf and replaced this to make good. Mother said that the cure was worse than the problem. Still needs must when the devil drives. The wasps were no more, Mother survived the sulphur, the lawn recovered. = result.

Years ago Father bought some.... carbide.?? (Calcium carbide.) A white powder. He used this to kill wasp nests. He hated wasps and would watch their flight lines as they went back home to the nest. When He found the nest he would Mark it with a long stick. Later after dark he would go armed with a torch. A teaspoon tied onto a garden cane and a pot of the powder. A teaspoon of the powder did for the nest. This powder when in contact with moisture / water produced acetylene gas which is very explosive. I found that if a small amount of water was put into a 25ltr plastic drum and a teaspoon of powder created a pretty powerful explosion. It was all for fun. There was no evil intent to do damage or hurt anyone. Except wasps. Mother had a virulent wasp nest at the end of the raspberry canes and I used the carbide trick on the nest. A out 7pm when the wasps were back in the nest I found a long bean pole and tied a bit of rag soaked in paraffin onto the end I lit it and put it over the hole expecting a bang, but nothing happened. I removed the pole and noticed a small candle like flame. As I walked away there was a big bang. Next day there were only a few wasps around the hole. A few days later there were none. I dug the nest out and where the nest had been there was a hole the size of a football which had been wallpapered with wasps.

😃😃😁🤣🤠 I was always experimenting with stuff. Weed killer powder mixed with sugar and filled into glass Shiphams paste pots, loads of white candy floss smoke and brilliant white flame which melted the glass pot. Taking the coloured star bits out of rockets and loading them along with black powder into a small cast iron cannon... badly burnt mums new lino in the kitchen. That experiment didn't go down very well. To ... I had seen a submarine war film where they were depth charging a sub..... .Around the back of our house there was a heavy duty steel barrel that collected rainwater from the gutter which father used to water the runner beans etc. I thought that I could use this as my own depth charge experiment testing tank. So I tied a banger to a metal meat skewer and a lenth of string for retrieval. , lit the blue touch paper and as soon as the fuse started to fizz I dropped it into the tank. There was a muffled thud and it had a sort of Barnes Wallace effect on the barrel. It split the seam open and the barrel resembled what it was like on the inside of one of those subs when they got hit by a depth charge and the Hull seems sprung and water jetted everywhere. I quickly retrieved the string, the spent firework and the skewer and made off. No one ever suspected my naval bombing experiment and they sourced another steel barrel from somewhere. It's a wonder that I wasn’t maimed for life with some of the things that we did. A other one was making airfix ship models and putting a shotgun cartridge on or in the Hull and then shooting at the Primer with my Original 35 22 air rifle which blew the model boat to bits. Putting 6 Inch nails onto the rails at the level crossing to make knife blades which were flogged at school to other prototype terrorists and lunatics. The list is long.

Isn't it a case that a lot of money was generated in public donations but this was never given out and still sits In a bank account somewhere.

Great minds Or lunatics think alike. When I was about 12..13 I came up with this great idea of fireing firework rockets ĺaunched from a bazooka. I was very creative when it came to creating stuff when it came to blowing anything up etc? I got a section of plastic downpipe and attached à pistol grip and a flailed extention. I took my invention to the local town bonfire and got my brother to put a rocket into the pipe and light the blue touch paperback. The rocket did launch but I and the people around me got covered in back blast. Luckily I wasn't hurt by this luncy and the homemade bazooka experiment was discarded. Several people thought that it was a good idea though. Luckily no one got hurt.

Some very sweeping statements here. If 100 thousand people decided to get off their rears and travel up to London to protest and march in the rain ... AND as you state very none Palistine looking then HOW do you know who or what their motives were. It was hideous what hamas has done but is it right what the israelis are doing by basically carpet bombing areas which are civilian areas. Everyone has an opinion and at least 100 thousand bothered to show themselves. Hamas were really stupid to attack soft civilian targets and not fight the military. What did they think they were going to achieve by slaughtering innocent civilians. What do the Israelis think that 5hey are going to achieve by killing innocent civilians. Joe Biden might have jumped on the bandwagon to get the American Jewish vote next year but all it does is to perpetuate the global hostility. At the end of the story innocents suffer. Ps.. years ago now I travelled up to London to march against the Hunting ban.. does that make the tens of thousand people who bothered to put their hands in their pockets and go do it, a load of spongers....feckless....burger noshing...unemployed...english people..?

Roll up, roll up .... if you don't, it'll be gone,, panic, panic ,, if I don't get on it someone else will have bought it..? OR ..... that no guns are selling anywhere and they want to create the illusion that there are customers out there. On here if you look at the guns for sale section a lot of views but very very few comments and even fewer sales. Guns = dead market. How many times on here do you see. Free guns and got to make space in the cabinet. Its all a smokescreen and mirrors to create an illusion.

The wife and I had both flu and covid jabs several weeks ago at the local quacks. They had a Saturday and Sunday open walk in. No fuss at all. One in one arm one in the other. Didn't feel a thing and didn't have any reaction at all. Apparently a couple who live just down 5he Road had covid recently and were pretty ill with ìt. But a lot of deaths with the fluè. Get the jabs.

To qualify what I previously wrote, I have an example of possible issues that are potential risks. ... some years ago one of my daughters was on her way out to her friends and she returned to tell me, "Dad I think that someone has been sick on your bonnet"! "How pleasant I replied ". I went straight out there and instantly realised that it wasn't sick and that it was probably Nitro moors. I grabbed the garden hose and started washing the slop off of the bonnet...l the roof and the front wing. The articles was parked off road on my ground. I then noticed that two of my neighbours cars had been treated in the same way as mine. None of us had any idea as to why. All of us were middle aged family blokes who don't owe. Money or have kids that are at home. Now two of the cars weren't anything special but one was a very clean nice Alfa a couple of years old. So no known culprit, no obvious motive, 3 badly damaged vehicles. Eventually plod showed up, one said" that's not nice.!... we'll give you a crime number.!! My patience was wearing thin at this point and I let my annoyance be known to him:;:. I said don't be so stupid. The insurance companies will write two of these off without question. Its stupid brainless comments like this by plod that don't help. We never did find out who or why but I had my suspicions that the fact that it could have been tied up with a neighbour and drug dealing. SO be careful about how the actions of third parties an seriously affect you, your property and your life. Some of these low life antis wouldn’t think twice about setting fire to your shed or vehicles and you'd never know who or why.

Two people on my cul de sac know/knew that I shoot or in the past shot but Overall no one knows what I do and what I've got. I don't advertise the fact in any way. I park my vehicles on my ground so I don't have to go out on the road. When I load up I check to. See if people are going past. The same when I return. As far as I am concerned ...what the eye doesn't see the heart doesn't grieve over. The fact that people know about you means that potentially you are open to all sorts of accusations and events such as damage to vehicles and property. If someone alleges that you've been waving a gun about true or not plod won't hesitate to take away your guns for an undetermined time. There is no advantage to advertising that you go out shooting. Most of my neighbours would be horrified. The days of old boys having a shotgun in a sack tied to the crossbar of a bike and carrying a bat of rabbits through the village to the pub have long gone.

...belonged to everyone in this country of ours... but who's land is it.? Who's does the tree belong to.? If someone actually owns the land and the tree, have they broken any laws by cutting their tree down..? Sad,unnecessary and objectionable it may be. There are many videos on YouTube of cowboy treefellers cutting perfectly good trees down. Ps. Has anyone actually been CHARGED WITH ANYTHING YET.. This is the sort of nonsense in a major national reg..... Walkers noticed how part of the tree appeared to have been marked with white paint, indicating someone may have felled it with a chainsaw. Look up, Sherlock is on the trail. The saw that cut that down was a big saw with a BIG LONG BAR. it looks as if it was cut through in one pass. A PRO SAW. Not something that was bought in Tesco or pound land.