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But the thing is a rotter. And it accused the tory front bench of trying to look up her skirt... surely they didn't,,, did they..

We do seem to mirror each other. I used to task mother to get me a copy of ST when she went to the market on Thursday for 2/6 ..... l think and I was very disappointed if she came home without the copy because they had either sold out or the mags hadn't been delivered to the shops. BUT the articles became more like fairy stories rather than actual reports of days in the field.

The shooting mags mirrored Jack Hargreaves's out of town. Jack used to go pigeon decoying and rabbit shooting but suddenly that wasn't acceptable. The program decended to tying flys or making a wicker basket or out in the garden. Simarly the mags used to cover stuff like making a duck pond blasting out a hole pond using sacks of nitrogen fertiliser until the use of fertiliser bombs by the ira and health & safety stopped all that sort of thing. The mags went into fairy story mode about having a lovely day watching the sun go down and friends. The prices went through the roof and they were adverts for upper market tat with the stereotype range rover with Barbours and hunter wellies brigade. It was just a one way ticket. Eley cartridges weren't Eley anymore, they were made in France and its just gotten worse. And as for the beginner learning much from the mags, the odd articles that are written are generally rehashes of old articles which were fairy stories in the first plalce. The blind leading the blind. I haven't bought a shooting mag for years. A friend sometimes hands Me a pile and it's just a flp through. A minute or two and then either in the bin or left in random waiting rooms to spread the word.

I didn't mean that I would be randomly issuing liverounds to boys who would be going off of the range with them. But IF I were to find the odd dropped round the boys could shoot them on the range. Not to dissappear with liverounds, This is indoor target shooting at 25 metres

Yep i follow. The problem with that is the dust that would be generated.

Thanks for that. I'm not sure the best ...most efficient way to deal with this. There is a LOT of it. It's in an indoor range so it's dry and dusty and there is about 75 yards to get it to a vehicle. Then move it again. We'll have to do something with it.

The bloke who used to do some of this passed away and the last I heard about the brass was that the scrappers wouldn't take it for fear of there being live rounds in amongst the brass... but who knows what went down. If I do it then it WILL ALL go back to the club. And if there is a loose round or two they can go in a box for the boys to shoot. What did you do? DrySift the tips or wash them out.?

If this is how it is,, a lot of the leaders of the wagner group will probably have accidents soon. At some stage in the power struggle vladmight have an accident. Hittler nearly got wiped out by one of his inner circle. Roll on conspirators

He'd have been better to go the whole hog when they were on the way to Moscow. I wonder why they stopped and what he was offered. Whatever it was its worth nothing now..... if prigozhin has gone. He was an oxygen thief but the crew were lost also.

This sort of shadows how Hittlers inner circle operated in the 30s. Anyone who got out of line or above their station had accidents. It was like a circle of sharks. Ernst Röhm was one who got ahead of himself and was issued with a handgun, one round and ten minutes to do the deed. He didn't, so they came and did it for him. It accomplished two jobs with one bullet... it removed a problem and kept everyone in line. Still everyone knows how that ended. It's all great standing on top of the pyramid but it's a long way down with a bad effect at the bottom.

The sand in the butt's at my rifle club is heavily overloaded with lead. And I mean heavily. I've sort of lumbered myself with doing something about it and I am experimenting with different things. Last week I took a few heavy rubble sacks in and filled three about a third up. That is about as much as is comfortable to carry. I have a small sieve and tried to separate the lead from the sand. This was semi successful but the problem is that at some stage a load of sharp sand has been added so the lead and the stonechips are a similar size. I got a plastic bucket filled with water and poured a load in. I got a border spade and stirred it around so that the lead bullets would migrate to the bottom. I removed most of the water and today I turned the bucket upside-down (sand castle) yes there was a thick layer of bullets that I can shovel off. But this is only a small scale operation. Anyone done this and got ideas. Ps I am aware of the lead aspect of this and have taken sensible precautions.

Oh go on get your trusty club hammer out. You know that you want to. Do you FEEL LUCKY,..WELL DO YOU? Failing that take the crypto currency of your choice and Buy a box of fourteen shorts. You may feel pleasantly refreshed. Edit. My late brother in law gave me one which reputedly dates back to the 1920s. And collected loads of pheasants back when.

Very nice. Very similar to my Browning B325 G5.

Do you have a hammer available.? 🤣. Now don't be silly... if it's OLD it will be short 2.1/2. Accept it. It's a fiat panda, it isn't a Masserati. It will do what it was designed for, and that ain't having 3" magnums rammed through it. If you somehow fire 3" carts through it, the gun may blow up and maybe kill you. Ps. if it is old then it may well be proofed for black powder and even shooting modern smokeless 2.1/2 through it may overload it. 410s are a high pressure load. A 410 is a lethal weapon

The way to find a smallbore club is to contact the NSRA. The above posts remind me about my time in the ATC. How we had an armoury of 22 rifles and #4s. I had my own #4 that I was responsible for and that I always used in competitions. When we went to the Lydd and Hythe ranges we marched through the town like a small army in 3 column shouldering the #4s 2ith the officers leading the way. How an officer used to bring car loads of wooden crates of 303 rounds. Like on the film Zulu. Us cadets were sent to the officers car and pairs of us carried the crates back to the armoury. There was security ... a sort of shed padlock on the door. There was never anything like there is today. Super days.

What. Most people don't understand is that plain iron sights are far more accurate that big cheapo telescopic sights and even expensive glass.

Yes I do. I started when I was in the cadets at school. Then didn't for some years then started again about 1980. I use an Anschutz 1807. What rifle were you using.? That is pretty good shooting considering you are new to it and it will take time to build up the muscle groups. Yes the triggers 0n match rifles are SUPER LIGHT. On mine I don't pull or squeeze the trigger. It only needs a thought. Although the shots on that card look erratic they aren't. It's groups that count. Once you can shoot a tight group you can then wind the sights on. On a fun card it is better to shoot 3 shot groups. It takes a lot of strength to hold mental concentration and physical hold to shoot that many shots. Well done. Looking at that card it's just a couple of clicks down and their in there.

Insurance is something that should be officially regulated. It’s just an unregulated jungle. Usually we change every year BUT we have stayed with Saga for the house insurance for I think is the third year because they have kept the premium the same AND this year it actually went down a few quid. They cover everything including guns and jewelry within the policy with no conditions or query. The vehicles are a jungle. You can't compare any policies because they're all different. I do USE the comparison sites to give a marker price BUT then contact the company. Merkats et al don't do it for nothing. You can get the same cover considerably cheaper by going direct to the insurer and cutting out the middleman. It ain't difficult.

I had someone call me about how marvelous it would be to have a smart meter,, I politely replied that I was more than capable of reading my meter. The dishwasher and washing machine run on economy seven overnight. Simple, control.

So why did the plodd get involved. Surely there is so much anti social behaviour at throwing out time that they could find ten in incidents that would merit attention. The amount of unruly hen parties getting out of control that plod could have assisted the young galls along the road. They could have gone to the local A&E department to separate waring drunks, winos, weirdos and general nutters without having to resort to manhandling a disturbed autistic teen. Still out in Merica they'd have drawn the weapon and shot the blighter. Oh, they do that here as well. We'll there you go.

We used to have an old boy who sort of bumbled along and misunderstood things. It was acomedy of verbal errors. This one is wet, this one is wet,,,,, did you dry these in a rain forest...?

This IS funny. You'll need a tray. You have to listen to this Clip.

This IS funny. You'll need a tray.

Summer will be back next week.. I've got painting on the back of the house to do. It'll be rite mate.

Give em a call and request a replacement under warranty. I remember a situation where one was staggering about on the grass verge. We pulled up and one of the blokes got out of the hilux and was going shoot it. The driver of a car going past in the opposite direction saw this and started blowing the hooter. The driver actively drove the car towards the bloke and missed him by a fag paper. The driver was lucky not to get the ounce and a quarter of BB right through the back window.. from several sources. Wa all had our attention on the fox and most didn't immediately appreciate what had happened. The fox slipped through the hedge not to be seen again. A very unpleasant disease.