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Fantastic. I seem to have hit a common note here. It makes me feel a bit cautious. Don't know if others are taking consideration of the war in Gazza and the possible random effects of that conflict regarding randomviolent attacks on holidays such as the fatal beach attack in Tunisià the other year. Are your holiday plans normal holidays or have they been prompted by the bad weather.?

Well it's a cold January and thoughts turn to sun sea and foreign shores. Well mine do anyway. Last year it was Maderia, the year before that it was Costa Adege Teneriffe. So whose looking at where and when.?

I don't know about going soft but cold is cold. The other day I was outside helping to load one of the daughters cars up on a trailer for maintenance/repair and I was so cold my face cheeks and lips were totally frozen and numb like I'd been to the dentist for a filling. It took about 15 minutes with the car heater running full chat to unfreeze. I was nearly hyperthermic. I can't see any point in people scrimping on being comfortable when it is so viscously cold and I live in Kent. We have only had a bit of frost on the cars, no snow, but the wind chill is murderous. The government is giving out cold weather payments and winter fuel allowance. So used it for the purpose that it is given.

This mirrors when a friend wanted a few for his son to use in his 20. He had been to Potters and told no one made cartridges of that type since non toxic rules. So he presented me with a box of 3" ...1oz #5 shot 20s and a box of 12s BB that he had obtained somewhere and he said make me something out of that lot. Seeing as the 20s were factory 1oz it was just a case of load swap and a roll turnover. Somewhere I have the load empty 12g cases of the donor box of 12bbs that if I could find them I could re fashion to a new cartridge loaded with something like #7. It's just a fun exercise to blast off at clays. Just for fun. Thanks for the consideration. Loads to examine and understand.

Good ole blue dot. But have you got a load recipe preferably for use with fibre loads or plaswad. A lot of places don't like you using plastic nowadays. Its not about stock Its more about littering wads that are still there years later. For the small amount that I would use there is no urgent need. I could easily use stock of 12s that I have but it's just something to have / know about. I can experiment but it would be helpful to have the wadding column structure.

👍 👍 I did get some game cartridges once but it was marginal.

LoveIy pictures and very scenic but I thought that there would be pictures of mud and vehicles stuck in it and beaters slip sliding along tracks with muddy dogs trying to get into line on the drives or pictures of the pickers up along with the game cart. But mainly mud. Muddy tracks, muddy dogs, muddy vehicles just mud. Beaters that fell over in the mud and got plastered from head to toe. The tractors towing the Range Rovers out ect etc. They're seasonal pictures.

I used to have a shoot which was local and I used to go out on foot patrol virtually every night on my own with the dog. About the only things that stopped me were Fog, mist and rain. I did try BUT you can't shoot if you can't see the target and I did it for enjoyment and along with the vision aspect I have no interest in getting soaked to the skin and getting weapons wet. I knew every field and every distance and angle along with the ground contour and back ground cover. Loved it. The dog used to know the score and sometimes could detect / wind a Charlie in the woods. She would stop as we went along the wood and wait. I got to know her game. I would walk on up around the wood and stand around the other side. Somehow she had worked out how long this would be and then she would enter the wood and work through. It wasn't long before Charlie showed up out in my field. We accounted for several lamp shy charlies this way. We knew the ground and the score. Blooming well loved walking like this when the muppets were either in bed or watching the TV.

Well we haven't had any snow down here and today was lovely blue sky and if you could find somewhere out of the wind and in the sun it was really very pleasant BUT. IF you were in the shade and wind it was hyper cold. I was out first thing for about an hour and my face cheeks and lips were numb like I'd been to the dentist for a filling. Roll on global warming.

Spoke to George and he wasn’t interested in that idea , but pushed to sell you them with all payment upfront and my chap could put a tenner a thousand on them. Whoho. A tenner a thousand.. clear profit. I don't know how he could afford to turn it down. 😃

So what load combos have reloading people got.? The current availability situation regarding reloading components is difficult and sometimes its not what would be the best fit it is what you can get. So come on guys let's have the 1oz loads.

Steady now. M25 A BIT NEARER, where is J22.?

Yes. Some years ago we were going to shift up any duck that might be resting on a pond just out in the field out from a flowing ditch. I was with the dog coming into the ditch and the dog and I were headed to the pond. Suddenly there was a call CHARLIE.:! and right next to the dog and I about 5..6 paces away, it burst out onto the field and I swung round with my Berreta 20 loaded with #6 and it fell. It looked as if it had taken every pellet in the pattern. Many times when we were out on walked up we would bolt a Charlie from anywhere being totally un prepared for the encounter as we were expectin something like a rabbit, pigeon or a pheasant.

It doesn't make sense that someone has the ability to set up 5his operation and produce what many say is a really good product and yet doesn't seem to be able to present himself to the customer in a manner to sell the product. I did understand that at one time he used to get out with a truck to places and sell cartridges and bulk powder out of the back of the truck into your own containers. Why all the clandestine cloak and dagger stuff.

Generally when I stand forward I use a 12 with 1-1/4 of #3in rh barrel and 1-1/4 of BB in left for the longer shot. But in a lot of cases in woodland and general drives the object target is CLOSE. AND in a high proportion i could use standard birds shot loads because the pattern hasn't opened and it is like being hit by a loose Breneke. I did have one drive where one jumped a fence and took the #3 and did a sort of forward roll in mid air. A few minutes later I saw another in the wood in front of me, then it disappeared. Suddenly it shoved its way under the fence in between my feet.? This one caught another charge of #3 right between its shoulder blades. both were instinct shots. There seems to be two sorts of flush with Charlie's. One where the drivers put a foot in the drive to hear a shot and Charlie bolts out the other end of the wood to present a shot. The other scenario is that the drivers almost get to the standing guns when Charlie will either slip out the side, go back through the line or find a standing gun who is not paying attention and is either watering a tree, lighting a fag or left his position to chat to the next gun. Then there are the situations of bang, bang or bang, bang....bang bang bang and you instinctively know that Charlie has slipped away. I want a 20 load that will do the job when on the sewlin line or ona side ditch or similar. Edit .. as long as the load is put on the target it will do the job. Humpteen Charlie's have been taken around whe chicken house with a 410 .

I need a loading which is for 70mm Fiocci cases. 209 winchester primers wads ... ( I have various fibre and plastics available). And various powders available. I'd just like a few suggestions if people load 1oz of BB to investigate the merits and safety

I need a 1oz load for lead 20 gauge. This is for standing on fox drives. Since the wildfowl/ lead ban no one makes lead heavies. Don't need many, well you wouldn't. Another reason that no one makes or sells lead heavies. I've got numerous powders and types of wads plastic and fibre.

I watched a few minutes of it and went back to reloading. I've grown up since then. 😄😄. There was one pretty gal in there but remember JET.? Charles... yes now king Charles wanted to be a part of Camila and I would have liked to volunteer to be considered for similar duty for JET. Reloading is more interesting now.

Hey a good collection there. Minor issue..... your in County Durham. It's far too far op Norf. About 250 Miles to far. All you sellers got to do is move down to Kent. You'd think that you were in the tropics here.

Two of my daughters have one each. The Mrs and I didn't object. One had a sort of DNA helix on her rump/hip area and the other had hers in the form of a sort of rambling rose with blooms down her ankle and top of her foot. Both are tasteful and not to generally visable. All I advised them was.. if you get one PLEASE get it where you can cover it over with clothing, and before you have it try and think what it means to you and have it where you can see it... no point having it on your back where you can't see it or it being just a splodge of random colour. This was after the daughter of a friend getting plastered from head to toe in a mass of meaningless splodges. The worst one was like a shield which was supposed to be the devil...? Why. It was completely just a mess of colour like a potato had been cut in half and used to smear the ink all over the bicep. Another one was the girlfriend of the brother in law who had Roman type sword tattooed down the outside of her left thigh. This was exposed when she sat down when she wore a shortish skirt. She was Not very attractive and having random ugly tattoos didn't improve her.

Doesn't matter when he died , it looks like another outfit is to fold. Blooming shame. There won't be anywhere soon. I've spent many hours in there and spent a medium fortune also. He was a character and could be a cantankerous old *** at times. Such a shame.

I did but it ain't Ķings English. Those Russians had a bottle of high-octane vodka when they wrote that lot.

Neither could I. I had a look on Wikipedia for the Russian alphabet and it could be.. equated to,,,IZ 18M. Not sure. Its Birmingham proofed 3" 4 tons □" Found one online as IZH 18M Right.. I found out how-to translate the Russian text on that link when it opens. I highlighted some of the text and a tab appeared at the bottom of the page which gave the option of Russian or English. Click on the English and the whole lot was in English. I read some of it but it was written in a random sort of way that I couldn't get my head round. It was like a few people were having some sort of conversation about stuff.???

I just tried the link and it DOES work ..BUT it's in Russian, SO how to translate it.? I don't see any control buttons. MY LIMITED EXPERIENCE of Russian guns has shown that although they are a bit basic and a tool, they are well made with chromed bores. There was one particular gun that had been really neglected and it stopped working. I dismantled 5he gun for the guy and cleaned about a spoonful of sand/mud out of the action and away it went for more abuse. Going way way back they did advertise top quality hand made BEST SbS sidelock guns but I've never seen any of them.

I haven't tried the link... BUT, coincidentally i've been reloading 20 gauge this evening AND i've dragged a single barrel ~~18M out to test chamber a few random selected reloads to just make sure that they chamber ok. I was given this tool when the owner decided to pack it all in. Because it is a single 20 and a big agricultural i've never used it very much considering that i'vegot a ton of other guns. BUT it is chambered 3" and proved to 4tons ¤" so it is strong. Now it is solid but you wouldn't want to put more than the odd heavy through it. If it was cleaned and lubed regularly it would last several hundred years. At least.!! Edit. The two letters in front of the 18 look like a capital N backwards and he other ĺetter is like 2 capital Ks back to back