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Minky

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  1. It's pretty straight forward. combined battery compartment cap, On off switch at one end and a small lens in the other end cap. If someone can identify the beast it is a way forward. to learn identify and maybe fault find and repair. it is quite well made and formed. But before I dismantle it I am exercising a bit of caution. who sells these because I've never seen any for sale,,, but they are out there.
  2. recently I obtained this in a job lot of stuff. I identified batteries but it doesn't perform. can anyone identify what it is and who sells them to see if it is repairable etc.
  3. Remember how good a footballer he was. Gone off the rails. Imagine how much time and money it took to set that up, film it and produce it. Still the musicians got a wage out of it.??????
  4. The thing that I see about this is that If you go from Churchill( and pay a search fee) ok they might inform you that the gun was made by XYZ in 1960 for a customer ...Mr Bloggs of Somewhere but this is a dead end. that person is probably now dead ..SO where do you go now. It is far better to track the gun from this end. you know where /who you bought it from so start there and go backwards. You could still start the other end and at least you might get a start point. The history is interesting but not essential . Just go shoot it and enjoy it.
  5. unless you've had a bullock wandering through the kitchen or the kids have been standing on the open door , or the door has been thrown open. numerous times, It is a loose hinge joint or similar. Go to the door and with a hand on either side ,move the door back into it correct position. The door hinge has got to be loose to just flop over like that. By opening the door you will be able to see where that amount of play has come from. almost certainly something has come loose and just need a bit of attention and a tighten up. If you get someone in it will cost you a bomb,. or they'll just tell you that you need a new machine and that will cost you a bomb. Man up and fix it. We're on about our fourth machine over thirty years and they have all been heavily used when the kids were here and even now every other day, and none of them has had the door fall off or get loose. mostly the problems that we have had have been door ribbon cable go down, That's how many times the door has been opened or mechanical timer issues.
  6. Tracing the history from 1960 is hard. It my well be that fred was a stocker and Bert formed actions but if There is no Information from Churchill, the trail goes cold straight away. A gun like this has a trail and it is expensive enough to have only through a few hands. You know where you got it from so ask them where/who they got it from. All dealers keep records of guns bought in and sold out. You might be lucky and it was bought by someone who died and it was sold by the wife or a son sold it on. I'm sure that previous owners would love to know that their husband or dad's gun was in good hand and being used again.
  7. This was what I mentioned above.. Don't use chrome. Use Safari that is in the Mac. There are differences in the systems. Same but different. It's like buying a brand new car and deciding that you what to put two wheels off of a lorry on one side.! why.? you might be used to using chrome but don't . don't try putting curry into your corn flakes .. it instant compatible.
  8. Write to Churchill. Someone will have the original specs and may give other data. You know where you got it from so track it backwards as well1 Ps. why a thread with the title Donald..? Someone's bound to ask where's your trousers. 🤣 or is it about Donald Trump.
  9. Minky

    AYA 28 bore.

    A solid performer that will give a lifetime of service. Is that model marked up as suitable for steel. Mine is steel proofed and stamped with the fleur-de-lis and..steel proof on the flats. Chambered for 70mm. without getting it out I am. Not sure of the chokes but I think that it could be 1/4 》》1/2 fixed
  10. Minky

    AYA 28 bore.

    I bought an AyA #2 rounded action. I only went in for a new mop and the little beauty was there waiting for someone to take it home. I did ask to look at it and although I loved it, it was way more than the wool mop was. So I just couldn't justify it to myself. Nearly a year later I was back in there and there it was waiting like a dog that had been told to stay and was waiting for master to return. I was told that a Belgian had originally ordered it and when it arrived he looked at it and was so impressed that he changed his mind and changed the order to a custom #1. I shouldered the beauty and after a chat about hounds and the wind I struck a deal and the beauty was coming home with me. It is a real joy to shoot and chops stuff down like it has been hit with a hammer. I bought a Mec size master to churn out fibre loads which compliment the calibre like the original 28 loadings and which are reasonably cost effective. 28s are expensive to feed factory loads. You'll love it. Everyone who has handled and shot it is impressed with the quality, the looks, the handling and the shooting effect. Which 28 did you get.?
  11. You haven't got enough infrared illumination on those geese. If you get a decent illuminator and not a grannies path torch. A. You can see what's going on out there, and B. people can see that they can be seen and recorded. Deterrent factor.
  12. We are very different. We Love it, love it, love it. All of it. From the time we leave home to leaving the car at my daughters, the taxi to the train station, getting the train tickets then on to the platform and waiting for the train. Then the experience of the train journey to Gatwick. The monorail, the crowds, the procedure of getting through the controls and baggage area. Waiting for the flight number and the flight lounge. Going through the tube tunnel to the plane and getting the seats. The moment that the engines flash start and the pushback. When the turbines start to spool up, your going on holiday now. The waiting for clearance and the sudden roar and the acceleration until the plane is away and airborne. The first stage of the holiday has begun. It's all part of it. The variation of people and the state of some. Happy, frightened noisy, introverted. It's âll part of the life experience. They're all living their life in coexistence. If you go on flight tracker the sky is like an ants nest of planes in the sky. They recon that there are over a million people in the air at any one time.
  13. Why is that then.? Do you suffer from agoraphobia or other condition.? Having that sort of problem must be very difficult and unfulfilled.
  14. How true this is. Such a shame, you can't give guns away.
  15. It's great to hear of the places that people have or are going to. Some of them bring Memories flooding back. Like Nerja, Frigliana and Port Andrax. The wooden train journey from Palma up the mountains through the orange groves to Soler, quick wander around the town then on the wooden train again to a stop up in the mountains for a photo opportunity. Then travel through the countryside of fruit orchards and orange groves down to the small port town of Puerto Soller. A wander along the front to find a bus which goes the scenic route all around the mountain villages back to the train station in Palma. There is a bus that goes direct through tunnels in the mountains back to the bus station in Palma. But we weren't in any hurry so it was the scenic route for us. Lots and lots of mental pictures of a lovely holiday.
  16. what I meant was .. use the programs which come with the Mac. I loved XP but just didn't like later versions. Years ago I used one drive for picture storage. Apple have cloud storage. I had a msg from one drive advising me that I was getting near the limit and for £1.99p a month I could go up to 1Tb. When I did this it deleted between 40 >>> to 60 thousand photos. !!! some I have managed to recover but I will probably have to pay for a specialist recovery of the drive to see if they can be recovered I doubt it. A disaster.
  17. I went Imac about 5 years ago. Not a cough or blink or splutter. The main thing that I found difficult was that it was different to Windows..... but the same or similar. It's like coming home and everything has been moved somewhere else and you call it a tea pot and now your not sure if you're looking for a teapot or a liquid recepticle. If you've got an iPhone or an Iwatch they all link up so if you enter data on one it seamlessly transfers over to the others. The one bit of advice is if you go mac, don't try to use Windows programs because at some stage there will be a clash and it will be like riding a pushbike with rubber handlebars which will end in a massive gutser which you won't like. Ps. When I got it I thought... you've made a big mistake here. Take it back. But I persevered and soon got to drive it.
  18. Not ole kamikwasi. Isn't he the bloke who just loves a decent crash.
  19. Epostulated..... now thats a word that doesn't Surface on these pages Every day especially from someone who was gated and ejaculated from private school and ended up in a secondary modern school. 🤣🤣
  20. IF I were to emigrate to somewhere like this for shooting ,, i did manage to find and get a round of sporting clays in out on Crete at the shooting ground near Chania. Lovely kind blokes and a fantastic facility like Bisley. I always ask at the hotels if there is any shooting locally. Mostly they have no knowledge of shooting at all. When I was driving about looking for the one out in Crete a shopkeeper no more than 1/4 mile from the ground knew nothing of it. Out in Turkey they were horrified/ frightened...? Did I Want to kill someone..? BUT after I explained what shooting clays was, they were only too obliging and contacted the sports Council in Ankara to find shooting grounds but the nearest was a couple of hundred miles away. A baggage lad at the reception piped up and said that there were 2 gun shops in the nearby town of Manavgat. Following his map we manged to find the shops. One was archery and airguns but the other had shotguns and rifles. Some heavy stuff for deer and boar. You aren't out there long enough to find stuff out and I don't speak Turkish or German or Greek or Spanish. I wouldn't mind doing a bit of partridge shooting out there. Crete was a crazy place for shooting. The locals had shot ALL of the road signs to pieces and when we pulled up by a village church up in the mountains I nearly slipped up on one of a line of 9mm cases scattered along the kerb. Either a celebration or a shotgun wedding or both. I didn't notice any blood on the road. There were loads of goat / deer skulls displayed by the roads up in the mountains. cyprus is supposed to be good for shooting but like everywhere it's not easy to find. but anyone coming from abroad to the uk on holiday wouldn't just walk onto a shoot.
  21. Apparently I am deprived by going to a school that went to Dover Castle, Canterbury cathedral, Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch railway, London zoo and Bodiam Castle. Strange that we never got to go to the abattoir. Still I did get to visit one as part of my job during the foot and mouth crisis. I think that if all kids were taken to an abattoir no one would eat any meat at all. The reason being that I can drop animals on the spot but the abattoir was one step down from Auschwitz. To see a load of Lambs unloaded into a race waiting their turn. The door opened and five were herded in to the processes. The look on the faces of next ones. They didn't know what was going to happen but,, they knew fear. I thought primary school children. The little loves. Murder comes to mind. Not controlling agricultural pests
  22. Where is that on Tenerife, whch Hotel .? What do you recon on it.?
  23. Because here there is one nice, nice day a year. Out there there is one bad day a year and you don't have to coat yourself in midges spray. AND it's cheaper out there than holidaying here. A Spanish girl who came here on the shoot said it was nice here BUT it was cold when it was hot.! I love the sun and the heat. Mother in law used to melt as soon as the sun came out and moaned about how she couldn't cope withi t, But moaned all of TIME the rest of the year about drafts. It was her glands 😅
  24. Yeah, that's more like it. I definitely have no interest in holidaying in the UK. I have no interest in mooching around in the rain/drizzle, fighting off mosquitoes and midges. AND paying more here for the privilege than going to Spain, Greece or Turkey. Tenerife is like England on a nice summers day. 2 without the Drizzle, mossies and midges.
  25. Proverb..... if it seems to good to be true, it probably is. It it is OK I'll have some primers and powder and fibre wads, etc etc because no one has any.
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