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I don't think that auto headlights affect the elderly anymore than any age. Bright is bright. I have the use two cars, one is manual dip and the other is auto dip. The headlights on the auto one dip and high beam very quickly AND have been checked for aim ect but some drivers going the other way flash me as if I am driving on high beam.! There isn't much that I can do about what they see.

I just need a new head. Now something that surprised me is the vision distance requirement. (Ability to read a std number plate at 20 mtrs). I thought that if you can't read a number plate at probably 2 to three times that then you have a problem. Recently I noticed an area of text on the computer screen which didn't appear to be in complete sharp focus.! I use low power reading glasses for screenwork but that's all. I had an eye test in April which involved photography of the retinas which was all OK and my eyes hadn't changed since the previous year.. SO being as one of the lenses had popped out of the frame I made an appointment for an eye test. The result of which is that I have developed a cataract in the right eye and overall the optic numbers had markedly changed since April. The optician said that it isn't something that is going to get better and wrote out a prescription for a lens replacement operation. We have private health care, so I contacted them and had a further appointment and a comprehensive test. The consultant agreed with the previous diagnosis and also said that there was a similar problem with the left eye. The result is that next Wednesday I'm on slab for both my lenses to be removed and replaced with plastic lenses. The consultant asked if I had any hobbies and I said rifle shooting. He asked which hand and did the master eye test (Left handed and left master eye). Subsequently he is going to fit variable focus lenses with a slight difference with longer distance in the left eye and slightly closer focus in the right. He said that I wouldn't notice the difference but that the target would be sharper in the left at long range and that screen work would be slightly better in the right. Because I have opted for the uprated lenses, it is costing a LOT of money. I have a load of questions but I have to have faith. Everyone that I have spoken to say that vision is fantastic after the operation. There is a possibility that the lenses might have to have a lazer polish afterwards. I had noticed a fall off in vision accuracy on the range and I was contemplating buying a new spotting scope until I looked through someone's new scope and it didn't look any better than the one that I have. I've told the lads at the range that they'd better watch out for when I get new eyes. Bionic man.

What year did people stop keeping a pig at home. I'm not old enough to have seen this. What stopped the practice. I used to like watching Jacks programs when they were about hunting and shooting but when they were about making baskets and tying flies ect I had no interest at all. It never occurred to me that his shed was a studio set and everything would go damp and mildew. Still I was young and stupid then.

Simple remedy for all of that is to ignore time shift. One good thing is that you can get out on patrol night shooting earlier with the longer hours of darkness. Also the darker evenings and nights tend to keep the idiots at home watching Coronation street or similar rubbish.

You should remove your mob number also. Unless you want a ti's to be ringing you up in the early hours or whenever.

I found that not many insurance companies cover guns. We are with Saga and they have held the same premium for about 3 years so we've stayed with them.

The other night I watched another video of Jack showing how long netting was done. He came over as a countryman of vast experience and knowledge, but further reading up about Jack was a bit disappointing. Most if not all of the programs proportion to show Jack in his garden shed sitting at a writing bureau... BUT, in reality this was a studio set up to make it look like a garden shed. His life was not based from farming stock but more academia and war time army service then work with the ministry of agriculture and TV production with Jack being a director of Southern ITV then being on kids tv with Fred Dinnage in a series called HOW. This morphed into house party and then into various itineration into ,,, kind of stories about idylic country life. Some of which might have been how it May have been. Jack's real life was not really how it was portrayed in out of town. He had been through a series of marriages and an amount of children. In one video he was driving along in a Suzuki jeep. I paused the clip and took a note of the Reg. I checked the reg number against the Gov tax check to see if someone still had it on the road. Nothing came up. I remember that the programs used to be good when it was about shooting and hunting but the programs went downhill when they turned to fly tieing, basket making, grinding corn for flower and making bread, stuff about horse harnesses. Semi interesting but not very interesting to me and all of it sort of diminished to the end. All I know is that the New Forrest ain't the same now as it was back in the 60s & 70s. Jack wouldn't be tootling along at about 40 in his Suzuki nowadays.

One of my favourite films.

What can words do at this time. I have a daughter who is in charge of a team that deals with end of life care for about four hospitals so many many people go through her care in the course of a year. I don't know how she keeps her head up. Many times she has commented about how sad it is. I remember taking father in law to Canturbury for treatment. I send best wishes to you. Peace be with you. There's happy hunting grounds waiting .

Absolutely gorgeous. If I was younger I'd have one in a shot.

And the money donated for the people has never been fully given out and no one was ever held responsible.

The problem is that the tapes get jammed up and the output is fairly ropeÿ. Cds and blue ray all old hat now. Charity shops won't take them now. All on chip or online. Life in general is getting more like the film 1984 where people get up drive to work then come home and go in their houses and watch rubbish on the TV, then bed. There are about four periods of road traffic a day, going to work, coming back home and going and coming home from school. Other than that the roads are fairly empty. Anyone who goes shooting is either evil or a nutter or dangerous.

Jack was a national treasure back in the days. Shooting, fishing and country stuff.

Well down here in the soft south, there's been an amount of Rain, a bit breezy but nothing out of the ordinary. BUT when I went out to the bins this afternoon it was a raw wet cold. Roll on global warming.

Kill them all.! TAKE NO PRISONERS. The other week it was a load of Indian fellows ( Cannon fodder) who had been promised fortunes to work there.... no training, no kit, no weapons,! Just to advance and take a bullet or some shrapnel. The Indian government had to get involved to get them sent back to India. There must be so much lead being shot that the ground out there must be metal coated. A scrap metal dealers mecca. No lights out there only heavies. Don't really matter what they think. They ain't got any sway out there.

The NK troops are not in the same league as troops from western armies. Firstly they sort of match back to the days of medieval wars where the lord commanded his serfs to go to battle with a pitchfork or club. Secondly in NK if you do anything that the ruling family don't like, you get executed your parents family level get executed and your children get executed. Thirdly they are just cannon fodder. There seems to be a bit of disjointed news because some news has already stated that some have already been introduced to the meat grinder and some have legged it . Banzai charges aren't very effective. SK news recon that over 1000 are already there. Assessing the situation. If some of the first ones have legged it over to Ukraine, what are the others going to do.?

My daughter alerted me and I went out. Slight pink or green sky area but if I hadn't been told I wouldn't have noticed. I don't think that that I saw was worth getting frozen to the marrow for. I'll look at your pictures and believe you. I'm down in mid south Kent so perhaps a bit too far south.

When you think that people had to work long and hard to buy the stuff and no one needs or wants the stuff ,, it sort of makes you wonder about all the tech stuff that was the bees knees such as vhs,, betamax, cd discs,, 35mm film cameras, hand held video cameras and tons of other stuff that at the time was the tops but you might seen some hopeful at the boot sale trying to flog for not a lot. About a year ago I bought an olympus 4/3rds camera because I like taking hundreds of pictures. But the cameras on phones are really good. Was £160 really worth it. I'd rather chuck it in the bin. Some people live boot fairs.

Most won't take anything in especially what they call ' Brown furniture.... the Mrs went to take some puzzles and a few decent condition books. When she got there, three different places had signs outside stating..... not taking ANYTHING IN TODAY. We recently went to a solicitors to make Wills and as years ago people didn't have anything much, it was a case of ... I leave my garden spade to Fred and my wheelbarrow to Bill, nowadays people have so much that all of the general stuff isn't mentioned at all. It's just bank accounts and properties.

It's a blooming jungle out there. When mother in law died we couldn't give stuff away. And it was nice clean modern stuff. There were about 3 items that one of the daughters put on Facebook marketplace. 1. was a virtually new wheelchair 2. was an electric elevation armchair. 3. was a pedestrian 3 wheel walking frame. All of these were in as new condition. The electric elevation chair and the electric elevation bed were both over a thousand pounds. We asked about 200 for these. There were no takers on any of the items, until some woman called the daughter about the bed. She was desperate because her husband needed one. She was coming to get it and could we get it down ready for transport and dismantle it by the door ready. The daughter agreed to this and reminded the purchaser that it was going to be £200. No haggling. When the persons x2 came she said that she would offer £50. The daughter said no way and told her that the road back home was that way. In light of these chancers, I kept the 3 wheel walker and the wheelchair because I had an achilees tendon operation. The bed was given to the infirm mother of one of theson in laws and the elevation chair was given to a friend of the Mrs. Who had problems with arthritis In the end all of these were of use to others and mother in law would have approved. Most of the contents of the house went either in the bin or to charity shops. No one in the families wanted anything. When I looked on Ebay there were loads of those elevation beds and loads of everything, all at give away prices. It's just like guns on here you can't give em away,

It's got to be tied in with the tensile strength of the plastic tube because the 28G cartridges that I had this problem with were a std type of light English style fibre re- load. It was a warm day and a lot of shots in a short period but the cartridge tubes might have gotten pretty hot and soft in the chamber in between shots ... whilst waiting for the next flush of clays. IF I had known that this was happening I would have had a quick look as they came out of the chamber. The other bloke was just surprised that it was happening. From this experience we find that the best action is to take no notice and carry on shooting.

This ain't a bad idea, BUT the support plate would have to be stainless steel because if it is just mild steel it will rust and in six months it will expand and probably snap the bracket again Just because you hide up a repair. where it won't be ready be seen round the back, it doesn't make it a good repair. especially when subsequently it falls to bits. if this was a repair on a seat that our late queen or his majesty King Charles would sit would you do a repair like this.?

You clumsy Arab. There is no problem welding cast iron.. BUT you have to use special low hydrogen welding rods,, ( disimilar Metal). They are pretty expensive. If you just use a standard mild steel rod the carbon level is high and the weld may look puka but what happens is that the cast breaks right next to the weld when it cools down. also it helps to gently peen the area after welding to reduce the structure stress. Another issue is that as there is a fixed distance across the bracket between the holes you may have to fit the bracket onto the stud or bolt position and then tack it. You may need to grind out a groove distance to fill with weld or else if you just weld it the bracket may not fit where it came from.

Hey guys, it's not the cost, I'm not being a skin flint or questioning. it's more about what it actually is and how far away it is? A No.4 or a yeoman ejector, and the overall condition. I've got ( as part of the collection), an old late 60s No.4. that has got good wood but badly pitted barrels and is basically a bit of a dog. it's certainly got patina. 😁 I shoot very well with it and use it as a wet day gun. What I would like to do (ideally) is to find a No.4 with good action and barrels but either a beaten up or broken stock to graft my wood onto to make a bitser. If I were a bit closer ( about two hours on the motorway each way I would have gone round there and sorted it out but I'm hesitant, Seeing that I have an extensive stock levels of guns which both the feo & the Mrs both say is too many. I take no notice of what the feo says but the mrs holds more sway. I could basically strip one or the other down and make a good one out of the bits and strip all the non pressure parts off and then hand the rubbish in and have the weapon deleted off of my ticket. because of the current gun market and also people on here saying things like... I can't shoot a gun with two triggers,, or Side by sides kick like mules and it has fixed choke ..AND you can't shoot anything with a side by side , no one wants guns like this or in actual fact almost all guns. Years ago a gun was a working tool but now a lot of guns are almost a display item. carried a lot but shot very little... lack of support by basic and action regarding tickets has broken shooting down nearly to the ground. the majority of gunshops in the south east have gone. in fact I can't think of one that isn't a glorified clothes shop within 40 miles now.

What Are the barrels like.? clean or are there any pits. Is there any play in the barrels jointing.? Edit. It's difficult to see from the pictures but what's the blacking like on the barrels, they look grey. The ejectors on mine are violently powerful. The cases are thrown about 20 feet. I'm kind of interested. Second edit. I've got a LOT of guns, in fact I've been told that I've got too many AND that I don't need any more. Still, I take no notice. Third edit. What model is it.? I can't see from the pictures but is it a #4..... does it have ejectors.? Or a #3 with extractors.?