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If pennies are short to get the expensive lenses he could always get a coupler/converter ring which allows a camera body to match up with a different make of lenses. OR lenses which are the same fit type but a different make. I have an Olympus micro 4:3rds and about 3 Olympus lenses to go with it but I got a converter ring to use the old pentax 42mm screw thread lenses. There are loads/thousands of old lenses of top quality makes from the days of 35mm film cameras. I have what would be thought of as cheap rubbish lenses Eg a Russian helios lens but it takes fantastic images of butterflies from a distance where they aren't spooked off. The only consideration is that there is a difference as to the focus point in an old SLR camera and a digital camera like my micro 4/3rd. The converter ring has to be the correct thickness distance so that the focus point is on the correct plane. Just a starting point. Have you got deep pockets. EDIT. We got a nice digital Sony for one of the grand daughters and i believe that the lenses that she has fit straight onto my Olympus and vise versa EDIT. what sort of photography interests him.?

Which type of lenses is he looking for.? Wide-angle, telephoto.?

If you go on a cruise make sure you take sea sickness tablets with you ( Sturgeron ) I've never been air sick or sea sick but it ain't nice. We were sunbathing on the top deck and suddenly she's was UP.. hand to mouth and away. Luckily our cabin was just below and she just managed to get to the toilet in time. SHE SPENT ALL DAY IN THECABIN. Every cabin had a do not disturb sign hanging from the door. We had no tablets available but a bloke in the cabin across the way kindly gave her some. There was a queue at the ships doctor who was charging a fiver a tablet.! Next day we docked into Agios Nichos , east crete. We walked up a road from the harbour to a roundabout where we found a chemist. Where we bought a box of Sturgeron for a couple of Euro. The tablets were far stronger than we can get here. A lot of chemist abroad sell all sorts of medicines straight over the outer that you would need a doctors prescription for here in the UK.

Yes that's true. That idea hadn't crossed my mind. My worst holiday was on Mauritius. Basically down to the culture of the locals. My best holiday was a fortnight apple picking with the wife in a local orchard. Cost nothing, got a good tan, earnt some money, peaceful and quiet, good time with the wife and no hastle traveling and stressing at airports. Unusual for this country because it didn't rain once and it was warm and sunny. It odd that some places I have felt really at home and yet other places I hated. I liked zante yet didn't like Keflonia. No idea why because they are next each other and Basically the same. Cyprus.. didn't like Cyprus but I quite liked northern Cyprus.

Sitting here watching the snooker, every advert is begging for money for some sort of charitable cause. In contrast there's the members of this house posting about thier holiday plans. The posts about the type and cost of the planned holidays along with the bikes and boats are world's apart. I find it difficult to square the fact about how they recon that most of the population only have a couple of hundred pounds in the bank and how those running food banks are in great need, yet the amount of planes flying to and from holiday destinations now in January is a lot. And the cost of new vehicles. I noticed that a vauxhall car advert had in the small print at the bottom of the screen .... no purchase option available.! So this means that it is only by lease.!

Considering how cold and wet it has been, the other day I noticed how long the grass was on the front and back lawns. It must be around 3...4 Inches. And the daffodils are up several inches. Global warming. It's still absolutely brass monkeys out there. Cold is cold. People who say it ain't cold are just being stupid.

I wouldn't mind going back to Egypt. Very different from elsewhere. The history aspect. The downside is the general fly round a jam pot harassment and the potential danger. Ŵhen we travelled from Hurgada to Kaŕnak and the valley of the Kings we were in a convoy of àbout 40 coaches with about 40 hilux's loaded with armèd troops. We encountered no problems but some friends of ours on a different holiday were waved off at onè place where some German tourists had been attacked with some fatalities. You don't encounter that sort of thing in Eastbourne but it doesn't rain much out there. I also wouldn't mind going to southern Spain to see the Alhambra.

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.