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Betamax...VHS.....BLUE RAY CD's. Old-school daarrling. As a result of redecorating a large collection of VHS tapes from the time of our kids have been consigned to the bin. Shame but no one want them. I asked the Mrs...how much did we spend on this lot. ????

Her, of higher authority decided that we were going to redecorated the living room. In the process cupboards and shelves were emptied out to move these units. In amongst these there were LOTS of vhs videos cds ( Disney type stuff ) now our kids don't want them and neither do any of the charity shops. They don't want books, picture frames. In fact they don't want much of anything. Now in amongst all this tech there must be videos , photos and all sorts of family stuff that will be lost to the tips etc now stuff is on hard drives , memory sticks and chips of all sorts. As going, going gone

My father used to bang on about national service. The system was broken right from the start. The cry of the weak and the corrupt. National service might have been OK in the cannon fodder days to be armed with a stick or pitchfork or just to keep the populace off of the street but what effective training could be given in two years, especially when a lot of it was wasted in pointless square bashing or junkers. How many of those actually said this is fantastic I'll sign on for x years. The vast majority counted down the days toget out. That's why it went to a professional army. I look forward to rational comments. For debate.

Laptops.. old school daarrling. It depends on what your doing with it. I don't think that you are the sort of bloke that is up to the axles in databases or spreadsheets. I've got a 28inch imac, a couple of laptops AND A SAMSUNG A7 PAD. And a lot of the time I use the pad for most things. Don't bother with the insurance. The laptop is a weight and HOT.

Or an offset foresight. Like a Swan neck crossover stock. Back when I was a kid all the catles were homemade. It wasn't until those horrible aluminium Milbro caties became available that you could buy one..... that I know of. They were horrible. The amount of times that my thumb clobbered by either the stone or the leather. The lads would comb the woods for suitable forks to cut for suitable ( strods) to make a world class catties. The Strod had to be strong enough to take the stress of the pull under loaded tension and the horns had to be thick enough to take a hole large enough to take the catty lastic without becoming weak. Then some people had a preference for a wide space across the horns whereas others liked to have a narrow set. The local bike shop sold 3/16 @1/4 sq lastic which was sold by the yard. The next thing was all the lads kept an eye out for those round stones. I never knew of anyone using Steel ball bearings. But some people were very accurate with selected stones. I did know a bloke who had a party trick of setting up 3 Swan vestas matches like a goal out of the top of the matchbox and shooting out the crossbar which ignited all 3 match heads with the burning crossbar flying through the air. A magic trick from about 20 paces. Ps.. the holes for the lastic to go through were burnt through with a rod hot meat skewer and rounded so that the wood didn't split and the lastic didn't get chaffed or cut on sharp edges.

So they didn't fly true then BUT if they did connect they did the biz.

Some were devotees of 3/16 others were 1/4 fans. A bit like shot and choke preferences. I couldn't use a catty at all. What I didn't know back then was about master eye. I am left master eye but I shot the catty right handed so I missed the can by about six inches to the left.

I THINK, that I have one SOMEWHERE and like all of the collections of that time like the Booke Bond tea cards and buble gum cards there was always a rare card.

Yesterday we lost the line but because our mobile signal isn't very good I couldn't determine if it was the landlines or the mobiĺe signal or what had happened. I went to the daughters house and they were out as well but they had some mobile signal and had got through to BT who said that it was a problem with the green box down in the village next to the exchange. An hour later the problem was sorted and we had full transmission again. Perhaps the rain had gotten into the system.

The muppet with the binoculars sort of CAUGHT perving the neighbours gardens AND He's going to get a BETTER pair with the £50 gift voucher. £50... as much as that. Like judas sheep Selling their souls to the devil for a shilling. And the parsnips.! What a total klonker.

I found it on the left hand side of the picture

Is there anyone on this SHOOTING site that is under the age of 70....80 and who isn't acoffin dodger. AND ACTUALLY GOES SHOOTING..?

Keep coming south... about two...three hundred miles. It's nice down here, the sky is blue,,, most of the timè. And the sun shines, most of the time. 🙃

Sometimes it's not the truth, it's what is perceived to be the truth. When someone asks for names, dates and times it sort of tries to herd things down a raceway. To where..? Here's a good example. A shooting friend was employed as a technician by a force. Things changed and departments were reduced and wound up. The main maintenance dept was one. Various more senior officers came like a flight of geese and systematically loaded their cars with anything that was liftable. They even dug up plants and shrubs to collect at the end of the day. This was blatant theft BUT this sort of thing was normal. Every year there was a winter order. Stuff like wet weather gear, wellies, gloves, jackets, snow shovels, aerosol cans of de-icer, yard brooms, All sorts of stuff. Some winters, some of the stuff had been used a bit,,,,(we don't get much snow, if any down south here, odd bit gone by lunchtime. ) well come springtime all of the equipment had disappeared into the system. No one ever said or questioned anything. This is what I mean about the truth or what is the real truth. Somewhere there should have been accountability but it didn't happen. It was a minor thing and it would have cost more to examine the stocks and losses than to just order another load next year. Who ever knew that it happened to question THE POLICE. All a part of the problem.

Well what wrong with that idea.? It's eco friendly and massages the worms.

What does "41" equate to in Regard to inches across the back from armpit to armpit seam at the bottom of the arm hole.? Get a tape measure.

I used to be a member of basc but at a country fair one year they had a stand and it was manned by a slick type salesman and a couple of Dolly type females. All they were interested in was for me to get my wallet out and get their fingers in to remove as many £20 notes as possible, my thought was.. I am paying an annual sub to basic to support shooting and shooters interests. So WHY are they paying third parties to harass my to buy quantities of raffle tickets at extravagant prices for junk that I didn't want or the slick salesman Trying his best as if his life depended on it for his job to sell me draw tickets for a CHANCE at winning a car. I informed him that I would have to go to the bank manager to arrange a draw on my properties to get the CHANCE IN THIS DRAW. Was there anyone to offer a cup of tea or a good biscuit... Nah. Was there anyone to speak with about anything to do with shooting, hunting, guns, dogs or anything that was to do with the object of shooting sports.. Nahh. It's as if the organisation was infiltrated by person's who were totally opposed to anything to do with shooting and just use the funds to buy or obtain lovely shiny land rovers or range rovers, I forgot the new media centre. Then there was the business of the wildfowling leases. The dsc courses, and the doctors certificates. Then there is the situation where some bright spark who came up with the idea of making it "Policy" that WITHIN.!! 5 years there could be no lead OR plastic on the shooting field.! This barm pot idea was made and promoted several cartridge manufacturers to make a statement on a their Web pages totally rubbishing this idea by the fact that there was no way this could happen because of component availability. And the shear arrogance of promoting the link to their site above to a totally useless reloading guide as if basic was higher than anyone else. It's this nonsense that is typical of basc. That's why basic keeps getting bashed on all sorts of forums. I love shooting sport and that is why I have taken the time and trouble to type this out. If I didn't care, I'd have just gone and done something else.

I saw the channel Islands storm weather on the news,,, but here... in tropical South West Kent a lot of it seemed to go around us. Yes it blew and rained but something has surprised me is that local low laying fields and places that flood aren't. There is the odd area with some flash water but that will soon soak in because the dyke levels are quite low.

Which/what, gun is it from/ does it fit.?... picture.

What a well written piece. What else would we expect from basic. 😃 Now my father used a bike spoke to knock the primers out and wood blocks and a wad cutter on FELT to make wads. Needs must when the devil drives. Still nowadays I use 3 different MEC loaders in 28, 20 and 12. Although I don't use the 12 much. What else would we expect from basic. No change there. Total waste of space.

Yep the pressure is now up from 960 ish around lunchtime to 978 just now at 18.52. The STORM was a bit hyped up. Yes it was a bit rough but not that bad.

Yesterday was odd here,(South West Kent) there were spells of monsoon rain showers of silver bullets and stair rods delivered by heavy black cloudsI but with bright sunshine at the sametime. In the afternoon the rain stopped and I was able to get outside and have a good look around to see if a anything needed securing. It was breezy but nothing to be concerned about. The situation was like that into the evening. At one point I looked outside and there was horizontal rain going past. BUT at about 1 AM the road was bone dry. It reminded me of the night of the hurricane in 87. That night I went to a basc roadshow at a school in Maidstone and the weather had been very bad and how when I left the car park was bone dry. It was breezy with leaves blowing about. About 3am the wife woke me up and the storm was in full performance.

Well I went back to the site and filled in all the necessary sections and pressed the create account button but it didn't happen. I reviewed the application form and checked that all sections had relevant data but it didn't progress forward. I did manage to access (limited) a small area of the site online, but that's all. The thing about the set up form is that it doesn't show where there is any problem so I can't correct or modify it, so it goes no further. Shame because smallbore rifle shooting has no real mouthpiece.

I'd love to be part of a forum for smallbore shooters and due to your previous post I'll go back and have another look at it, but with reservations. I think that the days of shooting are numbered for the majority of shooters. Unless you own or have access to a fair amount of acres you've potentially got problems of antis disrupting your shooting or accusing you of some sort of wrong doing,

That was always a bit of a random setup. It was always smoke and mirrors stuff. A good product with a lot of good recommendations. But it always seemed as if it was secret, as if any enquiry was received by suspicion and he wanted you to buy a lorry load. At one time he was touring around flogging powder out of his vehicle to individuals into their own containes.( plastic milk bottles or whatever) always to far away. Strange bloke, strange setup. Don't understand how someone who must have sunk a lot of money, time ,knowledge into a project to produce a good range of products but couldn't or wouldn't liase or communicate with the customers.