fortune

I've got one of these Tayside reloaders from the early 70s in brand new nick and it hasn't got that handle and ramrod. I don't think that they are in the parts list and I don't think that they would fit in the box. Perhaps they are a bit of an add on modification to seat wadding. I think that the kit was tied up with the shooting times somehow. If I remember, the instructions state that it is possible to turn out a box in an evening. Wow! Still back in those days People only bought a box at a time and when Father went for a walk round he only ever took a handful of cartridges with him and if he shot off more than 4 something was wrong.

The 222 is a superb calibre. I've got a 222 & a 223. The thing is that lately people buy guns as fashion statements rather than use and ability. The 222 will Chop down fox out to a good 200 yards and at night that appears to be a very, very long way. As long as you lay in some 222 cases you will shoot it for donkeys years. Shooting rabbits with one is overkill. Or should I say roadkill. The 223 has a bit more punch because of the couple of extra grains of powder the case will hold but in 95% of shots that you are likely to take, this wont make any difference whatsoever. There are so many 222s out there that they aren't going down the plug hole next week or the week after that. When things go out of fashion there are good bargains to be had just like she shotguns just now. The bloke in the gunshop was just spouting the fashion statement of the day.

What do you think is so drastically wrong with this gun that it can't be repaired or renovated?

It might be sensible to retrieve the old mounts back out of the bin. If you have another mishap another day the good parts might get you out of trouble and the screws can be used if you drop one or more. Still you could always treck to the shop and buy another set of mounts if it happens again on the day you want to go shooting.

your not trying to make an old fool out of yourself giving a female some sort of novelty gift are you? Any way here is a link to a vid to show how easy it is and what the result is on a pistol case. and another. Simple and cheap.

Girlfriend ! scalextric is about right. It is more entertaining to stand out on the side of the road and watch the cars go by

A brass case could be nickel plated quite easily. Google \ YouTube that.

Apart from the diving, what did you find to do there? We had a week there and two days were enough. The other five days were a waste of life time. The two days were taken up with coming from the airport to the ship. Waiting at the dock for the ship to get underway. Travel from the ship back to the hotel. An evening mooching around the souk, walking around the bay to look at the old military bren gun carriers, a trip out on a glass bottom boat and the coach trip to the airport where I slipped over on sand on the floor and fractured some ribs. not a place that I would go back to.

Ha, ha. They used to frighten people by saying stuff like "we can see into your home and see what you are doing". You could always ask them if they could mow the lawn if and when they come round.

The farmers must be happy as Larry on your bit. I've had it in the past where birds just go straight over my pattern out of shot to go to fields further on. It's frustrating to keep moving the pattern shape and flappers in the attempt to attract birds and they don't take any notice at all. But without trade there's not a lot that you can do about it.

The money is a bit irrelevant if the bloke is a useless wally. Here is a rough guide link. >>> http://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/worklife/careers/a33179/average-job-salaries-uk/ Looks like I chose the wrong trade. But I enjoyed my job. Recently I heard that the great majority of the population would be on the rocks financially within a month if they weren't waged.

Perhaps it thinks that you want to reload them.. My spaniel has run in and retrieved clays on many occasions. It doesn't run in on game. The only trouble with this is that sometimes it brings back part broken ones. We only shoot clays for fun. We don't call pull and we don't score and sometimes we have several traps where the clay \ clays could come from any trap of any combination. the dog enjoys it until it gets knackered retrieving the clays.

You need 1200 wet and dry to give the key to hold the paint but not to leave scratch lines. A bucket of Soapy water and a sponge. Let the water run onto the work as you rub it down. this will stop the paint tearing, the wet and dry won't get clogged and you can see what the situation is on the bumper.

Yesterday I met up with old Boggy (Chris). He has donated an old air rifle to me for use with young /or older would be shooters who come along to our club and don't have a gun or a ticket and would like to have a go at putting a few random holes in paper. Strangely, although we live a fair distance apart we have worked on similar jobs for the same company but have never met before. We could have spent a very long time chatting about shooting and hounds and stuff. It was great meeting up with a kindred spirit. And thanks again for the donation.

I did think that about the ammo situation and the general clapped out state of the weapons. They just didn't appear to be alert in the smallest degree. When we went from Hurgarda across the desert to Luxor the convoy of coaches was interspaced by pickups of armed troops and all of the side roads were closed down with varying lengths of queues. The roads were closed down going in the other direction at the junctions also. I bet that the locals just loved the regular convoys. How did you do 6 years in Sharm? We stayed at the Iberotel palace opposite the souk.

When we went to Sharm there were 3 pickup loads of armed tourist police deployed out front of the hotel every night and the road was closed down to one lane away from the hotel by Stingers and cones. That being said we just walked down the inside of the road and around the back of the troops. They didn't notice us at all. Most of them were either laying up in the back of the pick up trucks, having a fag or playing cards. If we had been terrorist we would have been able to outflank them and take them out and then go into the hotel and slaughter until we ran out of lead. It was just the same everywhere that we went in Egypt. In he Egyptian museum in Cairo there was a security gaurd layed out fast asleep on one main statues with his Kalashnikov just laying there. If I been minded I could have shot him and run amok throughout the museum. It's all in the training, the motivation and the culture of the whole country and the leadership.

+1. Anyone who thinks that making hasher penalties and making more laws is living in La La land. The lawless will just mix different chemicals together to get the same effect. What did they do when drugs were made illegal? They just moved to a different chemical that wasn't illegal but which gave the same resulting high or in this case more damaging.

And mop up a ton of money out of public funding please for consultation and fees ect. When the public interest and money have gone the parents will be informed that, although they gave it their best shot there is no more they can do.

Local councils kill small business by extortionate business rates and parking. It's just too expensive to operate. 40 years ago my village had two garages, two pubs, three grocer type shops, a bakers, a shoe repair, a leather worker, a cycle repairer, a car body shop repairer and s/h car sales and a builder. Now they have all gone except for a garage that does MOT's but no petrol sales. The local small towns have had the high Street shops decimated to a few charity shops. There it is the traffic wardens that have crippled trade along with business rates ect. Also people have mobility now to get to the supermarket. Yesterday we traveled to Costco and came back with a carload and filled the car up at the same time. Small village shops are dinosaurs. They're gone and won't be making a return selling a limited range of products at expensive prices no matter how cottagy they were.

Good job, it'll all be over soon and the circus will move on to getting ready for Christmas and some other way of exploiting something that drags in a load of wallies and neah do wells.

Years ago Parker Hale sold them and they were quite common in 12 >>> 410. But I kind of fail to understand what the real benifit or reason for using one is. The noise of a 410 is about the same. The shot size (6 > 7) is the same. The velocity is the same, the difference between say a 12 and a 410 is in the shot load and the expense of using 410 cartridges >>> = £8 a box 14 grm as opposed to £5.95 a box 21 grm ( prices from just cartridges).

After thinking about the above, I don't quite know why it was that I eventually went and traded a load of stuff in and went and bought a Laurona boxlock non ejector and then traded that in after a short time against a Victor Sarasquetta 6EC 12g sidelock. I still have it all these years later. I never went out and hunted out a Luigi Franchi Falconette or any other O/U until one day I took my Mother out on a general drive round the countryside. I needed a bronze barrel brush and stopped off at a gunshop. Mother came in to the shop with me just to look around at other stuff in there. On the rack I noticed a slim o/u and asked for a look at it. When I picked the gun up to the shoulder, it felt just like a fitted bespoke gun would do. I had no intention of buying this gun at all "well not on that Day". Mother asking if I liked it. My reply was yes it is absolutely me down to the ground. So she said to the assistant that it was sold to me !!! I said don't be balmy, and that I couldn't allow her to buy it for me. she replied that it was a present to me. What can you say to that? She has long passed away and I still have the gun and will never sell it. If I was told that I couldn't keep the gun and had to hand it in I would remove the wood and machine up all of the metal parts into swarf and hand in a couple of carrier bags. I have no hang ups about whether I shoot with a single, an SbS, an auto, a pump, or single or double trigger. Over the years I have amassed a fair few. I wonder where they will end up?

The thing is though it is an error of their making and totally unnecessary. Have you got the new certificate and I bet that they aren't offering to pay out compensation for the inconvenience of having to arrange storage, deliver and collect the guns to the RFD and the costs involved. If you make a mistake regarding the certificate or any aspect of owning guns they will tread on you faster than you can say Jack. and they will turn up swat squad mob handed. Why are we so forgiving to a system that is wanting to put up fees for a service that is so poor. Are their offering a New cert for free? Should it be down to you to keep phoning them up? What would be the situation if you hadn't have been on their case about it.

get a 12 and have done with it. shoot light loads if you want. cheaper cartridges than 410 or 28. And you are more likely to hit the target because youve got a lot more lead in the air with better pattern.

It's a gun. Not a fashion statement. Get on the the Land and use it for the purpose it was designed for. Wait till get mud and blood and other things all over it.