kyska Posted January 17, 2016 Report Share Posted January 17, 2016 If I want to search for calibres, how do I do it? The search thread is too short. For example I'm looking for any info on the delicious .25-06, it comes back with no results, I'm sure 25-06 has been at least mentioned on here. That is unless all mentions of 25-06 have been replaced with .308......;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FalconFN Posted January 17, 2016 Report Share Posted January 17, 2016 I found out recently that you can put a search term within quote marks, so try "25-06 rifle" or 25-06 calibre" or "use 25-06" etc etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjimmer Posted January 17, 2016 Report Share Posted January 17, 2016 I found out recently that you can put a search term within quote marks, so try "25-06 rifle" or 25-06 calibre" or "use 25-06" etc etc. I thought people learned that in Primary school nowadays. You can also search for several phrases at the same time. It limits the number of hits by a massive amount. Sometimes Google can't find any to match at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FalconFN Posted January 17, 2016 Report Share Posted January 17, 2016 I thought people learned that in Primary school nowadays. You can also search for several phrases at the same time. It limits the number of hits by a massive amount. Sometimes Google can't find any to match at all.Unfortunately it's been a while since I was at primary school and eirher way nobody was allowed access to the Sinclair zx81 we had. I've been playing catch up ever since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjimmer Posted January 17, 2016 Report Share Posted January 17, 2016 The week we left primary school, we saw the stuff that the next year would have, get delivered.. We were really jealous over the coloured pencils. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyska Posted January 18, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2016 I thought people learned that in Primary school nowadays. You can also search for several phrases at the same time. It limits the number of hits by a massive amount. Sometimes Google can't find any to match at all. It's been 33 years since I was at primary school Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjimmer Posted January 18, 2016 Report Share Posted January 18, 2016 (edited) It's been 33 years since I was at primary school Perhaps you could go back. It's nearly 60 year since I left. Edited January 18, 2016 by rjimmer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Underdog Posted January 18, 2016 Report Share Posted January 18, 2016 How good are those coloured pencils on slate? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjimmer Posted January 18, 2016 Report Share Posted January 18, 2016 How good are those coloured pencils on slate? We had coloured chalks for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Underdog Posted January 18, 2016 Report Share Posted January 18, 2016 When was 25-06 created? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjimmer Posted January 18, 2016 Report Share Posted January 18, 2016 When was 25-06 created? 1969, according to Wikipedia, but had been a wildcat for 50 years or more before that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Underdog Posted January 18, 2016 Report Share Posted January 18, 2016 1969, according to Wikipedia, but had been a wildcat for 50 years or more before that.Ahhhr,no internet then! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlieT Posted January 18, 2016 Report Share Posted January 18, 2016 Perhaps you could go back. It's nearly 60 year since I left. Oh, those were the days. 66 years ago when I left. You were obviously very tech savvy with coloured chalk. We were so prrimative, the boys loo was a bucket in the broom cupboard. It was a hell of a walk down farm tracks and lanes to school and in the winter when the snow was too deep I, along with several others who came in from outside the village, used to ride our ponies to school and put them in the yard in the farm next to the school. When I started at propper school during the summer I, as did most of the boys, used to tie my .410 to the cross bar, leaving it in the bike shed (some corrugated tin supported by fence posts) so I could pot the odd rabbit on the way home. Everyone took it as normal and didn't bat an eye. Imagine doing so today. Extrordinary to believe the village bobby would tell me where he had seen a few rabbits on his daily ramblings and where I might get a shot. I'd go home with a rabbit or two tied to the handlebars and a big smile on mothers face. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjimmer Posted January 19, 2016 Report Share Posted January 19, 2016 Oh, those were the days. I'd go home with a rabbit or two tied to the handlebars and a big smile on mothers face. Well, meat was still on ration, but so was butter I think, though I don't supposed you noticed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Underdog Posted January 19, 2016 Report Share Posted January 19, 2016 Innocence lost! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandalf Posted January 19, 2016 Report Share Posted January 19, 2016 (edited) Oh, those were the days. 66 years ago when I left. You were obviously very tech savvy with coloured chalk. We were so prrimative, the boys loo was a bucket in the broom cupboard. It was a hell of a walk down farm tracks and lanes to school and in the winter when the snow was too deep I, along with several others who came in from outside the village, used to ride our ponies to school and put them in the yard in the farm next to the school. When I started at propper school during the summer I, as did most of the boys, used to tie my .410 to the cross bar, leaving it in the bike shed (some corrugated tin supported by fence posts) so I could pot the odd rabbit on the way home. Everyone took it as normal and didn't bat an eye. Imagine doing so today. Extrordinary to believe the village bobby would tell me where he had seen a few rabbits on his daily ramblings and where I might get a shot. I'd go home with a rabbit or two tied to the handlebars and a big smile on mothers face. Those were the days my friend. Aged just 14! - I was in the Army Cadets and we were off to summer camp. I went home, on the bus, with a fully operational Bren .303 Light Machine Gun. The conductor helped me stow it, and the magazine box, under the stairs. Get locked up for carrying a big stick these days. Edited January 19, 2016 by Grandalf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeadWasp Posted January 21, 2016 Report Share Posted January 21, 2016 Kyska - if you want help with the .25-06 PM me and I'll help if I can. Plenty of us shoot this.....what was it...meat damaging, ballistically ineffective, difficult to feed, obsolete calibre which so many - who have never shot it - see so little advantage in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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