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  1. Meece
    A #6 pellet fired from a 410 has the same energy mass and velocity as one fired out of a 12 bore if the velocity is the same. Only got to put the lead on target. a bit frustrating to be outshot at range by by a 410.! Some people loòk on the 28 as a boy/woman's gun until they get outshot by a good shot that can put the lead on target. The 28 seems to shoot well above its weight.
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    By fluke when I bought my AyA #2 ra I was told about a mec sizemaster that was for sale in a national shooting mag. Immediately action was required ànd I was on the phone and went straight there and bought the whole kit. Powder, wads,, cases and a fair amount of reloaded rounds. The bloke was retired out of the oil industry and had a shed that he used for reloading several calibres. His health was beginning to fail and he was cutting back on shooting. The car was loaded up with the stuff. There were plastic bags of new and used cases, wads like pillow cases. There was even a spinner device
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    Has anyone ever had / seen a deflector to stop cases being thrown all over the place out of an auto. A friend has a 28 Auto. He loves the gun but is haked off about the cases being thrown all around and having to hunt for them. With factory loads in the region of £270 to £300 it does pay to reload. I've done a net search and seen a few variants with rails to catch a couple of cases like two shot clays but not really for pigeon shooting or any situation where a fair few are being shot. I've read about elastic bands but how that works with a reciprocating bolt handle I'm not sure.
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    Good luck in your quest. I've never heard of them, but Back when; there were loads of local ironmongers/gunsmiths who sold guns with their name on them but these guns were generally bought in from the Birmingham trade and sometimes just sold through or finished locally. It's like when I was a kid every town and most villages had an ironmongers shop and that's where you went to buy them. No one bought more than a couple of boxes max. And no one wasted cartridges on clays. Can't eat clays. it was a case of Fourk handles and a box of Eley Grand Prix #6 1-1/16 oz
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    Locally, it is news but these things happen and dont even make it onto the local evening news. The other week one of the daughters was visiting and had a call from her husband not to come home because there was a massive fire in a yard near the main a28 and the channel tunnel train line near the centre of Ashford. There was a massive pall of black smoke from burning tyres and industrial stuff. The whole yard had gone up. The fire brigade were there for several days. Not a mention at all on any news platform. It had the significance of a back garden bonfire.
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    Aside from a EFP. It's the transport charges that mount up. Especially if there is a gang of you. Last year one of the son in laws and a few of his mates decided to go Goose shooting up in Scotland. they were going to fly up from Gatwick. When they tallied up the cost that they were going to get charged for their guns as a group it came to a pretty penny, so son in law decided to load all the cartridges, guns and cases and bags into one of his vans and road it up. They had to sit in the airport for hours and then fly and get a car to get to the lodge so it wasn't long before he arrived.
  7. Meece
    One of the son in laws has a place down in the middle of France and they hunt wild boar ect there so the intention was to go down but by the time that happens we will be well out of the EU. SO I can't really see the point of it. Son in law says that on certain days everyone turns out en masse to shoot and shoot at everything that moves !!! So it is better to stay inside and lock the doors.!!! I don't know if anything will replace it but if it was all banned we could borrow a shotgun from one of his farming neighbours down there. Maybe.
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    Because of Brexit I didn't put in for a EFP on this application. Didn't think that it had any purpose but the department rang me up a d asked why I hadn't applied. I replied that I didn't think that there was much point with the Brexit situation but they said that they were still issuing the certs out so they would issue me with one.! It wasn't going to cost me aything but I still cant see the point now.
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    Yep. Piss poor preparation = piss poor performance. What I don't understand is 30.06 is very common up there and if you've got eighty yard, surely 6 rounds right in the engine room ought to make a difference to an aerosol can of spray. Did he have a mate.? Was he /she armed.? What the he'll did they do. And if they broke ranks and legged it I would consider using one of those rounds on them. It used to be classed as cowardice in the face of the enemy. Mind a charging lion is quick.
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    when this vid clip ends, there are a few clips of a bloke called Steve Rindella that are quite good apart from the initial heavy metal tat.! The one up on the left is a good demo of how to gut out a deer. Fancy going out into bear country with bear spray and no rifle. He was lucky to be able to walk out 3 miles. I wonder how far and long it is to get into surgery.?
  11. Meece
    A God and a wizard. If anyone can bend their head round autoelectrics they are made.
  12. Meece
    It was good shooting though. ;;;;: when it stayed on zero. The bog roll might go off zero when it gets wet though. ? "2-3 months turnaround on repairs. FFS ". Is that how long a bog roll lasts at you abode. I'd better get on to the Mrs about that one. Ours seem to only last about four days. I think she practices the fly casting technique with ours.!
  13. Meece
    I wouldn't really know much about what hunts do as it's not my bag. When I was a kid the hunt came though our property like the cavalry. The dogs shit all over mums garden which didn't go down that well and they trapped a fox in a land drain that emptied out into a pond pit at the end of the garden. They spade blocked the drain so the water built up to flush Charlie out.! That didn't work so they dug into the field half way and blocked both the inputs up. I can remember standing at the top of the pit above the pipe outlet with all the hunt looking over. Eventually Charlie poked his head
  14. Meece
    I went up on a special train. It was packed. Shoulder to shoulder. We mooched around all day in a massive human crocodile train. At the entrance to one of the underground stations there were an amount of antis. We were forming up to have a crack at them but plod was 3 deep protecting them. We couldn't find anywhere to eat and eventually we got into this tapas bar in Belgravia. We didn't know any better.! And there just didn't seem to be any other option. The bill came to £450 !!! One of the group was a wealthy bloke and we chucked £20 each in the pot and he covered the rest on his comp
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    Sorry,,, I kind of wrote it out a bit wrong. I do know that they were two stroke. It sort of came over as if I was saying that they were 4 strokes... what I meant was that they were smoking so much that they were burning oil like they were clamped out 4 stroke engines.. Back in the late 60s Father used to work in London and had about 3 Lambrettas that he used to commute around London. they were ideal for zipping along in traffic and cutting through back streets. I think that the were LD 150 s. A Long time ago and I was very young. When he came back home he sold one and gave the other two
  16. Meece
    There's always outridgers
  17. Meece
    ????? they're not strokers....... they're clapt out four strokes. The amount of times I've said to people that I wasn't aware that their car had been produced in two stroke. ?
  18. Meece
    Is the firing rate controlled by how many burgers Or gallons of coke the fat fellow has consumed before the speed firing test.?
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    It goes to show the general state of things when an RFD has shelves full of air rifles. BUT Air rifles aint the same beast as centre fire rifles. Kent isnt entertaining any new applications or variations of firearms certs and existing cert renewals are being extended by 8 weeks if you get the application in 8 weeks prior to end date. Unless an air rifle is FAC there are very little restrictions on their purchase. I think the bicycles have sold well also. Go ask how many mid range shotguns he's sold. I was told today that Chris Potter Guns have stopped ordering mid range shotguns becaus
  20. Meece
    Nope. Craze,? What craze. Totally different gun situation over here The world is covid bound and I doubt if any gun shop has sold many new rifles this year at all The UK is a small island with only a few species of deer that are available for control that would require a purchase of this sort. Fancy names and salesmans / gunmags hype go straight past most of the few customers that would be in a category who would want to buy a new rifle. Simple calibers like 243 or 270 more than adaquate for all UK deer species even if the 6.5 Swede is a highly rated caliber . If someone thrust a new
  21. Meece
    "Well;; son of a bitch". We'll have no homo horses here.! Bloody scumy Commies ????????. It's like a pantomime. One would have to pay for entertainment such as this. What happened to the insurance claim culture out there considering it's all on camera.? Don't forget..... if there's a claim, there's blame ! !
  22. Meece
    "You'll need a crane", or a plank. https://www.google.com/search?q=deer+lifting+device&client=tablet-android-samsung&prmd=isnv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwibpLL3uofsAhXDYcAKHdEZDDYQ_AUoAXoECA4QAQ&biw=1024&bih=600# Hopefully a drawing with measurements. https://images.app.goo.gl/4JN38fyc1MJGScKT8
  23. Meece
    The most heathen treatment I've ever seen of a firearm was a lad who had been out rabbit shooting off of a quad at night with his 686 Beretta 20. He'd shot a fair few and had to gut them straight away. Mud from the quad wheels had splattered all over the gun. As it was late he forgot to do anything with the gun which was left in the box on the back of the Quad in the open barn. Overnight the temp had dropped well below freezing and the mud which covered the gun as if it had been planted in a veg trench was frozen solid. it was like concrete and the gun wouldn't even open. A while later a
  24. Meece
    One thing about this is recording the load data as you make and test the loads. It could be that you hit on a good load quickly but just because a dipper will measure a consistent charge, it doesn't follow that this charge will produce an accurate combination of bullet and spèed which suits your barrel. Reloading to a best suit situation ain't as simple as that. Using a chronograph is so important in this process. It's like driving a car without a Speedo. You can guess the speed but you don't really know how fast you are going. I suppose that I tried about five different powders and ten mak
  25. Meece
    There are virtually no plod out on patrol but on the odd occasion ( when we are at the burger van refilling for a whole night session) they have been drawn to the muddy hilux like moths to a light. The rifle has been on the top of the dashboard.!! Never a comment about the rifle.! Just about how we should clean the windscreen. Alĺ the kit gets covered in mud and blood and wheat and feathers, or in the summer it's a good coating of dust. Especially when your on the back of a quad. Sometimes the back of us is covered by the following cloud of dust. It's just the nature of the operation. Yo
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