Geoff.C
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Jasper, I have found a 2005 test on a Navara which quotes 226 grms/km. This works out at (gulp!) £415 per year if the 5th gear calculator is right. Now that applies to a car with those emissions, the Navara is classed as a commercial for business user tax, so maybe different rules apply?
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Do Nissan no longer make the Navara? I thought they did, but the DVLA tax calculator shows only current new models apparently. The 3-litre Patrol for instance is 288 grm/km and gets a £400 tax bill. If you look on your registration document it may be on there, it is on newer ones anyway. Maybe Navara comes under commercial vehicle conditions as it's a pick up? I'll keep looking.
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You perhaps misunderstand me Ricky, shooting has to be all about safety. But, once a clay shoot has been set up and all the angles checked ,so that no one can point a gun towards anyone from a cage, then you should be able to go into that cage, load up and concentrate on the clay. This is what I mean, the safety thinking has been done for you in that respect.
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That's right Waz, it's still called "Pull". As I said before, it's ok in places but pages of results and fixtures of little interest. You get 10 copies a year anyway with Clubman membership. I'm quite happy as I get my insurance and discount off RAC.If you shoot clays, you really should be a member.
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Talking of the remarkable noise JD, I saw my first one of these in the 70's. I was on a garage forecourt in Wales. I can only describe it as like a small motor bike going past my ear!! Unfortunately it banged into the kiosk window and hit the ground. I picked it up and put it on top of a oil cabinet, hope it came round and flew off?? Only seen a couple since, so they must be fairly rare?
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Lots of info on www.dvla.gov.uk and also fifthgear.five.tv Their is now about 13 tax bands, well from next year anyway. They have done away with the diesel extra £10 or so. It's nothing to do with 4x4, or petrol versus diesel,just the emissions. There are some heavy emission large saloons as well as 4x4. Auto box models usually score worse than manual. You can find any emissions spec on dvla and calculate the tax coming soon. 5th gear also have a calculator but you need to know your emissions first.
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That's interesting - do all game variants of shotguns have auto safety then? Not sure on that Dan, but they all seem to be. For obvious reasons of course. A clay gun is only loaded when the shooter is in the stand/cage, so he knows he is about to shoot and there should be no one in the way!! I personally get irritated by repeated "no shoots" for this reason. It's just something else to remember when all you should be thinking about is the clay.
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Full £55 Veteran, Family, Disabled. £44 Junior £30 Colts £16.50 Clubman £30 You can save a couple of pounds by having a two year membership. Have a look at the CPSA website, lots of info on there.
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You are not right on the insurance Tony. I am interested (but not good enough) in shooting for England, so don't bother with full membership. My "Clubman" membership gives me cover for all shooting sports,(inc "wabbiting" with the .22) so that does for me. The magazine is not bad, some good articles in it, but I would not buy it. Most of it is lists of results showing people you don't know, at places you will never visit.Only of interest to the top shots really.
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Making allowances for these people being a bit under pressure, on a quiz show, it does make you wonder about some of the products of the British educational system these days??????
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As you say mark, it's really down to personal preference. The recommendations you have had are good ones, though I'm surprised no one has mentioned Beretta? For your budget, you may get a new Webley, or Lanber (good, reliable guns) or in that price range you will find plenty of used examples by Beretta, Browning, Miroku, Winchester etc. Just look around high st gunshops and clay grounds shops, handle as many as you can until one feels "right". For clays, make sure you get a sporter without auto safety, you see many folks using game guns call for a "bird" then not shoot because the safety is o
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I agree with you CK. I don't know what makes the Gurkhas so loyal to us? It must be lost in history somewhere, but loyal they are and welcome in the front lines anywhere. Why our government then treats them like undesirables when they retire I just cannot grasp. As you say, truckloads of potential terrorists and bomb planters arriving daily, yet these are welcomed. It's certainly a mad mad world we live in just now. Petition signed now!!
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Pity the firework didnt hit you in the head..if brains where dynamite you wouldnt have enough to blow your nose.. =@ Only a complete idiot would be setting off fireworks with dogs running looses in the same area. And then to kick the dog...........???????????Words fail me! Well, I sincerely hope you are joking Will????????????? I had thought you were a decent young lad, but if this is a true statement then you should be thrown off this forum. If I had been there, you would have followed the firework through the bloody fence. Dogs and fireworks do not mix EVER. I TAKE MY
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Pity the firework didnt hit you in the head..if brains where dynamite you wouldnt have enough to blow your nose.. =@ Only a complete idiot would be setting off fireworks with dogs running looses in the same area. And then to kick the dog...........???????????Words fail me! Well, I sincerely hope you are joking Will????????????? I had thought you were a decent young lad, but if this is a true statement then you should be thrown off this forum. If I had been there, you would have followed the firework through the bloody fence. Dogs and fireworks do not mix EVER.
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Being unable to select any particular gear, is usually a gearbox problem. In your case, having difficulty with all the gears is most likely a clutch problem. I'm sorry I don't know the fourtrack so will have to generalise. If the clutch is not slipping (revs rise under acceleration but not road speed) it's probably ok on the plate and cover etc. If it's a cable clutch, this could cause problems as you describe when it's seizing up or out of adjustment. If a hydraulic clutch, it may just need bleeding, or either the master or slave cylinders are defective. Pumping, may temporarily get the c
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No, I can't see that being a problem, you need to teach the pup to walk at heel for close control sometimes. You would release it from close in to hunt around. I am not a lurcher man, but just comparing how our gundogs have to be at heel or hunting about as the situation demands. Dogs in general are a lot cleverer than people realise I think. Many years ago, I showed GSD's, there was a faction that didn't even teach them to sit in case they sat in the showring, or stopped trotting round. These dogs showed ok but were on the verge of being out of control, all because the dopes that owned them
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Sit in the car and (engine off) pump the brake pedal until it goes hard, then keep it held down. In this state you have exhausted the servo vacuum. Still with your foot on the brake,start the engine,you should feel, almost instantly the pedal go down some more as the servo is evacuated again. If this does not happen, you probably have a servo problem of some sort. It could just be a perished pipe partic at the engine end where it can get oil soaked or blocked.
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Well it's largely a matter of personal choice, so you could get many different answers. Myself, I could not be bothered with diver's bottles and stuff like that, so a springer is my choice. If I were about to buy a new gun, it would be a BSA Lightning tactical. Accurate, powerful and not too noisy. The Meteor is a good gun, ideal for a young lad, but limited power makes it not really a hunting gun. I have a very old (40 years) Meteor myself, it is tuned for smoothness and low recoil, rather than power, and will shoot groups almost as good as a true target rifle over a 10 meter range. I used t
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You can't do any harm at training classes. After the pup gets over the excitement of the first couple of visits, it learns to listen to you and start to train with the distractions. Socialisation as you mentioned is important, and the instructors will ensure you train correctly for the basics, which all dogs need no matter what breed or future purpose. Some dogs (and owners) do not like the mass heelwork which some clubs do to keep all the group involved. Opt out of that if it's a problem. Don't expect much help with lurcher work, that is specialised and can be sought elsewhere,(on here for i
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Super shots DH, you do seem to get in the right place at the right time regularly. That owl stands out beautifully to me, although you say it's dark. Good "take off" action with the kessie too. I was on a very narrow back road doing about 15mph the other day, and I saw a pigeon sat on the electric cable that crossed the road. Sat on the electric pole, about 10 feet away, was a Buzzard. I stopped, already a caption like "reading the menu" came to mind for this great photo I was about to take. Then I realised my camera was in my bag in the back of the jeep, I thought Doxhope would have taken t
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Despite being heavily advertised at one time, in the shooting press as the best thing you could add to an air rifle,I have yet to hear anyone actually recommend them. "Spoiled a good rifle" is the main gist of what I have heard. Also, i have read of rifles actually being damaged internally by them. From most opinions given on here, the general advice is "Don't bother".
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Some time ago I belonged to a target air gun club. The rifle shooters had a "Polo" shoot once a year. This, as the name suggests involved gluing polo mints onto the target diagrams. A well aimed .177 will pass through the mint with the hole, but if you hit it,there is a satisfying cloud of bits and a minty smell!
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Hello Penny, welcome to THL. Let everyone know what you like in the country sports line.
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Nothing as huge as 3-bore doga. They were rimfire though, as I said before popular sizes were 5mm to 9mm. The Flobert cases fired the bullet quite gently with the rimfire primer only, although later Floberts had a small propellant charge as well. You could change quickly between bullet and shotshell as the target demanded.
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Sorry mate you are not correct. If a little rifle is chambered for a 9mm Flobert, it's a rifle whether it's smooth bore or not. Rifling would not be too much advantage when the recommended range is only 15 yards or so. As SS says, you may get away with a SGC if the barrel is over 24.5 inches. I have an old Rottweil ammo catalogue, and they did ball bullets and pointed bullets in Flobert, also little shotshells which they say can be used without harm in a rifled barrel, although they state most garden guns are smoothbore.
