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  1. comanche
    Thanks for the pellet information. And your rifle looks rather smart. Mine is a 1981 model. All I did was smooth and take the edges off everything rather than go for super-polished internals. The simplicity but amazing quality of the parts was a revelation so in truth the little bit I did was almost redundant. The only pellets to hand were Milbros ,which were all over the place , and RWS Superdomes ,which barring a probably user error escapee ,gave a 5p group at 20 yards. Both types of pellets were a bit tight to seat so I'll keep experimenting,especially now you have re
  2. comanche
    Ooh excellent. Any advice is very welcome. I 've only popped with it at short range because it was getting dark but think this could be "The One"to keep. Which will make it easier for me to part with a couple of other rifles that I've kept for best but not really used.
  3. comanche
    These things were objects of lust when we were in our teens. The sort of rifle a rich uncle or retired colonel might own. When I asked the 12 year old assistant in the gun shop what pellets might be best for it he looked blank. He'd never heard of Feinwerkbau. I was a bit deflated. And felt rather old.
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    Without a compressor ,keeping the blade of the safety catch in place would have been a pain. A couple of cable ties held it flat against the trigger unit until it was safely inside the cylinder. At which point the first cable tie was cut free . After that ,reassembly would've been straightforward if I had remembered to insert the sliding latch for the cocking lever into the cylinder along with the piston?At least my Heath Robinson compressor was able to prove it wasn't a one hit wonder as Ihad to take the spring out of the gun again. With everything where it shoul
  5. comanche
    When a customer offered me a broken air rifle I politely accepted and expected the worse. They came back with a Feinwerkbau 127 Sport! True, the piston seal was obviously not living up to its name but it wasn't a properly broken air rifle and I offered to fix it for them. Luckily they didn't take up the offer. I wangled the spring out by hand but hadn't realised quite how long the thing was. The spring and trigger unit overhung the cylinder by at least twelve miles. Ok, five inches( and that's not bloke inches). Sourcing and fitting a new seal was easy but, whilst I reckon a
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    Yep.I've had various shades,some I confess I bought because they were pretty ,especially when I was younger. They all worked but experience and aging eyes, coupled with the sort of single-handed ferreting I tend to do has taught me that a white one shows up best in thick cover!
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    It is probably true. A friend was stung by a wasp and came out in a painfull and worrying rash. He rushed to casualty where a doctor told him it was bad reaction to a plant. My mate said somethong like " Look,I'm a pest controller,I know what I'm talking about." To which the doctor replied "Look, I'm a doctor I know what I'm talking about." Then he went on to explain that the wasp had probably been feeding on ivy or a similar irritant plant and my mate had reacted to that not the wasp's venom. Bearing in mind a wasp has ,I think,eleven main toxins and cart loads of minor o
  8. comanche
    Years ago reddish-ginger ferrets were not unusual ;they were what we called sandies. Albino,polecat and sandy( ginger) were the main colours. Anything in between light and dark was a poley-cross. These days a sandy is just a light polecat cross but I would love to see one of the proper type again.
  9. comanche
    I did this one on the 11th of April;can't believe the customer called me out instead of reaching for a rolled-up newspaper. Been doing a nest or three most days for the last couple of weeks. The biggest ones have been about the size of a deflated football. Could be a busier season than expected.
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    Did the BDS commision some unknown Peruvian artist ? Weeks of study ,four days of feeling like nervous schoolboy and I end up with a badge with a blxxdy cartoon alpaca on it!
  11. comanche
    Fired by yesterday's minor triumph I returned to the scene for a couple of hours this evening. I approached the swim with care in case any Environment Agency types were laying in wait after hearing of my pike snaring prowess. Hm ,and there I am spouting angling ethics in my last post... Well it went pretty much the same as yesterday; plenty of tiddlers and would you believe; it another jack pike,this time on a worm. At first I thought I had latched onto the same fish as yesterday but when I landed it I realised my first pike was a bit bigger with a small scar on its cheek.
  12. comanche
    Not for me even if I had the odd few grand to spare,but as long as he enjoys himself. I worry that the continual catching of the same fishes in semi captive conditions and the ,to some people ,almost obscene use of vast quantities of human grade foodstuffs as bait will turn round and bite us when the antis get properly tuned into angling . And I'm sorry to say they may have a point. Of course the truth is that I tend to fish alone in funny little corners and hide behind a love of decrepit tackle because I'm not a particularly good angler. But I do enjoy myself ; just li
  13. comanche
    Float made from a broken arrow shaft,landing net pole made from a bit of bamboo stolen from a customer's bonfire and "flamed" for a faux vintage look. Actually,I think "proper fishin' " generally involves more skill and fractionally bigger fish than the ones I usually catch . But I'd rather be the numpty who accidentally lassooed a 2lb pike , than be sleeping in a kid's play tent waiting for a carp that's been caught so many times it has its own section in the bankside visitor's book to pick-up a factory vomited ,sphere of junk food.
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    After the previous picture of the lovely barbel I feel this post could be an anti-climax. Anyway it was off to the little stream for the second round of the day. Trotting maggots proved useless but worms and bread attracted bites from plenty of little perch ,chub and roach. (See photos for images of the rod-straining leviathons in question). With bites coming almost every trot I was loathe to pack-up and would love to have fished into the magic hour of dusk but my daughter demanded my presence for Father's Day. It was on about the sixth or seventh last cast of the a
  15. comanche
    That is so true. When I was a kid we fished a small pond, anyone catching a carp of over a pound became an instant ,though temporary ,hero. The fish were small by carp standards but they were old and wiley and certainly not genetically programmed to be ever hungry like the monsters stocked today. My planned canoe fishing trip on a tidal river today has been put on hold . With the wind ,rain and high levels it might have proved mildly dangerous and certainly wouldn't have been much fun. Instead I spent a couple of hours at dawn on a local millstream where I opened the season with a
  16. comanche
    Chris Packhan has done very well by making his passion for wildlife into a successful career. He is as welcome to his opinions and dietry choices as any of us. He is also apparently mildly autistic ,though clearly at a high functioning level,which makes his ability to have made a success of his life something to be commended. However people on the autistic spectrum can not only be overly obsessive about their chosen interests but can also be quite gullible . This not the first time he has made ill-judged comments and I can't help thinking that he may be being fed inacurate information an
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    That is a good idea. Especially if you are thinking of beach fishing for the first time. It can be soul-destroying sitting on a bleak bit of sand or shingle ,not sure if you are using the right gear, or have cast far enough,or perhaps cast too far,wondering if you have the right bait ,or if has been eaten by crabs ,dealing with false bites from seaweed and plastic bags and then looking out at the huge ocean and realising the fish could be anywhere in the World. Go with a friend or at least pick a beach with a few hopefully helpful anglers on it. Rock,pier and harbour fishing is far less
  18. comanche
    Good buys. Though I think if I came home from a boot sale and announced to the GF I had two padlocks and a whip .......
  19. comanche
    I bet some of the younger members of this forum think we are talking a foreign language ?. I think Nicepix,that G & Y used the same parts for several of their larger reels and simply fitted wide or narrow spools and different badges to market the same reel under different guises. Apparently the "One to have" is the late modelBig Piker which is just an Avon/Jecta type thing with a different sticker. I've seen those big alloy engineers' type reels and marvelled at their precision but never had an urge to use one. I just visualise me cocooned in a huge bird's-nest. My Flick
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    I was planning to anchor a canoe and trot the middle of the local tidal river but after this rain I might be better finding an eddy or backwater. Failing that it's a ten minute walk with the dog to a little mill-stream. A fish of any size or species would be more than welcome?
  21. comanche
    Starting left with the Intrepid Rimfly ;actually it is a true centrepin ,allbeit a crude one Then,yes, a Nottingham drum;not a centrepin. Auger Matchatta,again a drum ,not a c/p ,although it does run on a bush. Top left(unfortunatly not a Hardy), a 1930s Perfection Flick Em,made by the dozen by Youngs of Redditch and badged for everyone from Allcock's and Hardy to your local ironmonger. A proper C/P . Middle ,a Dowling,very mundane but a real C/P. Bottom left ,yes Nicepix,the Mordex centrepin masquerading as something more upmarket. A Trudex C/P . And middle right ,Nicepix strikes ag
  22. comanche
    Just for fun and in celebration of the coming opening of the River Season,who can identify the makes of these reels and which are centrepins?
  23. comanche
    I probably was telling you nothing you don't already know about tuning centrepins. Sorry and thanks for being so polite. Yes the Mordex reels are a bit clunky. I think once mine has its brass hub it will just end up sitting around looking pretty rather than being used. I've amassed a few drum reels over the years a few of which are proper fidget-spinner centrepins . None of mine are in the collectors' catagory but I can undetstand why some folk develop an expensive obsession with them.There is something mesmerizing about a well set up centrepin.
  24. comanche
    They are good finds. I stripped and customised my Mordex; just for fun . It's not as if they are worth much . You may know this but be very carefull if you fiddle with the centre boss as they are a weak design that gets brittle with age. I'm waiting for a mate to turn me up a brass one on his lathe. If you really want it to spin as it was meant,ditch the grease on the spindle,polish the tip of the spindle and the end of the grub screw in the boss and use sewing machine oil as a lubricant. You should get it spinning for at least a minute if not a lot more. You need a tiny bit of free play betwe
  25. comanche
    Has anyone on here actually applied for an individual licence to shoot any other of the pests that were taken off the General Licence and have yet to be reinstated? I applied for one to deal with a feral pigeon job and recieved confirmation of my application but have heard nothing since.
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