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  1. comanche
    It shoots "acceptably"by some folks' standards but it used to be a finger-nail grouper. I can't do much about my aging eyes but cleaning-up that crown would at least remove one of my excuses for missing :)
  2. comanche
    The bore is good and though I don't have access to or the knowledge of using a lathe I've found a local gunsmith who like you seems to think its no big deal. Thank you for your replies Underdog. I might post an "after" picture. Bit of a warning for those who believe the advice that .22 rimfires don't need cleaning!
  3. comanche
    Thanks for the reply . As you can see its probably beyond freshening-up with grinding paste and a ball-bearing. I'm annoyed as I usually remove the moderator if the rifle isn't in regular use and give both barrel and mod a clean if accuracy drops -off. The rifle is 35 years old and its only in the last year I've noticed the degredation creeping up. What's worse;I think it's my fault as I had inadvertedly put one of the baffles in the mod in backwards and I reckon it may have caused debris to gather in the expansion chamber. Either that or Eley are loading acid in their cartridges!
  4. comanche
    Can anyone tell me roughly what it would cost to have the muzzle of my BRNO .22 re-crowned? I would rather just have the end re-profiled than have any length taken off.
  5. comanche
    Wild Food by Roger Phillips is good. Some of the recipes are a bit fancy but at least you know what's edible or can be made into drinks. It's particuarly useful because it tells you what is in season month by month and has good photograghs.
  6. comanche
    Or if you know a tree surgeon get them to save you a lump of sycamore .It was commonly used as butcher's blocks as it can be a b*gger to split when seasoned.
  7. comanche
    As the finder of an item on private land you have a right to remove it but must keep it safe and take reasonable steps to return it to the owner. Reasonable steps would probably be the leaving of a contact note (as you have done) and informing the police that you have some "lost property". Informing the police of the circumstances covers you against any insinuation of theft and also gives you the chance of being allowed to keep or dispose of the property if it is not claimed in a certain time. I think it's a month for small items. The actual owner of the land has a precident for claiming
  8. comanche
    Having seen Ronnie Laine's song the Poacher aired above reminded me of a couple of other songs I'm a techno numpty so could someone put up the you tube thingies of Show of Hands songs "Longdog"and "Country life"
  9. comanche
    I went on them all too. I was even interveiwed for a radio-station but can't remember what I said,something like " If we were a bunch of Red Indians (OK, very un-PC but I was caught off-guard) having our culture destroyed we'd have the world on our side but because we were law-abiding Britons if the Government had its way we'd probably end up on a reservation." A mate went up to one of the marches early in the morning on his motor-bike and found a neat back street mews to park in. Or so he thought; turned out when he went back for his bike the place had turned into a police command c
  10. comanche
    I think people get confused with bacon which obviously has a massive salt content. Pork is fine especially if its farm fresh but only feed enough for them to clear-up quickly and don't let them store it in the nest box for too long because pork has a reputation for going "off" quickly. I would avoid supermarket pork for this reason as it may not be very fresh. One thing to be careful of when handling raw boar meat is trichinosis . I guess it can infect ferrets just as it infects other animals including humans!
  11. comanche
    Not a very sharp picture but it didn't hang about
  12. comanche
    It probably is either because some of the practice partners are not in favour of shooting or its a policy to avoid the situation where they could be connected with someone they've endorsed doing something wrong that could reflect on the surgery. As the days when a certificate application had to be endorsed by someone of "standing " like a doctor,lawyer,priest or teacher are long gone its not a big deal. As for medical endorsement ;its up to the police to request it if they feel a need. You just have to put the name of the surgery on the application.
  13. comanche
    Well after over two months of sloshing ,topping-up the tub and a final bath in the full-strength solution I had two bits of slimey oak-tanned leather. Clearly my technique wasn't perfect as there are some weird marks on the leather and I had to get the Bic razor out to shave-off a few hairs but after a wash and brush-up it looked like a passable result for a first attempt. After an evening punching holes with a nail and a bit of "bloke"sewing I ended-up with this. Not a work of art but functional.
  14. comanche
    Thanks for that pianoman. I suppose I was wondering if pellet lube was a hyped accessory or really worthwhile. Typical of me my introduction to it was with JSB Jumbo Heavies; a pellet that clearly hates lube!
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    I've always liked Accupell ( I didn't realise know they came pre-lubed)but they won't fit in my new rifle. The HW97k I used to own worked well with both Accupell and cheap old soft Milbros
  16. comanche
    I've been playing around with a few different pellets in my rifle thanks to my Son in Law who shoots in Field Target competitions and let me try a few of his favourite brands. We finally settled on a pellet that suited my rifle so well that even a four-eyed old gentleman like myself found himself knocking out the odd passable group. Then out of interest we tried a bit of Napier Pellet Lube and the groups went to pot. Has anyone else tried the stuff and what were the results?
  17. comanche
    Scrabbling about in a drawer I came across this in old catalogue . Kings used to be "The" place to go and spawned many tales derring-do.
  18. comanche
    Drabble had opinions and wasn't afraid to voice them but was no anti. His 1964 book "Of Pedigree Unknown" ,should be read by anyone who thinks Brian Plummer's work , "Tales of a Rat-hunting Man", was in any way original.
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    That's an interesting site from a rather interesting character
  20. comanche
    I had a folding .410 that shot about six inches high. The exterior of the barrel seemed straight . Like most .410s it was full-choked to screw an extra few yards of pattern out of a bore -size that wasn't originally intended for long-range work .Which meant that at the short-range stuff that .410s should excell at like bolting bunnies at five yards and sitting pheasants(er, I mean pigeons)at ten yards I not only had a poor spread of shot to deal with but also to compensate for the thing not shooting straight in the first place. The gun was only worth £20 at most so I decided on drastic ac
  21. comanche
    Hard to say ,the sod won't keep still but somewhere between 22 and 23 inches
  22. comanche
    His mum was a farm collie and his dad was a stray lurcher. I knew he'd turn out looking like two dogs welded together when I got him because the very well-spoken farm lady pointed to a brown mongrel and said " That's what he'll look like when he's bigger. In fact that's his older brother. The same xxxxxxing lurcher got my xxxxxxxing collie last year!"
  23. comanche
    My dog and favourite jill had arranged a couple of hour's work today and asked me along to carry the spade and box.
  24. comanche
    You are right but as I'm an incurable fiddler I tend to sloosh it about and turn the skins over everyday. It's all a bit seat of the pants using the most basic instructions I could find; but interesting as the tanning liquid really does get paler as the skin absorbs the tannin from it. I started with a very weak bath before transfering the skins to a slightly stronger one and I've already had to add some more solution to keep the colour up. This could be an on-going thread as apparently it could take weeks of topping-up and a final full strength bath for the tan to reach the centre of the
  25. comanche
    Compared with most training dummies a rabbit is quite heavy , a much weirder shape and very wriggly. Retrieving is about teaching a dog to carry things and combining this with a good recall. Get your dog to walk at heel carrying various objects of different weight and texture . Teach it to pick-up confidently at short range,on the lead at first, and let it learn ballence points before risking longer retrieves with real game. Dead squirrels are good for starting with as they are not too heavy and quite a good shape for a dog to carry.
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