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    Fort William

    DIVERD replied to jonah.'s topic in General Talk

    Midges were bad yesterday. I was over in fort william stalking last week, and it was bad at times. Smidge works for me. The stags are just beginning to get moving, and the first roaring should be any day now / next week. It is always worth seeing and hearing that. we stalk the other side of Fortwilliam, at Corpach and Locheil, and the scenery is quite something.
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    Just a few bar will keep the o rings in place and stop anything getting into the cylinder, but it is best to keep the cylinder above about 50 bar, it is far easier to re charge from a decent pressure and will heat up less. All pressure vessels will loose pressure when freshly charged, particularly if charged quickly. the cylinder heats up, the gas increases in pressure because of this and can loose 20 plus bar when it returns to ambient temperature, so if a new gun drops a little i would not worry, just check it in a few days, it is is still at a stable pressure dont worry, if it continue
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    Tramadol

    DIVERD replied to j j m's topic in General Talk

    I have been on tramadol for a couple of years on and off. Most days one or two are enough. I have been up to 8 a day for weeks on end. I never get a buzz off them, or other effect other then pain relief. I am able to work each day, and would not have been able to without some form of pain relief. I am also lucky enough to be able to come off them at any time with no effects, other then an increase in pain, which is to be expected. I am well aware of all the side effects possible, i did pharmacy many years ago, but am lucky enough to experience none of them.
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    Hi Andy could you pm me your address, happy to send you a wee goody bag but unsure of the address. cheers dave
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    All Just read this, what a terrible situation. If someone can pm me Andys address i will send down a goody bag of bits and pieces to cheer him up. I have a spare set of pocket binoculars he can have, and i work in the shooting fishing industry so can make up a small box of useful bits and pieces, things like some water repellent for his hat and jacket, some glues and sealants, a wee knife and any other shiny things i have in the store. cheers Dave
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    Some do from time to time, and then spoil it for themselves, these pages are full of examples. Where are you in Aberdeenshire, i may be able to send you to a couple of farms i not longer shoot. Not huge but 3-500 acres and though not stuffed with rabbits all have them. I was out tonight helping with a syndicates pheasants and found they had a fox problem, and that the rabbits are damaging the pheasant cages. They also have barns with feral pigeon problems. My son and i will enjoy clearing the barns with the air rifle, but have emailed a few friends to help with the foxes as i dont have the
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    I found getting ground reasonably easy. Firstly look for areas that have lots of vermin, basically look for areas with plenty of rabbits and pigeons. If there are a lot then they are not controlled. Offer your services free, and if you are clean, neat, polite and the kind of person they would want on their ground then it is easy enough. I rent a lot of ground but this can be a token payment £25 each for 4 of us and for all species, but deer are not common on the ground, roe and red, but the rabbits are world class. I am in a few syndicates but also have a lot of free ground. To be honest i am
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    The problem is that the idiots who are looking at this want to release them in Aberdeenshire, and it is hardly the highlands. Aberdeenshire can be driven across in an hour or so. It has 2 cities and dozens of large towns. It is the Oil capital of the Uk with many major oil company HQ's and has the worlds busiest heliport. Almost every mountain or hill has people out on it at the weekend, skiing in winter, walking in summer. This is not a quiet wilderness, and every hill and moor will have stalkers and grouse shooters, mountain bikes and skiers or farming. It is one of the last strongholds
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    The bottle size is irrelevant. If you have tried to fill 3 rifles off it and all are only going to 130 bar (ish ) then there is only 130 bar in the tank. A 200 bar cylinder 3/4 full is 133 bar or there about so all sounds correct to me.
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    Those small gauges are really inaccurate, and are really just a guide to the pressure. You will have about 190 bar, and both gauges may be slightly out. it is not a worry however and the gauges are accurate enough for air gun use
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    Yes, Diverdave was my forum name on all the diving forums years ago. When i retired from diving 8 years ago a lot of people still called me diverdave and it kind of stuck!
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    i repair anglers waders, life jackets and divers dry suits. I also buy returned waders and ex show stock from manufacturers, and then test and seal them. I get quite a few wildfowler customers, and now get waders from all over europe. We trade as Diver Daves wader repairs and do work for a number of UK suppliers
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    That is right, he is in Montrose guiding now. He has invited me down a few times now but i have always been busy. I have met up with him a couple of times, and serviced all his waders. By all accounts he sounds like he is doing well
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    Those are not ones i know, I know John Lewis and Ian Gill well, and have shot with them both many times. The sport can be spectacular up here Here is a couple from from last week, 2 of four i managed to grass, not taken with the air rifle i must add! These fellas need the 30:06 during the rutt. Taken up in Caithness
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    Matt, i know what it is like to be new and struggling to get ground in Aberdeenshire, now i am in a different situation and cannot get onto some of the ground i have year on year. I will be happy to take you out, lets see how you shoot and if all goes well i can introduce you to some land owners, it is then up to you to keep them! I also have a couple of friends who are pro guides and are often looking to make up numbers or to help with vermin control, i used to be out with them all the time, though i rarely have enough time now but once i have introduced you, it is up to you and them!
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    I think it depends where you are. i got 243 with my first fac, no mentor or similar. With a DSC 1 or on renewal it is open, which makes little difference really. I really wanted mine open after a couple of years, but as you need permission to shoot the ground, the only difference is it may not be police checked. Most ground is, so the difference is one phone call, or it is here. Mine is now open and i still shoot in the same places. 243 may be seen as heavy for fox, 222, 223 and 22 250 are excellent fox rounds, but i use the 243 for everything except reds. However regardless what is hi
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    I have decided to upgrade to the mk3 so am selling my mk 2, as i am planning on putting it on the 22 instead of the 243. The MK is suitable for centre fires but not really for the rimfires, though will work if you take the time to do the calculations yourself. The unit is working perfectly, is optically unmarked and has only 2 very small external "cabinet" marks, which are so small they do not show in the photo. I am selling it with the bullet drop paperwork, but to be honest i always use the on line data, as it gets updated, and the remote for ranging. It is about 8 months old and is still on
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    Chuckle, ok, understood. I dont think these things can be good for anyone, neither side wins with nonsense like this. I doubt both sides will ever agree. My take is that we have changed the landscape to the point that as the species that has changed it we need to manage this change, and this involves removing some animals that we have removed all the predators of, as well as other species. We have changed the balance and have to work to maintain it. I shoot,every week, and enjoy it. I am not a fan of every country pursuit but to be honest have not tried all of them, and perhaps wou
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    Not sure that Not sure that comment will help our cause!
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    I think the problem is we always want a little more, and if the limit was say 15, then we would be discussing why not 20? For me 12 is fine for many situations, but when I needed more I got a 22 rimfire, and this stretched my limits, but then the rabbits were a little too far away again, and I got an HMR. If you have permission and good reason then getting a FAC is easy enough, as long as there is no legal reason why you should not. I certainly believe it will be easier for most folks to get an FAC than it will be to increase or do away with air rifle limits, particularly in Scotland, whe
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    I am no expert mechanic, but my 1989 landrover 110 200tdi has done 190000 miles and is in use every week. it needs stuff done, the rear wiper motor needs replaced (£55 and a few bolts) and it needs a clean. Something is making a funny noise, perhaps a break, and it really needs a service. I have had it for a decade or two it needs a couple of hundred spent on every mot, normally brakes, tyres or stuff, but is so cheap why worry. It has been a constant while jaguars, a brace of 944's and a perfect but boring honda something, even a spitfire and now a discovery have come and gone. It costs
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    Hi Tom I have wasted a fortune on bipods, just get a Harris, get a swivel one and get the largest you may ever need. They take seconds to attach, but i never take mine off, they weigh ounces, and to be honest they re not even noticeable when fitted. on the rifle they make no difference when shooting off sticks. For the 243 get the 13 to 27 inch (if i remember the correct sizes) it is ideal for zeroing and also shooting sitting down, and everything in between. It suits my height when shooting off the landy bonnet. My little syndicate have found that the non swivel models throw the barrel
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    The cylinder and valve do not share a serial number, they are separate units and can and are changed, but the cylinder is stamped with a serial number and the bs standard it is tested to, in steel case BS 5045 /1 and in the case of alloy bs5045 / 3. In most cases the cylinder and valve are made in different companies, the pictures are of MDE valves and the steel cylinder is probably a faber, dont know the alloy one. Cylinders are stamped at test, valves are not. The cylinder is hydraulically tested, the valve is not. it does not even need a valve to pass the hydro test. If it is surface u
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    Sorry, but not strictly true, it is the cylinder that is hydro tested, not the valve, though you are right, with these valves fitted most filling centres would probably happily accept this. A picky centre could apply the cylinders test regimen to it, as the valve is irrelevant to BS 5045/1 or 3 (from memory) as this is what is actually hydro tested, so a valve could be swapped in seconds if one felt devious. This has been superseded and i am not as familiar with the very newest IDEST regs. To further confuse things the top cylinder is an alloy one and the lower is a steel one, depending on the
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    Stick with the eliminator, i have one and it is awesome, once set it is incredibly accurate. I am considering the new model, as mine is only 12x magnification, and my eyes really need the 16x. All my other rifles have 16 or higher so i find it irritating that is is lower. I am not really looking to sell, but will always consider a fair offer! I am not really a long range shooter, but have tried the laser out to 350 mtr and it is bang on, it is basically on from 100 - 350 and i am sure it would be to way beyond. It aso compensates for extreme up and down and i have found this is also really
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