Born Hunter
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Most expensive place I've been to was Sportsman Gun Center. I can't remember their hmr price, think it was around £14.50? But I do remember I bought Federal 25-06 ammo from them at £36 a box, Hadfield's has the exact same at £28!
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Where the feck are you buying hmr ammo at that price? LOL My local does it at 12 quid a box! http://hadfieldguns.com/ammunition/bullets/rimfire.html
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Go for the 30-06.......... that'll put you in the position to be able to take the piss out of ya brother for having a 'girls thirty caliber'. Something you can remind him of just as he's f****d a stalk up.
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I'm just going to throw it out there, could British industry have given the MoD better value for money? Do we have the capability to carry out the project ourselves or the need? Yeah giving all the contracts to native defence firms is great on paper but it leads to piss taking and we don't have a large enough demand for hardware to have a very competitive native industry. Foreign sales is always a way of improving that but still we are where we are. It's a win in that we are at least kitting out % of the vehicles, we could have just bought a suitable replacement off the shelf and had n
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Oh no, sorry I misread it. They're being auctioned off!
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So I've just read in the news that someone even had the urinals! Not being particularly experienced in all this, is that a prize trophy then? Or is it just that that chap was a bit slow off the mark when the trophy hunting began? That's a whole new level of club support! LOL
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I sometimes think that when many of us today talk of how horrific the world is and modern conflict we forget the magnitude of the great wars. Total war on that scale makes modern conflicts look much less significant on the grand scale. Obviously for the individual soldier it's still life and death! But in their totality we live in very different times.
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I'd love to see a similar map for the whole of the UK, including plane crash sites too. I live in Bomber country so be of more interest to me really. Still, quite amazing (if that's the appropriate word?) to see the devastation that London suffered over the period of a year. As you say we are in bomber country ...I had a ride out out on the bike and went through screveton there's a memorial there also huge figures in the fields and quite a story behind them worth a look if you haven't seen it already I'm fairly familiar with that area, you talking about those scultped bushes on the Flinth
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I'd love to see a similar map for the whole of the UK, including plane crash sites too. I live in Bomber country so be of more interest to me really. Still, quite amazing (if that's the appropriate word?) to see the devastation that London suffered over the period of a year. As you say we are in bomber country ...I had a ride out out on the bike and went through screveton there's a memorial there also huge figures in the fields and quite a story behind them worth a look if you haven't seen it already I'm fairly familiar with that area, you talking about those scultped bushes on the Flinth
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I'd love to see a similar map for the whole of the UK, including plane crash sites too. I live in Bomber country so be of more interest to me really. Still, quite amazing (if that's the appropriate word?) to see the devastation that London suffered over the period of a year. As you say we are in bomber country ...I had a ride out out on the bike and went through screveton there's a memorial there also huge figures in the fields and quite a story behind them worth a look if you haven't seen it already I'm fairly familiar with that area, you talking about those scultped bushes on the Flint
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My thoughts too. Called my nearest RFD today and he said they've cured the missfires (which I take with a pinch of salt because the problem is not being able to anneal rimfire because the primer is already in the case) and they no longer have a problem with supply and they have loads in. A couple of months back they had none and couldn't get any. He also said that the 243 is an uprated 222 and has many more cartridge variations which make it a better buy. Which is the more versatile? Everyone has their own experiences but honestly I have never found hmr ammo a problem, either sourcing it or
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We weren't exactly strategic when we bombed the fcuk out of Dresden. This isn't a "oh look how evil they were to us" post. If you have a similar map for Dresden stick it up! And as a matter of fact Dresden was a Strategic bombing. The same as the Blitz. At least though Dresden had a tactical angle of being the Nazi's Industry capital! Nazi's industry capital? News to me that one. Why did it take us till the war was nearly over to realise this?We actually found a Bomb at Port Talbot working on the railway. It didn't take to the end of the war. It took to the end of the war for it to bec
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We weren't exactly strategic when we bombed the fcuk out of Dresden. This isn't a "oh look how evil they were to us" post. If you have a similar map for Dresden stick it up! And as a matter of fact Dresden was a Strategic bombing. The same as the Blitz. At least though Dresden had a tactical angle of being the Nazi's Industry capital!
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I wouldn't know but London certainly wasn't the only place that suffered. The North and the Midlands was the home of the country's heavy industry so I believe I'm correct when I say that the Luftwaffe's tactical bombing was directed there to inhibit British ability to fight. But The Blitz, which the original link is more about, had a different military objective, it was psychological warfare, crush the enemies will to fight. Obviously I've seen all the pictures before but just thought this simple map gave a little more perspective. The shear density of hits in less than a year is eye openi
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If it's rabbits and such then the 17 is a cracking caliber. IMO the 'ammo problem' hype is just that. It's realistically a very comfortable 150 yard small game caliber and cheap. Some people really manage to hate it though. IMO it's the most overstated caliber out there with claims of regular 300 yard kills, no ricochets and all sorts of garbage. Haters are forever comparing it to centerfire calibers and the fantasists to their air rifles. As a consequence it attracts a lot of hate for unrealistic comparisons. Taking it for what it is, I find it VERY useful. I can't see past it for rabbit
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I'd love to see a similar map for the whole of the UK, including plane crash sites too. I live in Bomber country so be of more interest to me really. Still, quite amazing (if that's the appropriate word?) to see the devastation that London suffered over the period of a year.
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For anyone interested I found this site that has mapped every bomb that hit London during WWII. http://bombsight.org/#10/51.5079/-0.0941 Absolutely unreal when you look at it. Strategic bombing! Just flatten everything!
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Lol, its not inbreeding, it's line breeding! Judging by my ancestors we're not from the fens anyway, more inland.
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Lincolnshire village name that has been lost in history. Earliest known reference from the 17thC. f**k me my family haven't moved far in at least three hundred years! Lol.
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I've got to be honest, I'm struggling to see how any of them are going to affect my life significantly. I appreciate some will feel that certain candidate's policy is standout but for me.... And I do feel a little guilty about that.
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Read It And Act Upon It!
Born Hunter replied to David Aiken's topic in Rimfire, Centrefire & Shotguns
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What's there to ummm and errr about? Based on my extensive experience of never having shot the swede and many 25 lovers hearsay the only choice is the mighty 25! LOLSeriously though matey, you playing with the idea of something from that part of the caliber spectrum? Well having filled the gap between rf and 223 (once it arrives) I'll then have a massive gap between 223 and 308. I forgot you had a 25, so 6.5x55 it is then. Once my depleted funds have recovered a bit of course. Clearly you have more money than sense! If you had any of the latter you'd f**k off everything else and
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What's there to ummm and errr about? Based on my extensive experience of never having shot the swede and many 25 lovers hearsay the only choice is the mighty 25! LOL Seriously though matey, you playing with the idea of something from that part of the caliber spectrum? .25-06 anyday over a Swede in my opinion, no contest. I took the advice of a friend that has owned everything from 9mm Glock to a 300 Ultra mag. But as I say certainly not in a position to give similarly authoritative advice.
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What's there to ummm and errr about? Based on my extensive experience of never having shot the swede and many 25 lovers hearsay the only choice is the mighty 25! LOL Seriously though matey, you playing with the idea of something from that part of the caliber spectrum?
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The tornado is exceptional at what it was made for low level interdiction operations. When it comes to shit or bust strikes deep in to enemy defences the tonka is the daddy! '91 Gulf, the RAF was tasked with taking out targets that make for incredible reading! A jet made for penetrating Soviet air defences hundreds of miles behind the front line, unsupported and suicidal at worst. Seeing them tear through the sky's of lincs as a kid has left me with a soft spot for the tonka.