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The Good Old Days, 1975, Gamkeeper Documentry
Lid replied to Phil Win's topic in Gamekeeping, Conservation & Shoot Management
It was common practice 40 years ago Thankfully, attitudes to that have moved on somewhat Great film - thanks. We stood with open guns in 1975. In fact not long after I was pulled up for leaving the cartridges in even though my gun was open! -
I reckon you should ask a bit more, say £15 if you can identify the choke of the unmarked one. However I've just realised that the choke key my be for different style chokes. I'm not sure which, but you probably need to sell that separately. I just found mine and my choke key looks like this one:
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BTW it looks like they are around £25 new these days.
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I not sure about the CL too, but I think the C**** mean improved cylinder, ie 1/4 choke. I have got a full set somewhere and when you line them up, it is easy to see the changes in constriction from cyl through to full. There's a skeet one too which is designed to effectively be a slightly negative choke.
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Good news - I hope the owner tells the police too!
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Those are Beretta mobile chokes. I reckon the marked one is improved cylinder and steel shot compatible. See here. I can't remember what they are worth second hand though.
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Fair enough! Good on you again though!
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Good on your mate with the garage too. What about a call to the local rag, or even a national? I am out the country at the moment, but hasn't there been another incident like this in the recent hot spell back in the UK somewhere?
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Well done mate. However as everyone has said she was in the wrong not you. Out of interest how did the price for the window get calculated so accurately? Clearly that copper who attended needs educating - I m sure there's lots of publicity about not leaving dogs in cars when hot and windows being smashed if you do.
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Have you tried wimdu.co.uk and other similar sites?
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Brilliant - and thanks for sharing the pics.
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Great news. Hooray!!
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Very nice indeed.
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Cheers folks!
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Thanks for the tip David. I do have more budget available, but I was trying to match the quality of scope to the quality of this particular air rifle. My main want is a big depth of field to minimize refocusing at different distances. I seem to remember scopes I used in the past were in good focus for a wide range of ranges, but maybe my eyes were just better then! Currently we are on holiday, but I will get back on this project when I return.
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How odd. Do you sell them dressed or skin on to this pub?
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Thanks. However I do agree in retrospect that I shouldn't have put it that way.
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Thanks. Sorry to now hijack this thread, but It's surreal. I was put at risk 45 days ago, along with about 150 others in my area (which is IT in - wait for it - Tesco). The annoying thing is that they are not even downsizing. It's a restructure and we allegedly don't fit into the new structure. In fact they were advertising around 245 vacancies in IT at the same time as we were told we had to find a job elsewhere in the company, or we’d be let go. The plus side is that you get a fair package when you've been there as long as I have and I am lucky enough to have a backup plan after I got ill in
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Cheers. I'd just done my 25 years too!
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I am sorry if my comment could be seen to be advisory as it was certainly not my intention. I have in fact been hit in the face by air rifle pellets more than once, but luckily not in the eye. You will see that I have now edited the offending post. PS I am glad your eye fully recovered. As an aside I was made redundant today, so not in an especially jolly mood.
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If that last bit's your attitude towards safety then I'm glad you live a very long way from me. To be honest I thought some one would make that remark which is half the reason I wrote it! I have an extremely high regard for shooting safety thanks and I was trained by both a very fastidious relative and the military. However I have never heard of anyone being harmed by an air rifle pellet when landing after being fired upwards into trees, but I have heard of people being both hit and harmed by .22 lr bullets fired upwards into trees (and by upwards I do not mean vertically). Howeve
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You don't usually need to worry about a backstop if you are shooting pigeons in trees with an air rifle though. . Of course you do need to consider potential ricochets, but the pellet is highly unlikely to harm anyone if it accidentally lands on them at the end of its flight, although there is always potential.
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That is fair enough, although maybe they should be vegans, not veggies and be careful not to tread on any small insects! However I don't agree that they have the right to force their beliefs onto others. if her grandson wants to fish, she should only explain why she disagrees, not stop him. But we still don't know if this is true.
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I can't believe that is real! If it weren't for anglers the rivers and lakes would be dead, polluted and full of chemicals.
