Ok aged 67 its time to confess.I bought a three cassette album of JC back in 1965 a special offer from Readers Digest.He is my top all time fave.He would be my first Artiste to go with me on my desert island.Second confession Ron Springett is my all time fave footballer.
Some horrible person has shot 30 rabbits
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swee'pea99
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He used to own & run a sports shop just up the road when I was a boy. Got my first footie boots from him. Nice chap.
They don't make goalmouths like that anymore.
Drago
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Was it not an 8 track cartridge? Or a wax cylinder?
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Shot some paper last night. Mate was trying out a new setup on an indoor range, so I joined him. Very nostalgic-- I haven't been in an indoor range since I was at school. Ruger 10/22, Volquartson carbon match barrel, hausken moderator, McMillan stock. Cracking little gun.
Today I took twenty five assorted air weapons to the force armourer to put over a chrono. Two were over the limit, so someone's in bother.
Local RFD surrendered some stuff from a deceased certificate holder. A humane killer, (.38 single shot), a breakdown Anschutz .22, a Very pistol, a dented old side by side, and a deactivated Bren gun/LMG.
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Do they not have to send them for scientific testing to determine that evidentially? My old lot would use the chrono for a screening test and if they failed the armourer would submit them for proper testing because there isn't (or wasn't then) a home office approved Chrono for national use. Would take an age to turn around, but when the results came back they fired a selection of different weight pellets at a set distance into a block of some kind of foam. They measured the depth of penetration, did some maths, and voila!
Keep my air weapons well under. Don't fancy 5 years picking up the soap for Bubba!
Keep my air weapons well under. Don't fancy 5 years picking up the soap for Bubba!
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Cubist
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Yes, the inhouse chrono is just an indication. We'll take them to Leeds Armouries for expert examination. Part of the evidence required is whether they have been professionally or home workshop tuned. They've never been on a certificate.
Drago
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SMK went through a phase of supplying rifles around the 13-14lbft limit, and disgruntled RFDs sending them back. I keep my rifle at the high tens and my pistol the low fives with heavy pellets.
People don't realise the seriousness of powering up an air weapon into a firearm, or other items classed as firearms. We used to get a lot of Poles, otherwise decent, law abiding folk, but they'd have a Taser because it was legal in Poland, didn't realise with was a firearm here. They'd almost always cry as they were sentenced to the (almost) inevitable five years, waving at their stunned wives and kids. Welcome to England!
People don't realise the seriousness of powering up an air weapon into a firearm, or other items classed as firearms. We used to get a lot of Poles, otherwise decent, law abiding folk, but they'd have a Taser because it was legal in Poland, didn't realise with was a firearm here. They'd almost always cry as they were sentenced to the (almost) inevitable five years, waving at their stunned wives and kids. Welcome to England!
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A friend of mine had a .22 air rifle stolen. He said he couldn't report it as he'd had it "tonked up" to an illegal limit. I asked a copper once if i could legally carry a home made pepper spray for self protection. He said no as it'd be classed as a firearm. How can a bit of chile powder and water in compressed air be anything like a gun?
Drago
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Its a section 5.1.b firearm, it propels a noxious liquid. Its a ranged weapon, in essence. Having said that, a crossbow is a ranged weapon of considerable power and isn't subject to any licencing controls.
I'm afraid Accy your mate is a tool. Why risk 5 years with Bubba for an air rifle? Air rifles become inaccurate as you power them up because of the effects of buffeting on the pellet as it approaches the speed of sound. So you make the weapon worse, and risk ending up with silent farts - why?
And he should keep them in a gun cabinet. They can maim or kill, they're not the toys so may folk regard them as, and they should be secured against theft and abuse. Thanks to your mate there's now a technical firearm at large in the hands of criminals.
I'm afraid Accy your mate is a tool. Why risk 5 years with Bubba for an air rifle? Air rifles become inaccurate as you power them up because of the effects of buffeting on the pellet as it approaches the speed of sound. So you make the weapon worse, and risk ending up with silent farts - why?
And he should keep them in a gun cabinet. They can maim or kill, they're not the toys so may folk regard them as, and they should be secured against theft and abuse. Thanks to your mate there's now a technical firearm at large in the hands of criminals.
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Accy cyclist
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Yes i remember now,that's what the copper said. 5 years seems a bit excessive seeing as criminals are caught carrying knives and get let off with suspended sentences and given warnings. I though carrying a knife meant a 5 year sentence?
When i said friend i meant someone i know down the pub. He's a bit of a romancer(polite way of saying bullshitter)so he could've been making it up about the power of the rifle,though he did say it'd shoot pellets clean through a rabbits head. I think he was trying to impress me.
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jefmcg
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Get your coat: you've pulled.When i said friend i meant someone i know down the pub. He's a bit of a romancer(polite way of saying bullshitter)so he could've been making it up about the power of the rifle,though he did say it'd shoot pellets clean through a rabbits head. I think he was trying to impress me.
Drago
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Aye lad, the sentencing guidelines for knives are 5 years, but there are 101 potential mitigations and solicitors are quick to pounce on those. Its like these folk with 30 or 40 points on their licence and still driving.
r04DiE
300km a week through London on a road bike.
For all these years, I've been singing:
"When I'm cornered, I got a sawn off, squeeze the trigger and bodies are harder"
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For many years i thought Tom Jones's Green Green Grass Of Home said pair of golden lips like cherries. Thinking who the hell has golden lips?
Down the road I look and there runs Mary
Hair of gold and lips like cherries.
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