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Hey Mes, wadda think it was that changed him? I bet it was the reason he has those whips. : It's true that I lived in the US for 5 years, although Long Island NY could hardly be called typically American. I would have loved to stay but your government cancelled my L1 visa and told me to go away and...

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game keeper wrote:A riding whip in the bedroom????

We Surrey gents know how to keep the fillies in order.

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By the time I cleared off the alarm clock, books,whisky glass, tablet computer, coffee mugs and phone to get it into action the intruder would be long gone. Not necessary anyway - every Englishman worthy of the title has a cricket bat and a riding whip readily to hand.
Perry Owens

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The cult gun to find is the 5.5" stainless/fixed sight. The last one I had I sold last year unfired for $1300.00... Really a fun gun to shoot...Bob Ones like these? http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/Perry1943/ROA-1.jpg Here in the UK we can only use cap and ball pistols for CAS so used Ol...

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I have a 4 litre capacity 150Watt cleaner with a 100 Watt heater element. I use it for cleaning brass that was loaded with black powder. Never tried Lyman Case Cleaner - I use water with a dash of detergent and a couple of spoonfuls of citric acid. It takes about 20 minutes to properly clean my bras...

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Truly a remarkable woman and certainly one of the greatest politicians of our generation. It is a measure of her influence on Britain that people still admire, or hate, her more than twenty years after she left office. The funeral this morning was a fitting tribute, perfectly executed.My son and dau...

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I bought a Coach Gun Supreme when I lived in New York. When I got home to England I sent it to the London Proof House. They declined to test fire it as it was so far off face. I had it worked on by a double gun specialist, sent it for proof and again it was rejected. After two more attempts I gave ...

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I bought a Coach Gun Supreme when I lived in New York. When I got home to England I sent it to the London Proof House. They declined to test fire it as it was so far off face. I had it worked on by a double gun specialist, sent it for proof and again it was rejected. After two more attempts I gave u...

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I have used .357 BP loads for years. Load as Griff says. I use nickel cases and Swiss powder as I find that the cases seem to stay cleaner, also I can see at a glance which rounds are BP.
Perry Owens

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These are the seasons, although landowners can shoot them out of season if they are damaging crops. http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/Perry1943/88692c8b-cd99-4843-83c4-18604b54dc37_zps94e5ed0e.jpg There are minimum calibre and muzzle energy requirements for rifles, around .240 and 1700 ftlbs. N...

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Great stuff. I use it neat on boots and other leather ware. In our damp winters guns rust if you just stare at them too hard but Ballistol protects the metalwork well and it doesn't seem to matter if you get it on the wood. Diluted with water - "moose milk" - it is good for cleaning black ...

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That is an odd one, must be a volunteer pattern? Looks like a short rifle but it has a brass triggerguard. Or is it an artillery carbine?[/quote][/quote] It's an artillery carbine made for the civilian market by John Rigby of London. The name of the original owner is engraved on the trigger guard. h...

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sore shoulder wrote:I just wanna know if there's anything cooler than a .577 Snyder

Probably not....

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Could you stick one of these in a drill chuck and round the head with a file?
http://www.factorychryslerparts.com/pro ... 570AA.html

Perry Owens

perry owens

Nice work as usual Pitchy. When my new mill arrives I am going to restart my project on another type of pop-pop, a valveless pulse jet. Those guys pop at serious levels - the little one I made a few years back popped at 400Hz and 130 decibels. Engines with no moving parts are a fascinating technolog...

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I used to make the boilers from a brass ring cut from 2inch tube, with a sheet brass bottom and a copper foil top. Soft solder should be ok provided you fill the whole thing with water from a syringe first. Block the ends of the tubes with your fingers while placing it in the water. For fuel I used ...

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Pitchy wrote: the side grinder and welder, can`t live without em.

I agree Pitchy, but as I've found out to my cost, don't use an angle grinder within 15ft of the loading bench!

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One shooter fires at the 3 on the left and the other shooter those on the right. When hit the plates swing round to the other side. The loser is the shooter who ends up with all 6 plates on his side. The upright leans forward slightly so the plates swing uphill and then down on the other side to sta...

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The ranges I shoot on have been inaccessable lately due to floods or snow so to pass the time profitably I pulled out the trusty welder and made this duelling tree. http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/Perry1943/44ed7d94-8576-451c-9ad7-33d666ea332c_zpsbd045a2b.jpg We plan to use it for team shoots...

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Hi Nath, Hope you are still above water where you are. I regularly cast 158 grain .357 magnum bullets from pure lead to use with black powder in my 1873 carbine. I use this mould from Big Lube http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/Perry1943/SNAKEBITE-38-158-1048_WEB_P_zps3b4173e5.jpg It has a big l...

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Kiss your eyebrows goodbye.....

Perry Owens

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Pete, It's a very new site and might be overloaded - some features could not be accessed when I first tried it. Here's a screenshot of the area where my family lived: http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/Perry1943/map.jpg The one outlined in green killed all my dad's chickens. The park was bombed ...

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Anyone interested in miitary history might like to take a look at this http://bombsight.org/#12/51.4962/0.0064
It maps every bomb dropped on Greater London during the Blitz. Looking at that mass of red dots you have to wonder how so many survived.
Perry Owens

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Copy the URL of the You Tube video you want. Go to http://www.keepvid.com and paste the URL into the address bar. Click on the grey Download box - do not click on the big green Download button. You will have a choice of download formats and if in doubt MP4 is about the most compatible. Some You Tube...

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The wife and I lived on Long Island for 5 years and travelled into the city at every opportunity. We have travelled all over the world and both agree that NYC is the most exciting, vibrant city there is. Driving around the city is a blast -like being in a video game, and parking is cheap down by the...

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piller wrote:I enjoy Crash Course. Hamster seems to be a nice guy, and he is fun to watch. If he is hooked on Leverguns, what will he do when he gets back to England?

I'll invite him to come and spend a day with our CAS club.
Perry Owens

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Richard Hammond, one of the UK Top Gear presenters, made a TV programme about the Gunpowder Plot in 2005. In it he built a full-size replica of the parliament building and set off a metric tonne of gunpowder inside it. It's a long programme but it's here if you want to see it http://watchdocumentary...

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Considering the restriction our British bretheren have to face, this is about as close to an AR they are ever going to get. But it is impressive how the mind of man can find solutions to problems. Some Brit was thinking. True...! I wonder why they didn't just go with a pump-action, though - I under...

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If you're in Milford you could get to Long Island without going through NYC by taking the ferry from Bridgeport to Port Jefferson. I lived on Long Island for 5 years and never felt the need to carry a gun, which was just as well because, as a " resident alien" I couldn't have one anyway. A...

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The load was 80 grains of Swiss FG in a Magtech brass 12g shell. The range is the old gunnery zero range on an abandoned WW2 bomber base. A sunny day after a night of heavy rain - no wind.
Perry Owens

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in full-house loads, as I was doing today, you get to appreciate why, in old-time gunfights, a lot of ammo expenditure resulted in not much damage...

Couldn't see a darned thing most of the time.
Perry Owens

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Any device that emits a noxious substance, eg pepper spray, is prohibited, as are stun guns. Carrying a Leatherman-type tool in public can, and has, got people locked up. My kids, who are LEO's, say that a Surefire type flashlight with a high intensity LED bulb and a castellated bezel would not prov...

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Was it this one?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Wild-Life-Y ... pd_sim_b_2

Perry Owens

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Do they have services like UPS and Fedex over there? I thought they were both global companies? Yes we do but they are relatively expensive and their depots are not common. Royal Mail has 12000 post offices in the UK, often franchised into village stores, so they are much more convenient for most p...

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The Royal Mail is proposing to ban the transport of firearms, airguns, components and ammunition by its postal services. The link to the proposal is here: http://www.royalmail.com/sites/default/files/Proposals_to_prohibit_Firearms_from_postal_services.pdf Since the definition of "components&quo...

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Go get the Snider - you know you want to....

Then load it up and go and shoot a tiger from the back of an elephant.

Perry Owens

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http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/Perry1943/Carbines2.jpg I have 3 Sniders, all made by reputable British makers. All have slightly different bore sizes and twists and require different powder charges and bullet shapes/weights to get them to shoot well. Loading a Snider for accuracy is a hobby...

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I just dug my Spencers out of the safe to check the serial numbers. One of them is a model 1867 with a serial number 1022XX. It's a 56-50, 5 groove rifling with a Lane extractor.
Perry Owens

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It was great to watch Peter Wilson take gold for Great Britain in the double trap. He gets no funding from any official body and is supported financially by friends and family.
Perry Owens

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DarryH,
You might try posting your question over on the Spencer Forum at http://www.cascity.com/forumhall/index.php?board=35.0
Lots of knowledgable Spencer enthusiatss on there.
Perry Owens

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Here's a fun way of making cans smaller
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L-fcawi ... ature=plcp

Perry Owens

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Here in the UK the BBC broadcasts 24 channels of Olympic events daily so it is possible to find some shooting to watch if you really search but it would only make the news channels if Britain won a medal. The skeet events were very well supported but then there were only 7500 seats in the stands - c...

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Cheaper than .22 shotshells and not so hard on the furniture
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... -salt.html

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I stand them base down in a shallow pan that rests in a slightly larger pan containing water, the whole thing resting on a gas ring. I boil the water and add lumps of lube, allowing it to melt until the melted lube reaches above the grease grooves. Turn off the gas and allow to cool down and when co...

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GK,
Get yourself a pistol calibre lever action and come and shoot CAS with us at Headley Park. I can loan you some guns so you can try before you buy.
Perry owens

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Talking of flinters, last time I took my Baker rifle out to play we used a video camera to try to measure the lock time: http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/Perry1943/MVI_02-1.jpg http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/Perry1943/MVI_03-1.jpg http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/Perry1943/MVI_04...

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Always looking for new ways to torment my CAS buddies I made one of these over the weekend http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/Perry1943/Snapshot102-07-20128-33PM.png You hit the plate with the first shot and it falls, operating the lever which throws an empty beer can into the air for the second...

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The 1887 is simple to work on. If yours was made in 1895 it will have twin extractors - earlier versions had only one. I can send you an exploded diagram, parts list and disassembly instructions if you want.
Perry Owens

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The wife's gone away for the weekend. She told me she doesn't want that hedge to be there when she gets back on Sunday.
I'm thinking weedkiller doesn't work that fast!

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