CS: Misc-Battle of Britain

2000-09-20 Thread retlaw
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A bullet painted BLACK was the true explosive. I've never sectioned one of these so I don't know whats inside them, I may be daft but I'm not stupid. I remember some years ago someone told me he'd been given a huge chest full of asorted ammunition. In it was a small

CS: Target-FMJ v. HPBT

2000-09-20 Thread jonathan
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If the base of the bullet does not melt then why does everyone use HPBT bullets for the best accuracy? Because it's easier to make a jacketed boat tail if you design it so the jacket ends at the top rather than the bottom, and also the propellant gasses can't try

CS: Target-Steel Plate Shooting

2000-09-20 Thread Brian Toller
From: "Brian Toller", [EMAIL PROTECTED] The steel plate shoot seems to have been organised thru a club member - John Reddington - who I know is very keen on this kind of competition, as his name appears fairly .high up in the results on other like comps. I think he must be pd off and

CS: ALERT-Friends Enemies

2000-09-20 Thread KiPng
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SHOOTER'S OLYMPIC GOLD SPARKS DUNBLANE ANTI-GUN PROTESTS 201715 SEP 10 By Simon Mowbray, PA News Britain's Olympic gold medal celebrations tonight sparked a new debate over shooting and the Dunblane tragedy. Richard Faulds doubled the nation's tally of top

CS: Target-Vic SSAA interview re Diamond

2000-09-20 Thread SSAA
From: SSAA, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Station:3AK Date: 19/09/2000 Program: DOUG AITON Time: 1600 Item: INTERVIEWEES: SEBASTIAN ZICCONE, SPORTING SHOOTERS ASSOCIATION, DISCUSSION OF THE VICTORY OF MICHAEL DIAMOND IN CONSECUTIVE OLYMPIC SHOOTING EVENTS AND OTHER ISSUES RELATED

CS: Misc-US secretly pushed for EU

2000-09-20 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you read this yet? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000114832908976rtmo=V6sqDfJKatmo=gg ggg3JKpg=/et/00/9/19/wspy19.html -- Mmm, it is quite interesting. Just wondering if the CIA would agree with the aims now! Steve. Cybershooters

CS: Crime-Passengers kill 'air rage man'

2000-09-20 Thread KiPng
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Passengers kill 'air rage man' A man who went berserk during a flight and tried to break into the cockpit was killed by fellow passengers who tried to restrain him, a post mortem has revealed. US police initially believed Jonathan Burton, 19, died of a heart attack

CS: Target-melting bullets

2000-09-20 Thread kate
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi there, here's my tuppence worth. Andrew, you should know better than to say pressure has no effect on melting point! At the kinds of pressure and temperature, and time scales, involved in firing a bullet, you will get melting of a lead surface, simply because the

CS: Target-Commonwealth results

2000-09-20 Thread bob blake
From: "bob blake", [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Commonwealth Shooting Federation (European Division) Championships were held in the IOM last week-end and I can confirm that Pistol Shooting in the British Isles is still alive and kicking. Pistol Individual Matches: Mens Air Pistol: Gold: Alan

CS: Target-Commonwealth results

2000-09-20 Thread bob blake
From: "bob blake", [EMAIL PROTECTED] The 25m Pistol Events were run on the new Slieau Lhost Range which is situated close to Windy Corner on the TT Course, this facility has 20 firing points and has been constructed to ISSF standards, work is under way on the 20 firing Point 50m range which is

CS: Target-FMJ v. HPBT

2000-09-20 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] --snip-- I don't think that propellant gasses actually melt bullets, if they did I think it would be a problem with military guns that do use boat tails with exposed cores. Jonathan Laws. -- But not with the flatbase bullets that Berger makes, as

CS: Pol-neighbours protest Olympic medal winners range

2000-09-20 Thread Steven Kendrick
By Graeme Paterson, PA News NEIGHBOURS FIGHT OLYMPIC HERO'S 'NOISY' RANGE The family of Olympic gold medal winner Richard Faulds are locked in a planning battle with neighbours who have objected to a clay pigeon shooting range at their farm, it emerged today. Neighbours near the Faulds'