CS: Pol-Shooting gets a golden shot in the arm

2000-09-21 Thread jonathan
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Miss Hoey gave > Faulds, 23, a congratulatory hug after his win in the > double trap event and said: "I am particularly pleased > for shooters and shooting in general. They have been > through a very difficult period and people frequently do > not understand them. The

CS: Target-FMJ v. HPBT

2000-09-21 Thread jonathan
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm still not convinced that propellant gasses are responsible for melting any significant quantity of lead from the base of a bullet. I used to think that this was a major cause of leading but now I'm not so sure. It seems far more likely to be down to bullet sizing

CS: Pol-neighbours protest Olympic medal winners range

2000-09-21 Thread Jeff Wood
From: "Jeff Wood", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alex Hamilton wrote: "If Richard Faulds thinks that his Olympic win will pacify his neighbours, he is incredibly stupid and his continuing "nuisance" to them will do our sport untold damage by presenting us all as a bunch of non-caring, brainless gits that

CS: Pol- NIMBY, Olympic medals, town v country

2000-09-21 Thread AnthonyHar
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Richard Faulds' problems with village incomers protesting about the noise of shooting is a phenomenon I recognise. In my village, a small group of clayshooters has held a once-monthly shoot on land belonging to one of them right on the edge of the village, for about fif

CS: Pol-Anne Pearston

2000-09-21 Thread Jeff Wood
From: "Jeff Wood", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steve's account of how he floored Tony Hill by asking him for an example of a successful ban was most satisfying, if that's the way to describe a hearty cackle. Just in case the antis have thought up a reply to the question, can anyone supply an answer, wit

CS: Pol-neighbours protest Olympic medal winners range

2000-09-21 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Got to strongly disagree with you Alex, if he took notice of his >neighbours he wouldn't have that Gold medal. This is an urbanised >country, the fact that the rest of the village are blaming it on >"townies" indicates that it is not a universal view amon

CS: Pol-noise and planning regs

2000-09-21 Thread nick
From: nick royall, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The neighbours of Richard Faulds have only won the right to appeal (again) on a technicality, not to have him shut down. Planning regs for clay pigeon shoots are fairly well laid down and easy to monitor and I would be suprised to find anyone giving permissi

CS: Pol-Olympic shooting

2000-09-21 Thread oddball
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well Alex, for your help and assistance, both Richard and his father are extremely pleasant and caring people, who are dedicated to the sport of shooting, and your irresponsible comments merely demonstrate your snobbery against a discipline you don't undertake - for cryi

CS: Pol-neighbours protest Olympic medal winners range

2000-09-21 Thread Alex Hamilton
From: "Alex Hamilton", [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Got to strongly disagree with you Alex, if he took notice of his >neighbours he wouldn't have that Gold medal. You are absolutely right there, but you would not say that if you were one of his neighbours and as they have won the court case, he will hav

CS: Pol-Federalist No 29

2000-09-21 Thread davidsquires
From: "davidsquires", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I read Federalist No. 29 again the other morning but did not get the impression that Hamilton was being evasive, just that the circumlocutory 18th Century language he employs obscures his argument rather than making it clear. I tried to simplify the lang

CS: Target-melting bullets

2000-09-21 Thread Jonathan
From: Jonathan Spencer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Temperature is irrelevant, it is thermal capacity that >matters. Thermal capacity is the quantity of heat energy >required to affect a temperature change. And heat exchange in proportional to temperature difference. >Look at it this >way; the heat f

CS: Crime-Cheeky!

2000-09-21 Thread KiPng
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] South African police fall victim to crime wave JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A police station became the latest target in South Africa's crime wave when robbers held it up and made off with 370,000 South African rand (35,000 pounds) in cash, The Star newspaper said. The S

CS: Pol-neighbours protest Olympic medal winners range

2000-09-21 Thread niel fagan
From: "niel fagan", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've just remembered something about the Andover area, the Thruxton circuit had a big noise complaint problem a while back that turned out to be one QC who didn't like motor racing and the noise it causes, he had successfully got a court order against a loc

CS: Pol-Friends & Enemies

2000-09-21 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [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. > --snip-- > The British tea

CS: Misc-it's cheaper elsewhere

2000-09-21 Thread Lars
From: "Lars", [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Does anyone know the price of Vihtavuori in say France or Germany or even in Finland? VinceB --- Here in Sweden we pay abt. GBP 32 / kilo for Vihtavuori N110 and GBP 20 / 0,5 kilo for N320 Lars Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List a

CS: Target-melting bullets

2000-09-21 Thread Buddy
From: Buddy Jordan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now you've piqued my curiosity. What bore would a gun have to be to chamber a baked Alaska? Would it have a gauge designation or would you just call it a punt? Stay safe. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED

CS: Target-melting bullets

2000-09-21 Thread andrew
From: andrew, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Let me say it again! The base of a bullet doesn't and cannot be melted by either the primer or powder, there is not enough heat and not enough time. To prove this point some years ago I took what was left of a plain base cast bullet that I had fired in my .375 H&

CS: Pol-neighbours protest Olympic medal winners range

2000-09-21 Thread Alex Hamilton
From: "Alex Hamilton", [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - 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' farm

CS: Target-melting bullets

2000-09-21 Thread David M
From: "David M", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whilst developing a cast bullet load to use in my .404 Jeffery I experienced such severe bullet melting with a batch of 50/50 linotype/wheelweight 410 grain bullets that my chronograph was almost destroyed by lead splatter fifteen feet from the muzzle. The int

CS: Target-melting bullets

2000-09-21 Thread Tim Jeffreys
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think, having seen the "bobbly" appearance of the bases of fired bullets with some "hot" loads, the "melting" might better be ascribed to ablation of the base by the explosively heated gases, as more or less suggested by Steve in an earlier response. Wi

CS: Misc-theatrical help needed

2000-09-21 Thread rogergascoigne
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can anyone help this person ? reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am sure that Lee's later than WW1 Vintage would suffice ? *** I wonder if you can help me.I am the chairman of an amateur group in Wantage Oxfordshire and we are do a production of The Accrington Pals, a play w

CS: Target-Origin of the term "Practical"...

2000-09-21 Thread Richard Loweth
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED] The term "practical" has been used the turn of the century! Walter Winans uses it in his books, and deals at some length with the defensive use of the pistol. Tracey also use the term in his book "Revolver Shooting in War". It is certainly not a modern

CS: Target-glue

2000-09-21 Thread stuart_heal
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've got a query which I hope someone will be able to help me with. I shoot an SAM180 semi-auto .22 rifle and I've just taken delivery of a new set of sights for it. I bought it second-hand, minus the original sights, and I've been running it with a Russian red dot sig

CS: Target-Olympics Mens 25M Rapid Fire

2000-09-21 Thread SSAA
From: SSAA, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1st Serguei Alifirenko - Russia 687.6 2nd Michel Ansermet - Switzerland 686.1 3rd Julian Raicea - Romania 684.6 Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I

CS: Target-Olympics Womens Skeet

2000-09-21 Thread SSAA
From: SSAA, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1st Zemfira Meftakhetdinova - AZE 98 2nd Svetlana Demina - Russia 95 3rd Diana Igaly - Hungary 93 Aussie Natasha Lonsdale 4th in shoot off with Diana Igaly Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

CS: Legal-Request

2000-09-21 Thread The Isherwood's
From: "The Isherwood's", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Would all cybershooters, whether firearms or shotgun certificate holders, who live in the West Mercia Constabulary area please contact me off list. Kindest Regards, Paul Isherwood Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EM

CS: Pol-Nimbys have Britain's top gun in their sights

2000-09-21 Thread RustyBullethole
From: RustyBullethole, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nimbys have Britain's top gun in their sights Times 21.9.00 BY ANDREW NORFOLK BRITAIN'S newest gold medal winner Richard Faulds will be granted a hero's welcome when he returns to his home village tomorrow, but for s

CS: Pol-Anne Pearston

2000-09-21 Thread Norman
From: Norman Bassett, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The matter of Anne Pearston's emotional motivation for the very effective campaigning she's done remains unpublicised. I'm writing today to the Countryside Alliance about a story I've heard from Labour Party sources that the foxhunting issue is being cal

CS: Pol-Shooting gets a golden shot in the arm

2000-09-21 Thread RustyBullethole
From: RustyBullethole, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Guardian 21.9.00 Shooting gets a golden shot in the arm By Peter Foster and Barbie Dutter in Sydney, Michael Fleet and Philip Johnston Britain wins second gold medal KATE HOEY, the sports minister, heralded the Olympic gold medal won by Britain's R