CS: Pol-Friends Enemies

2000-09-22 Thread Matthew Wright
From: "Matthew Wright", [EMAIL PROTECTED] More to the point people like Anne Pearston and Gill Marshall Andrews are the problem not the solution. Their attitude is preventing rational debate that could have enabled sensible and working amendments to firearms law via dialogue not confrontation.

CS: Pol-neighbours protest Olympic medal winners range

2000-09-22 Thread RustyBullethole
From: RustyBullethole, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just imagine that you just spent half a million on a house in that village only to find that your neighbour is planning to open a commercial clay pigeon range, which would make your house practically unsaleable! Urbanisation means that we can no

CS: Target-melting wads

2000-09-22 Thread David M
From: "David M", [EMAIL PROTECTED] After all shotguns don't get plastic deposits in their barrels from plastic wads or cartridge hulls do they? They most certainly do if you use plastic wads over blackpowder in shotgun cartridges. The much greater transfer of heat to shotgun barrels from

CS: Target-Noise pollution

2000-09-22 Thread John
From: John Howat/Wellington Sporting Arms Co Ltd, [EMAIL PROTECTED] You wrote:- "The sound of shotgun shooting at a distance of say, 300m, would be negligible compared to what a lot of urban dwellers have to put up with. Especially if it is only one or two shooters!" Having had a little to

CS: Misc-Musical halted as actress is shot in face with stage gun

2000-09-22 Thread admin
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A preview show of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton's new West End musical had to be stopped briefly when one of the leading ladies was shot in the face by a stage gun. The incident occurred halfway through the second act of The Beautiful Game, which is previewing at

CS: Target-Radio Four

2000-09-22 Thread pierre
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fortunately we don't have a television so we aren't bombarded with the continual dross that fills the screens today. So we listen to the radio. A lot. However on Wednesday 20th September my Ghast was flabbered. At around 08.30 hrs Radio Four, which over the last few

CS: Target-glue

2000-09-22 Thread jonathan
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can recommend you avoid "superglue"; cyanoacrylate is an ester, and evaporates very nicely, thankyou, at about 150 C. I use it as a temporary adhesive for this reason. I have heard many people say that the only thing that superglue is good at sticking is skin.

CS: Target-Olympics Womens 25m pistol

2000-09-22 Thread SSAA
From: SSAA, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1st Maria Grozdeva - Bulgaria 690.3 2nd Luna Tao - China 689.8 3rd Lolita Evglevskaya - Belarus 686.0 Aussies Linda Ryan 579 Equal 11th Christine Trefrey 578 Equal 15th Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

CS: Pol-Olympic shooting

2000-09-22 Thread Alex Hamilton
From: "Alex Hamilton", [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, That's not the point, Chris! Their neighbours have an equal right to become dedicated garden

CS: Pol-ignorance is rife

2000-09-22 Thread Tim Jeffreys
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today I bumped into a friend who is a Labour party activist, who wanted to know if I wanted go along to the local MP-bating - er - question and answer session this evening. Knowing some of my shooting connections, he then commented on what a good

CS: Target-Vapourised lead

2000-09-22 Thread Peter Sarony
From: "Peter Sarony", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have to agree with Jonathan Spencer, for the evidence is unmissable. Those who may have used effective compensators, such as the multiple baffle and expansion chamber system my company developed for use originally with handguns, the baffles and

CS: Target-Olympics Mens Running Target

2000-09-22 Thread SSAA
From: SSAA, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1st Ling Yang - China 681.1 2nd Oleg Moldovan - MDA 681.00 3rd Zhiyuan Niu - China 677.4 Aussies David Jones 562.00 16th Adam Gitsham 556.00 17th Highest score shot by David Jones in International compeition 18 competitors Cybershooters website:

CS: Misc-Continental won't fly guns to UK

2000-09-22 Thread SSAA
From: SSAA, [EMAIL PROTECTED] We cannot verify this at the moment so travellers beware. - Trying to book my flights to Scotland for my December shoot. I have usually flown Continental, who have a convenient flight to Glasgow. I have been informed by a friend and have verified that

CS: Legal-Old soldier shot his wife dead as final act of love

2000-09-22 Thread RustyBullethole
From: RustyBullethole, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Times 20.9.00 Old soldier shot his wife dead as final act of love BY MICHAEL HORSNELL AN OLD soldier who could no longer bear to watch his wife's health decline shot her twice through the head as she slept, a court

CS: Misc-Continental won't fly guns to UK

2000-09-22 Thread Margarita
From: Margarita Booker, [EMAIL PROTECTED] We cannot verify this at the moment so travellers beware. and have verified that Continental will no longer accept firearms in checked baggage to the UK. I have recently been sending all my export firearms to the States via Continental

CS: Target-melting bullets

2000-09-22 Thread andrew
From: andrew, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I never said that lead was lost off the bullet during firing did I! Only that the base could not be subject to melting. Of course you will there will be residues of bullet material mixed in with the propellant gasses and deposited in the bore, this happens no

CS: Target-melting bullets

2000-09-22 Thread Jonathan
From: Jonathan Spencer, [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, Try making a comparison of the type of propellant (e.g.

CS: Pol-neighbours protest Olympic medal winners range

2000-09-22 Thread niel fagan
From: "niel fagan", [EMAIL PROTECTED] The area round Andover is pretty rural and there must be farms well away from habitation that would have given him permission to practice. Bisley is well within reach too. Just imagine that you just spent half a million on a house in that village only to

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

2000-09-22 Thread Alex Hamilton
From: "Alex Hamilton", [EMAIL PROTECTED] The malcontents seem unresponsive to the obvious suggestion that the clayshooters were there first, arousing no hostility, and that before moving into their twee executive dwellings they might have checked for any nasty shooting activity in the