From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This jolly piece was in the current edition of Punch (Feb 14-27, 2001):
Tim : )
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Titled: BritainÆs gun-slingers are back on the streets
The increasing violence of drug dealing is driving some crimina
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>A police source said they found "enough weapons to
start a war" at the semi-detached cottage <
I seem to recall that some rather large dust-up in 1914 was largely started
by a young chap with one pistol...
C
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>" Of course one thing that few people ever mention about controlling foxes
is cage trapping. It is humane and very efficient."
OK now what do you do with it, shoot it?Chris.
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No, you shoot it and cut it up, wrap i
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Mock-up posters showing a man lying in a pool of blood with a revolver
by
> his side has gone on display in London as part of a campaign aimed at
> stopping gun crime.
> ---SNIP 8< -
>
> Hey, I k
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>I am also wondering whether this T-shirt idea is such a great one, middle
of March isn't going to be that warm, unless we wear them over the
top of something.<
Printed tabards might be an easy answer - two double bits of Ve
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If it's used at close range, all sorts of give-away debris ends up on the
outside of the barrel(s) and the user...especially in a confined space. A
sawn-off isn't going to lend itself to long range sniping, so unless the
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>The term we use is 'barrack room lawyer'.
Someone who thinks he knows it all, but can't put it into practise.<
But does that make them wrong? If they have the luxury of being able to sift
through law as it was written an
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>I thought that article about the guy whose tendons wore out
>after 30,000 rounds of .44 Magnum was interesting. I wonder
>how many rounds of .458 Win. Mag. would do it?
>
>Steve.
>reminds me of the massive derring
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<. One thing I
do want to say here is that gun crime may have not been
a problem pre-1920, but heroin abuse was, why was it
banned in the first place? Why did the Chinese go to
war to stop it being imported?>
If I recall my agricultur
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Good thread.
Any presentation of ideas, commercial, academic or otherwise, loses its
impact by rambling into details;
Statements of common objectives should be short and punchy, and instantly
understandable.
If those objectives are, f
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The following is the text from a proof house document published in the
latest NRA Journal. It may have relevence to some list members. Also
accompanying it in the Journal are the CIP drawings.
(- it's not of much interest to me personall
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I saw that programme; most interesting:
When asked why she had not allowed the antis a word in at the hare coursing,
the producer said they had planned to, but some of the protesters had
started shouting "one fat lady dead, one to go&q
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>If you lawfully hold a firearm for, say, shooting deer, there is absolutely
nothing wrong in using it for self defence in the home PROVIDED that:
It is the minimum force required in the circumstances.
It is proportional to the perception
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Well, allow me to put a new roll of caps in my cap gun.<
Well at least put them in a Sharps carbine (sorry - these days we're
supposed to call them gallery rifles) to show you mean business...
>Am I gonna believe that you gu
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ah, there we go, we can have a Christmas Cybershooters' safari, lead by IG
as the Professional Hunter, with his advice for the most suitable gun and
load; the selected game being: drug dealer; crackhead; armed robber;
lethal-joyrider; h
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Oh, the good old days. When men could go shooting whilst high as a kite on
>opium, get pissed, carry a flick knife and screw a bird without being
>bankrupted by the government, then have a fight on the way home. All in the
>same da
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>~I would be howling because I don't want to see complete freedom of movement
of firearms.~
No, nor do I. What I want is the lightest possible controls that operate
towards preventing criminals, lunatics and the incompetent fro
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There are some good hunting cartoons around already, particularly an old
Donegan:
A large mounted stag's head hangs over a fire place. In front stand two
gentlemen in evening dress, holding drinks. The stag has a great toothy grin
on its f
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mohamed al Fayed put up this offer earlier this year, holding a similar
level of respect for most ministers, shadow ministers and senior MPs, to
that held by shooters, hunting folk, truckers and anybody else who has been
alienated by HMG.
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This incident rather invites the comment:
- the victim couldn't have been all that psychic then
Tim
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From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Does anyone know any person who has justifiably had a cert revoked? I wager
that no one will admit it here! (as it seems the overiding view is that
anyone should be able to carry anything they want at any time and at any
place.)<
It
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>These MPs deserve a
favour from us - they deserve to be chucked out and into the real world
where people have to work for a living.
I voted for the "Anyone but David Mellor" Party in Putney last time and was
delighted when he was
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>I also have trouble with the concept of "I trust you with this but not
that" as steve experienced with variations for collecting. In my case I
had a sec.1 shotgun that I was prohibited from using for clay pigeon
shooting! I fully
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>There was a monkey from a shipwreck that was hanged in Sunderland in the
1790's for being a Frenchman. Perhaps that was an innocent animal.<
That was Hartlepool. It was apparently thought to be a spy and tried, its
gibberings being
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>"You have to question the Queen's moral judgement when she is seen to be
>enjoying killing innocent creatures."
>--
>What's that word for people who see human characteristics in animals?
>
>To answer yo
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As for examples of iffy FAC holders, a club I belong to chucked one out some
years back: - not a very responsible individual, who brought some unsavoury
friends in on a few occasions and left large numbers of "inaccurately placed
holes&qu
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>How do you spot these people? One way, they use cliches like " If you're
doing nothing wrong you have nothing to worry about."<
These same people presumably would have told Steven Waldorff not to worry
about those ann
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>A Scotland Yard spokesman confirmed that armed officers have raided the
couple's house in search of a gunman who was threatening to kill himself.<
Hmm.. man threatens to kill himself - So the objective of raiding the
house
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I found this quite funny in this week's Time magazine:
Tim.
Steve Lopez's America
Michigan
Bambi's Got a Little Secret
Poachers may find this
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>POLICE SHOOT REPLICA GUN SUSPECT<
Surely they mean a suspect with a replica gun - or wasn't the suspect a real
one?
>The man, whom police believe to have been involved in a spate of robberies,
was shot in the leg in the Toxte
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I had a rather unfortunate incident with a fox when on my way to my first
day at a new pistol club ten years ago. I was driving my Hillman Minx
(sixties classic car - braking distance of a pocket battleship) and having
taken a wrong turning, fo
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A few years ago I donated a trophy box that I had acquired from an antiques
fair to the Artists Rifles Club for their display cabinets.
It was a small walnut box, approx. 5" x 7", with a blue baize lining, which
probably originally c
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If people want to ponce about saving squirrels, that's up to
them, just don't waste my tax money doing it!
Steve.
Surely all you need to save squirrels is a big jar of formaldehyde. Then the
only tax money involved is for the MSDS
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear 123,
(that's a very unusual name, BTW)
I have an old Handloader Magazine article (Nov-Dec 1978) by Jim Jukes on
just this subject,
and it gives the following data:
.577-.450 Load Data
Powder Charge(grains), Bullet Weight (g
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Perhaps the Sportsman's Association should have restricted
their membership to six...
Tim : \
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Or said they were a terrorist organisation!
Steve.
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From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Perhaps we should take a lead from the media here; instead of refering to
Her Majesty's Government, we could refer at all times to "that known bunch
of gun fanatics with an arsenal of weapons"...
(substitute similar phrases
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
< Thieves use apes and snakes to threaten victims >
"Hand over your money, Monsieur, or I'll strike you with my ASP..."
Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.or
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
They must have been very loud air pistols then, because the photo of Kate
Allenby shown in Time Magazine earlier this year showed her wearing
earmuffs - I'm not sure what the pistol was. Mind you, it was probably an
old(ish
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What did all those athletes who competed under the Olympic flag, when all
the boycott nonsense was in full swing, do about "quotas" then?
I appreciate Mick Gault not taking part if he didn't feel he'd had
sufficient trai
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nice to see the two ladies winning a gold and a bronze
in the modern pentathlon at the big "O". The BBC said
they were "surprise" medals - they didn't point out that
it was a surprise because one of the disciplines had
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hmm
What happens when an enemy sniper or FOO captures one
of these headsets that so nicely show you where all
your own troops are?
Tim : )
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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 w
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [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.
There are commercial thread-lock adhesives on the
market, but
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 s
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry if I've missed any OCR cock-ups:
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Crooks may use stolen firearms
POLICE fear guns stolen from a gamekeeper's home could
fall into the hands of dangerous criminals.
The firearms
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If I interpreted the news correctly this morning, the
latest piece of Blairrogance to be issued from the top
of the septic tank is to outlaw the currently lawful
activities of the blockaders by making fuel supplying a
'special case' (
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've fed my 9mm guns on Vihtavuori N340 for about 15
years, and I've bought it from umpteen sources - sadly
at least two of which are no longer with us..
Not the cheapest, but always very good, - and it
smells nice.
Tim (just
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wow! I've got one of those...
Does anyone know where I can get some bullet-proof tyres...?
(- oh, and some petrol)
Tim ( looking at his Lada in an entirely new light)
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What's the difference between petrol and paraffin
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have just finished reading a splendid book, Only Human,
by Tom Holt.
In it were these two gems:
"Light is, after all, a bit like freedom; take it away
gradually and people won't notice it isn't there any
more. And if they do
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There are some reasonable bits about pistol shooters in
the Time magazine Olympic preview edition (Sept 11).
Nice article on Ralf Schumann, German rapid fire pistol
shooter, who designed the pistol he uses; pretty colour
picture and no sens
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My local petrol stations are certainly being affected; the cheapest one only
had 2 out of 16 pumps in service yesterday, with massive queues for them.
The other local stations have hiked up their prices from 79 to 86 p/litre.
Funny to hear T
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How about
parliamentary intercourse?
involuntary congress?
statutory sodomy?
bureaucratic buggery?
and it, of course, wasn't between consenting adults, but
under duress, so it would constitute some act of rape:
regulatory rav
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The effective protection of sloping armour is considerably
more than just the effective geometric thickness, due to
the effect of cavitation. As a shot strikes a sloping
plate, the nose is given a "nudge" in the direction
of the slope
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The perceived smell of hydrogen sulphide is disproportionate to its
concentration in air anyway. It is an extremely pungent gas. It is also
rather more toxic than hydrogen cyanide, and you would soon notice if there
were appreciable quantiti
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>By posting on this site you are taking part in a public
debate. If you do not like it, then it may indeed be
appropriate for you to "Stay with the professionals" and
indulge in the Internet equivalent of funny handshakes i
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Forgive the possibly ignorant question, but, as one
who would instinctively load a weapon (ie chamber a
round) when leaving a "safe" environment to go
into a dangerous one (is an Aslav enclosed?), why were
these rifles carried &quo
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>"The Austrian weapon is so robust that you
could drive a four-tonne truck over the rifle and you could
pick it up and fire it. You could never do that with the SA80." <
Run them over with a four-tonne truck, eh? What a go
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Just as a matter of interest, how do you de-prime your Berdan cases?<
I have seen two commercial devices for this purpose:
(1) a spikey thing you stab them with and hoik them out - dodgy on a duff
primer - and potentially a hole in t
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>KIPLING wrote affectionately of the Martini-Henry rifle;
its role in securing Britain's imperial zenith won
national respect. No modern poet is likely to do the
same for the modern Army's SA80, which is roundly mocked
by the men,
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