Brillo

I’ve done it with both. Never observed a difference.

2 hours ago, Bob57 said:

Strange, I sent a parcel at the post office a few years ago which was was 1504 long and the lady behind the counter said sorry it's 1500 max😕 so I stood it on end and pushed down on it and said there you go now its 1498mm😀, to her reply "oh well what's a few mm amongst friends"as she took it in.

Odd indeed. When I went the Royal Mail website, because of the item’s size/wt, it automatically redirected me to ParcelForce, which then stipulated that the item had to be below 600 mm (or 500, I can’t remember).

Edit,

Now, there is some bizarre going on with Royal Mail. Due to the information in Bob57s post I decided to send a self same virtual parcel via the Royal Mail App and it accepted all the dimensions I entered. OK, it would’ve been considerably more expensive but at the tracking would’ve been easy for the buyer. Hermes tracking is abysmal in my opinion.

The problem with using the Post Office or Parcel Force is the size limit. I need to send and item that’s 90 cm long so that rules them out.

Just a quick funny about DPD.......

I ordered a new Bratton Sound firearms cabinet, one of the monsters they do for muzzle loading rifles.

On the day of delivery, I answered a knock on the door and there stood the DPD driver asking me where I wanted my parcel put as it was a bit big. The door to the van was already open. I told him I’d come out and give him some help carrying it in.

”That’s ok, I’ll manage” he said.

Now the driver was a big bloke but I nearly fell over when he picked the cabinet up off the floor of the van, carried it across my driveway, climbed up two steps and placed it gently in my hall. He then told me they had use a FLT to load the cabinet into the van.

For those who don’t know how big or heavy these cabinets are, it is taller than my petite wife and it took three of us to get it up my stairs and into the room I located it in.

I used to use Hermes every time until a delivery of Lapua cases went almost pear shaped. They left a text message to say it had been delivered but no sign of it. After checking with all my neighbours I saw it on my doorstep, out of view from the house, but clear to anyone approaching the house.

Stopped using them for a while until I received other deliveries from eBay sellers that were trouble free. I recently sent an item to a guy on here via Hermes and it was easy peasy compared to trying to use RM or Parcelforce.

I am still waiting for a parcel from Germany through DPD after months so not impressed with them.

UPS have been very good through the lockdown and deliveries from Yodel have been good but I’ve not tried sending through them.

Pm’d You.

18 hours ago, saddler said:

Spent a month in Indonesia about 10 years ago and visited all sorts of workshops, etc.

I'd not trust most of the raw materials I've seen used there to catch fire if first doused with petrol - plus even the site photos show a few obvious marks and blemishes in the wood & varnish. It has the look of something that will end up banana shaped due to not being properly seasoned, etc.
The golden rule/mantra in Indonesia is CHEAP =  the bamboo dining tables and 8 chair sets that retail here for several hundred quid are sold there for under $20 a set

I seem to remember a UK firm making very nice L96 style stocks in any action footprint you want - Staffordshire Synthetic Stocks - plus compatible with AICS magazines, etc.

 

Thanks for the info. It was just curiosity because a already have an AICS stock.

On 6/3/2020 at 6:43 AM, Elwood said:

I like that.

+1. Out of curiosity, why would they not be suitable for, say, a Remington clone action if properly bedded?

17 hours ago, Re-Pete said:

Private Marker has a point.................I planned to book two hours for myself and my partner, but it seems we'd not be allowed to both occupy the firing point at the same time and shoot in turn as we have in the past.

I can't see where this would contravene any of the "regulations" currently in force regarding social distancing, and yes, it does seem as though we're deemed irresponsible by default.

Pete

I have several friends and team mates going down this weekend, so wait to see how it works for them. It is strange how they won’t allow shooters to take in turns on the firing point. I can rationalise all the other rules they have in place but that one puzzles me. 

13 minutes ago, Re-Pete said:

As an aside, if I caught this disease, at my age, I am very aware that it could be pretty much game over.

So you betcha, I wouldn't be taking any chances.

Pete

Me too

7 hours ago, Popsbengo said:

That's the 'nuclear option'.  I'm not sure advocating a journey back to the 1990's is a real option for most people.  😀

The best protection is education and application of sensible on-line behaviours.

There's always been scammers, I was duped in 1968 by an ad in 'Wireless World' - I ordered a HAC single pentode HF receiver  - the Postal Order was cashed (I presume) and the kit never materialised - I later found out this was not an uncommon experience.   Lesson learned before I was a teenager.

1990s? Trust me, it’s more like the 50s😀😀

1 hour ago, Popsbengo said:

Fully agree.  I have every sympathy with victims of scams but there's plenty of things we can all do as a matter of course to avoid being scammed.

My in-laws have the best idea; no internet, no computer of any kind, so no internet banking, email, chat forums or anything. They possess a simple 2G phone for emergencies. 

Visiting them is like stepping back in time. They don’t even know what catch up TV is. But they are pretty immune from the scamming experienced on here.

I must admit to being baffled as to why they’ve chosen this route. It would have made more sense if they’d just opened up all ranges with every other target in use.

Social distancing would be achieved much better than a row of electronic targets.

Where is that Trigger? It can’t be Kingsbury surely?

I here that Silverstone is reopening on 2nd June.

1 hour ago, SMLE said:

I recommend a read of the Cabinet Office strategy document on the .gov.uk web site. I doubt many people will bother including media pundits and tv hosts with opinion.

It seems a logical and well formulated approach to me given the circumstances.

I think what Joe Public want, and possibly those like Piers Morgan want, is a very descriptive set of rules, where you don’t have to worry about such troubling and disturbing things as effing thinking it through yourself and making an effing decision!

I read it as soon as I could find it. Unfortunately, Boris made his announcement before the document was completed, let alone published.

That is a fact, not conjecture, and I find it strange that he did that.

1 hour ago, SMLE said:

I recommend a read of the Cabinet Office strategy document on the .gov.uk web site. I doubt many people will bother including media pundits and tv hosts with opinion.

It seems a logical and well formulated approach to me given the circumstances.

I think what Joe Public want, and possibly those like Piers Morgan want, is a very descriptive set of rules, where you don’t have to worry about such troubling and disturbing things as effing thinking it through yourself and making an effing decision!

Yikes, I listened to Piers (Screech) Morgan the following morning and was nothing short of painful. He is so full of his own opinions that he can’t see anything other than himself.

He may be correct in one or two things but I can’t stand his voice anymore. 

When he yelled that we (the country) had allowed 18 million people to fly into the UK since lockdown I had to switch the TV off. He just throws numbers in the air and expects us to accept it.

On 5/11/2020 at 9:21 AM, Popsbengo said:

The 'advice' is you can play golf etc with members of your own household.  The new advice is as clear as mud.  I don't think many target shooting venues can be run with only members of the same household only.

I'm not expecting a return to target shooting anytime soon

I watched the parliament debate yesterday afternoon followed by programs on different channels, which discussed the new ‘guidelines’. The disparate interpretations was truly staggering and it demonstrated that this elusive quality called common sense cannot be relied on.

Common sense says it should be easy to maintain social distancing with shooting but will it? I doubt it, so I’m going to patiently wait until it’s safe to do without depending on someone else’s common sense.

On 5/10/2020 at 10:39 PM, One on top of two said:

This is the bigger problem, the same will happen here .

people need to just chill the  F out  And not rush into something that we’re all no doubt going to regret 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52604676

Oh so true..

Thanks for the heads up.

3 hours ago, saddler said:

….you might need to get your eyes tested - I've dated better looking women than her, she's an Alaska 6 at best - a UK 9 pinter 
Words alone cannot describe her beauty, but numbers can = 3/10

I wouldn’t even score her that high. I was gobsmacked when he first appeared with her considering the beauties he’d been out with before.

14 hours ago, No i deer said:

I won't John I'm just trying to be optimistic 👍🤙

I think we need more than optimism. Organising the Europeans must be extremely difficult at best. Apart from booking the range and markers the entry forms must go out in time for every competitor to organise transportation and accommodation etc.

September opening is an optimistic guess and i can’t imagine the GBFCA organising the Europeans if there is a likely hood of cancelling. Just think what that would entail.

The other thing to take into account is how rusty we all are. I’m definitely not at the standard I was this time last year.

3 hours ago, KABOOM said:

Do you gents bother to clean primer pockets? To date I don't bother, the cleaning I do is done while in the tumbler. I have read some on this topic and the general rule is either  yes it matters for best results or don't bother it wastes time and energy.

What is primer pocket cleaning? 😁

On 4/23/2020 at 11:19 AM, BlueBoy69 said:

QuickLOAD should come with both Quick Target and Quick Target Unlimited. I've only pasted in Quick Target results as that was what Jon B said he was using?

I can do the same with Quick Target Unlimited if he wants, but his problem was with Quick Target, so there wouldn't seem much point in doing so?

Also Quick Target Unlimited has a crazy amount of data you can pump in. Not as bad as some 6-DOF (degrees of freedom) models I've used as it's only 3-DOF, but still a lot of data. I'd advise someone just starting out to use Quick Target first, unless they are more technically minded.

Yes, the software package includes both QuickTarget (QT) and QT Unlimited. I’m not sure what is unlimited about the Unlimited version though.

When I first installed Quickload, when V3.8 came out. I first used the QT Unlimited because I assumed the other was restricted in some way, so why install it?

Later, out of curiosity, I tried out the standard one and I found it less intuitive than the Unlimited. The only weird thing about Unlimited is you need to set the wind speed in both dialogue boxes for the data to be recognised.

2 hours ago, BlueBoy69 said:

I've tested this myself by setting the zero range as 100 yards, the max to 600 yards and the output format to imperial (see below).

Upon pressing the 'Apply & Calculate' button, the trajectory data table output data is in imperial units.

If I set the output format to metric, leaving the input as before, the same table comes out as metric.

So I guess my question is, are you setting the output format to correct units, or am I misunderstanding your problem?

I use QT Unlimited and there are two dialogue boxes that differ from BlueBoy’s.

The table setup window allows input of range increments and maximum distance. The sight-in set up window allows input of gun data, target set up and projectile properties such as G7 data.

The output window is the same as above. The big difference with the target setup is you specify imperial or metric data, not both.

The QT Unlimited is more intuitive and it comes with the Quickload package.