Re-Pete

I'd have thought the expiry date of an FAC is burnt so deeply into the brain of a legal FAC holder that it would transcend any distractions such as holidays, sickness, or "being away when the reminder letter came"............. I know mine is. Pete

Slightly off topic, but I got a spare firing pin assy for a Tikka M595 from Edgar Bros., through a local RFD....£50, came assembled with spring etc. ready to drop in. Pete

Last autumn, Hampshire sent out my renewal reminder 16 weeks before expiry date, and indicated that if they did not receive my application at least eight weeks before expiry date, and as a result were unable to process it in time, I will need to lodge firearms etc. with an RFD. So it SOUNDS that as long as they receive your application at least eight weeks before expiry date, you'll be OK..........they don't actually spell it out, though. Pete

OK, just found the info....... Pete

Their site's a bit vague.......does it need to be linked to a phone or a tablet? Wired or wireless? Pete

That makes no difference.......I just logged in twice, with the remember me box ticked. The first time, I got straight in no problem. Then I logged out, restarted the computer, logged back in and I got the error message.............weird. I guess it could be something my end, but it always used to be fine, and I haven't changed anything. (wittingly, that is....) Ah bien.. Pete

Each time I sign in, I get the "oops" message, and have to sign in again, then it lets me in. Bit of a pain, really......any ideas? Re-Pete

I used two small dollops of Loctite super glue (away from the holes) on my 6.5x47, and just squinched the 4 bolts up finger tight with a small screwdriver. Pete

I already had the Pro-Shot pointy 22 jag that came with the one (and only) bag of Pro-Shot patches that I bought........ Pete

Make your own cleaning patches for a fraction of the cost of the commercial types. 1" wad punch with the top cut off so it would fit between the jaws of my vice, a roll of 4x2 from Kranks, and a 4" square bit of 3mm alluminium. I won't insult your intelligence by going into details of how to use the punch..............suffice it to say I've made hundreds of these patches, and the one size fits 223 singly, double up for 6mm and 6.5mm. Pete

Shades of Roger Rabbit......but you forgot to paint the faces on, and the stetsons.... Pete

Who'd have thought that a strip of plastic a few thou thick is all that locks the magazine into a 595........luckily, I also have a British made aftermarket aluminium bottom-metal...... Pete

I've just measured my Sightron 8-32 x 56 hood, and it's M62 x 0.75, so there's a slim chance that a Sightron hood will fit your IOR. Pete

I've remembered a place where I bought odd-sized threaded filters for experimental laser stuff back in the day. Apparently, they still make filters & hoods to measure.....see here: https://www.srb-photographic.co.uk/special-manufacture-1000-5366-p.asp Might be worth a call....or, you could try emailing IOR direct here: https://www.ior.ro/contact/ The form is in Romanian, but they all speak English. You never know, make the right noises and there could be a freebie........ Pete

They were right about the threads.....you can get hoods in every thread size but. For what it's worth, I have the IOR 6-24 x 50 (the fat tacticool version that uses 35mm rings). I just measured it with a Mitutoyo and a thread gauge, and the thread size is 54 x 0.75. Pete

Try giving Opticswarehouse a call.........they'll be able to tell you the thread size and may even be able to sell you one. Pete

Is there a way to stop Edge from loading automatically when starting up a laptop running Windows 10 Home edition? (I use Firefox) It's slowing everything down. Pete

+1 for Burris... Pete

So you can turn up to shoot as a member of an affiliated club, discover that for some reason or other your rifle has lost zero, and then not be able to use the zero range? I bet that would go down well if you'd just driven 100mls to get there.......... Pete

nCognitos said: "I used to book range time at Bisley through my club and shoot on my own, but I did have an SCC. If I didn't have an SCC then I would need to have been under Club RCO supervision. I'm not sure if you can still do that. I think the rules changed a while back. Pete

Individual full members of the NRA, with a valid SCC, can book a target and shoot solo at Bisley if they wish........I'm one of them. AFAIK, members of affiliated clubs can only shoot if the booking is made by an official of their club, rather than any individual member, and there would need to be more than one member present for it to qualify as a club booking. Then again, I may be wrong... Pete

Wait until you see their caterpillars....... Pete

PM sent. Pete

I've read bits of this story over the last couple of years, but I'm not completely clear on what happened.....am I correct in thinking that the construction went ahead despite no formal planning permission being granted? Pete

I'd like to know how you'd measure a 2 thou jump...........you're shoving a curved taper into a hole, and with a copper jacketed bullet, you'd need a temperature controlled environment to ensure that all the bullets had precisely the same profile when seating them. That's assuming that the bullet manufacturing process itself has zero tolerance, and that there's not an atom of carbon or copper or airborne dust in the throat... And then there's the brass.......... But I could be wrong Pete