Mattnall

Just turn it down, if you can do this yourself it'll be a nice little project. Making it thinner in itself will not make it less accurate, the bull barrel is only weight and helps with felt recoil, the accuracy will still be there if it is thinned down. The bore doesn't know how thick the barrel is and I very much doubt you'll get it hot enough with .22lr to affect accuracy of a thinner walled barrel. You don't need the thickness or weight on the front or the expense of a carbon sleeve. Unless you like the look of the thicker barrel, that is.

It is control and control leads to restrictions. We will be restricted to how and when we buy or sell and we will have to ask permission each time. There is the cost involved in time and money as well. To be fair it is not like running a HO club, although it can be run on that basis. Our firearms can get a lot of use and are regularly exchanged or scrapped as they wear out or break. The extra time involved with police variations would be huge in our case and the one-for-one variations would be free adding an extra financial and time burden on the police licensing departments for no return. A permit like the Showmans' Guild or NSRA non-statuary s11 certificate would be a better option if something had to be done and it would just show that the bearer is a bona fide range operator or business. It would be cheaper for the police and require less work from everyone involved from licensing to range operator. It would also mean the holder could continue to operate as they currently do.

But it is not as free as it was. The club now has to apply for a slot when it wants another rifle. When it disposes of one rifle it needs to get the slot re-issued. Before all that the club had to do was buy and dispose of as it saw fit and could take advantage of good deals as it wanted. This allowed clubs to operate easily and as gateway organisations to the sport and it should be encouraged. The FAC was only required it the club wanted firearms other than miniature rifles. We operate a s11(4) range and offer experiences to non-shooters, many of whom become club members either with us or elsewhere after having a positive experience with us. We wouldn't be able to operate as a club as clubs are not allowed a day membership and that is in effect what we would need if the s11(4) wasn't there. The no-commitment nature of the s11(4) process is part of the attraction for our guests and this could be lost if we have to get an FAC as I would think it wouldn't be granted without being part of a HO club. It is a large part of our business and it is worrying that it could be lost - we have had to shut for the best partof the year as it is.

The thin end came when many rifle clubs who had operated successfully for many years under the s11(4) banner were asked if they would like to have a free FAC 'so the police could have knowledge of the firearms out there'. This was meant to be a blanket license to show who had access to the firearms and storage not a list of the firearms possessed. Then it changed to slots which needed to be applied for. No longer was the club free to buy and dispose of firearms as it wanted. Is it still free? How long for?

I don't know the E1 but if it's floated I wouldn't bother with the expense of fluting, just re-profile ( and shorten?) and be done with it.

Float the barrel and thin it down to lighten it. The barrel doesn't know how fat it is and you'll have the lighter rifle of your dreams.

The model with the fixed stock comes as pictured. If it has the collapsing stock it needs the longer barrel. I think the longer barrel might also fit the American market which I believe needs a 16" barrel.

The Walther is the better of the two MP5 models. I don't think they are making them any more but if you can find a Walther you'll not be disappointed.

We have a Walther MP5 with a short barrel and fixed stock. If it had the collapsible stock it would need the longer barrel with the fake moderator to make the legal length. It is a joy to shoot.

Where have you been for the last year? 😉

Always the way. Thanks.

I use GunGuard, part of Hiscox and a BASC trade member. They seem a good company but I haven't had to claim. It is only once you claim that an insurance company proved its worth. I can get a discount if you are interested.

The Turner 1907-style sling is a great sling for CSR and single point use. It's not as easy to get into as some of the more tacticool slings but it works and with practice it will give the stablest of positions possible at the time. It will require practice, as any sling will, and there are many ways to wear/use it. I find it is not so easy to adjust whilst wearing so getting it right before any match is a must. It is very repeatable in how it works you just have to be familiar with it. I will only adjust it if the sling stretches (leather will over time), but I have tried the all-weather biothane ones and didn't like the feel of them so went back to the leather. I have 4 in use and one waiting in the wings 'just in case', the CSR and my precision rifle use the QD stud attachment and my two highpower rifles have the large hook. Either works well.

Working in and on ranges most days of the week I get my lead levels checked when I get my cholesterol checked and have done for many years now since the range limits went to 1000(500)/week or 26000/year. It goes up and down usually as a result of a long stint indoors or out respectively but has always been well below the recommended levels (50μg/dl). A well ventilated and regularly cleaned indoor range is probably why it hasn't been a concern and I guess if you are only worried about your tumbling dust, keeping it in a ventilated area should cause no issues as I guess the lead exposure from that is a lot less than the indoor range.

I've just suggested Excel on the other post. Works for me and if infinitely customisable, you can add just the columns you want.

Have you tried Excel? Other spreadsheets are available.

LEFT-HANDED SAKO .243 'M591' BOLT ACTION SPORTING RIFLE. Low round count and in lovely condition, just not used so need to pass on to another. Bausch & Lomb scope is extra and negotiable. £600 ONO More Pics on request.

Would this be better in the Wanted section? Might get more results.

With my 1:9" I can manage 1000 with 77SMKs but not with any great consistency - I can usually hit three out of the four Fig11s on the 1000 target backer but hit them is all I can realistically hope for, they are all on the backer though🤗. But at 600 they are hard to beat: 24.2gn of R15 loaded to mag length.

1. Wipe it down if it gets wet or dirty on the outside. 2. Shoot it. I don't think you've been doing anything wrong all this time.😎

Just ask for a 6.5mm. Then you can decide on the CM or other 6.5mm when you get it. I hear the 6.5CM is so last year now, 6mm is the new thing.

There maybe other taxes due (duty, VAT). Freighted a 1903-A3 from Az to UK a couple of years ago, ended up costing the owner (who arranged the shipping from the US) over £1000 in charges and storage this end for a couple of days stay in a warehouse at LHR and all the other duties and charges incurred. Shipping was also not far off £1000. Conversely, I had 7 new rifles shipped from an exporter all bundled as one parcel and the total postal cost including shipping across the States from manufacturer to exporter was less than £500 including the duties - it arrived via Parcel Force. If you get trouble with export info from Canada I'll call the club member, he's since moved from Stansted to Prestwick for his job so I rarely see him any more.

We had this exact situation - a club member moved from Canada to England and wanted to bring over his firearms. He got an exporter in Canada and had them shipped straight to him in the UK. His firearms license (this is also an import license for those item authorised to possess or acquire) already had most of them listed by serial number but two (s1 shotgun and another bolt action rifle) weren't listed but he had 'free slots' to acquire them. Parcel Force contacted him when they arrived and wanted to see him and his authority to possess at the local hub before he could pick them up. When he picked them up he informed his FEO and wrote the 2 extra on to the license as 'acquired'. DO NOT use a freight forwarder if you can get away with it - they charge so much more than a regular parcel carrier, and charge you daily fees along with the clearance charge after they arrive in the UK (and they'll mail you a copy of the shipment which will add a couple of days to the charges if you're not lucky). PF for example charge between £8 and £12 for a clearance fee on top of the duty/taxes.

Isn't it just. We're just building an indoor range and have an old TA/RFCA range down the road that's been shut for over a year and is getting impossible to book. Both should be built to the same JSP design but the RFCA one has so little protection that we are supposed to put in that they are two completely different ranges built using the same design template and guidance.

Unfortunately there is no legal definition of a range and no one certifies civilian ranges now anyway. As the expert witnesses said in the court case you can call practically anywhere you want to shoot a range and then it is. H&S might have something to say about it and if you are a danger to the public it can bring unwanted attention to your 'range' and operation but, as in this case, it wasn't the range that he got convicted on.