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Every day I get better and better at 40 yards

Oh so glad to hear from you Erwan, it’s been a long time . I keep looking at french houses. I found the people on the west coast so kind and friendly, not so Paris or the Med, I cannot wait to come again in my Rapido , but I need a permit to carry , I’ll bring you some lead, but french flint...

53 born in 1943 sat here most of day with 177 pcp, this big rat is so fast, but I’ll get him. Ha ha if I used BP my final days would be probably in prison. This is England the old country. You have to make the best of things . And no no rat hunting with bow and arrow allowed either It can...

Lovely old farts

I went for blond from a bottle, it seemed a good idea to get married, 55 years later I suppose I chose wisely, but don’t they now drone on.

I did something like that but broke an old 11/16” bsf thread tap , turning 28 bore shotgun barrels into muzzle loading barrels to fit my .36 rifle stock . Ordered a modern tap 9 sep delivery

How many of you can play the banjo

90 well done , that’s 9 years away for me. Yup 81 last 22 March Body starting to fall apart , cancer under control with tablets and infusion, tooth fillings falling out, toes hurt, right leg feels a bit numb, but still got hair not white yet The list of jobs around the place get longer...

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Hello seems you know your stuff. I won some 28b shotgun barrels at Holts uk auction. £265, expensive but rare find. As new and unchambered ?? good as chopper lump barrels , no maker or proof . They are very light at 2.7lbs , my .36 double rifle barrels are 7 lbs. Rather make a whole new...

Not all is lost , I use 24lb hoyt limbs fine for 40 yards , also have 34 & 48lb limbs but never use them . 48 lbs. No thanks Look up compound bow shooting , you hook up your wrist trigger to the string , so you pull the string back with your wrist strap, and when ready pull the trigger. I...

Come on Smokey get fit , I am 81 with cancer , but I just did archery practice at 40 yards. 60 arrows did me in a bit as not done it for three weeks. I shoot arrows most mornings over morning coffee , and don’t smoke or like next door you won’t make 64 brown bread !!!! !!! We are all with...

Yes around 8 lbs is just nice. African hunting expect 12lbs for a decent .5 double. The rich in Scotland had a guy to carry his rifle. This one was made in Aberdeen, •577, 36” barrel 1830 percussion coming in at 12 lbs, obviously for stag hunting in the hills . Best to carry them over your...

Well done I am 81, they are all that age at our little sailing club. Just a number theses days. I am not into carbines but collecting an auction win 3 Sep. It has a 23” barrel .530 bore 1840 German mountain rifle , hope I chose wisely. Kindest love from far across the pond. Sailed it once...

Ps you might ask about the house, it was relatively cheap 5 years ago as it’s out in the wilds of South Cerney , which was a small war time airfield , it’s just offices now. The air ministry built one of these for the commander of each little airfield and there was hundreds of them ...

Banjos horns and things, do you know what a Volvo lap lander is, well most are full of rust , very rare , but a four wheel drive built for off road for the Hungarian army ,1982 ,and built there too , even the axels are off a jeep USA And for me hunting truck. !!!!!! 1968 1.8 Volvo petrol...

Thinking is a repro powder horn, beautiful as they are , an unmentionable. I don’t mind what it is as long as it goes “BANG” plenty of smoke and a glorious smell . Then we have clothes and hand made leather bags, and Pedrosoli , our Italian friends. i am 81 and not yet an unmentionable ha ha...

But if it made you happy we are all happy. And if it’s interesting we are most happy to read it , unmentionables, banjo”s and bows an arrows, both from Africa , they are all history , but not too much of it . Ha ha love from London. Well the West Country today

Heavy rain at my sons uk Cirencester Holts were selling off unsold auction items and they wanted £260 for an almost finished 28g pair of chopper lump shotgun barrels Nice bores but un-chambered 3 days later they are mine. Hope to make them into. Double muzzle loader Bit too thin to...