Mike Hill
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215 grain round nose. Norma used to make them but now only Woodleigh does and their factory burned down. 180 grainers with a flat base would also be ok. This Rifle has Whitworth rifling and been fed a diet of cordite charged rounds. Cordite burns hot and Whitworth rifling has sharper lands so the throat is slightly eroded. Flat based bullets will obturate into the rifling a little bit,boat tails allow some of the gas to wash around the projectile and buffet it,not great for accuracy.
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I have put my prices for domestic up alot as well as charging for quotes outside of where I want to work. No one has taken me up on the "£100 refundable at sale " condition of an out of town quote. Repeat customers I will quote for out of town but not new ones. Easy to waste 2.5 hours or more. The real money is in commercial here.
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In theory that would work. But to drop the impact 12" would reduce the velocity enough for it to be inhumane and probably below the required velocity for the bullets to expand significantly. Also accuracy could be total pants. The 174grn service bullets are 30% lighter than what this Rifle was ment for.
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Yeah that's the thing with Co2. If you change your mind about continuing shooting 5 shots into a canister,you waste the whole thing anyhow. I had a Co2 revolver as a kid,it always ran out/ was out of gas when I wanted to use it. Anyhoo here is my Lee Speed in 303 brit,bore is a bit shabby and shooting ammo made for Browning Aircraft MG's isn't the best but here is 8 shot offhand at 100m. I need to fi d some heavier bullets because it shoots awfully high.
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Pikeys drive nice wagons because it adds a air of credibility. If your chasing top dollar you have to look like you are making it too. Peoples perception of value is weird. If I rolled up with four blokes,did a big section fell and biffed it all into a skip in a day for £5K+vat the likelihood of the customer moaning would be high. If I drop the Valtra off the night before,turn up in the mog,use the crane driver to unhook and I snedd for 20 minutes before chipping it all into the skip,load the wood on top and call the skip company for an early Finnish I haven't had anyone moan when they see all that kit. Even though it cost me less than hiring three subbies for the day.
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It is a hard question to answer but here is what worked for me. The big trees and gardens where I work are in the posh areas,the rest of the work was all over the place. I would take the flash motor to the posh places and a little run about everywhere else.Most of the posh gaffs I would park right in front of the house,the everyday places on the road so they wouldn't see the quoting car anyhow.
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As unpopular as this might sound... If we as Arborists all drove nicer wagons,I think the public would take us more seriously thus we could charge more.
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I'm not. I was born in Lincoln New Zealand
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Time for a yarn. I arrived in Norway with an 084 and 10kg of protein powder. I had to declare the saw and pay duty since I bought it for the company. Took the red lane and to the custom agents delight was a foreigner. They swabbed the protein powder but the machine wouldn't work. So they punctured a bag and offered it to the drug dog who gulped it down I nearly fell over laughing as the nog dog handler went ballistic over his dog eating choccy protein powder. Still got the saw.
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I have flown with saws both new and used plenty of times. Drain tanks,protect bucking spikes,check in as normal luggage. End of.
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America win the "Space Race" after something is won,why do it again? Anyhow America was busy doing advanced landscaping in Vietnam at the time which cost huge amounts of money.
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Decent Ash in a carpark. Chip down the bank,client keeps the wood. All done in 4 hours including lunch.
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It's originally an Ambulance box from a Gelandervagon. Made by Zeppelin,it's a beautiful peice of German construction quite literally made to survive a Nuclear war. I eat lunch in it.
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Gave these two a clean, doing a bit of work on the Mog for the winter.
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I am not sure what valve block you have,on mine you can remove the adjuster knob,then get a spanner on the end of the adjuster barrel and unscrew it. From memory there is a O ring and then the flow rate plunger just comes out,there might be a spring on the end of that I think? Anyhow it sounds like your adjuster is wide open so have a look into the cause of that. On the valve block end of the plunger is a poppet ,it should be shut when its removed. Its been ages since I had trouble with mine. If you get stuck just open a Haynes Land Rover Service manual and say "Khris,Khris,Khris"three times whilst holding a AF spanner in each had. He will appear like magic from your toolbox in a puff of Purple smoke. Be warned though,the only way to get him back into your toolbox is to turn every motorised object you own upside down for one lunar cycle.
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Just make sure the knob is actually turning the spindle on the valve block. Take it off and try turning the spindle with pliers
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At your age the ship has sailed unfortunately. Unless you can get sponsored directly and thats pretty hard to do, unless you have a special skill set that precludes locals into the role. Canadians used to get sponsored to run Swing Yarders when they first came out in NZ for example.
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No that's a wives tale about the blanket. Same as that chainsaw trousers stop .22 LR. It takes trousers folded x5 to stop a .22
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Probably. +P 45 ACP isn't very hot. Given that a regular .45 Acp travels at the speed of a .177 Air Rifle pellet fired from a BSA Meteor.
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Johnson D is very close,he got the caliber right. This was originally chambered in .455 Webley but that the cylinder shaved to accept moon clips in 45 ACP. https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/this-old-gun-smith-wesson-455-hand-ejector/
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Hard question to answer. 60 round series with a 606 point possible ,national ranked shooters would be in the high 580s. I didn't pay much attention to what the averages were,shooting is mostly mental so you don't look down the board. Most shots into a 2cm bullseye at 25m.
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25m/50m are standard distances
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Trip to the range,home cast powder coated projectiles a mate cast. Shame pistols are so hard to access for Brits,this one was bought by the UK government from the states during the first World war.
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" You can see my house from here" * photo approved for general release by the government *
