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    You'd be running to the loo faster than Daly Thompson if you drank that now.
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    light coloured eggs I think. The colours shades seem to vary across the year. I used to leave them in their L shaped 40 foot by 10 foot run but it is getting a bit chicken sick, so I let them out at weekends and Spring/Summer evenings. I live in a semi in the sticks. Surrounded by countryside but all the houses are stuck together or farm building conversions. Mrs Nextdoor has bird feeders that empty in the wind, although her garden is behind a building, they found it once and now there's no keeping them out. Little blighters... Mrs Nextdoor goes mental. You'd think that being chased out
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    Thanks MoChara, yours are really similar. The two of mine do have heads and necks like Rhode Island Reds. I was given these by a friend who tries to keep his flock pure, but seems to have bertie bassetts just like mine to me. I generally keep my hens till they cark it from natural causes. These are the oldest since 'Evil Bantam' fell out of the tree in the night. Out of five hens I average 4 eggs most days.
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    I got mine on ebay. It was about £11 inc carriage and is a genuine. I just followed the link to Game and Country and had a bit of a look round. I laughed my socks off at this... Is it for real?? http://www.gameandcountry.co.uk/Deceptor+Rabbit+Decoy+VC-314265/0_CAAA135_CAAA317/PRAB318.htm it even looks like it is coming out of a top hat
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    Looks like a common issue. It is mentioned in a few forums but only the link below gives a proper procedure http://www.roadtestreports.co.uk/qanda/64652/
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    A chap at my local club has one in 22. He went from a HW97 as, like you, it was getting a bit heavy for him. He is really pleased with his HW57 and I must say it is very pointable and good to handle. He has intermittent problems with his loading port and has learned to live with it. He did take the rifle back initially. I am surprised that Weihrauch being a known good engineering firm, haven't sorted this once and for all. Maybe it is a consequence of the design. Wasn't the pop up port pioneered by BSA with the Merlin? I think this was their only ever model to feature it though.
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    Don't think it has scaley leg. Always struggle to catch these and it will be worse after a dose of vaseline - for the legs, before anyone clever starts. Thanks for the ID My hens lay in a hut, feed in a hut. Then roost in a tree above.
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    The feet are no different to my Rhode Islands. I have two Speckled Maran cockerels that are at the territorial stage. I have to show them who's boss. But I have two of these sandy hens, they are more intelligent than all the others and I have never worked out what they are.
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    Ok guys, what variety is this? I have two of the blighters, these are the ones that escape.
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    It is still available but Hull Cartridge choose not to import it. http://www.sportsmanguncentre.co.uk/catalogsearch/result/?q=hw85 You can get it from Sportsman Gun Centre. but I think the current version is a HW95 but with open sights. Didn't the original have a raised sight rail? What is so special about Hull Cartridge? I know they are the official importer but...
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    Or is it a lot of engineering talent creating a beastie that no one will buy. Seemed a good idea but looks a bit odd. Maybe it was more for the export market http://www.air-arms.co.uk/products/high-power/s510-tc-xtra
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    In my local WH Smith, Air Gunner or Airgun World (same publisher/same mag different cover?) are sold as a buy one, get one free deal with the second being the last edition. Airgun Shooter seems to have the edge, from a balance of subjects, even though many of the writers are familiar. Looking through the old mags, the hunting articles are still relevant.
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    I think they devalued themselves by saying every gun was good. So you couldn't differentiate between a £100 plinker and a £400 masterpiece. The technical articles in the modern ones have really come on and the pictures are clear, not taken at the bottom of the sea like in the early mags.
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    My big clear out at home has stalled a bit as I have all these magazines. Spread across 20 years. As I sort them, I have digressed into reading them, you know how it goes.... Anyway. There are big inconsistencies with the quality of these things. I have decided that the modern Airgun Shooter is probably the best overall magazine. The quality and accuracies of articles and balance of spring, PCP, hunting etc. But a magazine is only as good as its writers. I think Ian Barnett is probably a close equivalent to the late, great John Darling. Ian's articles are well written and incorporate
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    Or you can fit this and then have a wider choice of silencers. Check it will go over the foresight grooves though.
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    Good choice. You won't regret it.
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    You are welcome. I am having a big clear out at present and because old magazines don't seem to be worth anything, I am grouping them together, in subject matter. So you may see them on ebay or here. Supposed to be sorting them but I seem to be reading them instead
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    While we are on the topic of HW77, here is an article from an airgun mag
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