Alan Clark

I'd soon demand that my local MP (or MSP if I were in Scotland) buy the gun off me for being such a plank and allowing the legislation in. Who'd want to throw a few hundred out of the window. Just read paragraph 29. They want plinking to go away entirely and only allow target shooting at "licensed target shooting clubs", so that a couple of hundred quid per year just to shoot at paper and what about people who live in rural areas who might have a very long drive to a club (or some who might live on islands where it can be a 3 day round trip). Fortunately para 30 seems to stick up for the o

Reading the core principle (Page 7), they've already made their minds up how this is going to work and the consultation is just an attempt to make it look democratic and accountable.

It is at consultation stage, takes a little while to wage through various pages after the link on the BBC site to get to the actual consultation document, http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0041/00410460.pdf I've only read the ministerial forward as I write this, reads very much like the dear minister wants everything to licensed as per SGC & FAC, but doesn't want to ban air guns, yeah right, make something hard enough to own and use and you have banned it in all but name. What would happen if the owners of the estimated 1/2 million air guns (so ~10% of the Scottish population) tu

Here's how it's proofed. Factory makes said moderator or more likely a whole crate full. Sends them to Birmingham Returned from Birmingham to the Factory Put into box Sold. That is how you would get factory fresh proofed, or is that too stupidly simple to be true in this world of red tape.

I use a galvanised steel box and tape the paper target over the front of it.

I can think of a good candidate for the cheapest 4x4 to run........ Fiat Panda 4x4 in diesel form .

In short, yes. What are the rough dimensions of the land, I know how big 30 acres is but it is long and thin or closer to a square. Just to clarify that, if the land was prefectly square it would be 381x381 yards

Yes, they directed us to Aqua Logistics.

There is one in Stockport near the pyramid, in the industrial estate just over the river towards the fire station. Off the top of my head the name is Aqua Logistics, they fill most bottles for <£4 (or at least did last year).

Up until recently, RWS Super H Point in .22 flavour, just bought some AA Diablo Field so I'll be seeing what the rabbits make of them.

Beyond there not being much point using them with PCP, is a lot of PCPs can't take single piece mounts because of things like the pellet mag that sits in the middle of the rail. I briefly looked at a single piece but it was 10cm long and even the front portion of the rail on mine is only 7.5cm long.

I use a Defender 90 with 200 tdi, 20 years old but still good for offing bunnies. I turn the spot lights on the front to the off side so I can see the bunnies out of the driver's window, stop, get air rifle, put rifle through open window and shoot rabbit, all before it decides it doesn't like the sound of diesel engine and bright light and buggers off into its hole.

That sounds like one fun project, and expensive. The galvanising sounds good, a lot of people say doing the bulkhead is a pain because the steel is quite thin in a lot of places and in fairly large unsupported sheets which tend to wrinkle. Not that is stops people getting them dipped. If you are going down that route I'd get them both dipped in de-ruster so any areas of tin worm can be sorted before they go for galving. One thing to be aware of is which type of vehicle to donor engine is coming from. The 200 & 300 tdi when originally fitted to the Defender have the turbo mounted high o

I had thought of that and once pulled it apart and measured it, the air cylinder is a bit too long to fit in a hold-all. It runs the full length of the barrel and then deep into the stock. It makes it a bit of a fiddle to get the two sections apart. I'll give it a try anyway. Edit: I've pulled it apart and dismantled it is 85cm long, I am sure there is a hold-all round here that is bigger than that.

Put me down, I'll be turning up with Matt Hooks. Might not bring my own air rifle, may have to make a couple of phone calls first about carting one half way across England on public transport.