CS: Misc-Who were these authors - "Artifex" and "Opifex" ??

2000-06-26 Thread Tgarth
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In 1907 a book was published in London, dealing with the decline of the English - specifically Birmingham - gun trade, and it was entitled "The Causes of Decline in a British Industry". The authors did not publish over their actual names but as "Artifex" and "Opifex"

CS: Target-Wanted - info on in-the-ear hearing protection

2000-05-30 Thread Tgarth
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can anyone give me names, tel nos or websites for UK companies offering good, in-the-ear (i.e. not muffs or bins) hearing protection systems (electronic or passive) for shooting? All advice gratefully recieved. Colin ---[Cybershooters contacts] Edi

CS: Field-BASC leadership

2000-05-24 Thread Tgarth
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is certainly no time for any sector of the shooting world to be indulging in internecine battles, let alone doing it so publicly; and the one or more special general meetings necessary will involve a waste of BASC funds that are desperately needed for far better cau

CS: Field-BASC Chief Executive confidence vote

2000-05-20 Thread Tgarth
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone following this wretched business should read the lead letter in the current (18 May) issue of Shooting Times. (It's too long for me to key it in here, and my scanner is bust!) In it, Charles Nodder, formerly Director of Public Affairs at the old BFSS and then with