CS: Target-Shooting at 1000 Yards...

2001-02-12 Thread nick
From: nick royall, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I once shot in a match where you were allowed the traditional 2 sighters followed by 10 to count at 1000 yds which were unmarked. The person who won was a match rifle shooter but the runner-up was a novice using a SMLE with mid sight which he had only

CS: Misc-Cutlasses

2001-02-12 Thread pendrous
From: "pendrous", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hye, I was in the RN for a considerable number of years---34 shall we say. Do not remember seeing any during that time, though of course the Officers were generally encouraged to have a sword for ceremonial purposes. Actually--I always thought a

CS: Target-cybershooters competition

2001-02-12 Thread Tom Charnock
From: "Tom Charnock", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Put me down for which ever gets the most votes. My preference order No2, No3 and No1 Guess that the Choice No2 would even allow it to be held at many different clubs across UK (100m ranges pretty common) and results into CS to pick the winner.

CS: Legal-Hungerford suicide by cop

2001-02-12 Thread Tom Charnock
From: "Tom Charnock", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Earl I live NNeast of Hungerford and on the day of Ryans killings there was fast and low military chopper activity with the incoming 2 choppers (about lunch time) coming in from the direction of Cirencester. This would give them a goodish direct

CS: Pol-Positive reply from Bracknell MP

2001-02-12 Thread Richard Loweth
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't JUST vote for him. That really is pointless. Write to him again, when you get your reply, thank him and ask him that as you wish to see such as he back in the House of Commons after May 2001 how you can help him with delivering leaflets or

CS: Target-full auto in Holland

2001-02-12 Thread nick
From: nick royall, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I knowe this has been published before but could someone let me know of a range in Holland or Belgium that accepts visitors to shoot full auto? I had a leaflet for one place but I appear to have lost it. Thanking you, Nick Why me? -- It's not

CS: Crime-Police go to war with Liverpool's young gunmen

2001-02-12 Thread RustyÿBullethole
From: RustyBullethole, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Times 10.2.2001 Police go to war with Liverpool's young gunmen By Russell Jenkins ARMED police are' cracking down on a new breed of teenage gunmen who bring almost daily shootings to the streets of Liverpool. Merseyside Police are

CS: Field-Fishing next

2001-02-12 Thread Mike
From: Mike Grimsdell, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Looks like fishing is the next target for the ban-it brigade. What a surprise. Radio 4 just before 7 this morning had a feature on cruelty to fish from hooks and the problems of line etc tangling with birds and oyther wildlife. How soon before

CS: Pol-Goldilocks and the three gun bans

2001-02-12 Thread Steven Kendrick
Once upon a time there was a girl named Goldilocks. Being young and full of jingoism, she joined the Cadet Force and later the Army and became a nurse, serving with distinction in the Falkland Islands. During her time in the cadets she had become a keen shooter, and upon leaving the Army

CS: Target-full auto in Holland

2001-02-12 Thread James McNair
From: "James McNair", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgium has just changed its laws. It is now not legal to shoot fully automatic weapons , or at least not on a standard licence. As Steve says you can own one on a collectors ticket but not shoot it. Cybershooters website:

CS: Pol-Positive reply from Bracknell MP

2001-02-12 Thread Donald
From: Donald Campbell, [EMAIL PROTECTED] He has tended to be supportive but I was disappointed when in the lead up to the ban he basically said that he was not in favour of a ban but that he would not vote against it as he would likely lose his job in the whips office. Regards

CS: Pol-.50

2001-02-12 Thread Alex Hamilton
From: "Alex Hamilton", [EMAIL PROTECTED] And your point is? If you seriously think that rapid fire competitions caused the demise of pistol shooting then you aren't on the same planet as me. No, Kenneth, I don't think that rapid fire had much to do with it! Ferocious looking

CS: Pol-Positive reply from Bracknell MP

2001-02-12 Thread KPurchase
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Mr Burns, Thank you for your letter e-mail of the 5th February the contents of which I very much endorse. Like you I am concerned that the Government and senior Police Officers are determined to ban virtually all guns and ensure that there

CS: Misc-Great War Shooting

2001-02-12 Thread Norman
From: Norman Bassett, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was remembering something told me from the Great War - they were firing tracer from a Lewis gun and watching the bullets hitting each other! Ammunition quality varied a bit in the Great War. Regards Norman Bassett drakenfels.org

CS: Pol-More Anti-Gun Lies Refuted

2001-02-12 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?21648 --snip-- "Currently, only a small minority of adult American women own a

CS: Misc-UKAEA Police

2001-02-12 Thread Richard Loweth
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority Police still exist? These were another force that was armed as a matter of course as well. -- I'm pretty sure they do. Steve. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin:

CS: Target-cybershooters competition

2001-02-12 Thread Kenneth
From: Kenneth Wyatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why do you say "anyone care" shooting is my over-riding interest in life( I am NOT alone)Me and my friends actually DO IT whilst some of you, sad "Billy no-mates" talk about it. Whatever comp you suggest I will get a team, or person to compete. We

CS: Pol-Emigrate!

2001-02-12 Thread Derek Bernard
From: "Derek Bernard", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well Switzerland apparently is going to have a referendum on joining the EU sometime this year. I think learning German might be the better way to go if they do! Steve. Already held! Charlotte, my wife, is Swiss and returned her referendum

CS: Pol-Positive reply from Bracknell MP

2001-02-12 Thread jim.craig
From: "jim.craig", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good for Andrew MacKay MP! I wonder if he is a member of any Parliamentary group with similar attitudes and if so who they might be? A cross-party grouping of this type would be well worthy of support and if MPs (particularly in marginal seats )