CS: Crime-Getting the guns off the street!!

2001-02-19 Thread Tim Jeffreys
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED] A police source said they found "enough weapons to start a war" at the semi-detached cottage I seem to recall that some rather large dust-up in 1914 was largely started by a young chap with one pistol... Cybersh

CS: Legal-Mercy for boy who cut bullies

2000-12-14 Thread Tim Jeffreys
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED] The term we use is 'barrack room lawyer'. Someone who thinks he knows it all, but can't put it into practise. But does that make them wrong? If they have the luxury of being able to sift through law as it was written and find the origin

CS: Misc-drugs

2000-11-30 Thread Tim Jeffreys
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED] . One thing I do want to say here is that gun crime may have not been a problem pre-1920, but heroin abuse was, why was it banned in the first place? Why did the Chinese go to war to stop it being imported? If I recall my agricultural and

CS: Pol-Unity

2000-11-30 Thread Tim Jeffreys
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good thread. Any presentation of ideas, commercial, academic or otherwise, loses its impact by rambling into details; Statements of common objectives should be short and punchy, and instantly understandable. If those objectives are, f

CS: Target-.308 Win Target Rifle Proof

2000-11-29 Thread Tim Jeffreys
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED] The following is the text from a proof house document published in the latest NRA Journal. It may have relevence to some list members. Also accompanying it in the Journal are the CIP drawings. (- it's not of much interest to me personally,

CS: Pol-clarissa dickson-wright

2000-11-28 Thread Tim Jeffreys
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I saw that programme; most interesting: When asked why she had not allowed the antis a word in at the hare coursing, the producer said they had planned to, but some of the protesters had started shouting "one fat lady dead, one to go&q

CS: Misc-Police Corruption

2000-11-24 Thread Tim Jeffreys
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ah, there we go, we can have a Christmas Cybershooters' safari, lead by IG as the Professional Hunter, with his advice for the most suitable gun and load; the selected game being: drug dealer; crackhead; armed robber; lethal-joyrider; h

CS: Misc-Police Corruption

2000-11-23 Thread Tim Jeffreys
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh, the good old days. When men could go shooting whilst high as a kite on opium, get pissed, carry a flick knife and screw a bird without being bankrupted by the government, then have a fight on the way home. All in the same day as well. S

CS: Pol-Mohammed Al Fayed

2000-11-22 Thread Tim Jeffreys
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mohamed al Fayed put up this offer earlier this year, holding a similar level of respect for most ministers, shadow ministers and senior MPs, to that held by shooters, hunting folk, truckers and anybody else who has been alienated by HMG.

CS: Pol-Animal rights activists get upset, for a change

2000-11-22 Thread Tim Jeffreys
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are some good hunting cartoons around already, particularly an old Donegan: A large mounted stag's head hangs over a fire place. In front stand two gentlemen in evening dress, holding drinks. The stag has a great toothy grin on its face a

CS: Crime-Homeopath's killer may have psychic grudge

2000-11-21 Thread Tim Jeffreys
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED] This incident rather invites the comment: - the victim couldn't have been all that psychic then Tim Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

CS: Misc-police corruption

2000-11-21 Thread Tim Jeffreys
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anyone know any person who has justifiably had a cert revoked? I wager that no one will admit it here! (as it seems the overiding view is that anyone should be able to carry anything they want at any time and at any place.) It would be a

CS: Pol-Animal rights activists get upset, for a change

2000-11-20 Thread Tim Jeffreys
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED] "You have to question the Queen's moral judgement when she is seen to be enjoying killing innocent creatures." -- What's that word for people who see human characteristics in animals? To answer you question, the first word that come

CS: Misc-Police Corruption

2000-11-20 Thread Tim Jeffreys
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED] As for examples of iffy FAC holders, a club I belong to chucked one out some years back: - not a very responsible individual, who brought some unsavoury friends in on a few occasions and left large numbers of "inaccurately placed holes&qu

CS: Pol-innocent animals

2000-11-20 Thread Tim Jeffreys
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED] There was a monkey from a shipwreck that was hanged in Sunderland in the 1790's for being a Frenchman. Perhaps that was an innocent animal. That was Hartlepool. It was apparently thought to be a spy and tried, its gibberings being assumed to

CS: Pol-The Gun Control Network

2000-11-20 Thread Tim Jeffreys
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED] These MPs deserve a favour from us - they deserve to be chucked out and into the real world where people have to work for a living. I voted for the "Anyone but David Mellor" Party in Putney last time and was delighted when he was ig

CS: Misc-Police Corruption

2000-11-20 Thread Tim Jeffreys
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I also have trouble with the concept of "I trust you with this but not that" as steve experienced with variations for collecting. In my case I had a sec.1 shotgun that I was prohibited from using for clay pigeon shooting! I full

Crime-cameras and others

2000-11-17 Thread Tim Jeffreys
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED] How do you spot these people? One way, they use cliches like " If you're doing nothing wrong you have nothing to worry about." These same people presumably would have told Steven Waldorff not to worry about those annoying little bit

CS: Crime-armed police raid wrong house

2000-11-11 Thread Tim Jeffreys
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED] A Scotland Yard spokesman confirmed that armed officers have raided the couple's house in search of a gunman who was threatening to kill himself. Hmm.. man threatens to kill himself - So the objective of raiding the house with ar

CS: Field-robotic deer

2000-11-10 Thread Tim Jeffreys
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I found this quite funny in this week's Time magazine: Tim. Steve Lopez's America Michigan Bambi's Got a Little Secret Poachers may find this venison tough

CS: Target-Artists Rifles

2000-11-02 Thread Tim Jeffreys
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED] A few years ago I donated a trophy box that I had acquired from an antiques fair to the Artists Rifles Club for their display cabinets. It was a small walnut box, approx. 5" x 7", with a blue baize lining, which probably originally c

CS: Field-how to deal with roadkill

2000-11-02 Thread Tim Jeffreys
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had a rather unfortunate incident with a fox when on my way to my first day at a new pistol club ten years ago. I was driving my Hillman Minx (sixties classic car - braking distance of a pocket battleship) and having taken a wrong turning, fo

CS: Target-.577/.450 Martini Henry smokeless powder loads

2000-10-09 Thread Tim Jeffreys
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear 123, (that's a very unusual name, BTW) I have an old Handloader Magazine article (Nov-Dec 1978) by Jim Jukes on just this subject, and it gives the following data: .577-.450 Load Data Powder Charge(grains), Bullet Weight (grains

CS: Target-Modern Pentathlon

2000-10-03 Thread Tim Jeffreys
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED] They must have been very loud air pistols then, because the photo of Kate Allenby shown in Time Magazine earlier this year showed her wearing earmuffs - I'm not sure what the pistol was. Mind you, it was probably an old(ish) pic

CS: Misc-Land Warrior

2000-09-27 Thread Tim Jeffreys
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hmm What happens when an enemy sniper or FOO captures one of these headsets that so nicely show you where all your own troops are? Tim : ) Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL

CS: Pol-ignorance is rife

2000-09-22 Thread Tim Jeffreys
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today I bumped into a friend who is a Labour party activist, who wanted to know if I wanted go along to the local MP-bating - er - question and answer session this evening. Knowing some of my shooting connections, he then commented on w

CS: Crime-Bullets stop Lada's race against Putin

2000-09-15 Thread Tim Jeffreys
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wow! I've got one of those... Does anyone know where I can get some bullet-proof tyres...? (- oh, and some petrol) Tim ( looking at his Lada in an entirely new light) -- What's the difference between petrol and paraffin? The

CS: Target-Olympics

2000-09-12 Thread Tim Jeffreys
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are some reasonable bits about pistol shooters in the Time magazine Olympic preview edition (Sept 11). Nice article on Ralf Schumann, German rapid fire pistol shooter, who designed the pistol he uses; pretty colour picture and no sens

CS: Misc-A bit of light relief

2000-09-07 Thread Tim Jeffreys
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED] How about parliamentary intercourse? involuntary congress? statutory sodomy? bureaucratic buggery? and it, of course, wasn't between consenting adults, but under duress, so it would constitute some act of rape: regulatory ravishme

CS: Legal-Anonymity

2000-08-15 Thread Tim Jeffreys
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED] By posting on this site you are taking part in a public debate. If you do not like it, then it may indeed be appropriate for you to "Stay with the professionals" and indulge in the Internet equivalent of funny handshakes in your own i