And the ones that do have centerfire arms are mainly lighter calibers for their smaller game. Very ripe for invasion. Still its best not to talk about our the plans to invade Europe on a open forum.
Dimitri
Italian Navy No4's alert and a sad story
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And the ones that do have centerfire arms are mainly lighter calibers for their smaller game. Very ripe for invasion. Still its best not to talk about our the plans to invade Europe on a open forum.
Dimitri
Who'd bother??
Dark Alley Dan
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Darkest Edmonton
I think step one would be geting everyone in our military back from whatever foreign poo-hole they're in, get 'em fed, rested, tanned and ready. Then we invade the Mother Country and liberate the poor pommy bastards.
The UK is about the size of Alberta, and would make a spiffing 11th province. We could call it East Newfoundland. We'd fire every serving MP into the channel with a trebuchet, and issue handguns to every adult of good character and clean criminal record. Soon the yob issue would be resolved, there'd be hunting in Scotland, we'd kick the Irish loose to do whatever the hell they want (like they don't already) and the Welsh could, I dunno, do whatever the hell the Welsh do, but without the English telling Weshman jokes.
Think about it. We could probably take 'em...
No - leave the idiots to their own fate. Let the decent citizens emigrate to Canada by all means, but replace them in the UK with our loony lefties.
Alberta is almost 3 x the size of the UK but the UK has a population of over 60 million, Alberta has 3 million (2 million in Edmonton and Calgary).
UK = 244,820 square kilometres
Alberta = 661,000 square kilometres
I love the total indignation some of the people here feel for one of the best known dealers and gunstore owners in the UK. Boo Hoo, some barrels that he likely could never have sold on in a million years were used for something else, get over it.
I have dealt with that business (used to have a great catalogue, with lots of books), done purchases through him, and have family in the nearby UK area that deal with him, some of the beligerence here is clearly from people who need a deep breath.
The fact that not every dealer in the world, particularly in an anti-gun country like England doesn't sit on an inventory for 25 years, waiting while nobody buys a damn thing hardly makes me cry. If using them this way kept his costs down enough to give him a profitable year and a chance to pump out more miniatures, then so long old barrels that no one bought.
Mind you, I am sure if everyone on here wringing thier hands over this was running a gunstore, they would hold onto them until bankruptcy hit, or just give them away...
I have dealt with that business (used to have a great catalogue, with lots of books), done purchases through him, and have family in the nearby UK area that deal with him, some of the beligerence here is clearly from people who need a deep breath.
The fact that not every dealer in the world, particularly in an anti-gun country like England doesn't sit on an inventory for 25 years, waiting while nobody buys a damn thing hardly makes me cry. If using them this way kept his costs down enough to give him a profitable year and a chance to pump out more miniatures, then so long old barrels that no one bought.
Mind you, I am sure if everyone on here wringing thier hands over this was running a gunstore, they would hold onto them until bankruptcy hit, or just give them away...
Or considering even selling them at 50$ a piece would be 100% ontop of cost in profits based on scrap value and sell them to every dealer/gun store in Canada and Australia. They in turn install them and charge 100$ for the barrel plus labor and make their money too.
Dimitri
A lot of it is the UK dealers themselves. Hoarders who charged absolute top price for everything and so didn't sell a lot, just enough, and then ended up sitting on piles of stuff there was no longer a market for after the laws changed. Edna Parker being an example.
Just leafing through an 1968 American Rifleman the other day and there's some poor guy in Oregon paying 30 Shillings, (about $3.60 US) for a No4 bolthead from Parker Hale.
30 shillings was 1.25 Pounds at a time when the average UK worker was making probably 10 pounds a week!
And there was tons of the stuff around, so why the silly prices? 10 years ago you could have shipped those No4 barrels almost anywhere. Obviously no one wanted to pay the UK "retail price" for them that was probably being asked, and then pay to ship them over, taxes, duties, etc. etc. No surprise there.
Wouldn't the first time someone cut off their nose to spite their face, as the old saying goes. (ie: "if you won't pay my price, I'll scrap it/them")
Just leafing through an 1968 American Rifleman the other day and there's some poor guy in Oregon paying 30 Shillings, (about $3.60 US) for a No4 bolthead from Parker Hale.
30 shillings was 1.25 Pounds at a time when the average UK worker was making probably 10 pounds a week!
And there was tons of the stuff around, so why the silly prices? 10 years ago you could have shipped those No4 barrels almost anywhere. Obviously no one wanted to pay the UK "retail price" for them that was probably being asked, and then pay to ship them over, taxes, duties, etc. etc. No surprise there.
Wouldn't the first time someone cut off their nose to spite their face, as the old saying goes. (ie: "if you won't pay my price, I'll scrap it/them")
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- Location
- Pile of Bones, SK
Heartbreaking to think of the history he destroyed...
Fifty years from now there will be even fewer people in the U.K. who will recognise a rifle barrel not attached to one of them gun-thingies. Chances are they probably won't even think about how odd it is that this concrete floor has hollow steel rebar.
Just a technicality but there was 20 shillings to the UK pound, so that would be 1.5 pounds.
- Location
- Tucson, Arizona
Another Rebar story. I met a fellow who once worked for BSA and bought a bunch of parts from him. This was around 25 years ago. BSA was pouring concrete bases for its heavy machinery at one time, and they used MORRIS TUBES as rebar!
