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Stalker62

Stalker62

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Jump in the old jalopy and head down to Bisley.

On the way, I stop off at the shop to pick up some stamps. The lady behind the jump, puts me on high alert when she said...

"Do you want to take out a mortgage for these?"

I gave her a £20, and she gave me 8x1st and 8x2nd class stamps and very little change. Good grief, no wonder they have stopped printing the price on the damn things.

Funny thing though, when I got home and had a look them, I was suddenly struck with quite a poignant feeling...

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Anyhoo - Bisley.

I wanted some .308 155gr match ammunition (ready for next year's shoot in Scotland). I home-load for deer, and I home-load for all target shooting in England, but up at Blair Atholl, I need to give myself every slight advantage and that 'mental reassurance' of using 'proper' ammunition, may just that advantage.


So, two or so hours on the motorway (the three-car pile up was impressive) and I roll onto the estate. Here is a fun fact about Bisley on a Summer Monday...


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I would write to the NRA and complain, except I cannot afford the stamp...🥺
 
Did you try the door?? - it’s the end of the military meeting & build up to the Imperial, I’d be very surprised if they weren’t there. Any other time during the summer, yes I’d imagine they’re shut but this is their busiest time of year so would fully expect them to be open.
 
l can’t believe you didn’t know they were closed on a Monday.

I see they have an amnesty bin…..Misfires/Primers/Primed Cases/Damaged Rounds/Faulty rounds/Unwanted Rounds.
NO BRASS.

So how does that work !
 
Donkey Basher said:
Did you try the door?? - it’s the end of the military meeting & build up to the Imperial, I’d be very surprised if they weren’t there. Any other time during the summer, yes I’d imagine they’re shut but this is their busiest time of year so would fully expect them to be open.
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Time is needed for regular range work.
 
Fosbery Holster said:
l can’t believe you didn’t know they were closed on a Monday.

I see they have an amnesty bin…..Misfires/Primers/Primed Cases/Damaged Rounds/Faulty rounds/Unwanted Rounds.
NO BRASS.

So how does that work !
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No spent brass, just live rounds etc that need dealing with.
They don't want the can filling up with scrap.
 
Stalker1962 said:
Jump in the old jalopy and head down to Bisley.

On the way, I stop off at the shop to pick up some stamps. The lady behind the jump, puts me on high alert when she said...

"Do you want to take out a mortgage for these?"

I gave her a £20, and she gave me 8x1st and 8x2nd class stamps and very little change. Good grief, no wonder they have stopped printing the price on the damn things.

Funny thing though, when I got home and had a look them, I was suddenly struck with quite a poignant feeling...

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Anyhoo - Bisley.

I wanted some .308 155gr match ammunition (ready for next year's shoot in Scotland). I home-load for deer, and I home-load for all target shooting in England, but up at Blair Atholl, I need to give myself every slight advantage and that 'mental reassurance' of using 'proper' ammunition, may just that advantage.


So, two or so hours on the motorway (the three-car pile up was impressive) and I roll onto the estate. Here is a fun fact about Bisley on a Summer Monday...


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I would write to the NRA and complain, except I cannot afford the stamp...🥺
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Unfortunately the only Mondays they are open are the ones during the Imperial typically as said above they use Mondays for Maintenance and days off (being as they are open all weekend)

Which direction are you from Bisley? I am there for the imperial and don’t mind couriering on my way back if you are near the M4 corridor
 
Stalker1962 said:
Jump in the old jalopy and head down to Bisley.

On the way, I stop off at the shop to pick up some stamps. The lady behind the jump, puts me on high alert when she said...

"Do you want to take out a mortgage for these?"

I gave her a £20, and she gave me 8x1st and 8x2nd class stamps and very little change. Good grief, no wonder they have stopped printing the price on the damn things.

Funny thing though, when I got home and had a look them, I was suddenly struck with quite a poignant feeling...

View attachment 373594


Anyhoo - Bisley.

I wanted some .308 155gr match ammunition (ready for next year's shoot in Scotland). I home-load for deer, and I home-load for all target shooting in England, but up at Blair Atholl, I need to give myself every slight advantage and that 'mental reassurance' of using 'proper' ammunition, may just that advantage.


So, two or so hours on the motorway (the three-car pile up was impressive) and I roll onto the estate. Here is a fun fact about Bisley on a Summer Monday...


View attachment 373595



I would write to the NRA and complain, except I cannot afford the stamp...🥺
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Ouch...
 
Well we've all been there in some form or other. Not quite the same, but forgetting a bolt, or even forgetting cartridges on a pheasant day.

But speaking about closed premises, every single Chinese takeaway in my little corner of the realm are all shut on a Monday. Now that is genuinely catastrophic. You can tell I live in the occidental part of Cumbria.
 
Pedro said:
Well we've all been there in some form or other. Not quite the same, but forgetting a bolt, or even forgetting cartridges on a pheasant day.

But speaking about closed premises, every single Chinese takeaway in my little corner of the realm are all shut on a Monday. Now that is genuinely catastrophic. You can tell I live in the occidental part of Cumbria.
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I live in the more enlightened part of Cumbria our Chinese takeaway is open on a Monday. Might be cold by the time you get it home from Brampton though ? 🤔
 
reiver said:
I live in the more enlightened part of Cumbria our Chinese takeaway is open on a Monday. Might be cold by the time you get it home from Brampton though ? 🤔
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A Cumbrian Chinese takeaway open on a Monday??!! What new devilry is this?
 
I used to drive to Bisley to shoot the HBSA Fixed Bayonet Competition on Short Siberia. Shot once annually but important as the opening "match" of the HBSA Shooting Season. So more a social meet and greet with added gunfire. Two rounds prone, two kneeling, two standing all at one hundred yards with the bayonet fixed. Six rounds total and that was it, the shooting part, done. I drove down from the Midlands, with my six rounds all loaded up and my BSA "Dispersal Factory" 1943 SMLE and ready on arrival to borrow a bayonet of which there would be a supply, ready to shoot and straight to the range to find it, Short Siberia strangely deserted. So off to the NRA Range Offices which unlike STALKER1962 were open with it being a Saturday asking if the event had been moved to Shorts. To be gently and sympathetically informed it had not been moved, and definitely hadn't been cancelled at little notice, oh no not at all, but just that unfortunately I had come down a week late.
 
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reiver said:
I live in the more enlightened part of Cumbria our Chinese takeaway is open on a Monday. Might be cold by the time you get it home from Brampton though ? 🤔
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Certainly more enlightened than here. Except for Sellafield which throws it's eerie glow over the countryside.
 
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