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Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:

[ rats ]

They dragged the bones out and carried them some distance. And they
completely ignore my compost heap, which is squirming with worms.

Odd. You're not in a soft-water area, are you?

No. Decidedly not.

Come over with the BSA sometime. I used to knock pigeons over with my
BSA Cadet Major.

I am confusing myself again - I have a BSA shotgun! It is a Webley
Mark III - still powerful (and, yes, I have measured its approximate
muzzle velocity at c. 550 fps) - but the sping clangs like anything
and it is no longer accurate at 30+ yards (my needed distance).

Sounds like the piston is letting air by it. The pellet should have left
the barrel before the piston comes to rest - slowed on a cushion of
compressed air.

I don't know the Wibbly - my experience of them is restricted to the air
pistols,. Currently, I have a Hurricane. (·177").

Also lurking about the place I have an Edwin Anson air rifle of around
1890-1900 (·177"); a Hainal (I think) from the 1920s (·177"); the Cadet
Major (but I don't know where it is - it's in bits somewhere, probably
on my friend's pig farm.); BSA Scorpion pistol (·22" - also packed away
somewhere the AirArms S310 (·22") and an American pump-up (·22") air
pistol - can't remember its make - though if ICBA to go up to the attic
I could tell you.

Here, (in my garden) I can't safely use any type of gun unless I fire
downwards from an upstairs window. And I don't want the house surrounded
by a swat squad...

I have to take the armoury over to the estate, and then there's plenty
of room. (You can see a few pics of the estate on
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/temp/ - there will be more as I
continueo building up the page.)

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