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saveyourself

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Hi Old Dog. If I ever do get across the pond "the South" is a must visit. I don't know a great deal about the place, but what I have sounds good. I love music too, and a lot of what I like hasSouthern influences.

I would think I had died and gone to Heaven if I was able to practice in my Garden:celebrate

Your ancestordid a good move, it's always raining in Walesand Scotland. He moved there before it was even the US! I bet he had some stories to tell?



I think I've dealt with Midway UK in the past, or at least their products. The components themselves (cases,primers, heads and powder) don't require a license untill they are assembled into rounds, it's the transporting to you that is the problem. Most carriers aren't able to transport primers and powders.

Black powder just requires a certificate from the fire brigade to say you have a suitable place and container to store it in.
 

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Howdy, saveyourself.

I was in the process of responging to you when the thread went sideways. Don't know what happened but technology is wonderful.

I don't want to make you feel bad but I just blew off a box of .40 S&W on my back porch. You should see the gallon milk jug. Swiss cheese would envy it.

A little background: A direct ancestor of mine was a captain at King's Mountain. The Tarletons still won't speak to us. Is this something you study in school?

I notice some indications that people are allowed to purchase handloading supplies in UK. That surprises me. I would have thought that degree of freedom anathema to Blair's dictatorship.

It also occurs to me that, aside from my hero Churchill and others, a lot of England's storied traditions belong to others. After all it was Scots who charged at Balaclava and Welshmen who stood fast at Rorke's Drift.
 

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Hi, nice to hear from you. Oh! yes, I'm extremely jelous. Maybe we could set up a web cam and a remotely controlled contraption so I could fire the gun in you garden remotely:cool: Nah! there is nothing like feeling the guns recoil in your hand:cry:

I think ouraparent freedom to purchase handloading/reloading supplies without much interference, is more down to the States lack of knowledge than any type of willingness to assist shooters.

We only touched on the main points of American history at school. People here who know what (roughly) happened out there, tend toside with "The American patriots". Our rulers were basically robbing you and giving nothing in return, not even a vote. People, ordinary *non-land owning people here, didn't actually get the vote untillway afteryou did, the mid 19thC in fact. Maybe the common man here hasn't had the responsibility of the vote for long enough in our rulers eyes to be allowed arms?;)
*The UK is tiny (as I'm sure everyone knows)compared to the US. A small group of rich people used to (and still do to some extent) own every piece of land.


To have owned property in the UK in the 18th or 19thC would have been a big deal!

I'm quite interested in history, mostly local and family history. I'm becoming more and more interested in wider history trying to work out why the British public is such a bunch of mugs....

best wishes M
 

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old dog wrote:
It also occurs to me that, aside from my hero Churchill and others, a lot of England's storied traditions belong to others. After all it was Scots who charged at Balaclava and Welshmen who stood fast at Rorke's Drift.



My great grandfather x5 was at Sebastopol with the 33rd Reg of Foot. He had has forearm shattered by grapeshot storming the Redan (unsuccessfully) on the 18th of June 185? He had just moved to Wales so he's cool:cool:

Churchill once said to a high-up US fellow "I wish I was born an American, America has a future, Britain is finished"
 
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