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    Quote Originally Posted by seliment View Post
    Interesting side fact .... did some research and discovered that birds cannot 'taste / sense' chilli .... Only mammals get the hot / burning sensation .. So chilli is no deterrent to birds
    Not sure about (black) pepper...
    Yer all mixed up matey ! - Ya put rock salt in the 410 shotty, not black pepper !

    Still, if gas guns are illegal, just have some fun. .............
    -Teach the kids/grandkids how to make oxy acetylene balloons ! , or a spud cannon.
    - isn't it time you bought you'r truck a nice new air horn, or even better "la cucuracha" horns.
    - help out the bush seagull lovers by regularly chucking some cocky feed over their fence to "assist" with looking after their favourite screech mob. I'm sure they won't mind the birds chewing on their home when the feed gets low. You lovely greenie you ! - how sweet to feed the nice birdies.
    - take up water skiing, motor racing, tractor pulling - anything that requires revving the sh!t out of a big (unmuffled) V8 to "get it running right" at 7am or dusk.
    - ever have that desire to learn to play the bagpipes ? - no ? - what about a slide trombone or maybe the tuba ? Drums?
    - while on the subject of music - doesn't your nephew need a place for his thrash metal band to practice ?
    - it's such a shame the auto electrician can't seem to find that fault in your car alarm eh? - always seems to trigger when the damp air starts to settle around dusk.

    I bet you can come up with new ideas faster than you recieve "warnings" processed in triplicate from the local bureaucracy to get you to stop.
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    Mental note, don't buy house next to Arfa.

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    Rock salt in the 410 shotty !!!!!!!!, now that takes me back to my youth in a small country town, and those oxy acetylene ballons are way too much fun. Never had a spud cannon, but the brother in law had one - dangerous. Was into speedway for many rears pit crewing for a mate with a sprintcar 350+ chevy running on methanol (700 HP) and no mufflers. Used to fire it up in the industrial area at our sponsors workshop and half of town could hear it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by troppo View Post
    Rock salt in the 410 shotty !!!!!!!!, now that takes me back to my youth in a small country town, and those oxy acetylene ballons are way too much fun. Never had a spud cannon, but the brother in law had one - dangerous. Was into speedway for many rears pit crewing for a mate with a sprintcar 350+ chevy running on methanol (700 HP) and no mufflers. Used to fire it up in the industrial area at our sponsors workshop and half of town could hear it.
    How did we all survive those days, slug gun wars, push bikes with no helmets, fire cracker wars, sunburnt every day, school punch ups (no one even considered using a knife) etc etc, geez those WERE the days.

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    Plus no 0.05, you just drove pissed. Yep go to the pub on Saturday arvo, drink and not count the pots and drive home.
    Or launch your boat, drink like there's no tomorrow whilst fishing around the bay, recover it on the trailer and drive home.
    Cheers Garry

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    Quote Originally Posted by steveo View Post
    How did we all survive those days, slug gun wars, push bikes with no helmets, fire cracker wars, sunburnt every day, school punch ups (no one even considered using a knife) etc etc, geez those WERE the days.
    The birthday pressy at 14 was a slug gun, I had a Gecado model 16, by golly I was a crack shot. 1967.

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    The birthday pressy at 14 was a slug gun, I had a Gecado model 16, by golly I was a crack shot. 1967.
    My dad gave me an old single shot Lithgow .22 rifle when I was 9. Taught me how to use it and gave me a box of bullets. Told me he wasnt going to buy me anymore and I had to use them wisely. I used to head shoot rabbits and store them in an old kerosene fridge in the shed for the week and my Dad would drive me into town on a Saturday to sell them. I used to whistle up foxes and head shoot them as well. Skin them and sell the skins. Always had money as a kid and did not get any pocket money. Bought all my own rifles and reloading gear. Learned how to shoot very well and conserve ammo. Joined the Navy and picked up my marksmans cuff rate on my very first range shoot. Shot Queens Cup for the Navy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BSD View Post
    The birthday pressy at 14 was a slug gun, I had a Gecado model 16, by golly I was a crack shot. 1967.
    I still have my Gecado slug gun, I gave a mate a surfboard cover and he gave me the gun. He took it to school, gave it to me and I walked home with it under my arm. Imagine doing that today....I get it out every now and then and shoot a few empty cans in the backyard , the kids love it. Boys this is the grumpy thread, not the good old days

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    We need Doctor Who's Time Machine to take us all back to a better time. (Not during the Wars though)

    Today for the whole morning I worked in a church related elderly residential Chalet Village as they all have individual gardens and live close together.
    Well all morning all I could hear was WW11 music, ie Vera Lyn "We'll Meet Again"

    All I could think of was ballroom dancing, Pearl Harbour and Melbourne's old Red Rattler trains. Yep you guessed it, 4 of them came out and asked for their gardens to be fixed again. Done work for most of them before.

    You know, it was quite relaxing listening to it as ice cold Schweppes Lemon Cordial and Soda was offered several times to me.
    Cheers Garry

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    Used to catch yabbies to sell as bait to be able to buy ammo for the slug gun. Empty soft drink bottle refunds where also a major source of income. Funny thing wasn't allowed to have a mororbike as it was considered too dangerous so went halves with a mate and stored it at his place, was a CT125 bought for the princely sum of $30. $15 each. We were more excited about that bike than we would be now with a brand new harley.

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    Hard to fathom how much the world has changed in a fairly short time. Anyway getting back on topic. Could cockatoos be possibly used for greyhound training so that the bunnies and other ferals can be left alone to breed in piece to the satisfaction of the bleeding hearts?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bluey View Post
    My dad gave me an old single shot Lithgow .22 rifle when I was 9. Taught me how to use it and gave me a box of bullets. Told me he wasnt going to buy me anymore and I had to use them wisely. I used to head shoot rabbits and store them in an old kerosene fridge in the shed for the week and my Dad would drive me into town on a Saturday to sell them. I used to whistle up foxes and head shoot them as well. Skin them and sell the skins. Always had money as a kid and did not get any pocket money. Bought all my own rifles and reloading gear. Learned how to shoot very well and conserve ammo. Joined the Navy and picked up my marksmans cuff rate on my very first range shoot. Shot Queens Cup for the Navy.
    I was about the same age Bruce. We had 410 single shots age about 10-11. we would walk up the hill with it cocked over my shoulder and the ammo belt around my waist, neighbors yelling out "Bring me back a rabit" Imagine seeing a 10 year old kid walking up the street with a gun over his shoulder these days? LOL The good news was the rabbits were pretty safe when I was around, I was a hopeless shot lol I couldnt kill anything now days,, got soft in my old age..
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    Quote Originally Posted by steveo View Post
    Hard to fathom how much the world has changed in a fairly short time. Anyway getting back on topic. Could cockatoos be possibly used for greyhound training so that the bunnies and other ferals can be left alone to breed in piece to the satisfaction of the bleeding hearts?
    The only way you would be aloud to do that would be give the greyhounds red bull and hope they grow wings...
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    Can you make a sling shot, like Denis the menace.....sorry that's illegal, wot a wank!!

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    It's only illegal when you get caught. That's when you get grumpy!!!!!!!!!!

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