Flea Market Finds

[mrclark303]

Along the lines a few years ago some complete idiot was selling live very old .303 blank rounds on ebay, I contacted him to politely point out the error of his ways, but he wouldn't listen, so I had to report it.

You can just imagine kids getting their hands on these, it makes you shudder...

[Peter Laidler]

Playing devils advocate, but to be honest, blank rounds - ANY blank rounds, including 25 pounder blank are unlicensed. So what's the difference between someone buying unlicensed products on ebay or buying the same in a shop or finding them anywhere? The down side of this is the celebrated case where someone was selling short CHS gauge sets - and then came the visit from the cops as they'd been reported by a well meaning MoP as dum-dum bullets.

[mrclark303]

Afternoon Peter, the issue is with kids getting hold of them, especially blank full bore rounds ... Teenage high jinks just bound to end up at Accident and Emergency with a bandaged hand and fingers in a bag of ice cubes!!

Maybe its just me, but as a kids going back 35 years, I can remember (Not me you will understand) japes based around aluminium screw top tubes, with fins soldered onto the top, 12 bore cartridges, ball bearings, and base plate detonators, when they worked they really worked, BOOM!

Now, had that same teenager had access to blank .303 rounds, well, I can imagine the dangerous fun and games to be had in the school holidays...


People had a more relaxed attitude to teenage high jinks years ago, what used to get you a bollocking from the local copper and hiding from your dad, would make the front page of the papers these days ... In a previous generation, my Father in Law as a lad, blew up his neighbours pigeon coop, with the pigeons still in it ... and got the hiding of his life from the local copper and his mum, but that was it!