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Re: UK Meet 2014 Dates
Reply #240 on: August 11, 2014, 10:38:33 PM
My favourite quotes were the repeated "has anyone got an MT" and "has anyone got a knife"
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Arrrr The sun rises on camp Mto



Sat morning breakfast  :drool:


Wow, good times.  :tu:


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Re: UK Meet 2014 Dates
Reply #241 on: August 11, 2014, 10:39:57 PM
I was sooooo close to that yet Tony wouldn't let me have any :(
(that's NOT the reason I let sundays breakfast burn BTW  ::) )

Or not so good for some maybe.  :think:


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Re: UK Meet 2014 Dates
Reply #242 on: August 11, 2014, 10:46:22 PM
Bacon & Eggs  :drool: :drool: :drool:


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Re: UK Meet 2014 Dates
Reply #243 on: August 11, 2014, 10:53:07 PM
So, whose Jolly Roger was that? I have a pretty good idea actually.....  Looks like a fun time gents. :tu:
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Re: UK Meet 2014 Dates
Reply #244 on: August 11, 2014, 11:28:31 PM
Looks like a great time gents. 
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Re: UK Meet 2014 Dates
Reply #245 on: August 11, 2014, 11:32:59 PM
Looks like a great time as the others said. We will need a bunch of pics once you guys get back.  :tu:
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Re: UK Meet 2014 Dates
Reply #246 on: August 11, 2014, 11:33:35 PM
Looks like a great time gents.

It was, I think I have sobered up now  :cheers:
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Re: UK Meet 2014 Dates
Reply #247 on: August 11, 2014, 11:38:37 PM
The First Annual MTo UK Meet Up Shooting Comp!



Cupboard,with Gareth loading

50ft-trad on his knees


Sparky playing deerhunter,as Tofty waits with the reload
« Last Edit: August 11, 2014, 11:42:20 PM by kirk13 »
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Re: UK Meet 2014 Dates
Reply #248 on: August 11, 2014, 11:41:25 PM
TD gets serious


While Tofty plays spotter


Smashie wonders what happened to him


« Last Edit: August 11, 2014, 11:45:23 PM by kirk13 »
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Re: UK Meet 2014 Dates
Reply #249 on: August 11, 2014, 11:46:28 PM
Gareth gets in on the action


While the crowd go wild!
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Re: UK Meet 2014 Dates
Reply #250 on: August 11, 2014, 11:49:15 PM
Very serious,this scoring


And the winners....

4th, with a brand new Commonwealth Games "kilt"


3rd,with a new Vic cap


2nd,with his Rough Rider


And the winner of a spanking new IMCO


Edit to get all the winners in one place.
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Re: UK Meet 2014 Dates
Reply #251 on: August 11, 2014, 11:57:24 PM
The sparky is left handed?  :salute:


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Re: UK Meet 2014 Dates
Reply #252 on: August 12, 2014, 12:00:27 AM
We demand a recount. :viking:

Congrats to the sharpshooters. :cheers:

Glad you guys had a nice time and good weather this year. :2tu:


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Re: UK Meet 2014 Dates
Reply #253 on: August 12, 2014, 12:05:05 AM
The sparky is left handed?  :salute:

And Gareth too but apparently shoots the "wrong way" around. :P We have weirdly high percentage of southpaws here on MTO, actually. We did a poll some time ago. :D

http://forum.multitool.org/index.php/topic,34464.0.html


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Re: UK Meet 2014 Dates
Reply #254 on: August 12, 2014, 12:07:10 AM
Congratulations to all who had fun, winner or not.  :D

And IMCOs are cool.  :tu:
Have fun.

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Re: UK Meet 2014 Dates
Reply #255 on: August 12, 2014, 12:25:56 AM
It was a good giggle as always. Good to see the lads again, and good to meet smashie too  :cheers:

The weather was a little inclement at times, but that didn't dampen our spirits, we'd just retreat into the "clubhouse" to continue the merriment. We risked sending TD to the chippy, armed with Kirky for back up ... this was a bit of a gamble considering the "detour" they'd made on the way to the meet  :whistle: I ate quite well for the rest of the meet, Saturday was egg waffles followed by venison sausages for breakfast, mussels in white wine sauce for lunch, and pesto filled ravioli with pancetta and fresh veggies (with some very nice cheese crumbled on top - cheers mate  :tu:) for dinner ... and I got a few "looks" from those who'd just brought tins of beans and such  >:D :D :D

Gareth couldn't get his own axes to stick in the target :neener: but I did :P However, he got his own back by pipping me in the shooting competition - the four prize winners were Gareth, me, Cupboard and Kirky ... all with Tofty's rifle which must have been tough for him  >:D I'll post up a picky of the prize when I finally get round to unpacking everything  ::) Other items thrown at the log included a CS Trailhawk, SOG hawk of some description (ask kirky), small axe purloined from Tony's infamous bucket, and a bowie bushman on a long stick. I'd have liked to have tried the ninja throwing pegs too, but they were holding Tofty's tent down  :whistle:

I managed to trade my imensely frustrating Squirt P4 for Tom's Gerber Dime - a most satisfying trade for both of us, as we were both convinced the tool we had received was several times better than the one we had parted with  :D I also managed to part with a LED lenser headlamp, and received a rusty billhook, footprints wrench, and a nice heavy frying pan :D I also did a bit of a stove swap, but can't really give details as I don't know the names of either of them  :D :D :D

I did briefly decide to try out the Zebralight SC30 as a headlamp, but found I could only get the light to point where I wanted to if I wore the headband under my nose, much to Cupboards amusement  ::) I quickly reverted back to the Silva Ninox to avoid annoying my friends there with incessant profanities and childish tantrums  :P

The first night my tent (Outwell Arizona) leaked quite badly, so I broke out the little ye olde Vango Delta 200 for the second night, although I did have a pop-up tent stashed beneath the car ready to deploy if I (or anyone else) had a tent crisis during the night. It wasn't needed though, and everyone else fared quite well with their tents .... well, apart from Tofty whose porch tent pole disintegrated on deployment, but we got round that one  :tu: Not that we spent much time in the tents after stopping up drinking and talking gibberish till the early hours.

Tony had the decency to injure himself in advance of turning up, so save any of us any inconvenience, I had a wee flare up of meths vapours, and the fire decided to torment kirky for a couple of minutes, but there were no actual injuries that I know of (or remember).

TD was gracious enough to watch on as Sparky's breakfast caught fire, and me and Good Sir Kirk did the same while Tom's potatoes (not a euphamism) nearly did the same thing. I told him I had some welding gauntlets in the boot of the car with which he might rescue his dinner and he went darting across the field, whilst me and kirky graciously watched on unperturbed.

All in all a damn good weekend, and I look forward to the next one  :tu:

EDIT: Yikes! There's been a heck of a lot of posts whilst I've been tying that up  :o Where's the piccy of kirky boy with his prize ... :pok:  :D


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Re: UK Meet 2014 Dates
Reply #256 on: August 12, 2014, 12:42:15 AM
The sparky is left handed?  :salute:

And Gareth too but apparently shoots the "wrong way" around. :P We have weirdly high percentage of southpaws here on MTO, actually. We did a poll some time ago. :D

http://forum.multitool.org/index.php/topic,34464.0.html

Is it just me Nik, or does that thread all seem a bit mangled with bits missing :think:


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Re: UK Meet 2014 Dates
Reply #257 on: August 12, 2014, 12:45:35 AM
Gareth already posted me Modelling my kilt :P
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Re: UK Meet 2014 Dates
Reply #258 on: August 12, 2014, 12:47:02 AM
 Random pix


Not quite Camp Bastion :think:

Cupboard and 50ft had fun rigging up the lamp posts


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Re: UK Meet 2014 Dates
Reply #259 on: August 12, 2014, 12:51:21 AM


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Re: UK Meet 2014 Dates
Reply #260 on: August 12, 2014, 12:52:43 AM
Gareth already posted me Modelling my kilt :P

:doh: Good call, John - so he did  :tu:


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Re: UK Meet 2014 Dates
Reply #261 on: August 12, 2014, 12:53:48 AM
Breakfast conference,or setting bacon alight by committee
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Re: UK Meet 2014 Dates
Reply #262 on: August 12, 2014, 12:54:03 AM
The sparky is left handed?  :salute:

And Gareth too but apparently shoots the "wrong way" around. :P We have weirdly high percentage of southpaws here on MTO, actually. We did a poll some time ago. :D

http://forum.multitool.or...ex.php/topic,34464.0.html

Is it just me Nik, or does that thread all seem a bit mangled with bits missing :think:

Nope, looks that way to me too. Seems half of the thread is missing. :think: I even went back two years ago searching for missing posts but couldn't find anything. Weird.  :shrug:


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Re: UK Meet 2014 Dates
Reply #263 on: August 12, 2014, 03:28:08 AM
The sparky is left handed?  :salute:

And Gareth too but apparently shoots the "wrong way" around. :P We have weirdly high percentage of southpaws here on MTO, actually. We did a poll some time ago. :D

http://forum.multitool.or...ex.php/topic,34464.0.html

Is it just me Nik, or does that thread all seem a bit mangled with bits missing :think:

Nope, looks that way to me too. Seems half of the thread is missing. :think: I even went back two years ago searching for missing posts but couldn't find anything. Weird.  :shrug:

Very strange  :think:

BTW, thanks for all the great piccies chaps  :salute:


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Re: UK Meet 2014 Dates
Reply #264 on: August 12, 2014, 09:02:48 AM
Great write up Al  :salute:


The sparky is left handed?  :salute:


I was giving the Guys a sporting chance  :hatsoff:

Some of my shots nearly hit the target  :facepalm:
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Re: UK Meet 2014 Dates
Reply #265 on: August 12, 2014, 09:27:32 AM
Great pictures and write up chaps! :)
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Re: UK Meet 2014 Dates
Reply #266 on: August 12, 2014, 10:07:55 AM
Great write up Al  :salute:


The sparky is left handed?  :salute:


I was giving the Guys a sporting chance  :hatsoff:

Some of my shots nearly hit the target  :facepalm:

Yeah good call, can't have the boys getting all upset and what have you.  :whistle:


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Re: UK Meet 2014 Dates
Reply #267 on: August 12, 2014, 10:26:13 AM
Wow, that looks like a lot of fun.
I wish now I would live in England too, so I could prove how bad a shooter I am :D.

Needless to say, we NEED more pictures...
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Re: UK Meet 2014 Dates
Reply #268 on: August 12, 2014, 12:24:11 PM
The sparky is left handed?  :salute:

And Gareth too but apparently shoots the "wrong way" around. :P We have weirdly high percentage of southpaws here on MTO, actually. We did a poll some time ago. :D

http://forum.multitool.org/index.php/topic,34464.0.html

Very true.  You can blame my dad for teaching me to shoot 'off handed'. ::)  Frankly if I put a rifle up to my left shoulder it  feels utterly unnatural, however I do hold a pistol in my left hand.  I also play two handed bat games (cricket, baseball etc) as a righty, but play one handed racquet game as a lefty.  Yes, I am a little confused too. :think:
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Re: UK Meet 2014 Dates
Reply #269 on: August 12, 2014, 01:34:12 PM
Looks like you guys had a blast!!! Great pics too!

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