greetings from Oz

[eljay]

surfing the net and found this forum, already on a couple of yank ones and aussie, thought the poms needed me as well! :lol: about me, born and bred in British West Hartlepool in the middle of the last century, fired my first rifle at 15 ( BSA martini international at a local indoor range) joined the wildfowlers at 17, bought my first shotty, AYA yoeman from steve smith in newcastle for 37 pound ten. migrated to Oz in 1980, been in queensland since 1983 in the mines (left coal country, back into it emrolleyes ) retiring in the next couple of years, have shot practical rifle, western action, combined services, lever action, .310 and trainer shoots, clays, handguns, you name it, i'll give it a go. guns i've got: couple of mosins, 4 turks, 2 rebarreled, 4 martinis, 2 indians, 1 .303, 1 .410, eyetalian hammer shotty, rossi SRC .44-40, 1919 win.92 in .32-20 and a savage sporter same calibre, win. savage, miroku, francotte .22's 4 ruger handguns 2x.22, 2x .357. probably a couple more, but i am away from my safe at the moment. hopefully i can make new friends on this forum (missus says i need all i can get :roll: ) maybe pick up some new knowledge and impart some of what i have learned in the last 64 years (need to learn to do the picture thing but not having a camera is a drawback. time will tell, regards to all, eljay. and a peruvian short rifle, forgot about that one, plus i reload for all my centrefires, about 9 calibres i think. have dabbled in the mighy black, but at my age, life is too short to spend decoking guns smile2

[Geordie bloke]

Hi Eljay. Welcome to the site. I was going to mention something about monkeyhanging, but will put that on the backburner for now.
Sounds as though you have enough stuff to keep you smiling and shooting. I live just up the road in Geordieland and cannot bring myself to visit Hartlepool for some strange reason ha ha!
Have fun on this site and best wishes
Les

[eljay]

thanks les, got a couple of ships out of newcastle when i sailed with souters and dalgliesh ore wagons, happy times.

[Geordie bloke]

Get a camera and get some photos of you and your gun porn collection on as soon as possible matey.
If you cannot manage it, get a 10 year old child off the street (legally and with his/her parents permission of course!) to download them onto your PC and then onto this site as they find it so easy nowadays.

[dromia]

[zzr1100]

welcome !!

[Blackstuff]

Hi Eljay. Welcome to the site. I was going to mention something about monkeyhanging, but will put that on the backburner for now.
Les

Why do you think he had to run away/was deported to Oz? :lol:

Welcome aboard from (formerly) just up the road :cheers:

[Geordie bloke]

Blackstuff. Maybe it was something to do with monkeys and he had to leg it before the magistrate/plod got hold of him.
Funnily I was on an Ancestry site yesterday and happened upon a few photos of a book that showed what happened to individuals in the 1800s that committed murder, larceny, loving monkeys too much, and quite a few people were 'transported' for what would now be a minor crime. Tough in those days on punishment. But not one to judge so will wait for Eljay to come clean and explain why he left the North East!!!!

[Christel]

Hi Eljay, welcome to FB

Do join in the debates we have here and do not let the locals scare you away.

[20series]

Hi and welcome to the forum, I reckon you're the second expat ozzy that's joined in the last couple of weeks.

Alan