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    V8 juice recipe?

    You might try horsing around with my breakfast juice recipe; it produces a juice something like what is commercially sold in the shops as, Big Tom. Load a cocktail shaker with500mil tomato juice 4 Turns of sea salt 1 goodly pinch of cracked black pepper 5 shakes of Cholula hot sauce (used to...
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    A decent vacuum sealer?

    As I am in the early stages of setting up, I won a Bifenett vacuum packer on flee-bay for less than £20. It works and will do till I get the urge to upgrade. I also got an electric meat slicer from Argos for under £30. I tested both and am sure they will be adequate for my needs; I also have an...
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    Horseradish

    Didn’t realise that horseradish was so easy to process. Horseradish will be planted come spring or possibly earlier, didn’t know asparagus would grow wild, so will search for a spot to plant some. Are there any other goodies that can be wild harvested?
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    Horseradish

    Breakfast Juice Load a cocktail shaker with 500mil tomato juice 4 Turns of sea salt 1 goodly pinch of cracked black pepper 5 shakes of Cholula hot sauce (used to use Tabasco) 4 shakes of Worcester Sauce 1 goodly teaspoonful of Horseradish sauce Shake and serve, even better I keep 1 ½ Ltrs in...
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    My New Bradley Digital 6 Rack Arrived Yesterday

    Going through the same stage with an original with 4 racks, you will be impressed , the original is brilliant, the digital can only be heaven.
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    New Bradley and its first smoke

    Got the Bradley back to the cottage mid day Monday unpacked and set the wee beastie up in the after noon. Packaging was excellent and the construction/operating instructions were spot on, looks good, well imprested, even Hamish approved. The local supermarket didn’t have any decent sized...
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    New Bradley and its first smoke

    First thing tomorrow morning I will be checking with the agent to see that they have the Bradley in from the UK distributors before the hours drive to Castle Douglas. Once I have the smoker on board it’s of to the local Tesco to get some supplies for the test run and the main smoke. Main...
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    New Bradley and its first smoke

    Ordered a Bradley Original yesterday and will pick it up in Castle Douglas on Monday. I was tempted by the digital version but in the end decided to keep it simple, the more gadgets, the more there is to go wrong. Smoking must be getting popular in the UK as Bradley UK had all the pucks except...
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    best beer for BBQ

    Sitting here after a long hard week, still 1 week to go until I go down to my cottage and I get my new smoker. All is not lost, I was down at the Big S last night and found a stout that I hadn’t tried. Had 1 last night and have been back for a weekends supply. This is a 4.5% Stout from the...
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    Air rifles

    If you are looking for a good pellet for the higher powered weapons in .177 try the Bisley Magnums. This pellet weighs in nowadays at 10.7 gr. In my day they weighed in at 10.6 gr and were the most accurate hunting/field target pellet I ever used. They got even better once you cleaned, weighed...
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    Air rifles

    The Gas Ram is an excellent system and was first used by Theoben in the UK in the late 80s or early 90s. Of all the rifles we had through the club they tended to be the heaviest but very well made and virtually maintenance free, in fact I can’t remember us ever being inside one Many customising...
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    Bradley Web Site

    Thanks Dawn I have saved the US Bradley link into my favourites. I like the way Bradley have fronted their smokers, very professional. Building a community round their product is a great idea and brings after sales service to a new level. It also shows commitment to their costumers. Well...
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    Bradley Web Site

    Living in the UK there is not much choice when it comes to big boys smokers, as I found out recently it is get a Bradley or bust. Couldn’t even find a company that would export other brands to the UK. I am not unhappy with this situation, they look like good kit and all the small scale...
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    Air rifles

    Agreed, big thanks to RickW for the thread, great memories of great days. My first serious air gun was a .20 Sheridan with a Galway silencer; it had been doctored to reduce the power for the UK market, totally useless until it got reconverted and a good scope mounted, then it was a smashing...
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    Air rifles

    Been out of the Air gun/field target seen for about 10 years so am not familiar with the Gamo Whisperer. Back then the Spanish firm Gamo, or EL Gamlo had a name for producing gimmicky guns, some of which worked well and were reasonably reliable. Don’t know about the fitted Silencer, I was...
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    Going Electric

    Thanks Friends Got my mind made up by where I live and the availability. Living in Scotland we don’t have much call for smokers and they are not readily available in the UK. Most of the units are 110 volts, but as that voltage is used on building sites over here that was not a problem, plenty...
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    Going Electric

    I am not overly impressed with the small off set charcoal burner that I have, to much hassle to run. I am considering one of the smaller electric powered smokers such as the Brinkmann electric, Old Smokey electric or the Bradley Smokers. Any helpful comments to send me in the right direction...
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    The in-law

    Must have been my wife’s sisters man
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    Noob from Scotland

    Welcome Rod, I see we have a few things in common. I live in Edinburgh & Wigtownshire; one of my forefathers was involved in the setting up of the Celtic and I hang about Loch Lomand most weekends. I got my hands on an offset smoker about 6 weeks ago, MaKro were selling them for £50. Not many...
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    Home Brewing

    Reminds me of my early set up in my first house back in the 70’s. No need to be so technical, a big plastic bucket with a towel over the top is all you need. With that froth working away, I can almost taste the brew over here.
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