JDog Posted September 27, 2014 Report Share Posted September 27, 2014 When I bought my Miroku ten years ago for £400 I was told that it had had 150,000 cartridges through it. I have added a few to that number. It has had a service and two new firing pins in that time and it has performed well. For the last few months I have been getting paranoid about it breaking down leaving me with no gun which suits to shoot with so I began my search for an identical but newer model. I got one yesterday which looks like new compared to my old one. I must point out that this gun is not an Extrema 4000 RS Cosworth GTI but a plain and simple gun. Today presented a decent chance to see if it worked. Birds had been using five barley stubbles on one farm and I imagined that I could intercept them on their way it. That plan depended on there being a wind but there was not even a gossamer so things did not look good. I watched for a while and all of the birds passed the pile of bales in the picture and into one or other of the fields and I chose to set up there. In the four hours I was out no more than half a dozen came on that line but two more lines opened up. I shot the first five birds to come to the pattern and the shooting was constant all afternoon and I was very pleased indeed with some of the longer shots which killed pigeons stone dead. There is a difference in resonance between the new gun and the old one but I will get used to it in time. I picked 82 pigeons which I was pleased with given the circumstances. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted September 27, 2014 Report Share Posted September 27, 2014 A good testing for a new gun ,just what you want for a moral boaster. your farmer must think a lot of you to leave you bales with a tree close by or do it look closer than it is in the photo , and do you shoot standing up ?. When I am shooting with bales as a back ground I use a bit of desert storm net but to tell you the truth I don't think it make a lot of difference what sort of net you use within reason as I think the pigeons are looking at the decoys and not the net . Good day though and was the bag made up with many young ones ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitebridges Posted September 28, 2014 Report Share Posted September 28, 2014 ....... I got one yesterday which looks like new compared to my old one. I must point out that this gun is not an Extrema 4000 RS Cosworth GTI but a plain and simple gun. I picked 82 pigeons which I was pleased with given the circumstances. Nice shooting. I'm now without a 12g O/U. I like the look of the Miroku's, a lot like the Browning 525 at less money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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