baymarine Posted February 28, 2009 Report Share Posted February 28, 2009 (edited) Can anyone tell me or point me in the right direction were I can find out the law on using a gun while you are on your boat (CLAY SHOOTING). Can you do it and do you need to be a certain distance from the land?? Shaun Edited February 28, 2009 by baymarine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boomstick Posted February 28, 2009 Report Share Posted February 28, 2009 Sadly I have no idea, but clay pigeon on a boat sounds brilliant! You thinking of doing this on the sea though? Best watch that salt water or you'll end up with some chronic gun rust!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boomstick Posted February 28, 2009 Report Share Posted February 28, 2009 Better be a big boat! Holding a loaded gun on a rocking boat is a recipe for disaster!!! Something like an aircraft carrier would be fine Lol too right! Wouldn't want to drop it overboard.....or accidentally shoot someone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bagsy Posted February 28, 2009 Report Share Posted February 28, 2009 (edited) There was a company running trips up the Thames which included clay pigeon shooting. Will try and find the details. EDIT - here you go Doesn't answer your question but it shows it can be done. Edited February 28, 2009 by Bagsy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardo Posted February 28, 2009 Report Share Posted February 28, 2009 i've shot clays from the back of the Canberra, i use to do the graphics for a conference on board, 3 days out of Southampton round the Channel Islands Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baymarine Posted February 28, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2009 There was a company running trips up the Thames which included clay pigeon shooting. Will try and find the details. EDIT - here you go Doesn't answer your question but it shows it can be done. Hi thanks for that, when we get it sorted out you can have a free day out with us. Doing it for fun a group of us about 7. The boat should be large nought works in the Irish sea in 2 meters of swell so on a good day it will be FUN. It would be good to find that bit of paper which says you can do it at sea just to get every thing right. Shaun www.baymarine.co.uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kev 1 Posted February 28, 2009 Report Share Posted February 28, 2009 Sounds good... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mossy835 Posted February 28, 2009 Report Share Posted February 28, 2009 we used two do it many years ago, but you know what the laws are like now,if you were two go 11 miles out two sea who would here you.we used two do it on a fishing trip.weymouth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phill.p Posted February 28, 2009 Report Share Posted February 28, 2009 Not sure about inside the twelve mile limit, but if you go outside your in international waters , so no prob. phill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Posted February 28, 2009 Report Share Posted February 28, 2009 I have a couple of friends who have a auto trap bolted to the top of a wheelhouse of a fishing boat. They are quite often out in the river just off mersea shooting. This has been cleared by plod, and is no different to punt gunning really. If you are afloat there isn't much that can be said. Unless you are either causing a nuisance or shooting at other boats etc. Pick ups are difficult though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clayman Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Water inside limits is crown property and effectively public navigable highway. Unlike agricultural land, there is no deemed consent, you need the "areas" owner's permission c/- Buck Palace, I think??? Outside limits, do as you wish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzy Fudd Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Lol too right! Wouldn't want to drop it overboard.....or accidentally shoot someone! or shoot a hole in the boat.... sounds fun anyway, lets us know when you get sorted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tractorboy Posted March 6, 2009 Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 loks like another idea for mcf and webber :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supermotolew Posted July 25, 2014 Report Share Posted July 25, 2014 can I bump this was any progress made ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
100milesaway Posted July 25, 2014 Report Share Posted July 25, 2014 I have shot off the side of loads of cruise ships most of them didn't have a clue about safety and one of them had you standing on a two foot high crate with the hand rail at knee height.Most set it up so that you were at the side of the ship going at a rate of knotts with the clay disappearing rather rapidly in our wake. I think they were astonished when I hit a few as no one else had. I also had a go off the side of a Brittany Ferries ship once but I don't think that they do it now. If the ships had been at anchor or similar it would have been a good experiance but I personnally found it a shade dodgy. from Auntie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westley Posted July 25, 2014 Report Share Posted July 25, 2014 With the current need for a high degree of security aboard cruise ships (especially American), they have all suspended the clay shooting from the deck, it was fun while it lasted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortune Posted July 25, 2014 Report Share Posted July 25, 2014 I don't know if it is the same thing as above but I found this in the link below. The pictures show shooting and they dont apear to be a long way off of land. I have no connection with the company. As long as the guns are legal I cant see a problem and shooters shoot from the foreshore and up creeks and rivers so why not from a boat as long as the lead lands in the water and not on property Ect. http://www.thamesleisure.co.uk/clay-pigeon-shoot/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HDAV Posted July 25, 2014 Report Share Posted July 25, 2014 Skeet layouts used to be common on cruise ships sterns! Especially american ones. Legally not sure it is an issue unless you were "unsafe" perhaps some of the off shore guys will know more.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FalconFN Posted July 25, 2014 Report Share Posted July 25, 2014 I'd be very surprised if any decent cruise companies have offered clay shooting in the last decade due to safety, terrorism fear and bad press over pollution, certainly none of the ships I have experience of have offered it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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