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  1. Roast chicken dinner

    in Food and Drink

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    1 hour ago, Yellow Bear said:

    Always cook all roasts on a trivet over 10mm of water with a lid on  - result moist meat and a liquor that makes a good gravy when seasoned ( I tend to use Worcestershire sauce and tom puree)  and thickened with corn flour, needs browning for colour.


    Will it still crispy up then though? The chicken skin and drumsticks had a deep crunch like pork crackling! Was fab! 

  3. Roast chicken dinner

    in Food and Drink

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    14 minutes ago, bruno22rf said:

    With a decent bird like that might I humbly suggest that next time you pop a Lemon, cut in half, and some fresh Thyme inside the bird then roast it on a trivet of Carrots and Onions, the juice from the  chicken in the roasting tin and the veg water, along with whichever gravy granules you prefer will make superb gravy. Looks perfect to BTW.


    I did roast it on a bed of onions :) I find with these birds mind you don’t get a lot of juice off them, I assume because they aren’t brined / soaked in / injected with salt water to inflate the weight. 
     

    Just get a bit of fat come off that’s good to add in. 

  7. Free side by side

    in Guns for Sale (Private Sales)

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    Have a Spanish master SxS been cut down to 26”, double trigger, non ejector, about 14 1/2 lop, chokes are around 1/4 and 3/8. 
     

    Located just outside Bristol. 
     

    Need the space, currently on my mates ticket but he also needs the space. 
     

    Rough and ready but works fine. Free to a good (or bad) home. 
     

    Need it gone asap! 

  9. Webley and Scott 410

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    23 hours ago, Fellside said:

    Hi Lloyd,

    I have recently been through this journey with my two sons. I opted for the Yildiz SPZ ME and it has been great. The 410 is quite a choke sensitive calibre. You don’t need much to make a big difference. The main advantage with a multi choke is that you can use open chokes which are very user friendly for kids. I find that the chokes on these Turkish 410s (inc the current W & S) are quite severe and from half choke and above the patterns start to blow rather than constrict. Fixed 410 chokes are often tight with iffy patterns - just my experience. 

    It is understandable that some people may consider the 410 too difficult for children to use - they were once! Not now though. When I was a nipper, I only had 9 or 11 grams of 6 shot through a full choke. Very tricky. Now there are dedicated clay cartridges and multi chokes - a game changer. The lightness of a 410 for youngsters is important too. Their arms and shoulders get tired with bigger guns. Even with a 410 it’s important to give them a rest (sweetie break) every 10 shots or so. 

    Hope that gives you some food for thought. 

    P.S The 410 is great fun for dads also! Nice for decoying with 3” cart’s.


    The 410 was great for uncle Lloyd to shoot but far too short for me. 
     

    I did hit one holding it from the hip mind! 

  12. Webley and Scott 410

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    11 minutes ago, gmm243 said:

    My 12 year old son shoots a Lanber o/u 12 bore. Has done for a few years.

    If your nephew can manage a 20 or a 12 I would try him with one of those. 410's don't generally have great patterns and a smaller shot load so if you want to encourage him by hitting more targets, birds etc there are better options than a 410.


    I’d say it’s the stock length / gun weight more an issue than the recoil. 

  15. Webley and Scott 410

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    56 minutes ago, Ultrastu said:

    The bolt action ws. Is a well built gun and tend to have a good choke and pattern well (mine certainly  did.) But they are slow and fiddly  to load  especially  for a single shot gun .

    As for choke .no multi choke doesn't make a huge difference  .but an ou will be a better gun to hunt and clay with than the ws. 


    Sorry I should have said, it was a W&S OU. Single trigger, fixed choke, non ejector, with 3” chamber. 
     

    Similar to this one (looks the exact model). 
     

    https://www.guntrader.uk/guns/shotguns/webley-scott/over-under/410-gauge/410-junior-240223145627002

  16. Webley and Scott 410

    in Guns & Equipment

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    Any have experience of a Webley and Scott 410? 
     

    My nephew used a junior version today at a clay ground and shot well concerning he’s only 12. 

    Compared to a Yildiz or Kofs they seemed pretty decent quality. 
     

    Fixed choke and non ejectors mind. 
     

    How much difference does a multi choke in a 410 even make? The barrels are so small does it even make any difference? 
     

    My BIL is looking to buy one for him to use now so considering the W&S vs Yildiz etc. 

     

  18. First trip on Scottish geese

    in Wildfowling

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    1 hour ago, fse10 said:

    Have shoot with Ian Gill for four years , and stayed at the hotel in Edzell. All ways a good few days up there, up again in October with Ian. I take RC50'S no1s which do the job nicely.


    Thanks, we are going up again in November :) 

     

    Where did you source them? 

  21. .223 ammunition

    in Bullets, Cartridges and Reloading

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Zoli 12 guage said:

    can't believe no-one has asked what twist it is🙄


    I think the newer CZ’s are 1:9 twist.
     

    Although I THINK the varmint always had 1:9 or a 1:8 🤔

     

    How old is the rifle? 
     

    My tikka is 1:8 but shoots 53gr v-max hot day super performance lovely. Haven’t bothered trying to shoot tiny groups. Nails foxes and anything else I point them at. 

  24. 5,520 miles. Went for a drive with the wife.

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    31 minutes ago, marsh man said:

    That was a very good start to what lies ahead in your married life , well done you and your good lady , we done nearly three weeks on the Greyhound couches , fantastic scenery along the West coast but found the traveling a bit tiring and I wasn't even driving :lol:


    Thank you, it was brilliant :) 

    Love America. Something about it. I suppose as we share a common language and therefore share lots of things across music, media and film industry a lot of places there are recognisable so spark an immediate interest, which you don’t get when visiting European places… at least that’s what I felt anyway. 
     

    Yellow lines are flights and white lines driving. 
     

     

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