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Good on ya!,

A noble donation!! not too sure what you want to prove? The local clay ground has been steel shot only for decades as it shoots out over the sea. There are members there who have shot literally thousands and thousands of clay rounds through every popular clay gun going. having said all of that I will still be keen to see your results!

Sorry to hear it has come to this. Always looked forward to your videos, great work well done.

Some interesting pictures there! I shall take a closer look at the AYA!

Hi iPeter, Thanks for that. I have fired 1000's of eley eco wad steel carts and conventional steel plastic wad carts through my AYA. Plus plenty of Duplex Steel no 2 and TSS 7 through it and a couple of steel\TSS home loads with fibre wad cups. Never even used Mylar wraps on any loads! A bit rash some may say but I haven't seen any scoring of the barrels. If there is scoring should it be visible to the eye or do you need magnification gear to see it properly? Cheers

Peter, out of interest have you done the same wad comparison with a say a Gamebore plastic wad loaded with steel?

Captain, looking at the loading shell lifters, can you run a bore snake up or down the barrel or do you have to take the barrel off to clean it?

Cheers Captain

I have come across a tidy used Browning BPS (synthetic model). However I have a question about the fore end. On the underside there is an elongated U shape milled out of the fore end so that when it is racked back that part of the fore end does not cover the ejection port. When I shoulder the gun my natural hand placing partly covers this elongated U shape and I am concerned that my hand may partially block the ejection port when I cycle the gun and prevent the empty case from being ejected properly which in turn may hinder the new cartridge getting loaded. Does anyone have any experience of this? I am not bothered if the empty case bounces off my hand or anything like that, I just want to make sure that it will still cycle properly! The dealer also had a brand new Hatsan camo pump. Now this was pig ugly but did shoulder and cycle very well.......any body got any feed back on these? Cheers

Eley wads are fine for dissolving but no one seems to make a proper bio degradable hull so if you use a semi and can’t find the empties that’s plenty of plastic getting left in prime eco systems like salt marshes etc. hence I won’t use a semi until some one can get me a proper degradable hull

That is scandalous! Thanks for the answers though, no chance of me getting a semi now as they don’t degrade!!!!

The .410 would certainly be the easiest option"……….I know it’s pest control but always seems a bit unsporting shooting the sitters with a shot gun!

Does anyone have any recent evidence of how quickly the Bio Ammo hull breaks down in the natural environment?

It’s a very long time since I had an air rifle (last one was a Sharp Innova). I remember Weihrauch were the go to gun back in the day so had a look at Holts auction and there seem to be plenty about at good prices. I would be using it for pigeons in sitty trees where the shotgun is too noisy so would go .177 but what model to go for? Ideally need 11ft/lbs or more, what does the HW35 knock out power wise? Any other models I should consider? Cheers

Use holts. Sealed bid is best and if no luck look at the unsold lots.