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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.

I would be tempted if I had a 3 inch chambered gun. I can however load tss cheaper than that!

Started of at Spot A this morning hoping for a goose or some duck on the tide edge. Naff all there so back at the car by 0900 and of to the cafe for a bacon roll, cafe shut until further notice says the sign on arrival. Dam, now have to drive 15 miles to another cafe but it will allow me to go past a good vantage point on another firth. Stop at said vantage point and surprised to still see a good few 1000 pinks on the mud. I don't hold out much hope as apparently yesterday they all went the "wrong way". So off to the second cafe I continue. Order a bacon roll that seems to take for ever to arrive and drive back to the vantage point only to see geese lifting off in the strong wind and heading over the seawall where I can shoot, the opposite of yesterday! So instant decision, 3 minute drive to the car park, kit on and running done the track trying to stuff a bacon roll down as I go, can see and hear another massive lot lift off. Finally in position at 1000 and it goes quite. Good few thousand still out there but a long way off on the mud as the tide drops. Sit it out for another 30 mins and start to make plans to walk back, gun in slip and so on. Get about 20 yards along the seawall and some start lifting and so it begins! They pour over for an hour in groups of 30 or so, some high in to the wind but wait your time and eventually some lower ones come by. Net result was stopped at 4 pinks and still they came! Fantastic sight and sound. The new to me FEG from Holts Auctions has had a small issue with an occasional light strike on the second barrel but it's been for some adjustment at the smiths and worked well today, only 2 3/4 inch chambers but shot some good uns with 32 grm no 3 Kent Tungsten Impact Matrix. Will not forget that morning for a while!

I have managed to get hold of a couple of boxes of these and they are excellent on the geese. Does anyone know what the g/CC density of this metal is? Shame they no longer supply the stuff.