UnclePete

My exterior walls are stone, faced on the inside with plasterboard. My gun cabinet is in a walk-in cupboard fixed to the plasterboard with toggle-type cavity bolts. I can't pull it away, and I've not had an FEO question it.

Whatever you get as your first gun the chances are you'll be changing it before too long, that's the way it goes. If you spend £600 on a used Miroku/Beretta - must be in good nick of course - you'll get most or all of that back when you change. You won't with a 'budget' gun. I would also say don't be put off if a gun is fixed choke, you'll get used to whatever patterns it throws. Stay safe, have fun, try to get more new shooters on board.

I had a 9mm shottie many years ago. It made a horrendous bang inside a building, and I am sure those cartridges were much more powerful than an airgun, to judge by the effect on targets.

I got my vet to sign my SGC renewal.

Texts and emails are just too easy to send in the heat of the moment, not like a letter you can write and then leave on the mantelpiece while you decide whether to post it.

Just found this thread so a bit late with a reply, but I have to say that is a bloody good offer from Neil, outstanding! If everybody was that decent about introducing new people to their branch of shooting then maybe we wouldn't all be skulking around waiting for what we've got left to be banned. Really, really impressed, well done that man.

I can tell anyone who's close enough to collect that it is virtually impossible to but a new Hushpower, I've been trying for weeks.

Hanratty's DNA was found on Valerie Storie's clothing when the test was available, there is no doubt of his guilt. Bentlet was 19 at the time of the crime.

Spot on. Dead men tell no tales.

They sure can, assuming it's single barrel. Saddlery & Gunroom offer them fully moderated or with the 9" moderator fitted. To fit to an existing gun needs a gunsmith unless you've machining facilities, but it's not a big job.

Think you've been given good advice here! Go for it.

The Dangerous Posts Acts (2008) makes it risky to venture into this thread, but what the hell. Dogs my wife and I have had. B&W Mongrel Staffs x 2 Airedale Bulldog Above all now gone, loved them all to pieces. At present a Boxer. I loved your post Jim, your first paragraph is brilliant - but whereas I believe every dog owner should be held rigidly responsible for caring properly for the animal and ensuring it is never a nuisance or danger, I really think my choice of dog is up to me, and I would still think that if I wanted an American Bulldog. BTW, I do not think any small child should be left alone with any dog, a child is helpless if things get out of hand. All those who want to jump on me about how terrific their dog is with tiny tots will be right, probably. But in those few cases where they are wrong there is tragedy, and we hear about it from time to time in the media.

Sound about right. Retail operations are notoriously poor employers, they will not be generous. The rates paid by shops are usually below the official household poverty line of £16492. National Minimum Wage rates from 1 October 2007 * Workers aged 22 and over - £5.52 per hour * Workers aged 18-21 - £4.60 per hour * Workers aged 16-17 - £3.40 per hour New National Minimum Wage rates from 1 October 2008 * Workers aged 22 and over - £5.73 per hour * Workers aged 18-21 - £4.77 per hour * Workers aged 16-17 - £3.53 per hour

There is more of a point against meat-eaters who are horrified by the idea of killing things, ie the majority of the population, the vegans are at least being consistent. I would not think there is a strong case to made that vegans would starve without shooting, crops were cultivated long before guns were developed.

There's a real old farmer along the road from me who has one and I see him crossing very hairy hillsides in it. They are very good, if it's big enough then you get one.

You've got the best! That gun will outlast you however many shells you put through it.

You think it's Italian! No maker's name? As tweedledee says, any gunshop will have a brass choke gauge, probably including the RFD bloke. You've probably chosen well for a rough shooting gun.

That's a long gun! I take it the forend and barrel come off in the usual way?

Why shouldn't he get his snout in Belgium? It's perfectly legal for personal use.

Saddlery & Gunroom do not seem to reply to emails, but I bet you guys will have the answers for me. How long overall are the various .410 hushpower guns? Pedretti, Baikal, & Mossberg?

That's guaranteed! And when the draconian knee-jerk laws are proven to be ineffective, will they be repealed?

I agree with that, it's the latest media panic, and they will soon get bored with it. If you try to penetrate the reports to find the truth it's hard to avoid the conclusion that mostly this is a bunch of gang-bangers knifing one another, and that bothers me not a lot.

Blairgowrie, which you'll find is a nice but amazingly busy town, will put you close to some of the best of Scotland. I strongly recommend a drive up the A93 to Spittal of Glenshee, then down the other side of the mountains for lunch in Braemar, only about 35 miles in all. Especially on a clear day, that is a fabulous run. Take your tackle, there is more coarse fishing in Scotland than some think, go to the tackle shop in Allan street for a steer on that, it was still there when I passed through in March. Also they might have some tips for a visiting shooter, if you take a shottie, the old-fashioned tackle & guns shop still exists in Scotland. Have a good visit to the best small country on Earth. PS - I don't work for the tourist board!

Think I'm with you on that, and similarly offer my head to the ball-pein. Before posting this I checked the DEFRA site on bovine TB, and I'm still with you. A TB link between badgers and cattle is simply not proven, and a systematic gas attack on a major species seems to me to be a filthy thing to do. It may well be 'filthy' but I am with my farmers who have more years experience that I can pretend to have, over me. The extended LB clan covering Limerick, Cork, Galway and New York (included that for effect) have been culling without prejudice for a few years and are very happy with the results. Defra UK have no ******* idea what they are playing with and are guided by 'idiots' Thats directed to you cols10 you ignorant ***** Defra may be worried about public response/awareness scenario but they are ****** by labour who took mucho ££££££££££££££ from the anti lobby. They are nothing more than media whores and deserve all the mire that they will eventually roll in Roll on the next election LB As the proposed cull would only have applied to England and Wales anyway, maybe I should have kept my head down! The truth is I just don't know enough about badgers, TB, or dairy farming to really have an opinion, so I'm shutting up now.

Think I'm with you on that, and similarly offer my head to the ball-pein. Before posting this I checked the DEFRA site on bovine TB, and I'm still with you. A TB link between badgers and cattle is simply not proven, and a systematic gas attack on a major species seems to me to be a filthy thing to do.