colin

I have a new lamber sporting and will be joining some friends for Geese shooting next month. I have been advised to buy some Magnum Max Game shells 3" 53g if they are safe to use with my gun...my barrells are chambered to the minimum requirement for these shells ie, 76mm, however, is it still safe and wise to fire these shells as they hold a 53gm charge and will they damage my gun over time etc?(the barrells are not rifled in any way). I hope I am not being stupid asking this question but I keep hearing the odd horror story. Colin :*)

thank you all very much...dogs say thanks too

After shootin several pigeons and having plenty of pigeon breasts, I was wondering if anyone knows of any reason why I should not give the dogs a wee taste now and again. Is it better to give the dogs raw pigeon meat rather than cooked pigeon meat??? This is for the benefit of my other half who does nothing but earbash me for giving the dogs a treat now and again. Thank you in anticipation. Colin :yp:

Will mixing pigeon and crow decoys make any difference to a shoot ? We have a pigeon magnet and 21 pigeon decoy's to set out and I was wondering if putting a few crow decoys in the pattern would be a good or bad idea? Only started shooting two months ago.

HI, Just started shooting pigeons but I am not too sure on what distance there should be between each decoy using the 'Horseshoe' pattern. Would also be very helpful if I new what size of area there should be within the 'Horseshoe'. Please advise...thank you. Colin.

Thankyou very much...will go and change them now.

Hi all, Just bought my first shotgun (Lanber O/U sporting M/C) and went off down to Garlands shooting ground to try it out, I shot about 25 out of 75 clays on the skeet range and really enjoyed the shoot. I was asked by the trainer/supervisor what cartridges i was using and he advised me to use 8,s instead of my 6,s (which is advice i will take without question), the problem arose when he advised me to use a quarter choke in barrel 1 and a half choke in barrel 2 as when i got home and cleaned up i found that none of the chokes had any markings other than notches on the top. After looking at the user guide i was disappointed to find no explaination as to what chokes were what. In the user guide there is a diagram of five circles representing the five chokes and are numbered from left to right as follows: 0 4 3 2 1 (the numbers represent the amount of notches marked on each choke. I would be grateful if someone could please help me out. Thanks Colin