Vince Green

Fibre wads should give a better seal if anything because they compress to seal the bore where as some plastic wads are quite rigid.

Is it just me? The cost of bullets in particular are going mad. Cheap bog standard Sellier and Bellot 174grn bullets for reloading my .303 are now £20 a hundred at Bisley. I was paying that for Sierra Matchkings this time last year but they are now about £33-35 a hundred. Primers and powder all going the same way. I've checked a few other websites like Peter Lawman's and his prices are all up as well Why? The bloke behind the counter said it was the cost of lead and brass but thats cobblers. We sold several sacks of brass cases recently and got peanuts for it, much less than we would have got a couple of years ago. Lead is the same.

Go to Clay and Game for any queries. I have loading data for Red Dot loads over 1oz but not for fibre wads. Red Dot is a fast burning powder and will give a sharper recoil than green dot. I think thats the basis for what MC was saying.

Did you design it yourself?

Yes, very good cartridges. They have been around for ever. They are in the same class as Eley Grand Prix. Grand Prix and Three Crowns are the Rolls Royce and Bentleys of the cartridge world. They still do them in paper* and they are supplied to a lot of the top gunmakers like Holland and Holland with their own name printed on them. So when you see Prince Charles and that lot shooting at Sandringham the chances are they will be shooting Three Crowns. * At the very snooty end of the shooting world plastic cartridges are still regarded as a bit chav. Proper gentlemen use paper cartridges.

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It very much depends on your barrel and all barrels seem to have some types of ammo that suit them and some that just doesn't. It also greatly depends on what the rate of twist is in the barrel. Most barrels are optimised to give best accuracy at standard velocities but actually there are more differences between .22 barrels than you might imagine. Its nearly all down to the rifling, rate if twist, depth of rifling and the number of grooves etc.

I think Sellier and Bellot are great cartridges. I use their .303s all the time and they are good quality. Years ago I used nothing else but S&B shotgun cartridges for pigeons and rabbits and swore by them. You got a bargain. Sellier and Bellot are now owned by CBC (Brazil) who make ammunition under the Magtech brand.

I went with my son to the London Motorcycle Museum in Oldfield Lane South, Greenford, just off the A40. Its a little place run by an elderly couple but they have a good collection and its run with obvious love of their subject. I really enjoyed it and so did my son. It only cost £3.50 for me and my son to get in. I thought I would post it because there must be many of you out there who are stuck for somewhere to take the family on a Sunday without spending a fortune when you get there.

Felt recoil is a product among other things of the type of powder that is used in the cartridge. Very fast powders such as red dot give a very sharp recoil but the cartridge companies love it because the only use about 19 grains per cartridge (cheap) and the end user equates the sharp recoil with a good powerful load. However, if they used a much slower powder like green dot the velocities would be probably higher but the felt recoil would be milder. The downside is that they have to use much more powder with the green dot and that costs money. If you want cheap cartridges you will get fast powders.

Attitudes towards open tickets varies greatly according to which Police Area you live in.

How far are you from Wedgenock ranges?

Why is it everyone seems to be concerned about the price of cartridges and ignores all the other issues involved? We all seem to be so conditioned towards price rather than quality.

Its not economical but it does add to your enjoyment when you shoot your own loads.

You would probably save a bit of money but not enough to pay for your time and effort. If you want to do it for the fun of it that might be more of a reason that cost alone. you will get 526 19g loads out of a 10kg bag of shot.

I just want to put a word in For Joe at Gunshop, Cat Hill, East Barnet. Absolutely amazing bloke, highly recommended.

I don't know if this counts as an outragous shooting story but its pretty weird and its true. The famous African Ivory Hunter "Karamoja" Bell killed 1011 elephants in the early 1900s using his favourite rifle - a 7x57 Mauser!

I bought a yellow hi-viz long jacket off a market stall for £20. Didn't have much expectation, I just wanted something to keep in the van. Its been great its warm, dry etc. Its lined and has big pockets and a zip and button over flap down the front. Its lasted well despite taking a hammering. I have thought many times If they can make this to sell for £20 how come the virtually identical jackets (but in green) in the gunshop are over £100.

The tracer pellet doesn't follow the same trajectory as the shot . Its bigger and much less dense.

Just wanted to say a word for Hull Cartridge Company who's cartridges I have been using for years off and on. I didn't want to see them get left out of the discussion because they are good and they are British. I'm not knocking Lyalvale becuse I have never used them but 32g beats 30g all other things being equal.

A few tins! Gold dust! There are people who would kill for a few tins of old Nobel powders. Unfortunately the Nobel manual only goes down to 20 bore and doesn't list 28 bore at all.

Nobel 80 was a good powder, Its what they use in all the Eley cartridges. They stopped selling it in tins and its only available in bulk now. I still have my nobel loading manual. What sort of load are you looking for? 24grains with 1-1/8 oz shot was the standard load. I used nothing else for years.

My mate had a 10g single barrel. It is economically viable to reload 10g cartridges, I would imagine a gunshop in Norfolk near the wash would keep them but they are pricy. Kranks probably list them.

A drink driving conviction tells a lot about you and your attitude to life in general, two drink driving convictions and you either have a drink problem or you really don't have much regard for the law. Either way it doesn't present you in a good light does it? To the Firearms Dept of your local Police you are just a problem waiting to happen. Why should they risk it? Its easier to just say no and save all the grief that might be caused later. They would be silly to make trouble for themselves. I too bought my first shotgun from a mail order catalogue, kept it in the wardrobe. My SGC looked more like a bus ticket. Was there any problem with that? No there wasn't. Nobody asked me any questions, didn't even get a visit. All the stuff now is just creating work for the police, it hasn't made the world a safer place.

Its always been the same and its not restricted to shooting mags. Car and bike mags are worse in my opinion. The best shooting magazine overall was Guns Review, brilliant quality articles buy alas it folded about ten years ago.