enfieldspares

For the A-5 owner here are Browning's choke symbols.

Thank you for sharing that. Well done to you and to the Breda!

An other forum that I am on only permits listing of items that belong to the seller. 6) No Advertising 'For a friend' I see that P/Watch says this: As of 29/10/21 gun sales for private individuals* are free on Pigeonwatch. * individuals selling their own guns.

Well indeed. I take the point. Very valid.

Personally there comes a time when I'd be considering asking to return the item for my money back, if as said the OP says that some shots are taking the thing over 12 ft/lbs.

I note that the cost of Explosives Certificates (the work of issuing which is done in many forces by the same department that issues RFDs, FACs and SGCs) for commercial firework or explosive manufacturers and/or vendors has not changed?

But how do you know when an MP is lying? Oh yes. You can see their lips moving.

And yet no-Tory nor no-Reform MP laid a "prayer" against this? Which is a parliamentary procedure to nullify such a way to impose an increase? Surely there must be some still in the House of Commons or maybe now the House of Lords who enjoyed the hospitality of any of the many many driven days at Catton Hall paid for by BASC that might do so? https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn02569/

Aha! The gun that is, if it is the same version, not only a copy of the Browning A-5 but will also "run", quite safely, with its rear top cover removed. As can be seen in a You Tube video.

Remember it is FREE to call and ask for a survey pack on 0800 473 0256 and if they are spending money on bill for these calls that's less they have to send on lobbying to ban lead shot. I've called in for mine. Needs to be sent back after 25/26 Jan. 2025.

Savills or similar. Galbraith? Buy a copy of The Field and look for advertisements near to you of such things. Beware that if you help too much and this aunt isn't happy that you then don't get the blame. I'd simply say that all you can advise is use the internet to search.

I think that there's more chance of finding a pile of rocking horse pooh on the road that runs past my house that seeing cartridges loaded with this hortonium in the gunshops. I'd like to be wrong. But I fear I am not. The Facebook page for Horton in July 2024 said "later this year". Then in October/November 2024 they showed a machine making the shot.

Be alert to the fact that if the gun has a one piece floorplate it won't have a speedload (and never will work that way) and that most 16 gauge here in the UK will be the 2 9/16" cartridge. Which feature can be a benefit as that means it will work flawlessly with the usual 65mm or 67.5mm (aka 2 1/2") 16 bore cartridges here in the UK. The 2 3/4" chambered 16 gauge will also work with the 2 1/2" cartridges BTW but of course being 2 3/4" I can use the 70mm 16 gauge 1 1/8 ounce loadings such as the old 16 bore Alphamax or the Hull 32 gram High Pheasant.

And ISLANDGUN yours has the speedload too. As evidenced by that two piece floor plate. So for those that don't know how does it work? In most lesser marques when the gun is empty and the breech block locked back the drill is either 1) turn gun on its side, 2) drop cartridge into the open action, 3) press some sort of button to let the breech block go forward OR 1) push a cartridge up from the bottom into the magazine tube, 2) press some sort of button to let the breech block go forward. In a A-5 with the speed load feature (that's all with the two piece floor plate) it is this when the gun is empty and the breech block locked back 1) push a cartridge up from the bottom and as it enters the breech block will automatically come forward and chamber the cartridge. Thus for pigeon decoying you've a slightly quicker reload rate when you've run the gun empty. Quite handy if you've fired off your three and another bird comes in as you don't need both hands and don't need to take the gun from your shoulder. Here's meanwhile the quite uncommon TRAP A-5 that I had. These had a stock longer and slightly higher in the comb. Here's the ring set up. The bevel on the castellated ring is ALWAYS away from the spring. The flat on the thin ring is always AGAINST the spring.

Here's mine to start. A Browning A-5 in 16 gauge and true 2 3/4" barrel and action and the speedload feature as it is a post early-1950s gun. Which might, or might not be, the one here in an old Mastra case I then later acquired as I had a couple of 12 gauge A-5 guns about the same time.