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Yes. My two 12 bore A5 guns also worked well with 24 gram cartridges.

Thank you. It makes sense and even if not true it ought to be as it makes absolute sense. 100%. Thank you. Do you have, please, a source to link to?

If the OP is ever in the Leicester area I'd be interested in the Webley. Very much so.

FWIW black powder and nitro are different animals as of course is well known. Less well known is that the former may give less "pressure" but delivers that pressure the full length of the barrel. Nitro may give more pressure at the breech but delivers less pressure by the time the ejecta (a posh name for the bullet or shot and it's wadding) has travelled further down the barrel. This is why British shotguns long after black powder ceased to be the propellant in any mainstream commercial shotgun cartridges still continued to be used to proof guns in the Proof Houses. Black powder would expose defects and weaknesses prsent in the full length of the barrel. But nitro at the breech gives more pressure and in a worst case will cause more harm. The often seen thing pre the 1996 Tory fullbore pistol ban were .455 Webley Mark IV revolvers with cracked or bulged cylinders. The .455 Mark IV was the last "black powder" cylinder chamber wall dimensioned service Webley. The Mark V and Mark VI had thicker cylinder chamber wall dimensions. Having said that I've seen Webley WG revolvers repeatedly shot...five hundred rounds in a day...with the infamous fully jacketed .455 military ammunition suffer no harm. So it is really all about the quality of the metal and the strength of the metal and not merely what's stamped on the weapon. Not just what it is capable of chambering and actually then firing. As an extreme example Smith & Wesson 9mm Parabellum chambered revolvers had thinner cylinder walls than the obsolete Dutch military revolver later fired during the aftermath of the wicked murder of the soldier Lee Rugby. So it's the quality and strength and metal not just it's apparent thickness at the place where the cartridge is detonated. I used to ride motorcycles. In the early 1990s. A Kawasaki 750 Turbo no less. I remember a populay saying back then from my CBT instructor. The day I can buy a £10 head (or get a free head) is the day I'll wear a £10 (or free) helmet. If you buy such (or get given such) best just use it only as a conversation and display piece.

This. In a nutshell. Pull the ladder up I'm alright. I only wish that the laws that Patel and Braverman want to see had back then applied to their parents and so we'd have been spared their guttersnipe daughters.

Or there's option 5 5. Use all the resources in staff and money saved to actually process arrivals so that they know if they fail they will be sent out of the UK in quick time.

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A bit big for geese! SG is buckshot equivalent for USA #0 buckshot at approximately .32" of an inch. Some say SG is also "Special Game". But to be hnest all these SG, SSG, Special SG be they special game, small game, special goose, "lettered shot" or "moulded shot" or whatever folk interpret the letters as and etc. are much of a muchness. Legal to posses on an standard SGC and used once upon a time for deer when roe deer were considered as vermin on many estates and shot on roe drives. Also used in WWII as Home Guard issue for anti-personnel use. Think German parachute troops and etc..

Hello. Most Belgian guns in .410" will either be 2" or 2 1/2" I'd believe. I think that it should have an oval with either 50mm or 65mm stamped in it. On my Belgian 12 bore which is post 1924, it has, from memory, an oval with 12-65.

I lack the hand and eye coordination needed to use a fly swat with 100% success. I bought some flypapers on Friday from the local Co-op. One caught so far.

Here's the thing. Which applied to street lights and car headlamps. Originally these were both designed to create silhouette of objects or pedestrians at the side of the road. As a silhouette is easier to see a thing on the side of the road at night than trying to fully illuminate a thing as by trying to fully illuminate a thing it blends in with everything else you are trying to fully illuminate. Modern street lights and modern headlamps mean that intended effect is now lost.

And yesterday I put my two 12 bore A-5 guns into Southam's auction. One a scarce Trap Model from 1960 the other a standard Hunting Model from 1963. I get on better with the lighter weight 16 bore I have so the two 12 bore guns have had to go.

Hello. RCBS used, at one time, to be the best standard off the shelf volume die makers. I think they've now lost that crown, IMHO, to Redding. Anyway what have you? The bullet like thing with the three fins or tails is an inside/outside deburring tool. For deburring trimmed cases. Yours will do from .22 up to .45 and is a quality item. I have had one for for near forty plus years. It does a good job. The chrome plated dies are, I'd guess, a standard two die rifle set. Although the box says NECK DIE SET/ Does one of the does have NECK stamped on it? And another FL? These be they neck or FL sizes and decaps. The very thin screwed rod holds the decapping pin. You MUST lubricate the cases when sizing bottleneck rifle cases or else they will stock in the die, there's lots on You Tube show what to do. The second die with the ticker screwed rod seats and, of adjusted, can add a roll crimp as the bullet gets seated. Or you can back the die out and screw down the "plug" to merely seat without crimping. Many load that way. The black die shown in the box with the chrome plated does I cannot see enough of to know what it is. The black die with the cut out is an old concept. Some swear by them. Some say that they are gimmick. I don't use them. It is a window seating die where instead of sitting a bullet on top of the case mouth (as when seating using your .38 Special) the bullet enters the die via the window. The dialled numbered top is to increase...with a recordable reference number...the depth you seat the bullet to. Again supposedly X amount of gap between a particular bullet and the lands of the rifling can be more accurate that Y amount (with the same bullet) but neither as accurate as Z amount again with the same bullet). The dialled numbered top lets you record how much is X, Y, Z so that you can then reset the die and seat that particular bullet in future at Z. Now OTOH with a different bullet then X seating dept might work better. So in your notes you can record for the first bullet type use Z but for the other bullet type use X. So that you are now able to reset the seating dept to that known dialled reference number each time you use the one bullet or the other. As said I am not a fan of window dies.

Breda Brescia with the REMOVABLE (removable like you could on on an L1A1 SLR) top cover taken off from the receiver. Effectively a Browning A-5 clone using Browning's long recoil action and perfectly safe to use like that but maybe not recommended as sensible. As interesting but also as ill advised as running an old car with the rocker cover off to show the valves and pushrods working! So yes the original claim "A5 is the best" is essentially correct. And actually a very interesting way to show how that system worked. I have been using my 1960's 16 bore Auto-5 just this morning by coincidence! Check the linked video below on the Breda Brescia after about 6:30 to see the top cover removed:

Earwax sucked from Trump's ear by the vortex of a passing 5.56mm NATO bullet fired by the Milwaukee sniper?