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How High? Is he a Chinese student needing somewhere to live also? Which if it as you say no doubt (as in my own Leicester where anything and everything is likewise sacrificed to the God of De Montfort University) the Council House will have another of his fellow undergraduates in mind when they ignore your protests? The well know **** Yu?

Twenty six inch barrels have fallen out of fashion and certainly if you tried to sell a gun with just those barrels it'd command a lower price than the same gun, identical, except for barrels of twenty-eight inches. For decoying and roost shooting it depends on how good you are. I'm not very good so need as open a choke as possible. Yet some are so good that they can shoot Skeet with a gun bore full choke. So do you need the wider spread of the open chokes? Or are you good enough to use the longer barrels with the tighter choke? The other relevant thing is the other side of the coin of the saying that the longer the barrels the nearer the bird. And that is that the shorter the barrels the nearer to your ear is the bang. Which will long term affect your hearing if you don't take precautions. A Baikal is a good gun. There's snobbery that some will laugh but let them. I've had the odd Baikal in my time....I liked the 2 3/4" Magnum side-by-side....and they work and kill the target dead. I also own and shoot a Boss so let the scoffers scoff. I liked my Baikals. My only worry would be that at 6' 4" (as I am) it is short stocked for you. To have it lengthened will cost the same as to lengthen a gun of a higher value. Your £100 Baikal will still be a £100 Baikal even after you paid £80 to lengthen that stock. That's your call. But from a sentimental view you only ever have one "first gun". And eventually if you ever have kids that becomes "Dad's first gun". And always will be. I'm lucky that my "Dad's first gun is a Henry Clarke 12 Bore boxlock ejector in its original leather case bought for my father in 1919 when he was twelve. My advantage? Maybe not! The other long term outlook is that I'd have confidence that when it comes that with the chokes suitably opened out and the overall "OK" given by a competent gunsmith that it'd safely take suitable specification steel cartridges. My "Dad's first gun" won't. You have the advantage!

+1. Well said. I don't like some of it but all of it makes valid points.

Steel is in fact soft (as much as iron can be "soft") soft iron. Damascus steel barrels are softer iron. The shot column as it passes up the bore of the gun is compressed by the walls of the barrel.When soft iron shot meets softer iron damascus steel barrels have a guess which on the two will win the tussle? It's why pressures that might split conventional steel barrels that we use today often merely bulge old damascus barrels.

Quality guns in near 100% condition with long stocks will always, regardless of much anything else always command a high price. They always will. As to whether that's by American and continental buyers or folk with deep pockets or private bismuth quarries is another matter. But what will crash will be mid-range guns. The lower quality end 2 1/2" chambered British boxlock ejectors that will follow the same downward value track as their non-ejector siblings did in the 2000s. So buy you Dixon now but buy it because you want to use it and to enjoy it and when you do buy it buy one that is in 100% or as near as 100% condition.

Not all are, but they tend to be the ones sold for use with those super tufted darts we know from fairgrounds. Others as another says are smoothbored for the appropriate lead BB. BSA for example did, yes, a smoothbore Meteor. Slavia the air rifle part of BRNO did a smoothbore Model 618.

It may come to that. It may come to that.

Explain how if I have only the one gun, that is fixed choked 3/4 and FULL that I use for clays at DTL and Double Rise that I can shoot steel through it please? All the information I've seen on the internet says do not use steel shot in barrels over 1/2 choke. It can't use steel! The pigeons and pheasants that I shoot either get eaten by me, or friends, or shared between the guns and the beaters? None are sold and so none of them leave UK shores. Those that want them sold in the EU then let them use non-toxic. I am not my brother's keeper!

Ancient Lights. Google it or Wikipedia. Then if appropriate speak with a solicitor competent in this area.

Lovely smile! It's nice to see someone having fun! Thank you for sharing it.

This. And why when we have George Eustice as Environment Secretary who has already when at DEFRA said that he did not support a lead ban?

This. Malcolm Cruxton or any of the others who do general gunsmith work or who do choke boring only. Look at about £35 to £65 per barrel.

I agree with both the above. It all reminds me of the man who was goimng around in the 1980s promoting his anti-theft shotgun device. The one that fitred three steel prongs through the barrel walls if you tried to remove it without a key. He was on local television demanding, almost, that the Government change the law to make his product a mandatory security device if you owned shotguns. His motivation wasn't that of a greater good but that of "I got a product...now create me a market..."

Is this Conor O'Gorman Head of BASC Policy and Campaigns? Or a different Conor O'Gorman? I 've posted on this elsewhere. As others say welcome to the party. Indeed the more I reflect on the BASC FAQ "reasons" the more the real reason seems clear. This voluntary lead ban is about protecting "big bag" commercial shoots which sell their game from a possible ban releasing reared game. And to protect them the small driven shoot where the bag is shared, the gun who enjoys a traditional rough shoot walking up hedgerows and cover, the vermin shooter, all others too, all these have been sacrificed. Why else the obsessing in BASC's FAQ with on shot game being sold into the EU? Why else the mention of game dealers and retailers refusing lead shot game? These are only relevant where bags are sold on by a shoot. The FAQ window dressing may try to mask the intention but it now seems that the underlying reason is to save big bag shoots from a feared prohibition on large scale releasing of reared birds for commercial driven days. And to achieve this the small time shooter and the hobby syndicate (in fact any activity we do where a huge surplus of game that has to be sold game doesn't get created) has been thrown under the bus. And methinks this why the general "rank and file" BASC members perhaps weren't consulted in a Brexit style referendum. Because I think they wouldn't have supported this announcement. It now must be that those that are BASC members demand an EGM, or ballot at an AGM, to order that the matter be put to a general ballot of all BASC members to decide who directs the policies of BASC. It's members? Or who? The ancients had a two word test for the true actor of and motive behind an action. Cui Bono? Who benefits? So I'll match BASC's "cut and paste" of reasons for a lead ban with my own "cut and paste". This below: "CUI BONO? Literally meaning "who benefits?," cui bono? is a rhetorical Latin legal phrase used to imply that whoever appears to have the most to gain from an action is probably behind it. More generally, it's used in English to question the meaningfulness or advantages of carrying something out." If lead in shot pheasants shot with a shotgun is a poison then why is lead in shot deer shot with a rifle not a poison? If lead in shot partridge shot with a shotgun is a poison then why us lead in shot rabbits shot with a rifle not a poison? If lead shot in a limited defined area (a clay ground) isn't a problem then why is lead shot in the limited defined area of a rabbit warren a problem? Or the limited defined area of a roost wood used by pigeons and shot in late February and early to mid-March? The whole BASC FAQ is inconsistent nonsense. Be clear this is ALL about protecting the "big boys" the commercial syndicates from a ban on releasing reared game and in order to do that the everyday shooter, the lad and dad shooting rabbits bolted with a ferret, the guy that enjoys a weekend a month out with his decoys, the February roost shooter have everyone been sacrificed as collateral damage.

As another said the problem is that their detachable magazine made them s1. So the solution was to weld the magazine in place. Which then makes the thing difficult to strip and to clean.

I have written this to the editor of Shooting Gazette: Dear Editor,As a student of International History and Politics at Leeds University back in the late 1970s I was taught many things. One was the classic propaganda technique of the small truth and the big lie.That is you tell a small truth and follow it with a big lie. People know that the truth is true....you can prove it...so what follows that is also said must also be true.Reading today's statement on the BASC website and their FAQs reminded me of those West Yorkshire days. All the elements were there. That "small truth" not once but three times in fact. To support the big lie that it is necessary to end the use of lead on all shoots, by all shooters and for all quarry species edible and non edible.Here:1) Despite Brexit, we are expecting that these regulations will be implemented in the UK either due to a requirement to sell lead free game into Europe, or by UK legislation.And2) Concerns around the use of lead shot limit the current market for game products, and retailers are increasingly asking for game that has been shot with non-lead alternatives.Then3) Additionally, lead has been progressively removed from other substances, such as petrol and paint.All true to a great or lesser extent and yet all do not make true the "big lie" that lead shot as a means to kill live quarry must fall.1) Nobody knows what trade deal we will get post-Brexit. Boris Johnson doesn't. Michael Gove doesn't. Yet apparently BASC does? The EU may ban all British poultry and game regardless of if it has been shot with lead or non-lead so unless there is a crystal ball at Marford Mill it is speculation and navel gazing.And in any case this is disingenuous. For if the EU can have a ban on USA chlorine washed chicken yet at the same time allow access to the EU to US non-chlorine washed chicken then this is clear that any such EU ban might not be a blanket ban at all UK game but just a ban on UK game shot with lead.2) Surely it is for the individual shoot to decide if it wants to limit its outlets its surplus shot game and for it to continue to use lead if it does not mind that or as many do share it all with no surplus to sell between guns, beaters and pickers up?Not all edible game is sold to retailers and yet why should those many shoots were it is not be then subject to these restrictions on using lead shot? Just as it is for the individual game dealer to decide whether he or she wishes to take such product or not take such product?3) Paint and petrol. And a so the ban on lead in cartridges is justified? BASC shame on you! And those other organisations that have clung to its coat tails. Doctor Goebbels would truly have been proud of this...the classic small truth and big lie! Lead in paint and petrol is harmful yes. So therefore we must ban lead in shot gun cartridges?Lead in petrol is air borne as I think a vapour or a gas containing microscopic particles that could be and were inhaled. I do not know the physics nor the chemistry of it but I do know that what comes out car exhaust pipe is not at all remotely the the same as a the two hundred and seventy small round balls of solid metal in an ounce load of English number six.And finally for nearly five years from 2015 to 2019 I both worked and lived in France. Where as we all know the game dealers of Europe were always calling out for oven ready crows, jays and magpies to sell to customers to eat. And yet the the announcement today call on an end to lead shot for such corvids, and for squirrels and for foxes?

Take the half choke. Shooting is like billiards. It is scoring with the easy shots that makes up the bag. The twenty to twenty five yard "easy" shots. It is these "up to" shots, the "easy" ones that I'd want to be certain of with that slighly better distributed pattern that a half choke will give. The thirty-five yard shots will look after themselves. Three quarter choke is all well and good but in reality as the .410 has a long shot column a tighter choke will deform more pellets than a more open choke and so at the edges will be the poorer pattern. Best of all, really, would be if you could pattern both guns at say twenty, twenty-five and thirty-five yards. The "eye opener" will be the twenty yard pattern and that will probably show that the tighter choke is less practical at the majority of ranges you'll be taking shots. Especially on pigeon coming in to a decoy pattern. But of course some guns pattern better than other guns seemingly without regard for the actual nominal choke. A friend's Purdey was nominally true cylinder in the right barrel. Patterned at forty yards and the pattern were as if someone had drawn it with a set of dividers like the top of a pepperpot. It was a fantastic almost picturebook example of the sought after "well distributed pattern" that Gough Thomas wrote of. If you can pattern the guns with your intended 3" cartridge loaded with #6 or #7 shot. Or better if you can get them #6 1/2.

French guns and I've owned a few be it shotguns, rifles and, yes, even pistols are either genius or awfuls that threw any ideas ergonomics and commonsense out of the design process before the first blueprints were even printed. Genius is such as the Manufrance Fusil Robust of which I still have two one in 12 Bore and one in 16 Bore, the MAB P-15 9mm pistol of which I had one back in the 1980s, The Unique X-51bis self-loading .22LR of which I also had one. Awful are such as the Model 1892 Revolver, the Berthier 8mm Rifle (only the French could send soldiers off to fight WW1 with a rifle that had a three shot magazine capacity. the Chauchaut Machine Gun (only the French could send soldiers off to fight WW1 with a machine gun that used a bottomm mounted open sided magazine) and other abominations. The Manuarms will be cheap, effective, made for a customer base of rural peasants and farmers that wanted a reliable item without issues and to that market price point with beech wood from an old school desk and finest (ha, ha) chemical blacking so frankly I wouldn't have one of it where given to me. Buy the Norica.

I'd always choose the half choke option as it gives a wider effective spread within the limitations of the pattern density remaining an effective density. But what really clinches it is that the Norica is a repeater and the Manuarm isn't.

My BSA Scorpion T-10 fitted by Ratworks with a regulator likes Bisley Magnum. And so do I after seeing the groups it makes with them.

Maybe worth a look. What he says about what to be aware of. His is the "Deluxe" version BTW. https://youtu.be/qnD3tpOtX2o?t=399 I've owned a Norica. I preferred it to any Webley for effectiveness. But a Webley is a Webley is a Webley. If that matters to you. https://youtu.be/5Ke3OK_BU_o?t=292 Here's just how effective: https://youtu.be/_e5q4yBOW14?t=14

Think of a .410 as you would your 12 bore or 20 bore but with a reduced shot load. Some have the odd theory that because it has only a bore of just over than 4/5ths of an inch that it shoots a "tighter" pattern. It doesn't! If it's half choke it shoot the same percentage of its total payload pellets in a forty yard pattern as will any other gun bored half choke. Yes it'll kill, pellet for pellet, as far as will your 12 or 20. Except of course as we all know pattern fails before penetration. So it'll kill as far as you can obtain a "killing pattern" with that number and size of shot. Remembering that 60% of a .410 payload of "not a lot" aka just under a half an ounce is less than 40% of a 12 bore payload of an ounce of #7. The Webley bolt action is I guess the classic vintage British .410 but the AYA Cosmos, the Winchester or Cooey and others are equally as efficient. Avoid the old BSA bolt action .410 as they don't eject at all well today's modern cartridges marketed as .410 that are loaded in continental cases. Premium .410 loads are I always once found those loaded by the American makers of Remington and Federal. As in the US they shoot competitive Skeet with .410 and demand a quality product that they can also reload. So American made .410 will usually have true brass heads not yellow metal washed steel as do some continental cases. The best advice? What ULTRASTU says. Don't get a gun limited to 2 1/2" cartridges if you can. Or mine. That nice 20 bore? Stick with that for walking the fields!

Local Post Office in rural communities is usually good.

Are you set in stone on #5? And 28/30 gram? I am in Leicester near M1 J21 and have maybe seventy or so Lylvale Special Game #5 loaded 30 gram with fibre wad. The Lylvale would be a nominal cost of £6.50 per twenty-five collected with cash and sight of a valid SGC. If you had all seventy-five I'd accept £18.00.

The shorter barrels are Baikal Skeet barrels. These O/U guns were sold as a combo with a spare set of fitted barrels and fitted forend so you'd 28" general purpose barrels and 26" Skeet barrels. This from a time when Skeet was the big thing in the 1970s and everybody though that twenty-six inches was the length of barrel to use. The Americans, and others, for some reason called a half choke a modified choke. Same as they called an improved cylinder choke a skeet choke.