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Love it! I used to pull the cartridges just part way out my father's 20 bore side by side so you could only see the brass bases and imagine it was a double rifle! True!

Dan Snow there's someone who didn't get his job because of who his father was. Sorry but for me the words Dan Snow mean I reach for the "off" button. There's much better on You Tube as well as the Drachinifel blogger videos. Dan Snow? No thanks.

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PM replied to. Many thanks. Held for FANDANGO subject to payment.

Many thanks. And much appreciated. Thank you. But the thread now deleted.

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Or posted 2nd Class Recorded Delivery at £13.00 for the three hundred. 12ga PT1228S (VP60) Wad 12 Ga Propulsion Technologies Wads, formally Vagner wads.

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The most difficult part will not be the actual physical sleeving. It will be cutting the chamber and forcing cones and the cartridge rims followed by the striking off that is needed and relaying the ribs. Then proof at one of the two Proof Houses (although if kept for your own use not strictly necessary). After that will come getting the correct fit between the wood on the forend and the new barrels and last of course (in no particular order) the choke boring and the reblacking.

Ah. But the bird will be rejected by the supermarkets long before that stage. Game shot with large size steel shot is terribly bloodshot in the breast and looks awful. So it won't even get to the chiller cabinet.

I think Draper's at Nottingham might still have them? I think that the supposed interchangeable "chokes" are a gimmick. FWIW tried in my own comparison test on a sub 12 ft/lbs BSA Scorpion T10 in .177" firing Bisley Magnum pellets at a chronographed 11.50 ft/lbs I found the Hogan Decimeater better. This man tested some five years ago. You do end up thinking "Get to the POINT" but, yes, he does in the last frame almost of the video post his figures. Also of course whilst size may not matter but LENGTH might depending on your gunslip? Also manufactured to a better quality!

Yes from seeing these things over the last near forty plus years the most common length in the 12 bore No4 was probably 28" and after that (at one time when such lengths were popular 26" barrels) with the 12 bore 25" AYA XXV being a thing "of itself" with its Churchill rib. I have seen a few (and presently own one) AYA No4 27" and until last Southam's sale in 2023 owned an AYA No4 in 30". So they were at one time quite a few about just as at one time 26" over and under Skeet guns were popular. I guess the 26" barrel AYA No4 was inspired by Holland's Brevis and Charles Hellis's similar. I've also seen sidelocks AYA No2 in 26" (less so) and sidelock AYA XXV (more so). Indeed my good friend had both a 26" No2 and a 26" No4 bought new from the Belgrave Gun Company, Leicester in about 1979 or 1980 or so. What you seldom see unlike Parker Hale and other made in Spain for the British market sidelocks and boxlocks is here in UK any 70cm AYA. I guess if they did make such which 70cm sometimes called "continental length" is 27.5" that ASI didn't import them here? Yes as also did a friend here in Leicestershire 🙂 👍

There's two ways either cut the thing fully in half (so two "ends") just below the wad and that way you can keep and salvage the shot...especially if bismuth or TSS or similar costly metal. Or you can use a gimlet or "pick" and pull up the crimp and pour the shot out and then make a "V" cut below the wad and allow the powder to be tipped from the cartridge that way. If fibre wadded you can cut half and half up the wad so you've now two closed cylinders. One with the shot and one with the powder.

RTFQ "Pretty much the same..."

Good Luck with the sale! A bargain for what, later, pretty much the same, as would be sold by GMK as the Gunmark Viscount. I have one, the Gunmark iteration. It's a good well made thing.

Not queer and if you are I am so too.

Yes. You're right! Always taste better the longer they are boiled! LOL! I always get mine on a half past Easter Monday ready for 3pm Christmas Day.

Remember it is sold as seen with ALL faults. So even if the fault is not mentioned in the description you've bought it. The problem with buying at distance is that travelling to view may well then make the cost of what you buy expensive. OTOH if you take a risk you can do well. I bought this at Holt's last sale in 2023...sight unseen....it only needed a screw to re-affix the "loose fore-end". But as bought unseen it could have been a major issue as to why the fore-end was loose. Anyway got this a folding .410" with a top lever and a tang safety for £6.00 plus commission. The screw cost me £1 from a hardware store in Leicester as I hadn't any the correct size in my house. But I've also bought a minger or two once or twice. Not often but certainly am wise enough to now it's "buyer be aware" if not ever "buyer beware".

No not as a German told me. My tenant at my pond made ersatz coffee. Erna Stocklosse. A German woman who came to Britain after WWII and originally a "red" from Hamburg. All the big cities in Germany were "red". After Hitler seized power you kept quiet about it. She recounted the "Christmas trees" which were the illuminating markers dropped by the RAF Pathfinders and also trying to make coffee from roasting acorns. Ersatz coffee.

Ready Aye Ready! We had it in my parent's house in the 1960s and if you wanted coffee that's what you got. made with hot milk. Lovely it was too! The 1960s when if you wanted olive oil it meant you had wax in your ears and so went a got a tiny tiny bottle (about a half a cup full) from the village chemist.

I call BS. The CPSA Rules for English Skeet merely state "magazines limited to two cartridges". A quick email to the CPSA would, eventually, get an reply to confirm or deny.

PM replied to. I'll get some pictures up by Monday afternoon. Herewith the pictures. It is a Winchester Cooey Model 84 in 12 bore with 2 3/4" chambers and in proof (UK Proof marked) with some pitting to the barrel. But nevertheless externally as seen in good reasonable condition. It came as "a pair" at auction with a Spanish single barrel 12 bore. The Spaniard I will keep (that was always the intention) to test future homeloads when steel shot becomes obligatory. So the Winchester Cooey which I have not fired is and always was surplus to my needs. Free with first refusal to AlfieH and his "Yes" or "No". Transfer face to face onto a valid SGC which must have a vacant space on the correct Table 2.

Hello AlfieH. I am near M1 J21A. Use postcode LE9 2AL as a rough guide. I am under a half a mile from there....so near enough to work out how to get here but without compromising my actual address.

I've a single barrel 12 bore here in the East Midlands near J21A going free!