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  1. Stood amongst some laurel waiting for magpies with my shotgun when a large female squirrel appeared on an ivy-covered oak about ten yards in front of me.

     

    As it paid the price of its indiscretions another scuttled around the tree. I waited for about twenty minutes and the second one, a male, emerged from the ivy to look at me, which was its last glance. 

    I set them out in the field hoping to lure a magpie.

    Two came into the adjoining trees but only one came down to the bait. I waited for the second to join it, but the first one spooked so I got neither. 

    Sorry not airgun but next time....

     

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  2. I'm looking forward to getting back into the woods now the pheasant season has finished. There's a feeder to repair, and we're having a drey poking day soon. I wondered if anyone uses FAC-rated .25 cal on squirrels? Would limited pellet choice make it best to stick with .22? I presume .25 uses more air as well. 

  3. 12 bore Gunmark Merlin by Vincenzo Bernardelli

    27" barrels, 70mm (2 3/4") chambers.

    Choked quarter and half, fixed.

    Double triggers, boxlock ejector. Articulated front trigger and hidden third bite.

    14 3/4" length of pull with original hard plastic buttplate fitted.  2 spare rubber buttpads to lengthen this to suit.

    6lb 4oz - a fast, lightweight game gun. 

    Some slight tarnishing of the chrome-lined bores but no pitting.

    Bluing is  worn where the left hand holds the left barrel, otherwise a few small marks to be expected of a used 1974 model. 

    Stock has had an oil refinish at some point, but I suspect it was originally varnished. Some minor use marks. 

    £175 ono 

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  4. I think I have some spare screws which would fit the GAMO trigger, it is not the same as a BSA trigger. Ping me your address and I will put a couple in the post. I had to polish the end of the screw to make it smooth. Alternatively you can take off the barrel band and try the screw from that. 

  5. I have a GX40

    Adding a slightly longer screw to the trigger adjustment transforms the trigger, there is a lot on AGF about this. It's been reliable and is extremely accurate. I would have another quite happily. I removed the barrel band because it was prone to knocks and would therefore affect zero. Free-floating the barrel has shown no adverse effects.

    The bolt pull has to be quite positive though, so maybe not great for a younger person. 

  6. It is worth checking home insurance.

    In about 1996 I had an inexplicable ring bulge just in front of the monobloc joint on the bottom barrel of an E.Rizzini OU, which wrote the gun off (a bit scary really, good job I clean the guns after every outing & had spotted it). 

    My gunshop wrote a letter about it and supported a claim for accidental damage on my contents insurance, which paid out the £399 new cost of the gun subject to an excess. I then bought a Lanber which is still in regular use. 

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