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@Mice! Thanks - yes - there are owls about so care is needed. Lovely sight !

@Mice! great write-up as always! I'm excited for my first foray into drey-poking tomorrow. I got some UKshootwarehouse lofting poles and have attached a garden hoe to the top pole, for ease of shoving the dreys out of the trees. We have 3 or 4 guns who will be waiting for the squirrels to break out. We have eye protection, headgear & gloves for the poker. All we need is the squirrels to be at home in the morning! I'll report back!

Another mention for Hull Comp X if you're doing clays, they're lovely to shoot. Perhaps try a slip-on pad for now to see if that makes things better.

I wonder if you can clean the inside of the magazine? Might be clogged up a bit and the mag follower not retreating as far as it should. My Dad had a 302, great gun but it had to be crimped from 5 shot to 2 in the magazine after 1987. Still worked fine for many years after.

Three on Wednesday - on our last day of the season walkabout. 349

I use CCL stock conditioning oil on oiled stocks, but the Legia spray on metalwork is great. A quick squirt down the barrels, wipe over the action and then I find the barrels clean very easily with just a pass through or two with kitchen roll. Any remaining leading is easily dealt with by a phosphor bronze brush before the final pass through of kitchen roll. Legia seems to work very well on all the muck from cartridges.

Good to know, thank you!

Thanks John I shall continue to dream! I'm using my Dad's Beretta 626 at the moment, single trigger pistol grip. It's a lovely gun and obviously an heirloom type thing to be passed on to my son.

I think I would go for an AYA no1. Although the more modern steel-proofed SBS offerings look very tempting too. My grade 1 game B525 is a keeper for clays and occasional game outings, but my heart says SBS, straight stock, double triggers. After all, a SBS has the barrels the same way round as my eyes.

Stunning! Good luck with the sale.

Hi, any left? Are they long enough to wear with breeks on a 31" inside leg? Thanks 👍

My buddy bottle filling adaptor screws straight into the dive bottle without a hose. There's much less of a hiss when that is released compared to the hose connector for the other rifle.

Nice one !

I had a new experience yesterday. I was walking quietly round the pen with my FAC Super 10, looking out for squirrels when I spotted one running through the trees. When it didn't emerge from one particular tree I looked closely through the binos for it and spotted a large hole in the tree and a squirrel fully within the hole looking out at me. I could only see the side of his head. It was about 20 yards away. He ducked back out of sight but I put up the sticks and lined up on the hole, so when he started peeking out again.. THWOCK! The unmistakeable sound of a solid hit was amplified within the hollow tree, and the grey had gone to meet his eternal rest within a woody mausoleum (at least until the tree eventually falls down).

3371 Two today, one ran through the trees then disappeared... Spotted him eyeballing me out of a large hole in an oak tree. I lined up and waited until he looked out again and the thwock was very loud, amplified inside the hollow tree. Couldn't retrieve the body as he remains inside the tree, but no doubt about the satisfying kill. Second was coming in to a pheasant feeder where I happened to be waiting under the shelter.

A sad loss, I didn't know Dennis but his posts on here were always top quality.

Multiple cameras in action there, covering the drop zones to get the retrieves so well. Nice shooting. I love sitting & watching for squirrels.

The only use I have for snap caps is testing ejectors & trigger pulls. Pulling shotgun triggers on an empty chamber is inadvisable, as others have said above. I heard of one case where the end of the firing pin flew off and broke the light bulb which the gun was aimed at.

@ratchers amazing!

One this morning, which scuttled up a tree on my approach. I squatted down & waited as it traversed three oak trees before pausing to look back long enough to receive its medicine. 3184

My cylinders are refilled at the diving centre at Cromhall, SW Marine Academy. Very easy getting them topped up, & cheap too. I have a "cheap" Chinese pump which works fine as well, cost £20 or so but I see they're now priced at £65.

It was my weekly visit to check the pheasant pens and feeders, and I was making my way back along a track to the car when I noticed this one's tail a little way up an oak, fluttering in the wind. I lined up, a standing shot at 7 yards and whack... the broadside of squirrel which I thought I was lining up on was actually a bit of old tree. The tail was all I could see of the animal. The customer put his head up for a look around just after my shot, but before I could reload, put it down again. I was very surprised he didn't run off altogether. I moved around a little until I could see the very top of his bonce, just a thin line of fur was visible - not enough for any sort of shot. I pursed my lips and blew out a little squeak - which caused chummy to lift his head and receive his medicine like a good boy. A young-ish boar cut down in his prime.

another one out of a windy oak with the air rifle. 3028

My Gamo GX-40 has a moulded circle on the forestock right where a swivel would usually go, with a hollow "pillar" on the inside of the stock. Sorry I don't have a photo, but it looked like it was designed to be drilled with a pilot hole for a swing swivel, so that's what I did. The threads bite the inside of the pillar very well. If you whip the stock off the gun you may find a similar spot on yours.

Thanks @Scully I will have to get some of those in due course - maybe when they become more comparable in price, hopefully in a wee while. I'm well stocked with lead at the moment, and our shoot only produces enough for the participants to take home.