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I bought this ex-demo in 2008, it's a Mk1 525 game model, grade 1 but with enhanced wood, and you can see the choke marking. This is one gun I think I will never willingly sell.

Brevettato is Italian for "Patented". It's not a model name. I suspect they've misread the engraving. Bit like when you see a gun described as "Acciaio" which just means "steel".

@The_Engineer just a note of appreciation of your beautiful AYA hammer gun. What a find!

Since the data leak I had a couple of bank accounts set up in my name, flagged as fraudulent and shut down. I'm obviously seriously unimpressed with the slackness of the data security of the original company. My "credit rating" appears unaffected. The guntrader website & service seems to be unique, and so embedded into the gun trade now, though, that it is hard to see an alternative shopfront for RFDs. Whilst I will use it to browse the gunracks from time to time, I will never advertise a gun privately there again.

I only ever used standard cartridges up to the 70mm chamber length. I had an unspoken theory at the time, that a child who was with us maybe put something up the barrels when I wasn't looking - but that seemed bizarre at the time. Or maybe I had left too much oil in the barrels after cleaning.

My first gun was an E Rizzini sideplated 28" sporter which my Dad bought me after I did my GCSE's. It never missed a beat and I shot well with it, but one day after a clay shoot I noticed ring bulges just after the monoblock joints in both barrels, so it sadly had to be scrapped. Claimed on home insurance for accidental damage and the proceeds helped buy a Lanber. Emilio Rizzini is the budget brother but the guns were excellent value for money. I don't know what caused the bulges to this day. I know of another specimen which is never cleaned but is still going strong.

Like @Walker570 's sticks very much too, very elegant.

I've now got some Gen 2 Primos sticks, should be just what I need... will report back on how I get on in the field. Thanks for all the suggestions and comments.

Another one of the good ones gone, RIP Harnser, always a pleasure reading your posts. Rest easy and rise in glory.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/firearms-security-handbook is the official national guidance if that assists

One this morning near some grain, .22RF nicely on the ground for me. 120

Thanks both - useful stuff !

I like the look of these for sitting quietly in the woods waiting for squirrels, for stalking them, and possibly for lamping for bunnies on foot. They will also double up for photography, it appears. Any user comments on them ? Anything else around the same price (£100-150)which can be used sitting or standing at the press of a button? Are the gen 3 worth the extra £50 over the gen 2? Thanks in advance

Er no, BASC have been challenging this since November last year. Bringing a judicial review against such a decision is a costly venture, and if the police forces rely on similar justification to that cited upthread from Hampshire it might be a risky endeavour. Writing to the PCC to complain about this is a first step in which is more likely than anything else to produce a resolution more speedily for members. If the suspension of processing grant applications continues and some test cases of would-be applicants come forward then a judicial review may be advisable, as long as the Government haven't passed their intended legislation to restrict judicial reviews by then, that is. https://basc.org.uk/north-yorkshire-police-in-breach-of-statutory-duty-says-basc/ (Nov 2021) https://basc.org.uk/firearms-licensing-what-you-need-to-know/ (5 Dec 2021) https://basc.org.uk/basc-warns-firearms-licensing-delays-at-untenable-level/ (11 Jan 2022)

A murderer used a crossbow on Anglesey recently. It seems an anomaly that these can be owned without licence when they are far more dangerous in the wrong hands than lots of other things. But then again, they're slow to reload and I daresay take a bit of skill to shoot accurately. And the usual arguments about other weapons being available also apply. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-51675341

I did a case just like this years ago, it was that long ago it was on legal aid!! The same thing happened. We sued the council for the loss of this chap's stuff. The battleground was the valuation, of course! You paid rent for a garage, you were moved into alternative garage so you would not be able to get a refund of the rent paid. The landlord having excluded you from the garage was in law, a bailee of your goods and had a responsibility to take reasonable care of them, so if you have good enough evidence of what was there, you should be able to claim for the value of what has been lost. The claim will not be new for old though. I suggest you google Part 36 Offer and send one of those before issuing proceedings in the small claims court against the Landlord saying that their servants or agents for whom they are responsible unlawfully disposed of your possessions, with a list and sensible secondhand values. You may need to back up your values by scouring through used ads for kit etc.. Hope this helps. CAB is a good source of free advice on these matters. Or you may have legal expenses cover on your own buildings or contents insurance on your home or car.

I have the little Campark T20-1, and found that I needed to mount it no more than 3 feet off the ground to get the most shots of wildlife on the ground. The first week I only got humans, but after putting it down lower it began to capture wildlife well enough for my purposes.

3654 A nice doe this morning, satisfying shot out of a tree with the air rifle.

It's beautiful, but I can't see how it would support the slip like a thumbstick does. But then it is rather special, and we know how much you like a duck.

One with the .410 near a pheasant feeder this morning, 3583

Two around the woods this morning, 3402. No matter how many I whack there are always more, it seems. Disturbed a group of four off a feeder without getting a shot off.

Cracking result Lloyd - good to see your efforts pay off!

I had an AYA #4 for many years and hankered after a finer-finished gun. This resulted in buying a 1976 Gunmark Merlin by Vicenzo Bernardelli. Double triggers, 27" barrels straight hand stock, and lightweight. Some Italian guns seem to be better finished, the barrels are better struck-off, there's engine turning on the action etc etc.. Whilst my gun could do with the barrels rebluing I really like it. I also have a Beretta 626E in the cabinet, which being single-trigger and pistol grip stock is not quite how I would choose, but again is much better finished than the AYA I had before. This gun is my Dad's though, and he's shooting with me on Saturday. So, I'd say don't overlook the Italian offerings if you want a reliable modern gun, which is better finished than an AYA #2 or #4. I haven't handled an AYA #1 and perhaps that would be a different proposition!

It's not a fine, it's an order to pay capped legal costs. The court can only award up to £10,000 of the winner's costs in cases like these. The costs to DEFRA of defending the claim are likely to be far higher. The rule's there to limit the deterrent effect which the risk of having to pay a government department's legal costs can have on smaller organisations or individuals challenging actions of the state in the courts. So WJ can carry on bringing judicial reviews knowing their maximum risk is paying their own legal fees and £10k towards the other side's.

I joined a small walk & stand syndicate east of Swindon about 21 years ago, one of the Guns was in his 80s but still spry, and quite a character. I was told that a year or so earlier, he'd been standing in line when a roe bounded out of the willow coppicing and knocked him over. The impact pushed his hip implant further into the bone than it was meant to go, and he'd had to be taken to hospital by helicopter to have it all put right again. Sounded excruciating. It pays to keep close attention to the woods even early on in a drive !