arjimlad

Nope. I value my rifling too much.

I have a semi, sbs and o/u and of all 3 the sbs gets the most regular use. The semi is more complex to clean than a break-action, and I do like to clean my guns after every trip. Also, you can't make an instant snap decision on whether to use the choke or the open barrel. I'm also **** with the semi but much less **** with the sbs. Which is nothing to do with semis on the whole purely down to gun fit. The semi's advantages are - the third shot - fast reloading when you have taken just 2 shots - just keep on thumbing them into the magazine - it is less prone to rust than other guns - it absorbs some recoil. My ultimate ambition is to sell the semi and my lovely Lanber and get a Beretta OU. But I don't think I want to sell the AYA. I think if I was getting on better shooting the semi I have, I'd keep it and sell the OU.

I have no experience of CF rifles, but I sometimes think it is rude not to post when you have enjoyed reading about someone else's dilemma If the price is right for the Steyr, then, if you don't take to it, you won't have lost a lot of money if you sell it on. I would guess that you could pick up a new T3 anytime. OK you get a warranty, but frankly, what's to go wrong with a bolt action ? ! If you get it, you will never think to yourself "if only I'd had that lovely Steyr.." Steyr are after all one of the best European rifle makes available AFAIK... It sounds like a lovely rifle. Luxus model as well. mmm ! A bit of history. Made when standards were higher.. etc etc It also sounds as though you already know the answer to your question. I know what I would do in your enviable position.

Fascinating stuff ! Thank you for posting these. That drilling looks very useful. I recall meeting a German hunter who carried a revolver when after boar, he said that it was useful when following up an animal in thick cover. I expect you have the shotgun barrel loaded up with something useful, when after boar. Nice shooting.

We use ours for a good beef stew each week. I also cook rabbits in it. I joint the meat, then pop it in, cover with gravy/wine/herbs etc and cook on high for 7 hours or so. The meat then almost falls off the bone. At the weekend I stripped the meat off after doing this and stuck it in a pie with fried onions and mushrooms. Very tasty. Also good for curries. Cook everything up in a frying pan and fuzz it in. I find that browning stuff/heating it up in the frying pan adds to the flavour and texture.

If you are in an environment where the victim regularly receives messages to call people, get someone to give them a written message to call Dr Maibalsar Ritchie on a friend's number. Then have the friend advise them to get some ointment on them PDQ. You'd be surprised how many people fall for this.

I once used the Napier kit, which ended up producing a very smooth finish indeed.

I think Piebob has hit the nail on the head. It's all very well to say that it should be the landlord's choice etc, but what about the staff who can either put up with stinking of smoke all the time or walk away from a job they might have worked hard to get, or might be very convenient for them? This does smack of the nanny state though. Instinctively I'm against banning anything, but it will be nice to go out for the night without ponging of tobacco smoke.

I have found orange peel to be effective. They don't like the pong. But maybe this would only work to stop them stopping around on the borders to do a ****. As for keeping them off the pigeons, how big is your garden ? Maybe a small electric fence type arrangement might work around the dovecote (if that's what you call it).. after all, it works on huge release pens.

I don't seem to have any squirrel proof birds round my way, so we just shoot the squirrels anyway.

My Lanber has been very good. I have read complaints of Bettinsoli's not firing second barrel, and the review of the Bettinsoli in Sporting Gun this month mentions a possible problem with firing pins.

Hi Taffygun, Pleased to see you on here too. Arjimlad (aka Arjimlad on AGU and BBS)

Gibby, I was out last night as well. As you say, the wise old bunnies were mostly staying in the warm. Could have done with some wind to take away the sound of crunching across frozen grass. Got 2.

Much Upper Bottom from Shropshire eh ? I'd have thought she'd be visible from space if we're thinking of the same lass. Reminds me of the rule for country police houses, where the officer in charge had to answer the phone with his surname and station. Problem was when PC Fawcett got posted to Upham in Hampshire.

It rather depends upon the nature of the confrontation. If I'm "confronted" whilst not out shooting, in a social setting for example, politeness is the order of the day. If actually out with a gun, then a smile, a wave, and should all else fail, a loud raspberry might be in order.

Just a thought - multimap do free aerial pictures which can come in handy for defining what land you are asking about/the extent of the land over which you can shoot. They show field boundaries etc unlike some OS maps. Once you have this map you can ask a local/the nearest farmyard and people are usually impressed that you have done some homework.

The world would be a very boring place if we all had the same taste in guns. Whatever floats your boat is what comes to my mind. I went for a synthetic/nickel CZ452 and am glad that I did, but if I had to part with all but one of the shotguns I'd be keeping my AYA. Dream gun - definitely a pukka english sidelock Realistic ambition - possibly a Beretta EELL like Pieman's if I keep my nose clean for the next 25 years !

I had one from about 1989 until 1996. Iit was the first SBS I owned. It was made in the 1950s, had reproofed english whitworth steel barrels with a raised rib, was choked full and extra full ( ) and I shot really well with it. It was not light. It became a little loose, and one of the locks basically packed up. I regret that the cost of repair was more than the gun was worth and I p'ex'ed it in against an english BLE with bad pitting, which was in turn part ex'ed against a parker hale, and I now have a nice AYA No 4. I will always remember firing both barrels at incoming pigeon on the corner of a wood, reloading one barrel only, cocking the gun and taking the third bird out of the flock right back behind me. And my first driven pheasant shoot, and the fun I had on clays with it, the interest it attracted, etc etc. I should have said "hang the expense" and spent the £200 or so on repairing the gun. Mind you, I like my AYA a lot.

Mmm, hot chilli sauce masks the musky odour I believe ! Seriously, why isn't hunting with hounds down here as a choice ? !

Or, never poke a leopard with a stick without first checking that you can wind your windows up faster than it can get to you. Respect to the leopard !

Harry, I think that fits with my interpretation. If you capture it, it's yours (unless poaching is involved), but if you abandon your right to it by leaving it, it then belongs to the landowner. i.e. if you kill it you can't steal it, but someone can steal it from you if you assert your ownership of it.

I don't know the letter of the law in this area but the analysis I heard was 1. If you kill it and it is a wild animal then it is yours. You "reduce it into your possession" and it changes from being no-one's property to being that of the killer. 2. If you abandon it, it then belongs to the owner of the land. HM the Queen. And thus it was that in the house of a certain police officer, the family regularly sat down to feast upon Her Majesty's bounty, the police officer being a servant of the Queen and entitled to remove the deer on her behalf.

Skeet is OK for what you describe, in my view, it's just that you won't get dense patterns at extreme range (i.e 40 yards). A bit of choke is useful but the main thing is to shoot the gun straight. You could "compensate" by firing heavier loads which would put more pellets in the pattern, if you felt the need. Many game guns are only choked improved cylinder and quarter. If you find it is limiting your shooting, Options for choking are 1. Look out for a choked or multichoke barrel for your model of gun - someone may want to shift something with quarter or half choke if they have bought a multichoke barrel. Stick up an ad on here or look on guntrader for starters. 2. Get Nigel Teague or Precision Chokes to multichoke your gun, the cost of doing this might be prohibitive, you might be better off selling your gun and buying another. You can't put choke back in once it's taken out, as far as I know.

York Guns are selling Zabala shotguns according to GunMart.

OK then, Here's a tale about the 9mm garden gun A keeper friend told a tale about his Dad's 9mm garden gun, which he still had and used for rats. Dad would occasionally take out the shot from the cartridge and stick a solid slug on the end. (Naughty man ! ) He took a pot shot at my mate's little metal pedal car that he had when he were a lad. And the bullet hit the hollow metal wheel, and stayed inside it, so that whenever the nipper went anywhere in his pedal car, the bullet would clank about in the wheel. A long time ago.