mickmep

i had one of the first batch imported after seeing them at bisley live. they never sold for anywhere near £1700. very heavy gun, very very smooth shooting. pretty old tech inside but all metal components. i've not had a single failure to feed with mine.

when i researched mine it appears all the powder is burnt in the first 9" of the barrel. a longer barrels is no more accurate, assuming you are using telescopic sights. i'm pretty sure the cz barrels are choked, so i would assume cutting them down would have an impact on accuracy, not sure if you'd notice it though. for my money i'd go for the shortest available in a .22lr. on my semi auto i went for a 12.5" target barrel, and thats pretty accurate, but it should be.

pretty much everyone and their wife will tell you to get a 300tdi. my old man is a landy tech working for a pretty well respected independant (and has been for 25 years or so) and i've got a td5, on his recomendation over a 300. most 300's are rot boxes now unless they've had some work done and you'll pay over the odds for one as all the armchair experts recon the're better. same as above with the td5, chances are if it was going to have problems it would have by now. i picked up a 51 plate for less than your budget, with sub 80,000 miles on it and pretty clean. as has been said you'll get more discovery for your money, but it'll also depreciate more in your ownership.

not very cost effective if you're only printing 1 drawing per week. if that actually is the use you'll make of it you will have problems with ink drying in the printheads etc, you'll be using more ink for cleaning the system than actually printing. what file types are you planning on printing ?

if the large fits a 46" chest i'll take it please. pm sent

have my td5 with churchill. just over half the price of flux and covered goods in transit. tried pretty much all the usual suspects when i did mine and none were anywhere near them price wise.

my mates boy has one in 28g that he bought new. in my opinion theyre ok for the money, they're short stocked and properly proportioned for a youth gun. they do however seem pretty expensive considering they're non ejectors and the build quality to me appeared a bit agricultural. he did have a problem with the gun not breaking properly when he first had it, but it seems to have improved with usage. the finish/blueing on the barrels/rib is not as nice as a premium gun and it did attract a rusty stain fairly quickly. overall i think if you were going for a 20g i would go for a light weight second hand gun, i bought my daughter a fixed choke rizzini for £325 and in my opinion its a much nicer gun, its light weight and slightly shorter in the stock at just over 14 1/4" seems to suit her well. the 28g may be worth considering, depending on their age.

personally i think it depends more on the youngsters maturity than age in years. can only advise what i found, and that is gun fit and weight are very important. we did try a 20 gauge that had a cut down stock, and it made it too barrel heavy, you really would be better off with a juniors gun than an adults gun that has the stock cut down. zoe's original 12 was one that had a 1" butt plate that i removed and fitted a very thin one, which didnt seem to affect the balance as much as cutting an inch of wood off did to my mates 20. if she's going to use it i'd plump for a 28g youth gun if she's not big enough for a 20, you can use it for few years and either keep it for the others or sell it on, theres always a market for guns like that. i tried zoe with one of my beretta semi auto's, which is quite a light gun, but it was still too big for her to be comfortable with, the 20 bore she has suits her much better. get her down the gun shop and have a try with a few, but be aware that what suits for a couple of minutes in there may not be as suitable after an hour lugging it round on the clays.

couple of the young lads where i shoot are using 28gauge o/u's. yildiz do a short stocked junior version which seems okish for the money. my daughter has started on clays but she is a bit older than yours, 14 but not very big for her age. she's using a 20gauge with 21 gramme cartridges and getting along fine with it. she tried a 12 gauge with 21 gramme carts but the gun was too heavy for her. she has a rizzini 20gauge with 27" barrels and its a nice gun to shoot with light cartridges, not very nice with 28 gramme loads though. my recomendation would be to go with a 28 gauge if she's too small for a 20, but make sure the gun is not too heavy and going to tire her out. good luck, my daughter really enjoys our shoots together.

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assuming you now want to raise the comb why not just buy a comb raiser kit ? i don't know about the hatsan, but every semi i've got you only put one shim in at a time, and most you have to use the corresponding stock washer.

cant see the point of having the shims and not using them. i wouldnt want to shoot with a gun that i knew wasnt shooting where i was looking. after you've learnt and had lessons with a gun that doesnt shoot where you're looking and you buy a gun that does are you going to have it adjusted so it doesnt fit as well ?

had a ktm 620 supercomp on the road, got bored with it in a couple of months. no real top speed, and was only really any fun round the lanes. on a longer drag it ran out of legs and just wasnt suited to sitting at a decent speed.

insured my td5 with churchill. business use, goods in transit etc and they were much cheaper than flux, nfu, sureterm etc.

personally i always go epsom, and check that its a model you can get compatible inks for. we've go a sx445 does printing scanning etc and wireless, was about £45 and inks are less than £1 each for it from the bay

i think you need to speak to an accountant that knows what they are doing assuming its for yourself and not just a hypothetical question. seems a pretty inefficient way of managing the accounts.

when i filled mine up i emailed the licensing office and was told to send it in. i was then sent a nice new one to fill up. only a couple of days turn round as wasn't a variation or renewal. they just transfered the purchases filled in onto the shotguns possessed mines with sussex, other forces may vary, best to phone your feo or licensing office.

Dougy nothing to do with it being firearm or on ticket, i never said it was. it is part of the vcr act.

from what i've read of the acpo/gta guidance notes on the vcr act 2006 it is a legal requirement for rfd's to keep a statutory firearm register, and according to section 15.1. Accessories in the form of, detachable, sound moderators (silencers), must also be entered in the Register.

my local rfd has to keep a log of moderators that are sold that are not on ticket.

i was asked to fit one to each of my cabinets when they caught up with their paperwork and realised i had more than 9. just a small alarm which has door contacts to alarm each cabinet, feo was happy with these. i was told by my feo that i could have up to and including 12 shotguns and firearms in the cabinets like this, but any more and i would need a house alarm. BUT when i contacted the firearms licensing office after variation which would push it over 12 to find out exactly what type of house alarm was required they decided i didnt need one at all. I think its all down to your feo's understanding of the guidance, and where each category of risk finishes and the next one starts. As has been said it doesnt appear to be just a numbers game, your area, general house security etc also has a bearing on it. the only real way of finding out is speaking to your feo and/or licensing department.

could be poor gun mount. i had a similar sounding thing when using my 682, but didnt get it with a 391 i had at the same time. turned out i wasnt mounting gun properly in my shoulder pocket and due to the rising sporter comb on the 682 i was getting knocked on the face as the gun recoiled backwards. a bit of gunfit advice from a good coach had it sorted pretty much straight away.

nice one, and the forum came up trumps avoiding any tears

is it an xtragrain or xtrawood version ? i'm not being funny but i hope you know what you're doing and what you're working with, some of the 391 beretta's had forms of wood and grain enhancement to make the stocks appear better than they were. if you remove the original finish you may not like whats underneath. not saying this is the case with yours as i'm not sure what you have but its definately the case with some.