Woodbepigeonshooter

An elderly friend wanted one of these and asked me to get one for him with the rifle rest. found one on Facebook market place thi# year but wasn’t cheap £280 posted but he was happy with it very well engineered.

Reduced £950 ovno

Little used Savage model 16 .223 Stainless steel 5 shot with sling and swivels. Scope is a Schmidt and Bender 8x56 Klassic Silencer is a Ase Utpa S series S5 + all ammunition (20 ish rounds) please contact only if you hold an open slot on Section 1 for rifle. Try before you buy available £1000 ovno

Not found that at all. Through a baikal hushpower 2 inch is very quiet especially to 3 inch. People are always asking about how quiet they are and the simple answer is that you can walk around a farm and pop off squirrels and crows without disturbing the whole wood. Tried 3 inch through a non silenced 410 and thought it was as loud as a 20g. on a side note if anyone is re-loading I have spent 410 carts in 2, 2/1/2 and 3 inch. Will need to count up but probably 100to 150 Happy to post at cost

Have a look in Holts March sale as I think I saw an investarm 20b ou for sale which was showing a low guide price.

It has been a strange season with some of the issues raised hitting a chord. Early in the season we shot a lot of birds from the previous year understanding that if we didn’t they would dominate the feeders as the new birds spread from the pens. The new birds did spread but only come back when we have a hard frost. The birds will only return for the food source when needed. The cover crop failed( maize) or would have been very patchy so replaced with a keepers relief ( 12 different seeds) type and is has provided fantastic cover although I cannot see evidence of birds feeding on it so the birds have ploughed through the wheat. We may have planted it too densely as it is thick but you live and learn. We should finish the year at somewhere between 30-40% but bags seem lower but the cartridge count has been higher , could be poor shots but the weather on shoot days we have had a good breeze and the birds have been like rockets. Guns miss every shoot hopes that birds held will breed and we would see the odd young bird in the quiet spots in previous years . This year I saw 3 or 4 hens with little “ bees” or chicks which I had never seen before but obviously covid left a lot more birds but the likely hood of them surviving is low as we know. On a small part time shoot the biggest impact is managing the vermin at the right time. We would shoot 30-40 squirrels per year this year we trapped for the first time around the pens and added another 100 to that figure. You don’t catch anything in summer. We poison the rats in the pens at the end of the season so we are clear for the new birds and low risk of anything else eating the dead rats. We use Larson traps at the end of the season as they pair up and become more territorial Foxes are shot all year but most are shot as cubs as this is easier and effective, we do get the odd one or two seen on a shoot day but we operate a no ground game rule. I have not shot in a frost for 6 years and8 years for snow. This season I have worn a coat twice and only once for rain Most is as it has always been, the weather is not.

not a dirty shaft as straight out the box I was adjusting the flow which meant the flaps caught on the side as it span. 1/2 inch lower not a problem but the fuse blew. sounds like a 70’s porno!

Thank you.. the fuse seems very sensitive as I have now blown two but guess better than breaking the motor

Any idea what size fuse is used in the above?

Looks like great value and good looking gun. maybe LOP might help but should go pretty quick.

Travelled from Surrey today for the Game Fayre using Waze and no traffic issues straight in no problem. Plenty to do and see, could have done with going for a couple of days. ( gunmakers row mainly and not fishing although did see fly fishing Italian) Great to see people out and about enjoying themselves

I shoot over a farm with wheat and barley and the pigeons seem to be about, but more interested in the margins which have been cut and this is what is attracting the pigeons not the barley… very odd. barley will be cut in the next 2 weeks or less depending on the sunshine

I found it difficult to find anything about Bland and valuations, the USA connection probably explains it. I have a Bland hammer gun 30 inch Damascus barrels and 2 and 3/4chambers which I hoped was a pigeon gun but not described in Holts when purchased although a recent trip to my rfd immediately called it a pigeon gun and valued it at £3k if rebrowned the barrels . seems a lot but prices are all over when looking atGuntrader. Sorry to high jack thread

Teardrops are an option when buying. I have a grade 6 without would agree that it looks like a grade 5 or prestige which look better than the 6 with the gypsies kiss