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  1. Perhaps someone with experience can tell me if its possible to home load a 410 cartridge using 9 shot in 14 oz  for skeet, cheaper than the cheapest 12 gauge cartridges i buy now at £5.00 per box

    If so would using the brass cartridges re-bored to take standard primers also make a big difference

    Quite honestly I am going through a tough  financial period and £5.00 a box is limiting my shooting and it looks like all clay cartridges will soon be above that number soon

    If it can be done please say how

  2. Would they not have a larger area and therefore more air resistance and shorter range?

    I thought wile barrel length is part of speed its more to do with the length of burn of the powder and pressure so if the pressure drops of at say 25 inches the length of the barrel at 30 inches may actually slowed down by resistance of the barrel walls

    Just a thought

  3. As a **** clay shooter myself I just buy the cheapest going and have no interest in competitions. But still cannot understand how people "say this is my favourite cartridge" apart from Recoil or pattern test how can you tell?. is it all a physiological thing, hit a couple of awkward birds or clays and forever after believe that that cartridge made the difference

    I can understand constancy to a certain level it must be better than variations, but if you pattern a gun you never get two identical patterns, so would things end up the same using the cheapest available

  4. With such a large variation on cartridge prices and people often quoting, the higher the price the more consistent the shot, I wonder if any individual has taken a good sample from many makes, to compare how consistent the loads are, or if its just perceived difference. after all apart from retail and sending many samples to a proof house to check velocity and pressure variations its hard to judge. Even patten testing has large variables like wind and temp to upset results

  5. with the potential of rough and tumble I think I would prefer a broken down shotgun pack with sturdy protection like poly light weight but strong, even a semi can be broken down to help with the lengh of the pack

    A slab is quite a heavy thing to carry any distance unless your a bootnick

  6. At the end of the day its all perceived value in most things, Are old masters better that todays best artists, or is   Jaguar V12 worse than a Ferrari V12 of the same age

    If you are very rich a £200 a head meal is something you can buy and enjoy or a boss or Rolls Royce, you cannot spend all your money naturally to just live o,n so you buy high priced items which have a perceived value because you can, but nobody really knows what is the best

    The big question is are perceived values really worth the money, are they really built that much better and who are the valuer's, is a unmade bed worth thousands of pounds or a con by mugs

  7. 13 hours ago, welshwarrior said:

    Could say that of most brands I use as coaching guns but wouldn't be as few as dozens 

    To be clear browning 325s 425s and 525s etc are Mirokus not real Brownings 

    A1s B25s etc are real Brownings 

    As far as I understand it Browning's have never made a shotgun to sell themselves , they have designed shotguns ,but then licenced production to a number of companies

  8. I brought little skeeters 12g to 410 some years ago and found they would not extract the fired cases, asked the company and they stated they were designed for Win aa cases where as the European cases expand more when fired and jam in

     

    Tube sets are the best solution one gun four gauges and little weight difference, some of them are universal fit a make just not backbored guns

  9. Just did some basic sums on clay shooting at local little club, say 2 rounds of skeet a Saturday Cartridges about £4.75 box and Clays £6.00 per round come in at just over £1100 per year and few shoot just two rounds a week

     

    No wonder the club is loosing members all the time

     

    How much has powder gone up over say the last four years and why

  10. . This is some gun but would you turn up at a driven day with it. £2200 but its my new guilty pleasure, I love it.

     

    Which to buy, not sure yet

     

    I would take a bet that all the others would have been impressed and asked a lot about it, but then I would not be concerned anyway what others thought if they are like that do a dell buy with a auto firing from the hips

  11. I would imagine a need for shotguns to stop drones being flown close to ships in harbour, especially now they have been modified to drop ammunition like grenades or worse

     

    Always had quartermaster plus one on deck at all times . maybe another on the bow now

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