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I use the 28 gm 8's and consider them an excellent cartridge. Mainly use them for edge on longer range targets as the Italian 8 is equivalent to English 7.5. I normally pay £178 per 1000 so you got a very good price. I now use these a a cheaper alternative to Eley Superbs and consider them to be very similar in performance. For most of my sporting clay shooting I use Eley Olympics 8's which I consider one of the best value shells around, currently paying £158 per 1000 but increase imminent.

A300 is a great gun, my friend has one and it never jams. Extra Mobil chokes are cheap enough,c.£15 second hand.

Totally agree, don't spoil a classic gun by having it multi choked. Have gone down this route and regret it - expensive mistake, the gun never seemed to shoot so well.

There does not seem to be a shortage of the 692 30" sporter, just counted 15 on Gun Trader alone. Also Orston Shooting ground have had one in for about two weeks at £2595!

I've always known the 9mm as the "garden gun", my father in law still has one, it is single shot bolt action. The cartridges look like a bullet but are filled with 9 shot We used to use it for shooting rats in the barns so I guess it would kill up to about 10 yards.

Have done a lot of pigeon shooting over the years and mostly with an old browning auto 5, fixed full choke. I have also shot with a miroku 1/4 and 1/2 choke but sometimes found that the 1/4 would rattle high/long birds whereas the full choke would bring them down dead in the air or miss completely. Overall I found the full choke gave a better kill ratio and did not make a mess of closer birds. That just my experience having shot thousands.

My father in law had one identical to this. We used to shoot rats with it around his barns back in the eighties. He had his on a FAC. When he gave up his FAC he sold it together with a .22 rifle to a RFD for £10 !!!