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Brilliant! If only we acted with such expediency and authority. 👍

🙂 I don’t know why, but it does indeed seem quite ‘magical’ doesn’t it! Without doubt 3/8th is my favourite choke, and like you I’m also pretty sure it’s all in my head. 🤷‍♂️

No, can’t say it’s anything I’ve given any thought to really. Even with guns which have barrel selectors I always without exception shoot the bottom barrel first, regardless of choke in any particular barrel. I shoot Sporting with skeet & skeet, full & full and every combination in between, but to be honest it’s generally 3/8 & 1/2 or 1/4 & 1/2. I’ve never been one to swap chokes or barrels dependant on any particular target. I’m a great believer in the old adage ‘you’re either on ‘em or you’re not’. 🙂

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Have never given it any thought, so it must be a subconscious habit, but thinking about it I always load the bottom barrel first. My Perazzi has no barrel selector and always fires the bottom barrel first, so that’s possibly why, and my more open choke is always in the bottom, regardless of how the targets are presented in any discipline. 🤷‍♂️ @enfieldspares that makes sense.

Thanks @Gunman the tube won’t be crimped. Adding heat to break the seal on the original tube is the only part that concerns me; I mean how much is too much? Just a suck and see process I imagine. Yes, I think mate received a rollicking because the rozzers don’t like to think it’s common knowledge that it’s more than possible as a DIY job, otherwise every Tom **** and Harry would be doing it. 🤷‍♂️ As you can quite legally buy all the parts online, it’s a distinct possibility! Thanks again.

Very nice. 👍 Good luck with the sale.

Does anyone care? 🤷‍♂️

What a very nice looking gun. Good luck with the sale.

I think with the tube I looked at the gun would hold eight, can’t recall now. I’m assuming that’s eight plus one?

I’m more than happy with my CD, I just like a proper full curvy pistol grip, they give you such a positive mount in the shoulder and that grip simply leads to a great swing. Some claim a full grip such as that is detrimental to spontaneity, but I disagree. There’s no need to strangle any gun, and it’s that which leads to an impeded swing in my opinion. My Gamba has a proper full curvy pistol grip and a nice palm swell, but it doesn’t matter really as it’s my front hand doing the steering anyhow. I just like the look and the feel.

Exactly. Will get on it after the weekend. 👍

Sounds like you’re going to get along fine. 👍

No, not really. 🙂 I was under the impression I could do this myself, as I can get a tube with spring, clamp and follower for 90 odd quid, and fit it all myself. However, when a mate did exactly this he received a massive rollicking from licensing when he informed them of what he’d done. He had the relevant slot on his ticket, but for reasons I can’t think of ( and he never asked ) licensing told him he should have had the work carried out by a RFD! 🤷‍♂️

You’re welcome bud. 👍 Education is a wonderful thing. 🙂

Anyone have a rough idea of how much it costs to convert a shotgun from S2 to S1, and what the process entails? Thanks in advance.

Ditto.

I think you’re confusing evolution with education, intelligence and compassion @Zoli 12 guage We stopped burning witches because we know there are no such things. That’s intelligence brought about through education. We still execute people, although it’s carried out in a much more humane manner by comparison. Thats compassion. Both are aided by education and technology. We evolved into the apex predator because of the way our brains developed or evolved. Our brains allowed us over time to develop the use of tools to make us more efficient hunters. Thats evolution aided by intelligence and education and technology, however basic that latter may be, passed down throughout millennia, which eventually led us to erect enclosures around some animals and domesticating them, and thereby making us farmers….much more practical than running around the place all day looking for food! 🙂 Hunting with raptors is a choice we make, as is using a bow or a shotgun or rifle. We don’t have to do it but some choose to, because the hunting gene is stronger in some than in others. Equally some are more compassionate than others. Those big brains we evolved have allowed us to cultivate a society which can function perfectly well without the need to hunt or kill anything to survive, even the meat eaters are so far removed from the dirty work through a lack of education that many dont associate one with the other! Neither have any need to go out and hunt for their food anymore. All those people however, even the compassionate ones who deplore what we do, the vegetarians and the vegans, would revert back to the ultimate apex predator very soon after all the things which allow them not to be so, disappeared. Thats evolution. Explained basically granted, but that’s it in a nutshell. None of which has anything to do with cruelty, which as one PW member so accurately put it, is ‘the indifference to suffering’, and that is something which everyone on this forum who shoots live quarry, is guilty of. I hope that’s clear enough.

Thanks for the honest reply. That and the ‘ProSport’ version are models I’ve coveted, but I see quite a few folk selling them. I just wondered why. 👍 Good luck with the sale.

Of course we were all aware it could happen, but I genuinely can’t ever recall it being a problem. I seriously don’t see what the former in your post has to do with the latter! Perhaps you could elaborate?

Like I said; Americans, Arabs and Gypsies! Tasteless beyond description.

Like everything else I suppose, only if we let it happen. It’s as relevant today as it always has been: ‘All it takes for evil to prosper ( I’m not claiming that all Islamists are evil ) is for good men to do nothing.

I haven’t watched the film. Some mates and I ( I was the ferret man ) used to use ferrets to bolt rabbits to raptors many moons ago. Had some fabulous days out! 👍 The practice of using raptors to pursue and kill game either for sport or to hunt food goes back centuries, and still goes on today all over the world. Indigenous people in some parts of Mongolia for example, still hunt like this. By its very nature it has to be one of the most sustainable ways there is to hunt for food. The affluent West however has become so comfortably insulated from the realities of life and separated from the fact that if they eat meat then something has to die, that tolerance for this type of thing would be very short lived. The bird is just doing what they do; driven by millennia of evolution and instinct. All it would take for us to do likewise ( vegans included ) is two or three weeks without electricity and empty supermarket shelves. 🤷‍♂️

I too owned a 1911 A1 Colt in .45 ACP. One of the nicest pistols in my collection. It was blued and browned and a perfect example of functionality. Anyhow, whilst I can appreciate the skill involved in the example you post of the sidelock, it is in my opinion simply grotesque and does indeed resemble perfectly those awful decorative plates and vases which adorn gypsy caravans! Sorry.

Each to their own but I’m firmly in the ‘less is more’ camp. I used to shake my head in despair at all those ‘commemorative’ firearms featured in Guns and Ammo back in my youth. Perfectly good firearms ruined by ‘bling’ on every conceivable surface! Americans, Arabs and Gypsies are firmly in the ‘more is more ‘ camp!