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we have had hardly any snow this winter but this morning out of the blue it snowed a few inches, bairns and hound as high as kites, just a couple of pics of them out playing.

well done buddy, good selection of birds. i have only shot 1 pintail before and it was a pintail x mallard, lovely big colour photo of it in the wildlife section of our local paper taken the day before i shot it :yp: :yp: :yp:

crackin pic buddy :good:

good luck buddy :good:

i use a sheet of steel 40"x40" and paint it white with cheap emulsion, shoot it and paint again. i usually shoot it, mark on my 30" circle take a pic, paint it and go again then do all the counting and head scratching indoors at the computer.

i have a .223 a-bolt and a 700 bdl in 30-06, i know they are two very different calibres but accuracy wise the a-bolt wins over the 700. i have had to do nothing to the a-bolt and it is very accurate with factory ammo where as the 700 was not very accurate out of the box, it now has a hogue stock and timmny trigger, both of which made a big difference to the accuracy, (not so much the trigger but certainly the stock), but it is still not as accurate as the a-bolt. if i could have both calibres in either browning or remington they would both be browning.

i once got given a side by side that needed the barrels re done and for a laugh i had it powder coated bright metalic blue with glitter mixed in, (it was a friend of mine who was setting up a powder coating buisness who wanted to try out the colour) i wildfowled with it for a season and can honestly say that it made no difference, i think the important thing is not to move till you have to.

well done buddy, love the pic of the two labs :good:

i got on really well with winchester laser, not as fast as you are looking for though.

totaly agree with that, i shot olympic skeet with my 120 for a laugh sometimes and admititly it was not as fast as an over and under but there wasnt much in it. i bought a remington pump and could not get on with it at all because with the winchester i held back gently on the fore end and it seemed to cycle itself almost but with the remi any backward preasure on the fore end and it would stick, wish i still had my 120.

yeah, but kowing my luck the shell would fall out or i would drop it with the excitement of it all :lol:

for the grant of a shotgun cert its £50 and for renewal its £40 and its valid for 5 years. best of luck buddy, let us all know how you get on in the future :good:

the one thing i really liked and miss about the pump compaired to a semi was being able to have the slide half back when it was loaded, a bit like a broken but loaded side by side, its safe till a bird comes over then all you have to do is shut it. with a semi its not as easy, its either loaded or not. hope this makes sense

crackin stuff, well done. :good:

there is a nice bettinsoli on guntrader for £350

earlier on today i filled out a variation form and applied for a 22 hornet and a 6.5x55. i had a slot for a 17hmr but after getting in to reloading and reading up on the hornet i decided to go for the hornet and lose the hmr. i had an hmr before and the biggest problem for me was that here in shetland we dont get many wind free days/nights to get the most out of the hmr.

cheers guys

177 air rifle 177 air pistol 22 bsa meteor 22 bsa super sport 22 webley excel another 22 bsa meteor 22 webly tracker 22 weihrauch hw90 177 webly nemises 20 bore investarm single 12 bore aya yeoman double 12 bore zabala double 410 rota luciano double 12 bore gunmark kestrel double 12 bore baikal single 12 bore solway magnum double 12 bore beretta 682 gold sporter 12 bore wincheter 120 pump 12 bore winchester sx3 auto 10 bore horrible, ill fitting, hard kicking, shapeless spanish thing. instead of selling it i should have burnt it. 10 bore charles daly damascus double 12 bore t bland double 12 bore browning ultra 17 hmr cz 22 brno 22/410 combo remington 30-06 remington 30-06 remington .223 browning i think thats it, i have a feeling theres a shotgun i have forgotten about, wish i could forget about that 10 bore

i did a couple of hours carpentry work last night for my RFD and for my efforts he gave me this T Bland side by side box lock ejector, 2 1/2" chambers, 30" barrels, he also threw in a leg of mutton leather case that the gun can fit in. the gun has been well used, the barrels could do with being reblued and the woodwork could do with a bit of a shine other than that the gun is pretty good, with the fore end off there is no slack and the bores are mint. well chuffed :good:

.22 BRNO model 2 with iron sights (no scope). had a cz452 american in 17hmr with timmny trigger and leupold vx-1 4-12x40, sold it and regretted it.

you really want to throw the cat among the pigeons, check out this link http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BQY/is_11_50/ai_n6209996/?tag=content;col1 :yp: :yp: :yp:

salop sniper, this info was taken from the hornady website, is it what you were looking for, hope it helps. .223 55gr v-max Velocity (fps) / Energy (ft-lbs) Muzzle 100 200 300 400 500 3240/1282 2854/995 2500/763 2172/576 1871/427 1598/312 Trajectory (inches) Muzzle 100 200 300 400 500 -1.50 1.40 0.00 -7.00 -21.40 -45.90 .22-250 55gr v-max Velocity (fps) / Energy (ft-lbs) Muzzle 100 200 300 400 500 3680/1654 3253/1292 2867/1003 2511/770 2183/582 1880/432 Trajectory (inches) Muzzle 100 200 300 400 500 -1.50 0.90 0.00 -5.20 -15.90 -33.90 .243 58gr v-max Velocity (fps) / Energy (ft-lbs) Muzzle 100 200 300 400 500 3925/1984 3465/1546 3051/1199 2674/921 2327/697 2007/519 Trajectory (inches) Muzzle 100 200 300 400 500 -1.50 0.70 0.00 -4.50 -13.80 -29.60

1-8, 2-10, 3-12, 4-20, 5-28, 6-16, 7-410, 8-10.

nice pics once again buddy :good:

for me its an over and under for clays and the semi for wildfowling.