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Enjoyed Narcos a lot. The numbers involved are eye watering and are mostly true. At their height they were raking in $60 million......a day!!! Orange is the new black was a lot of fun too. Crazy eyes, quite rightly, won a best supporting actress emmy. Fanatstic work by Uzo Aduba.

The SXP will do all you want and is cheap as they come. Just try it on for size first, the lop can be too short for some.

Yeah, but other than that it was great huh

Genesis / Showbox / Zeus / vdubt25 / SALT job done. ;-)

three barrels, does that make it a trifle?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/motorsport/33001908 Claims another. R.I.P. fella

I start with both open, pick up and track the target and when I'm happy I have it, I close my left and fire.

What rights have the government taken from you?

I didn't say it was useless, just that it has no discernible bearing on my life that I can see.

I'm old enough to have lived in the time before we had a human rights act, as far as I can tell, nothing has changed for me. As a law abiding, tax paying, uk citizen, the human rights act has no meaning for me. It certainly doesn't feel like it protects any of my human rights any better than before its inception. I'm sure it was well meant, but I'm struggling to think of any time it has been used by a 'normal' uk tax paying, law abiding citizen against the terrible powers of government.

What a load of bovine excrement. A pump is great fun to use, the sound of course is like no other. The slide will go as quickly as you can and a second instant shot is rarely that necessary. True, it can pull your aim for the second shot, but unless you're keeping the barrel in the same position for the second shot you're moving it anyway. Missing and getting frustrated is a nonsense. That depends on the individual and their own expectations and that has nothing to do with the gun. If you point it in the right place you'll break the clay, simple as that. As for the Rambo mentality, well that's just complete drivel. Pay it no mind at all. If you want one, buy one, that's all that really matters.

Wherever you buy it from should MOT it first. I wouldn't buy it otherwise. The tax thing is easy enough, you can use the code on the new keepers section of the V5C to tax it online straight away, no insurance needed. Of course, if it already has tax, while its not transferrable, it won't show up on any ANPR as being untaxed until the DVLA register the sale, which won't happen for a few days at least. So you could, technically, drive it home and then tax it, but you pays your money in that regard. Insurance also, you just get it ready before hand and phone up and activate it and pay before you drive it off the forecourt.

My Mrs, who's 5'2" and quite petite, started off with a Hatsan youth 20g, light and cycled 24g carts without too much recoil. She had that a year or so and moved up to a Maxus 12G, 26" barrel shooting 24g carts. A year or two on from that and she now shoots a newer Maxus 12G, still 26" barrelled and with 28g carts. We did buy her a Lincoln Xtra light O/U though and that is very, very, light and, truth be told, 28g carts in it are a bit much even for me but 24g s and lower are just fine.

Price?

As a semi auto and pump action user I've never run into too many problems with usage or comments at a clay ground. One fella did ask why I was loading three one time, I wasn't, the speed loading loading system on the Browning chambers the first round automatically and he couldn't understand why I wasn't pushing the button on the side. Assumed I had one left in the gun to start with. Picking up spent carts is always a thorny subject. It's a rare time I step into a stand that doesn't have carts on the floor already, they can't all be semi auto users. Some carts will be ejected behind safety ropes and be inaccessible and other times I've had folk tut me because they've had to wait an extra ten seconds to get into the stand as I pick up the spent carts. At the weekend, I was 'spoken' to for not picking up carts, and whilst technically the fella was correct. What he failed to realise that was the Mrs (also a semi auto user) shot after me and picked up hers and mine, which she had done all day (she's very well trained ;-) ) I just said no problem, went into the next stand, kicked a space in the carts that were already there, shrugged my shoulders and had my shoot as usual. To answer the OPs questions though. I have mine in a slip between stands usually. A breech plug in until I'm in the stand, the gun is always pointed straight up, straight down, or into the range area, never load more than three unless it specifically allowed (at a flush for example), pick up spent carts (or at least ten of the fifty there usually are ;-) )

And don't tell him your name either Mark.....

Shoot. Can't do Saturdays :-(

I got my ticket first, and then the Mrs some year or so later. We share quite happily and our guns aren't on both tickets.

How about north, south, east or west then? I'm in Harlow and there are a few of us over this way :-)

Welcome from a fellow Essexer. What part of Essex?

I rearranged the letters.....bTxDir. Simples really ;-)

To be honest, I've no idea. They are both choked at half if that makes any difference. Having put the grand sum of three, yes, three whole rounds through it last sunday I can report that it fires just fine. It extracted all the carts and all were short brass. My other M37 won't extract carts with short brass (under around 10mm). When I picked it up the guy did say it had had problems with extraction but had been looked at by his gunsmith and all was fine now although he didn't know what had been done. I was expecting it to be the same as my other M37 but it would appear, from those three shots, that it isn't. I'll have a full round bash with it next time out :-) but thus far, very happy.

I lied, managed to pick it up today. Best as I can tell it was made in 62. Its the upper one. Shorter foregrip, no rib and no chequering on the stock compared to my other M37. Hopefully will get to have a bang on Sunday :-)

I've today become a double pump club member, picked up a rather bargainous 2nd Ithaca M37 for the princely sum of 125 sterlings. It's a bit knocked about but hopefully it'll fire just fine. Pick it up Saturday and will shoot it Sunday all being well :-)

I had no trouble at all extracting the broken pin, simply turning upside down and tapping had It out, no problem.