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I'm Just sticking with the 10 Bore for all my Wildfowling now, sold the Extreme 2, so I'm letting the 12 gauge shells go now. A great deal for somebody out there, the 'matrix tungsten' are currently £140 for 50 from 'just cartridges, so somebody will get the rest for nothing. thought about selling them to one of the wash clubs, there's enough to keep all their members going for the next 30 years!! if only I'd just bought a box of 10 when I joined 8 years ago, I would only have 8 left instead of all these !!! ....I thought the pair of 'bird watchers only' 'Harry the cat' & 'Big Mat' would spot the advert!! Ha Ha Ha😄

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That's correct but if you read the topic fully, this had already been 'pointed out' by myself but it is 'still being used' and my friend had it posted to her through another member of the Corvid site only the other week!! this is why I put it up, for wildfowlers to see that their sport is being used as a reason for the song bird decline, obviously its the members policy just to defend the' Crow family 'but it doesn't really matter what year the poster came out, its the fact that its still being used today and its falsely educating the public that, wildfowling is part of the reason why songbirds are in decline and anybody involved in any kind of fieldsports knows that is completely untrue and unfounded but if seen by joe public on a poster, they will believe it!!

Thought this may be of interest to fellow wildfowlers... My Friend is a member of a Corvid enthusiast group on Facebook and brought this to my attention(Please see above the orange line). It seems that we are the target yet again for people who are ill-informed about our sport. "British Trust for Ornithology" are publishing material which has no foundation; How can Wildfowling contribute to the decline of the song bird population? Are their members aware that the air force bomb regularly on various parts of the foreshore around the UK coastline? However, they do not get a mention. It is worth noting that this was published in 2010 but is still being circulated.

I'm after a good A1 trap gun 30" in original condition, still lacquered not oil finished with original fixed chokes, half & full/ 3/4 & full/ full & full, in excellent condition, someone must have a sleeper in their cabinet that they no longer use? good price paid. Also stock & fore end to fit B25 skeet gun, anyone got anything available? cheers, Dale.

Thanks Dave, I will give him a call, I thought the guys on here who were asking for his contact number might know something to save me ringing. best wishes, Dale.

I called at Grahams house last season to have some cases made but he said, that he was going to finish the jobs that he had already taken on, then he was planning on doing some holidaying in a caravan with his wife in 2020 as she wasn't very well, said that he would contact me later in the year but obviously nobody was aware that a pandemic would strike, so that probably stopped what he had got planned, so he might be working again now we're all in lockdown, does anyone know if he is up &running again?

i've got quite a few gualandi wads and some original Remmington ones too, if theres interest for them.

Read as many books as possible, most trainers will more or less do similar things and you will build up knowledge and a sound training method out of all the combined teachings, just the same way as you, yourself, will teach your dog, "through repetition". some books state how well your dog should be doing at a certain age but they are all different and ones that learn fast, can forget just as fast!! Do not forget to let your pup, be a puppy!! My latest lab pup started retrieving dummies from water at 4 months old and was showing all the signs of being much more mature than he actually was, then he went back to being a pup again and lost interest for a while, so i just left him alone until his interest returned again, as it did and he is as keen as mustard again, now aged a year. You have more time than you think to train him and you don't need to keep throwing countless retrieves for him, they don't really get tired of it but its not necessary, mix your training up because they're very clever dogs and they will anticipate what your going to do next if you stick with a routine. In my opinion, Books are better than videos, as you will be comparing your dog to the one in the video which, behaves perfectly (yours doesn't) for the camera, that's why its being filmed!! Training is the easy part, solving the problems that you face whilst trying to teach each individual dog, is the 'art of training', knowing what to do, when things don't go like the book says!! Most people who have trained dogs for a number of years, will still pick up any new book they come across, which they haven't already read, because there may be just one little thing in it that they didn't know and it will have been worth reading it, just for that. Its not Rocket science but common sense, try and think how you're coming across to the dog and why he cant understand what you want him to do, remember, he doesn't know what your words mean until you show him, then use the same word for that task every time!! all the best, read & re-read until its sunk in, then read another book & another.

why you selling Mat? have you bought Bob's 4Bore?

Dave carrie was about when i was going around the country "clay shooting" he is a naturally talented shot and was always in a position to take home some cash. Maybe not in "George DIgweeds" class but hey, ( who is?) although not very far from it!! He's perhaps on a par with most of the people who have shot for England. Armed with the same cartridges and gun combination, most of us probably still would'nt hit them and i've included myself!! best wishes.

finished the season with not a sausage in the bag!!......had a good chance at pinks on fenlands, down the "middle entrance" one morning flight. a small bunch of pinks (7 or 8) came past me about 30yds away and i missed cleanly with the first shot, pushed further past for a little more lead and thought yes, heres my first pink of the season, pulled the trigger of the Browning semi 10g and nothing happend?.....correct, the cartridge did'nt eject the reciever properly sh%$£*t !!!.....shot a mallard on holbeach out on "winkle run" it came down like a sack of spuds on the other side of the creek, the lab got half way across when the mallard got up and flew off?...mentioned this to a fellow fowler who had the same thing happen to him, steel shot?....anyway, shot a high wigeon on "mallard creek" it steadily fell away from the rest of the pack, finishing up about half a mile out on the mud by which time the dog had averted his gaze to another pack of wigeon coming behind the first lot but way out of gunshot!! nevermind, thats how it goes, unfortunately, i could'nt get all that often this season but i'll be back trying again next season, i still enjoyed it.

Theres nothing wrong with your offer mate, its just that some folk on here love to just pick holes in everything and anybody, with their "holyer than though" attitude, just for the sake of an argument or to try and make a point!!..the same people probably get picked on by their partners and dare'nt say "Boo to a goose" at home, so they come and preach on here instead of GETTING A LIFE!!

magazine wanted for the air rifle. any pellet size just pm what you have , many thanks, Dale.

i can see a solictors letter going out to someone!!

This just what the "Anti-shooting brigade" like to read, shooters falling out amongst themselves and calling one another idiots and cruel for taking long shots resulting in wounded quarry, which of course is quite right but.....instead of "posting it on a forum" which anybody can read or get access to, why not approach the people concerned when you've witnessed it happen, or report them to the club officials/wardens?....dont forget "Big Brother" is always watching these sites and you play right into their hands, giving them proof and incidents of bad shooting taking place at various sites and dont forget if someone is 4-500yds from you, how do you know how high they pass him or has he had a shot at a low duck or something which you cannot even see?....Anti's are only aware of what happens, because we are informing them!!

Well done Matt!....hope its the 1st of many. By the way was the loader any good to you?

I advertised on here and in the "sporting gun" and checked all the gunshops online for months trying to get one but never did, hope you have better luck than I did! ....ended up with a browning 10g which I'm very pleased with, I've put a few rounds through it and it functions nice and smoothly and handles good as well plus, as they still make them, there's plenty of spares available, dont forget they no longer make the SP10. if you get one, I've got a few chokes for "steel & lead" to fit the SP10 if you want to buy them cheap? atb....Dale.

I'm with you on this one Motty, things tend to get a little bit overkill on this forum at times, I personally dont know anyone who's had a gun Barrel blow to bits through using a fast cartridge or any homeloaded one, obviously, I've heard of Guns bursting through obstructions etc but I've never seen it done! Just recently, I loaded some proven recipe carts for "Shakin Stevens" and they kicked more than a 10G we were trying out at the same time!! and there was even another proven recipe from the same manufacturer for a further 2 gns of powder!!!!... we never at any time felt we were in danger, they just kicked like a mule!!! I suppose this is an interesting topic for many but I think most people just quote stuff from books they've read, after all, we all have to learn from somewhere but lets keep it real!!....this is not meant to be a put down towards anyone, just my thoughts thats all. atb...Dale.

I think he's pulling your leg mate (tongue in cheek)... the FN factory produced the legendary B25's hand made o/u, costing thousands of pounds (still do) the factory is Belgiums most famed gun makers and is renound the world over. atb ...Dale.

There's also a guy down south who buys just about everything worth having as he's got an unlimited amount of cash and gets Alan Myers to vet everything out for him but there's still a few that slip through the net! hope you you drop on a good one. atb...Dale.

Hello mate, you'd be best putting an advertisement in sporting gun "Shop Front" to seriously get hold of one, its easy & free to do and you can e-mail the ad to them. I put one in a couple of years ago and just kept it running every month, I got offered quite a few but had to do a fair bit of travelling to view them before I landed on one worth having. The magazine seems to reach far more than on here. Good luck and go armed with the right gear to measure everything, as most have been in use for over a hundred years!! atb...Dale.

just wondering; has anyone had one of these guns in 20 Bore before?....I've been offered one wich is in very good order, its a proper 3"magnum, proofed to 1300kgs but only has 25" barrels?...I've looked on google but it only said very few 3" magnum 20's were made by AYA?. Is it a bit of a rarity as I've never seen one in this gauge before? It just looks the same as the no3 12G that I used to own with the beaver tail forend etc and although the barrels are 25", they look like the originals....info anyone? cheers ..Dale.