Bear68
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@FilThank you for your advice, it's appreciated.
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Sold to Hightower.
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Price reduced to £20 including postage.
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2 x 12 bore flush fitting chokes in 1/4 and 3/8. Teague protective tubes. Light use only. £25 including postage.
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I'm looking into the options for non-lead ammunition for driven pheasants and partridges (good birds but not stratospheric). I'd be interested to hear any reports on Bioammo Blue cartridges used in the field this season, please.
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Sold to Button.
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5 × 12 bore chokes: skeet, 1/4, 3/8, 1/2, 3/4. Light use only. Plus Teague choke case and key. £60 incl postage.
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Thanks all. These older Browning's certainly look good value at the moment.
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I'm tempted by a Browning B25 built in 1977. It's choked 1/4 and 3/4. Browning's website advises not to use steel shot in any of their older fixed choke guns. Is this merely because many are tighter than the recommended maximum of 1/2 choke, or is more to do with other issues (choke profile etc.)? It's a nice looking gun but I'd be happier knowing that opening the tighter choke would futureproof it. Any advice would be appreciated.
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Steve Kershaw and Neil McKillop have screwcut rifles for me to a very high standard.
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@B725Thanks, message sent.
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@ditchmanThank you, looks ideal.
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It will be for walked-up partridge.....probably a maximum of a brace at a time. Thought it would allow the birds to cool more quickly than being stowed in a game pocket.
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Looking for a game carrier with half a dozen or so looped leather thongs that you can hang from a belt. Please let me know if you have one going spare.
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12 minutes ago, London Best said:
Spot on!
In my experience most of them don’t know much about guns.A lesson I've learnt the hard way
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I can't see an 'H' on mine, so I assume it was either made in-house or by another maker (Scott?). This is the action:
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@FargoDo you find they perform well on live quarry?
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Thanks, I've checked mine but can't see an 'H' on it. Mine is true cylinder in the right barrel and tight (3/4 ish) in the left. It's very effective with 25gm of 6 shot in a 2.5" cartridge.
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@alan123shooting; thank you, I didn't know that. I did contact Hardy shortly after I'd bought it, buy they explained that all their old sales ledgers had been destroyed when they moved in the 1960's.
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I bought a Hardy side by side 16 bore a couple of years ago. It has damascus barrels and is a non-ejector. Although it's probably 120 years old, and needs a rubber stock extension to fit me, it's a gun I've clicked with and have enjoyed using. I'm not an expert on proof marks, but looking online I think it was proofed in Birmingham before 1904? It nitro proofed and a gunsmith has confirmed it is still in proof. Any thoughts on age, original maker (I assume it was sold but not made by Hardy) etc. would be welcome:
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Please could you confirm the barrel length, orientation, and your location?
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Thanks. The RC Sipe 26gm load looks interesting.....but I assume there would be more recoil than the above suggestions?
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Thank you. I'll give them a go.
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There have been similar threads in the past, but cartridge manufacturers seem to rebrand their products on an increasingly regular basis. I've bought an AYA 20 bore side by side for walked-up and driven game shooting. I'm looking for cartridges with a 25gm or 26gm (lead) load with fibre wads. It's a light gun and I think anything heavier will be a bit fierce. Any recommendations would be appreciated.
BASC given permission to bring judicial review of Defra decision
in General Shooting Matters
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Well done, BASC. Good to see you on the front foot