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Hi everyone, Old single barrel 12g shotgun which has been sitting in the safe for years. Due to its age it started to miss fire because of the main torsion springs have become weak. The gun was put away and forgotten as new double barrel was purchase. On resent shooting outings my dad and I have been shooting pigeons on the morning fly over in a small woodland. My self using a 30inch barrelled O/U with multi chokes full and 3/4 having no problems getting hits. As for my dad using his old side by side with 28inch barrels with 1/2 and 1/4 is having little luck. The bird high is just out for the old banger. Decoying with the gun is still as good as the day he got it. So with all that said boring you all I want to re spring the old single barrel for the old boy which he bought 48 years ago as a teenager when you could buy guns out of the local catalogue. Being a 30inch barrel and full choke it will bring back old memories to him as well as hitting those high birds. Torsion springs, if not known are just simple 1.2mm diameter spring steel wire springs. Not the V shape spring. Has anyone had these make by anyone in the Hertfordshire or close to Hertfordshire. Google just shows gunsmiths up north. Any known gunsmiths would be grate thank you.

Very strange but then again could be more to it than meets the eye! My dad and his brother had a 400ac farm they shot for over 25 years. In that time the farm had been rented out and changed hands a number of time. Each time the leaving resident farmer always gave a good review of corrector, well mannered gentlemen and tidy responsible shooters my dad and uncle where and still are, and always got to continue to shoot the farm. I started my love of shooting on this property as a 4 year old boy. Shooting my first pigeon and pheasant there with a Webley .22 air rifle. Remember as if it was yesterday and shot there until I was 19 (38 now) then I move away to Australia. Where I am today. I miss the pigeon shooting that's the reason for me using this forum to keep an eye on what's new. Any way getting back to it, I got the news that they had lost the shooting ground 5 years after I left. And the main reason was they where bulled off by a so called Professional Shooter. I could give the name but I wont at this point. He's well known. They where not kicked off as such by the farmer but where harassed by this PS as he had paying customers from overseas and was paying the farmer to have them there. Before it got to the point where my dad and uncle just stopped going, there where empty shells every where and other rubbish just left around the farm. In the hide's they had used all those years and rubbish in the ditches. They spoke to the farmer and he just said you will just have to get along with each other. They tried there best to call this PS to say they where going shooting but each time they got told that there was a planed shoot on so stay away. In saying that the planed shoots where 3 or 4 times a year. In all those years they shot every weekend in the winter months. And knew he was just saying it to keep them away. They just gave up in the end and walked away loosing a grate shooting ground to a selfish A Hole! The story do's not end there! My uncle had manage to find some new shooting ground after they left the other not far from the lost ground. They shot there for a number of months until they got told by the farmer that there was a PS wanting to shoot the same new farm they where on. They asked who it was and guess who? Yes it was the same person. They told the farmer what had happened at the last place where they got bullied off and lucky for them the farmer was on there side and told the PS to go away and don't ask again. To this day my dad and this brother are still shooting the property and are still take there rubbish home. Maybe this could of happened to you. How many farmers would say no to cash in the hand, not many I'm sure. And I know because I'm a farmer my self and know how they think!

Sako Vixen .222 is what I use. And has not let me down for over 17 yrs using it on foxes. Reload my own and makes it a cheep and fun round to use. .222 is not loud and I have taken foxes out at 300 meters not yards. I zero 1 inch high at 100mts lets me shoot out to 200mts with out to much drop. Most of my foxes I like taking at 150mts with a head shot. I'm no marksman but I can do it at ease. If you have a good rifle that shoots, the rifle will show you how to shoot.

Gday, Hi there, I'm an old pigeon shooter that moved to Australia 17yrs ago. I swapped my shotgun shooting to rifle's. The 50,000ac staiton (farm) I live and work on has plenty of foxes, pigs and other's to shoot. I went a Sako .222 and reload my own ammo using Noslar Ballistic Tips in 55gr with ADI powder at 21gr. I zero one inch high at 100 meters (not yards) and that gives me around 2 - 3" drop out at 200 meters. I do shoot out to 300 meters and I have had some grate shots. I got this rifle second hand and its a late 60's early 70's made and would not know how many rounds have been shot but the grouping at the 100 meters is still under half inch. Due to the fact a .222 is not a big canon the barrels dont get a canning unlike larger cal rifles. The other good thing is it's not as loud as larger calibers even .223. I have on many occations sat in one spot spotlighting and called in 3 or 4 foxes in amatter of minets and the shots have not been a problem. Reloading make it cheeper and you can find that perfect load for your rifle. So you cant go wrong with a .222 for foxes I'm also a Sako shooter so check them out to.T3 or 85 Hunter or Vermint.

Gday. Any Sako model rifle shoots well. 100 meters out of the box will give you .5 MOA or beter. .308 will shot out to 1000 yards but would not have the grouping as a F Class rifle. If you going to shot in comp's then the T3 will not be up to the job for the longer range shots. Google F class rifles.