robbiep

Regards having guns on both your tickets, access to guns in cabinets, etc : ...oh, and the only reason I know this is because it is the situation for myself and Mrs P Your wife, husband, etc having access to your shotguns, when they have their own SGC is not an issue. Ask your FEO, but in North Wales they have the attitude that they assume, if you are sharing a gun safe, then you are happy for the other person to use the guns on your ticket. That is what we were told on the visit when she was applying for SGC. My guns do not have to go on her ticket, and hers do not have to go on mine. In any event, you can lend another SGC holder your gun for up to 72 hours without needing to notify. Further, if you were stopped by police with both your and your partners guns in the car, on the way to meet up, it could easily be verified that the gun in your possession that was not on your ticket belonged to your spouse, and the 72 hour rule would kick in again.

Best of luck As an aside, if you post your area on your profile, then you may well find other PW posters will happily let you try a gun of theirs on a clay range, if they are nearby and can arrange a time and date to suit

It's called 'adverse possession'. Basically, if you can show that you have tried to contact the owner, and failing to do so have had EXCLUSIVE use for 12 years, you can apply to the land registry to change the ownership of the land to yourself The word exclusive is important here - just using the land would not qualify. You would have had to fence the land off to prevent others from using it.

Somebody owns virtually every piece of land. Even if it is 'common' land, it is owned. Land may not be registered with Land Registry, that makes no difference. You need landowners/occupiers consent to shoot on land. Not having that consent is armed trespass. Don't even think about it, if you ever got caught by the police, you would almost certainly be prosecuted, and find your certificate revoked

Robins can be very territorial, especially the males in breeding season. However, in winter, they are a lot more likely to group together more often. Going from distant memory here, but I seem to recall the RSPB counting 30-odd flying into one nesting box a number of years ago in cold weather to roost

Considering a lot of Mirokus are Brownings with a different badge (or a lot of Brownings are Mirokus with a different badge), I'd love to know how he reckons a Miroku is not suitable for you. I'd suspect it is because he can sterr you towards a more profitable gun. But I am known as a total cynic You can also get Brownings made by FIAS (Italy) - I have a Browning Medallist which is Italian. Damn good gun too.

That's just it : I know this was Scotland, rather than England or Wales, but even so. I've spent winters up in Scotland. Seen nestboxes where whole extended groups of crested tits have frozen to death due to the cold. I can't for the life of me imagine that robins have it any easier than any other small songbirds in the harsh weather you can get up there. That's why it boggles the mind even more. I mean, just what damage can a few ... or even a few hundred robins cause. It's not like they are big enough to attack pheasants away from the feeders, not like they carry away salmon from fish farms (unless they've gotten real inventive, and helium balloons), they don't take crops or freshly seeded areas like pigeons would do. I can't think of a single reason why they would be considered for going on the GL. Can anyone ? Please enlighten me, if so

Rather unsporting if you ask me. After all, Charlie doesn't have opposable thumbs. Maybe if he had 2 shots for every one of yours ?

Lincolnshire : more heavily armed than Manchester ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-20607051

I read this too ... and I really can't understand why on earth they would even be considered for going on the GL. I mean, are there areas of the country with millions of them causing trouble, predating crops ?

I think (hope ?) you'll find that the instructor may have been talking about the 'oval cone' that the shot makes, rather than a spread across. Basically, at 30 yards or so, the shot starts to arrive in small numbers, then ramps up, then reduces again. Some shot will have got perfect propulsion, most will be close together in velocity, and some will be particularly slow (due to shot collisions) I'm also from more of a rifle background. I've been struggling due to the whole 'perfectly static' when I used to take the shot, now having to adapt to moving and rebalancing. However, by far the toughest thing for me is that I'm used to aiming a rifle. Pointing a shotgun is very different. Far more so than I'd ever appreciated

Sent you a pm with my number.

About £1.2k. However, I'm going to be selling a shotgun, and Mrs P is after a 20 bore O/U for xmas. Unfortunately, she likes Berettas.

Agreed. A little irresponsible. What's next, training your dog to fight ?

Either calibre will do exactly the same. If you hit a rabbit / pigeon / jackdaw in the head with a pellet, it isn't going to be a problem in the future. Yes, .177 is probably better in that you can set up your zero for 30 yards (as an example), and pellets will fall within an inch of that point from about 8 to 40 yards. With .22 you need to estimate the range more, and alter your aim point to suit. In terms of what to go for ... your choice is really only limited by what is available locally, or how far you are prepared to travel. Air arms and Weihrauch are both incredibly well built, generally if you get a bad one, it's one that has been messed about with. BSA ... quality is a lot more patchy. Some good guns, some (especially more recent guns) absolute sheds. Oh ... do yourself a big favour. Don't buy a CO2 gun

Sounds like a decent buy. I have a Weihrauch HW77K - .22 calibre, 25 years old. Cloverleafs at 30 yards (using Air Arms diabolo field pellets), has a 4*32 scope on it. Bombproof build (very heavy), and with only marginal care, I can see it still working when I'm boxed up Whatever you get, try it first on a range. 20 yards, and see if it puts pellet on pellet. If it does, it's very likely to be a good'un

A few questions that you really need to answer for yourself ... How far away for your shots ? How good a shot are you ? What is behind the pigeons (your backstop) ? How heavy a gun are you willing to carry around ? Do you need to lug it around ? Is it just to clear a current problem, or do you want it to be there for 1/5/10/30 years, for future use ? Those will all influence what you buy.

Don't worry about being new to shooting, I'm only recently back after more than a decade away. Never did much clay shooting previously, so I scare more than I hit. You can just turn up - though do please note that the track from the road to the shoot can get very muddy, and might not be suitable for normal cars in wet conditions. If you want to go on the 16th, then I can meet up on the morning (for example if you wanted to park in Caerwys, I go through there on my way) then I'll be happy to pick you up and drop back off. If you do, then drop me a pm, and I'll let you have my number. You'll need : your certificate and gun if you have them (if not, then you'll need to arrange to borrow (I have a spare if needed), and sign a declaration at the club) Cartridges - must be fibre wads. Also available on site (£4.50 or £4.75 a box, I think) Ear and eye protection (also available to buy on the day, very reasonable prices) Warm/waterproof clothing, and good waterproof footwear. The 16th is a 100 clay day, so would want to be there for about 10 am, will be there until 2-2:30.

Hi, yes, I'm a member there, and there are a few here who are members too. There was another thread a little while ago ... http://forums.pigeonwatch.co.uk/forums/index.php?/topic/225140-clay-shoot-st-georges/ Although this started as something else, it ended up being more re:caerwys

I'm not sure what brought more tears to my eyes, the original pic or the helpful comments !

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competent matters a lot more than confident. I'll throw this out as a suggestion. That's all it is though ... Go to your local clay ground, register with them. Have a couple of lessons. Sometimes, on the police visit, they may ask about what you know concerning safe gun handling. (it certainly happened to my wife, when she applied for SGC). Being able to say 'I've joined xyz and had safety and shooting lessons' certainly wouldn't hurt.

Welcome ... from probably disturbingly close to browning123. I think we're taking over !

Me being one of the many. At the time, I was shooting competitive .22 target pistol, .22 target rifle (both to a high level), some 9mm pistol, and a little bit of clay shooting too. I was so disgusted with it all that I gave it all up, and walked away entirely. It was over 10 years until I shot again. Make no mistake, pistol shooters were seen by Blair as part of his ticket to power. The fact that a single shot .22 target pistol with no magazine would be a horrendously useless criminal weapon is utterly irrelevant