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Use a curvy baseball cap, low on the head. Both eyes open, the only eye that can see the end of the barrel ( sight) is the eye nearest the stock, whether left handed or right handed. The other eyes view of the barrel end is obscured by the down slope of the curvy peak. Works for me!

Vintage (1970's) BSA Scorpion air pistol in .22 carried in a small rucksack whilst checking my squirrel traps.

It will affect trail hunting. I bet this never crossed the minds of the welsh government..

As a check to make sure the baseball cap is positioned ok and to check that only the eye nearest the stock sees the bead on the end of the barrel, just close the eye nearest the stock and the sight picture should have disap with the other eyes view blocked by the curve of the peak. Try this also with the gun pointing up in the position it would be for an overhead shot to make sure the same. If the cap is low enough over the eyes it should work. Then just get on with it, baseball cap on, both eyes open and shoot knowing there will no longer be any change of eye dominance issues.

Just wear a curvy baseball cap. make sure the hat is low on the head. this automatically sorts out any issues and the eye furthest from the barrel cant see the muzzle/sight due to it being positioned behind the downward curve. whatever your eye dominance when the gun is mounted the eye nearest the gun will be the one that gets the clear view of the sight. (Curvy peak that is)

Apparently the consultation that took place most people who responded did so with a view that it should only apply to those with >50 birds. So they had the consultation, didnt listen to the views and decided it applied to everyone even one budgie in an outside aviary. This actually was done with the conservative government in power although it has only just become law. One presumes its just to let you know if there is a big outbreak of bird flu in the area so one can take measures to minimise your own birds getting it. On the online registration it does ask you what sort of birds you have. (Poultry, birds of prey, etc) but it does not go any deeper than that. If they come back and ask what type of bird of prey i have i will tell them politely to sling their hook as that would be a step to far.

Free and easy to register. If i didnt have a FAC/SGC i wouldnt have bothered..

I said to my wife the other evening, to put her coat on, its pub night. She said oh good we are going to the pub. No i said, i am, but i'm turning the heating off..

Wymberley thats very interesting. Another downside to steel is the increased recoil for a like for like weight payload due to putting more energy into the pellets via velocity to counter the lighter pellet weight. The kick being proportional to the square of velocity for the same payload. The trouble is that for smaller pellets as well as the increased kick it is a law of diminishing returns with only a very small increase in achievable range or target energy delivery. The pattern could be worsened also. So i suppose the argument that larger pellets for a given payload and a more moderate velocity hence not quite as worse kick with the pellets still having enough of what it takes to penetrate or have the required knockdown power at the furthest reasonable range. Thus not always to strive for the highest velocity cartridges. Really if steel pellets on the smaller side are used ( good pattern density) then it will be advantageous to limit the range that quarry is fired at and in that case a more normal " not so fast" muzzle velocity should be fine. Another problem is that many shooters ( myself included) inadvertently take shots that are far too long for the pattern/pellet energy available at that range. It is a sobering practice when out for a walk without a gun to look at that pigeon that flies past and think would i have taken a shot and then paced out to the landmark it flew over. The standard typical ranges where pattern/ energy runs out (say 45yds) isnt far ( barring the large pellet lucky hit at longer ranges). Quite often i pace out 60yds and the pigeon looked very large and in range as it crossed. Obviously out of normal shooting range but how many shooters would have fired the shot?

Kent wildfowlers website has a shotgun ballistics calculator. This is quite useful for both lead and steel and other shot materials. Pellet energy at different ranges and pattern related and different quarry species and number of pellet strikes required. A useful tool to play around with theoretical parameters when trying to gauge whether a cartridge and gun combination is suitable for a quarry species and to what range distance.

Of some older ( nearly 20 years) steel cartridges i have, some were sized in the "steel" sizing whereas some were "lead" sized such that for a "numbered" shot size they werent the same. Both had a shot diameter marked as well as the size number. The Hull brand pellets were a diameter up than the Lyalvale pellet but both were number 4's.

There is a lot of talk about using shot sizes twice up on the shot scale when switching to steel. So if one uses a 7 in lead then a 5 in steel. However a 5 in steel is really equivalent in diameter to a 4 in lead. ( i am shooting from the hip with this comment from memory which may or may not be correct) This is because steel sizing is a larger diameter than the equivalent lead for the same "number" shot size. Should we really be saying to go up just 1 shot size due to this? So really if say a 7 in lead then go for 6 in steel which is i think 2 sizes up in terms of diameter.

In our club apart from the odd junior member brought in by their parent the majority are in the more senior age group. Its the same in a little fly fishing club in North Yorkshire that i am a member of with regard to age group. Waiting list perhaps a year at the most. Not dead mans shoes any more. very few members below the age of around 50.

It was good to meet Heath too and a nice chat we had over a mug of tea. All the best Russ

It is indeed sold. I used it today on clays fresh from picking it up. I cant complain, hitting the first 6 clays and then just missing one out of the next 6. (It went downhill from there as it normally does for me but the gun didnt miss a beat) It got some interest from some fellow shooters with good success for them also with the few shots they fired. Cheers mickyh for advertising this and thanks for your quick responses to my PM's. Regards