sidelockshooter

I have an Osprey in .177, good little rifles!

I spent around £150 on a Tracer LED Ray 500, that is amazing on my pcps, and also my moderated Mossberg 500 .410, range is up to 180yds, but using the yellow filter, that reduces by around 25%. Well worth the money, and I have shot loads of bunnies since using it!

Looks like a nice little gun, well done! Kind of reminds me of my dad's little Browning 101. What's it shoot like?

If you can pull a trigger as we say, it does not matter if you use a cheap gun or an pricey one! People do not care, some people have all the gear & no idea as they say! If the Baikal comes up alright, stick with it! One comment you'l hear from many people, is that the barrel's on Baikal's are very well made! Good luck!

I have one, my dad had one when I was a kid, which was always lent up in the boot room of our old house. That got sold by my brother for £40 to someone we know (who offered me it back a few weeks ago when I bumped into him in our local supermarket). They are a good little gun, the 70mm cartridge issue always catches people out, they cycle fast, a good gun in a hide, as you don't need to move about much to load it! The safety catch on the back of the trigger guard makes sense, but always check it's safe when in a hide etc, it catches a lot of users out! I know my local gunshop (Field Stream & Covert) in Hatfield Heath has one or two in the back safe that are for sale. I don't think they'll ever be worth a great deal, plenty about, the American's love them for Upland shooting, and many U.K shooters remember them if you pull one out of a slip at a clay shoot!

It's probably been asked more than once on here before, but I'm having trouble trying to get a normal 27" spare barrel for my Mossberg Hushpower converstion. Mossberg kindly replied to an email last week, suggesting places I had already tried, no joy, anyone managed to geton from anywhere? (Have also asked my local RFD's, and my last job was working at an RFD's so asked many a rep etc...)

Pretty intense here just past 6.30 a.m this morning, a black poplar lost three big limbs on the farm track that is part of our driveway, blocking this country lane for a few hrs whilst me my dad & the Stihl worked up a sweat! Lost one of my favourite roost shooting trees in one of the woods here, also numerous trees down around the farm, gates blocked etc, what a day! How did everyone else fair?, hopefully no one hurt! Sawbridgeworth & High Wych still without power, o.k here thankfully! Be safe folks (pretty sure thats the end of it!)

Another music icon gone, The Velvets inspired me to play guitar in a different manner than what most were doing when I was at college in the 90's, what with the whole pop art stuff, amazing! RIP Lou, you & Stirling & Nico & Warhol jammin somewhere else now?

Hello & welcome!

I quite like the idea of a Lee Enfield .410, my old Webley has been great all these years (got to renew the ejector slide, it's wearing out, and sometimes the bolt comes right of the back of the gun). The Hushpower is great, have had great fun bunny bashing with it, main use is knocking corvids out of the trees near phesant pens, although some 'subsonic' loads I made with Maxam powder did not kill aswell as I had hoped!

Good shot, this is how all game should be dealt with, some of the video's you see are shocking, and it only gives the sport a bad name! I lived in the South of Sweden some years back, often went out in -29 conditions with the ex-girlfriends uncle's rifle or drilling gun, never see a bloody Boar!