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Three shoots I know of in Norfolk do this - maybe hundreds more. One letter through the door last week with a respond by return and half the money required up front. Its a good shoot and the manager is well known and so demand will be high. I have never been let down on a shoot yet but there is always a first time and you do hear scare stories about people scarpering with your wad of cash. Problem is , if its a good shoot and you delay you may be out in the cold if they sell all the guns.

They flew these on a High Wycombe clay shoot corporate day I went on about fifteen years ago . They had four planes with the flares under the wings, each launched in turn as a finale to the day. You could only shoot them down by giving them a long lead and hitting the plastic fuel line and the nylon props. All other hits lit up the flares. Best clay shoot I have ever been on .

Up to a short while ago car dealer used to use his own insurance to tax the new car . That has been changed recently and dealer now can't use his insurance to tax it . He has to produce yours. That means you need temp insurance for the new car while you run the old one. That could be the holdup.

Language on LZ is not good - no need for it. LR Net is probably the best one IMO. Some of the parts suppliers sell some absolute rubbish which you have to end up replacing as soon as. Lots of bits on fleabay but delivery cost is always a problem. LR Net moderate a pony express service which gets you LR parts from all across the UK . Get my new small parts from a supplier in Docking Norfolk and get larger s/h parts and panels from a landy man with a large stock also near there. If you are building a hybrid LR insurance can be a factor. The word modified rings bells all over the place. Good to start with a galv chassis and bulkhead if you are on a rebuild.

If the OP's syndicate has pegged drives and appoints a cartridge picker up on the duck drives, the captain can see what carts each gun is using. Sanctions can then be applied if all is not in order. Most guns on a game day have a few non toxic in their other pocket and everybody has their own non-toxic preference. Sell them a box of bismuth on the day if they have come along without, is one solution.

If you are a welder and have an angle grinder you can make a short-bladed heavy duty knife with a legal blade without a forge. Just source a long handled garden pruner at a boot sale. Remove the blade, cut off the pivot hole as appropriate and weld a tang on it from a bolt with the head cut off - this makes either a short tang hidden in the handle or a full length tang you can put a nut on. Or you can cut and weld on a mild steel steel handle shape and add scales either side. You can buy the brass rod in B & Q to act as pins . You can even rough shape the wood scales with the angle grinder. That bit of titanium on the rotor head of a chopper should make a few quality knife blades !!!

I make a few sticks each year. Usually hazel. Cut them "when I sees them" and trim up with a small saw. Let them sit for a year in my lean-to shed so they stay dryish but dont' crack. . Straighten them in the vice with wood padding after heat and steam treating the bent bits. Get antler parts from the Isle of Arran by post and use a gutter bolt with the head sawed off and a short piece of 22mm copper pipe to cover the join . Old cartridge for a ferrule usually. Blackthorn ones I find are the most difficult to source and straighten . I have had many deep scratches after a quest for the perfect blackthorn stick in a thicket. After I have made one I usually leave them on the shoot or in a hedge by mistake and have to make another !! Have made a few holly ones - I always leave the bark on and it goes darker with age and gets really tough. Have bored out the wood with a bit and sunk a spent sawed off 303 case in there before now. I knock the old primer out and use a copper nail to simulate a primer and to hold the case end in place in the wood . Can look good if you like that sort of thing . If I am giving it away I use a small router and cut the appropriate initial on the antler. This shows up nicely in white against the brown. I usually varnish or use linseed oil as a finish. I have made quite a few sticks over the years but only rough and ready ones.

That's the one. They do clays in Bim and they do have little brown pigeons, but have never seen anyone shoot them!!! You only see camo on the squaddies.

You can use it all to your advantage . Round here just leave it on the pavement and it will be gone in an hour or so . I have shifted kids old push-bikes , old computers, foot pumps, gas cookers - anything with a bit of metal in it . In France you just put a sign on a pile of stuff "gratuit" and leave it outside the house - it all evaporates. Have got a 3 ton anchor in the front garden and loads of people have tried to nick it over the years but luckily can't lift it. Did have a bike chain stolen off a push-bike in Highfield Leicester several years ago. Doormat nicked in Kings Heath Birmingham and so hilti nailed the replacement to the concrete. Had my crocs nicked outside the house. Had my Halifax bank contents nicked last week - some chap in India was using a cloned card and cleaned it out . Beware restaurants (especially in Wimbledon) that take a long time to process your card and get called away while processing it!!

Looks like a good setup. See you have a MEC with a universal charge bar. Looks like 12 ga. reloads. See you have a separate re-sizer and primer machine also. Non toxic or lead loads? What powder do you use?

This is all priceless and compulsive pedantry - I have been laughing my socks off reading this stream of harmless, hilarious and entertaining drivel .

Have shot sharks and floating cardboard boxes off the back of a minesweeper in the med with a Sterling SMG. Have shot geese from a moving grain trailer with a 12 bore and rabbits from a Land Rover and a Combine. Never shot clays from a boat . There is a shoot on the broads in Norfolk where you can shoot duck from boats . George Lanham is the man . He doesn't do clays tho'. Hope you can swim as wearing a mae west and trying to shoot - would be entertaining but dangerous for nearby matelots.

Try to avoid wearing camo clothing in Bimshire - the local fuzz throw you in HMP Dodds - no questions.

Inland duck shooting and old guns are the problem areas. Also duck do end up in the food chain and if shooters are non compliant........ Have been on shoots where the captain comes round and hands out non-toxic before the duck drive. That is a common sense no-excuse approach. The shoregunning wildfowl boys are shooting on public land ( the foreshore) and have had all the correct non toxic gear for years now. Anyone can grab their downed quarry and run off and xray it. My 20 won't take steel and I therefore reload 4 bismuth for use on duck drives. Tagging all shot wildfowl especially those shot inland could be a good step forward to make it traceable. Lead compliance would immediately follow.

i usually load one primer at a time into the hull on the mecs and the loadall. Dont like the idea of the auto prime with all your fingers wrapped round it. Having said that, although a primer makes a fair bang and a sheet of flame when detonated outside the cartridge, when subject to a hot flame it only makes a fairly subdued crack. I used to burn primers in bulk in part chopped empty hulls when extracting materials from factory misloads. the results were not spectacular at all - just a few sharp cracks - no windows broken. Having thrown live grenades there is a massive difference - just the detonator from one of those would blow your hand off.

Hello PW just joined. Do a bit of shooting in Norfolk . Do a bit of reloading mostly with bismuth for duck. Also reload fibre wad with lead for game loads and reload for light clay loads. Do a bit of rabbit control. Interested in reloading for 22 250 shortly.