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Hi everyone GWCT Oxfordshire are running a prize draw to win a new Beretta shotgun plus other prizes. If you fancy a ticket please use this link to our website: GWCT Oxfordshire 2019 Prize Draw - Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust All the best Chris Christopher F Robinson Oxfordshire County Group Vice Chairman, Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust

We have a deer safari scheduled at Cornbury Park for Wednesday 23rd October, bacon roll, tea/coffee on arrival then a tour of the park with the deer manager Tom Marshall Upon our return we'll have more refreshments with snacks followed by a demonstration by UKDTR They'll be a BDS stand and R.J. Blackwell gun makers shop and showroom is adjacent to where we will meet and will be open to showcase their range of Mauser and Sauer rifle plus various makes of shotguns Spaces limited to 30 people and I have 17 booked so far, if you want a place please e-mail me on chris@oxfordmeditech.co.uk Cost is £15.00 All the best Chris Christopher F Robinson Oxfordshire County Group Vice Chairman, Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust

It was a pleasure to welcome you & Amy onto our team Mark & many thanks for the lift on the 3rd drive. We all had a great day & even though my severed Achilles Tendon kept me from shooting some of the Partridge that got past me I did get my fair share of the bag. Jonathan was great in loaning me the quad for the day to get about. All the best Chris

Hello from Oxfordshire Cheers Chris

I applied for bolt action .22-250 with moderator. Must say I was impressed with the Tikka I looked at. Chris

Well the FAC finally arrived this morning Only took 4 months, pretty good for Thames Valley. :( So its time to spend some money Have been looking at .22-250 Tikka's & an RWS Titan so it's decision time. I've got a Kahles 3.5-10x50 scope on its way from the USA. Chris

If anyone has a Deer-Quest CD for sale, original or copy I would be grateful. Regards Chris

Bought mine from here. http://www.stadia-sports.co.uk/products/at...startingblocks/ Chris

Have a Silver Pigeon III Sporter 30" but after a year I found I wasn't shooting clays so much so changed the white front sight for a brass bead then had the manual safety converted to auto safe more in keeping with a true game gun. It's a great gun & nevers gives any problems. A friend has the Silver Pigeon V & it's identical apart from the colour case hardening. You won't regret buying it. :blink: Chris

Nice to see my old Webley & Scott being put to good use Sidney, keep up the good work. Chris

My old bus a 1999 2.5 DSE Range Rover

Sold!

Anyone interested in a Webley & Scott see my post below. Chris http://forums.pigeonwatch.co.uk/forums/ind...showtopic=40823

Webley & Scott 12g Wildfowler Semi Auto, 28†barrel plus a 4†screw in extension, 3 1/2†MaxiMag chamber, steel shot proofed, 2+1 capacity. Synthetic stock finished with Advantage Max-4 HD camouflage. Comes with five interchangeable chokes, ventilated rib & a Webley & Scott gun slip. Very good condition, only 6 months old. Need the space in my gun cabinet for imminent arrival of new rifle! £385 (new £499) Chris

12g Sussex Armoury Heritage Boxlock SBS bought I think around 1982. First target a tree branch! I remember I was so keen to let fly I had a go at a rotten branch on the way to the field were the wheat was being cut & first quarry of course, rabbits escaping from the combine. I still have the old girl & occasionally bring her out for a pigeon or two. Chris

Hi all After getting a great deal on a Webley & Scott Wildfowler semi auto earlier this year I found it would occasionally hang up 2¾ (70mm) cartridges on ejection. Recently Webley & Scott have put a disclaimer on their website stating only 3†(76mm) or above cartridges should be used. I like the gun a lot so don’t really want to get rid so I’ve been looking around for 3†cartridges with lead shot in 5 or 6 shot sizes. I know I can get steel 3†in any amount of sizes which I do use occasionally for Duck but really want lead for the Pigeon. (don’t really trust steel) I’ve found RC50 in number 5's & Eley do an Alpahmax magnum in 4's but if anyone knows of another 3" cartridge with lead shot in number 5 or 6 sizes please let me know. Cheers Chris

Take the easy option every time, you of all people should know that!!

Holly & mates, Jack & Guinness all being unusually good for once Holly after being a snow plough

Holly

There you go Down The Line (DTL) Down the line is one of the oldest forms of clay shooting. It is a great discipline for beginners as it gives you many targets to break and also teaches the importance of concentration on the shooting circuit. A round usually consists of 25 targets, which are fired away from the shooter. The shooter stands 16 yards behind the firing house, where they will fire at the rising targets. There are 5 firing positions and even though the targets rise they do so at a constant angle. However, the targets are fired randomly across the horizontal plane; the maximum arc is around 44 degrees. Each competitor must shoot from each of the five firing points and a total of 5 clays will be launched at each of these points. The order of the firing points is so that when the competitor has shot, they would move to the next position on their right. If a shooter is on position 5 they will go to 1. The shooter usually calls for each target with the gun already in their shoulder and has two shots to break the target. Three points are awarded for breaking a target on the first barrel, whilst only two points are awarded for breaking the target with the second barrel. Big competitions can consist of 4 rounds making up 100 targets; a perfect score would see 300 points from 100 targets. It is possible to win a competition by breaking fewer clays than other competitors, as two first barrel kills are the equivalent of three second barrel kills. Sport Trap Sport Trap is a fun idea that allows all the usual targets from English and International sporting to be combined into a competition that can be shot in a small area. Sport Trap is as fascinating to watch as it is to shoot. The targets themselves as single targets are fairly easy but each shooter has to shoot combinations from all traps, and these combinations can be either on report or as pairs together, furthermore after every shooter has shot their allocated 5 targets they all move to the right one place and shoot another different combination of 5 targets. The score is simply formed from how many targets are broken by a shooter. Automatic Ball Trap ABT is a relative newcomer to the clay shooting scene and is a product of modern trap technology. It is also widely known as just ‘Ball Trap’ (painful as it sounds) and to Americans as ‘Wobble Trap’. It was devised to provide much of the challenge of Olympic Trap without the associated high fixed costs of installing a trench with fifteen permanent traps. Instead it uses just one automatic trap that is constantly varying both the angle and elevation of the target. This gives an enormous variety of targets for the shooters but the one major drawback is that the targets are random, unlike Olympic Trap where all shooters will have faced the same mix of targets by the end of the competition. In theory one shooter could be unlucky enough to receive 100 hard right handers in succession during a competition and it is this inherent unfairness that has perhaps prevented the discipline becoming more popular. Having said that, the low cost and ready availability of ABT has made it an important stepping stone into the international trap scene for many shooters, as well as a specialisation in its own right for many. With national championships and home international team places at stake, the discipline supports a busy competition programme. There is however little international competition outside of the British Isles. Major championships and selection shoots are usually shot over two days and 200 targets. Skeet All the skeet variants share the same basic semi-circular layout. The base chord of the semi-circle is 36.8 metres with two traps, set one at either end. To the left is the ‘high house’ throwing targets from a height of 3.05m; to the right is the ‘low house’ with the trap set so that the targets emerge at a height of 1.07m. The targets are set so that both pass within 45cm of a mark called the Target Crossing Point and in calm conditions they should fly 50- 52 metres. Boundary posts set 40.2m in front of each trap house mark the limits within which targets must be shot to count as fair kills. Around the semi-circle, spaced 8.13m apart, are seven shooting stations, 91x91cm square, number one being closest to the high house. FITASC FITASC Sporting takes its name from the governing body, the Federation Internationale de Tirs aux Armes Sportives de Chasse, based in Paris. FITASC Sporting is the only truly international form of sporting clays, with a following on all five continents. There are two variations in the way FITASC Sporting is shot, usually referred to as ‘old’ and ‘new’ system. Each round, or ‘parcours’, normally consists of 25 targets and in the old system the layout would consist of five traps, with three different shooting positions, the position being marked by a one metre hoop laid on the ground. The squad of usually six shooters would shoot a sequence of targets from Peg one before moving on to numbers two and three. Although loved by the purists, the problem with this is that only one squad of shooters is in action on each layout at any one time. This severely limits the numbers of shooters that can take part during the day. New system takes a slightly different approach. There will still be three (or possibly four) shooting positions per layout, but each will be self contained with its own set of traps. As a result there can be a squad shooting on each peg simultaneously, greatly increasing the number that can be accommodated. The downside of course is that new system requires significantly more traps. Competitions are normally shot as multiples of 25 targets. A standard registered shoot would be 100 targets, with 150 for selection shoots. Major international championships are 200 target events, shot over four days. Helice Helice – formerly known as ‘ZZ’ – is a direct off shoot of the sport of live pigeon shooting, long banned in this country but still popular in many parts of Europe and elsewhere. When other countries banned the shooting of captive pigeons the search was on for a realistic simulation of the unpredictable flight of a real bird and Helice was born. It is governed by the Federation Internationale de Tires aux Armes Sportives de Chasse (FITASC) and has developed into a very competitive sport in its own right, with Southern Europe being the main centre. There are only a handful of permanent facilities in Britain, the best known being the Lynch family’s West Kent Shooting School and the Invicta club also in Kent. Helice means ‘helicopter’ in French and the targets consist of a two-winged plastic helicopter into which is clipped a white centre. The object of the game is to hit the target with sufficient force to detach the centre part and drop it within a marked perimeter fence. The layout closely mirrors a traditional live pigeon set up with five target launchers set in an arc 4.5 metres apart and facing the shooter, who stands on a walkway seven metres long. At its nearest point the walkway is 21 metres from the launchers and the shooter moves further back for handicap events. A perimeter fence 60cm (2 feet) high is positioned 21 metres beyond the line of traps. The launchers are small oscillating electric motors that spin the targets at high revolutions. When released the target’s flight is erratic and totally unpredictable. English Sporting Sporting Clay targets are the closest thing to actual field shooting of all the shotgun disciplines. The sport dates back to the early 1900s when trap shooting used live pigeons. With the introduction of clay targets, the sport began to take on the popular form known today. But rather than using standardised distances, target angles and target sizes, sporting clays courses are designed to simulate the hunting of ducks, pheasants and even rabbits. Several different types and sizes of clay targets give the participant the experience of actual hunting conditions, so you can see why the sport is so popular with game and rough shooters. Britain’s most popular form of clay target shooting, English Sporting, evolved from the simulated game shooting developed by the Victorian shooting schools. To this day we still use the terminology of those times to describe targets such as ‘springing teal’ and ‘bolting rabbit’. Today, however, English Sporting is an established part of the competitive shooting scene and it is enjoyed at all levels from local club shoots to international championships. English Sporting targets are as varied as the majority of clay target disciplines are fixed and only the imagination of the course builder limits what can be thrown to delight and deceive the shooters. Course designers use the terrain available to present targets as naturally as possible and test the complete range of skills. To be a successful sporting shot you must master all the different types of target, from incoming to going away, crossing, rising or dropping, high in the air or bouncing along the ground. Any weaknesses will quickly be exposed. A typical sporting course will be made up of a number of different shooting stands, often spread across a wide area of land. Each stand will have a pair of targets, shown as simultaneous or trailing pairs, or pairs ‘on report’ where the second is released after the first shot has been fired. Competitors normally shoot three to five pairs on each stand and a competition can range from say 30 targets at a local club shoot to 100 or more for a major competition. Registered competitions are usually shot over 100 targets. A good course will show a wide variety of target presentations of varying degrees of difficulty. Phew clear as mud really Chris

Did you mean Marrochi?

http://www.justcartridges.com/ You can mail order from them or if you’re up this way any time let me know & I can collect them for you & meet somewhere no problem. I use them all the time, very good service & Charlie Bull gives good advice as well. Chris

I shoot regularly at Sporting Targets, Risley & I have to say I much prefer the Claymate system to any other. No one looking over your shoulder! If I want to shoot a 100 on the grouse butt or on the towers I can & they do give you some for breakages which are rare in my experience. I hate having someone unknown trap for me & comment when things aren’t going well! The only problem I have is I walk off to the next stand & forget the counter! Chris

Have to agree priest is the best way but i never remember to take it out of my fishing waistcoat when i go shooting, must buy another one. Chris

Two fingers round the neck then either a quick twirl or a throw forward & jerk back but not too hard as head will seperate from neck! Chris