DeepThought

Bit harsh? I'd be following the instructions to the letter if there were a shooting club within reasonable distance that allowed me to.

There's a big yellow sticker on the hard case telling me to use heavy loads (interestingly it says 24g but it looks like I've ended up with the sticker from a 20 gauge, which is especially interesting as I don't think you can even get that model in this country). The nice people at Chichester Armoury also reiterated the fact and specified 32g.

I see your point there, I think it's because the action needs a good beating to soften it up, I have read reports of lighter loads failing to cycle when the gun is brand new, all on the American made ones mind you. I'm thinking I'll just split the difference and throw a couple of boxes of 28g high velocity carts through it. Anything with a good amount of gas pressure should presumably do the job shouldn't it?

Hi I have just taken possession of a brand new Beratta Outlander and have some silly questions about running it in. I have been informed that I need to run a few boxes of 32g loads through it to run it in, the trouble I have is that I don't currently have any land to shoot on and literally none of the clay grounds in my area will let me shoot anything above 28g. Does anyone have any experience running in this gun with slightly lighter loads? Do we think I could achieve the same effect by running some more powerful 28g cartridges through it instead? If so is there any cartridge you'd recommend? Thanks

Thank you, sounds like you know your shooting grounds. Are there any others around me that I might not know about? I know about Fareham, Gosport and Petersfield nearby.

Hi Just a very quick enquiry, does anyone know any shooting grounds within easy reach of Portsmouth that are open midweek? I may not be able to make it out for a few weekends and I've got a new gun that's just dying to be run in. I know we've got Lains over in Andover but that's a good hour away. Many thanks

Well I'm a little late to this party but I'm now fully signed up to the semi auto club having brought home a Beretta A300 Outlander today. I was certain I'd end up getting an SX3 based on reviews but after shouldering them both there was no contest, the Outlander just felt perfect. Can't wait to try her out.

Not sure yet, my head says O/U, my heart says semi auto. My wallet was unavailable for comment.

Well after a four and a half short months it's only gone and turned up! ...just in time for the weekend too. I feel a shopping trip coming on.

This is fairly reassuring, I applied a month later and am still waiting. So far I have been told it'll be done by Christmas, the end of January, mid February, and as of my last call they refused to even give an estimate.

Is there anything unusual about your application? This thread was started by someone who applied at the end of August last year and he got his back a while ago. It sounds like quite a few other people have started and finished the process during the time you have been waiting. Something can't be right here.

Three months and waiting for my grant now. I've seen a lot of nice guns come and go in the second hand section during that time.

Sorry to reignite an old thread but does anyone have any recent experience of Hampshire firearms licencing? I'm still awaiting my SGC grant having had my FEO visit a month ago and haven't heard a thing. I still don't even know if my application has been/will be accepted. The FEO had suggested it'd be done by Christmas, but that's what they said about the first world war. Thanks

Sadly that's probably their hope too. They seek martyrdom and all the associated rewards that await them in paradise. Better to capture them alive to suffer the indignity of justice and all the time in the world to reflect upon what they have done.

I think maybe this is the point we are drifting away from. Whether or not they were right to publish those pictures the response has been massively disproportionate and we should not try to excuse, or even rationalise it.

That's starting sound a bit like victim blaming. The publication made a principled stand that a free press should be able to publish something that offends some people without fear of recriminations. If we allow these thugs to bully us into not publishing material that they disagree with then the principles of a free press are undermined and they (the armed thugs) effectively control the content of the media. This cannot be allowed in any free society. As one of the victims himself said shortly before he was killed "I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees."

I would imagine that even the perpetrators are pretty surprised to have evaded capture/death. It beggars belief that they could kill 12 people with AK47s in broad daylight in the middle of Paris and then simply just disappear. I can only assume that either this attack was very well planned or that they were just very lucky. Either way I hope they are caught very soon, as it stands there are three heavily armed and murderous individuals on the loose.

I don't think I'm saying that.

I think the key difference here is that to my knowledge the atrocities mentioned weren't specifically carried out in the name of Jesus and weren't prompted by something as seemingly innocuous as a few cartoons. They really aren't directly comparable.

It was my understanding that the introduction of greys is responsible for the removal of reds, but as a result of out-competing them for food rather than through disease.

Wasn't it cloudy over Nottingham last night? I remember looking at the weather at the time you posted this and seeing that it was. If so you can rule out anything above a few thousand feet. A ground based green stage laser shining into the clouds perhaps?

Not a clue, was it a light in the sky or did it originate from the ground?

As a keen amateur astronomer, I can say with a great deal of certainty that it is/was not a comet.

I'm in a similar position and have to say I won't be spending four figures on my first gun, for a start I have so little experience that I don't know the difference between a good fit and a bad one. I certainly hear a lot of people here saying that they got rid of their first guns after a year or two. There is also the possibility that I might turn out not to take to shooting at all. I have to ask, what can an O/U do that a semi auto can't? With the exception of the "funny looks" I keep hearing about?

I see their reasoning here but doesn't this open up a really easy means by which disgruntled ex (or indeed current) partners can royally screw over innocent certificate holders out of sheer spite? I'm happily married now but I can think of at least one break up from my own experience in which the other party would have said virtually anything to stitch me up.