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if you want to learn by repetition, just dry mount in your lounge, pointing at your wall/mirror/whatever, and do that hundreds of times if you wish -- I think that's accepted as being pretty good idea to improve your mount anyway.
Being a techy, I would also be very very tempted by a techy short of shortcut. Whatever it takes, like shotkam etc, however, I don't think they /work/ or help that much -- I think it's more important to save time by not repeating the same mistakes over and over (you COULD, with a dry fire) but being good at analysing what you are doing wrong, and if you are lucky, find a coach to pick up on stuff you don't find by yourself.
I also thought a lot about getting a dry-fire gizmo a while back, and instead I picked up Skeet for about a year or so. Skeet is pretty much like a video game anyway, you have to handle speed/wind/angle/concentration and if you do the round by yourself, it's very quick.
My logic at the time for not getting a dry-fire system was that more than half of the shot is done by focussing on a point >=20 yards away; the dry-fire will have you focus 5 yards away (at best) so you'll never really have the same 'sight picture', you won't train your brain to pick up distances/speed. All you'll do is get good at a video game and yes perhaps you'll get better physically (altho, not on fast crossers, or pairs that involve footing changes, or birds that are over 20 degrees off the horizon, etc etc etc) but if you just want THAT part of the training, then following the lines of the ceiling in your lounge will do the same.
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So what was not eco friendly about a mix of coal tar and limestone? The manufacturing process?
I'm always wary about people deciding XX product needs to be replaced, to replace it with something whose manufacturing process is way worse. A typical example is electronics, where the 'lead free solder' that is mandatory today requires a good 30% more energy to melt (that affects a LOT the price of the circuitboards) and make joints that are brittle and fail early&often -- forcing more landfill and wasting energy on recycling that wasn't needed in the first place.
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1 hour ago, team tractor said:
My cats sat on mrs tt bump both times she was pregnant keeping it warm . It’s not just dogs that protect a family.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/science/parasites-practicing-mind-control.html
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10 hours ago, team tractor said:
I bet your great at parties
i dont like dogs but I’ve no problem with them and wouldnt call them vile .
Good old trolls
Why? Dog don't come to my lawn and **** there, dogs don't climb over the fence and come kill birds on my lawn. Whatever you might think of dogs, they are cool pets on that front.
Dogs show compassion, dogs show dedication to their family (humans), dogs show emotions, dogs show gratitude, dogs OBEY, dogs get sad, dogs CARE about their pack/family.
Try that with your fur ball.
Anyway, as I said, I have nothing against cat per se.. My problem is that cat owner expectation that they can let their pet roam free. "it's their nature" doesn't count. A dogs nature would ALSO be to roam and **** on your lawn if given the chance -- or kill your pet. However, dog owners don't have that free pass of "oh, it's just their nature".
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1 minute ago, team tractor said:
Sounds like theirs only one vile creature to me .
i can’t control where my cats go and I’ve no need.
My cats have killed birds but a lot less than I have in the past.
I used to shoot hundreds of starlings on the farm in the feed but my cat has a few and it’s a vile creature
There you go, anthropomorphism 101, "I wuz bad and they are nowhere near as bad as I wuz"
/yawn
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I think cats are not really the problem per se. Most of the problem is their owners. They actually think it's perfectly normal for their pets to go out a defecate and hunt in other people properties, kill birds on your own lawn, and if you have the slight idea of disagreeing, they'll go all the way anthropomorphism because their 'baby' couldn't POSSIBLY have done that, despite video evidence -- and how would YOU feel about having a bell around your neck, you nasty so-and-so.
So if you want pets, keep them at home. if you suddenly decide your pet CAN'T be kept at home because of it's 'human rights', buy a 200 acres property and keep your pet in it.
If you were to own any other vile pets, like snakes, spiders, or other stuff, NOBODY would think it's a good idea to have them roaming in your neighbours gardens and killing the wildlife.
And yes, cats are vile creatures. My mom was a cat lady, I grew up with cats, I grew up smelling of cat ****. I know *everything* there is to know about cats, and there is very little to like despite Internets. They are furry magpies as far as I'm concerned, they WILL kill anything for fun, despite being fed. You can summarise the cat with the immortal words of Desproges: "Oh, the cat is no longer on the lap of grandmother, she must be cold..."
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I'm reaching the stage when I'm borderline 'good', but I know that no amount of shooting will help after a certain level, you need to find someone being able to pick holes into your shooting to bump you along. Also, I think at a certain stage, the shooting bit is less important, and it's all *in your head*. I'm sure theres a million (including me) who *technically* could shoot a 100 straight sporting, but MOST of the misses past a certain level have little to do with your shooting, they are all in preparation, concentration, and mental.
I had a single lesson with @welshwarrior and 2 minutes in he already had found a 'hole' in my shooting, something I had overlooked completely, seems simple when you think about it afterward, but it helped a lot.
I realise finding a GOOD coach is hard, I've tried quite a few, and quite frankly, most of them are entirely useless. I don't want to know what 'lead' I need, it's pointless. I want to know how to concentrate on 5 pairs, I want to know how to be able to reproduce the same shooting from pair #1 to pair #5, that sort of stuff.
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On 29/08/2018 at 09:32, ehb102 said:
We really liked it. My shooting chum won ladies, I'm so proud of her! Five years we've been doing that competition, shows we've come a long way. I am shopping for a new sxs now. Mine is lovely but doesn't really fit. Found one at the Fenland but I didn't bring my licence. I can't find it, I wonder if my husband has put it carefully away so I can't go shopping.
Well done! Not sure I saw you on the stands.Perhaps next time I'll ask for a special class for hammer guns, I FELT we had a bit of a disadvantage on the grouse/rabbit/pheasant stands. As they sent birds on the close of the gun, while I still had a hammer to cock!
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So SxS championship at AGL was excellent really. Super value, very nice lunch, everyone was super friendly and the targets were interesting! I finished with 86/120 -- a bit so-so really, shouldn't have stopped for lunch in the middle, but it started to rain and we thought it'd be a good idea. Post lunch was definitely worse
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I'll be at AGL this saturday. I'm bringing "Whammy", my 32" hammer gun; my wife will bring her grandad's boxlock with her family name on it.
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On 25/02/2018 at 19:48, WinchesterDave said:
Went for a round of sporting today and as I was by myself I thought I'd have a little play and swap my usual 1/4 & 1/2 for 3/4 and Full.
I dont know why, I just wanted to have a change and a play/experiment. For the years ive been shooting ive never shot clays with more than 1/2.
Anyway, I was expecting to go back to the car half way round and put my usual chokes back in.... However, I actually ended up completing the entire round with 3/4 and Full and thoroughly enjoying it. Not only that, I felt as though I hit more and felt more confident? (Didn't count as I was by myself)
The complete opposite of how I predicted I would feel....
When I got home and cleaned the gun, I put my 3/4 and Full back in and intend to use this set up again next time.
Has anyone else done this and not looked back? Or was it because I was by myself and concentrating more
Cheers,
Dave
I did the same experiment yesterday, and went shooting with full/full at Atkins&lang&grant -- I ended up like you -- same impressions -- I felt I shot very well, and I didn't feel I was particularly limited by the chokes -- and blimey, I did 'smoke' a few, which is quite satisfying.
I'd even say that it 'pushes' you a bit more, in the sense that I wasn't terribly satisfied when i wasn't 'smoking' 20-30yd targets.
I pretty often us 3/4s but I always revert to 1/2s somehow, perhaps I shoudl just stick to tighter chokes for a while and see how it goes.
Since february, have you stuck to your tight chokes?
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When holding the gun, I move my right hand about ~1cm back on the stock, so JUST the tip of my finger is on the front trigger... that allows my finger to 'drop' on the second one easily, and I never damaged my index after I found that trick.
I think short stock will make things worse of course -- but try that trigger hand trick, it's pretty straighforward and works on all my SxSs
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So, what about pest control to protect *other* birds? I've got quite a few bluetits for example who like to nest around here, and last year I had magpies ganging them and killing the nests *twice* -- a whole gang of 6 of them making a racket as they were plundering the place.
I'm lucky to have the space and not being overlooked, so quite frankly I now kill any magpie I see around the garden... In fact I think they now "know" it and won't approach the place unless it's a 'new' couple trying to move in.
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As much as I liked the 80s F1s. trying to compare the drivers of back then and now is ridiculous. The level of physical needed by the modern drivers *just to get into the frigging car* is amazing. I'm sure it was more 'manly' to drive back then, but the modern drivers get more out of their machine, for a longer time. There are WAY more extremely talented drivers on the front porch than there used to be, and you just can't drive along for 10 years being 'average' (like Button and a few others did) -- these days you seems to get 1/2 season and you're out.
The last 'party all night' driver is probably Raikonnen -- and I'm pretty sure he had to calm that down seriously in the last few years. Once he's gone, it'll just be super hungry kids like we already see at the back of the grid. Rearing to go, but ready to burnout quickly. I wonder if for example, Verstappen is going to have that burnout sooner than later.
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54 minutes ago, Sian said:
I used my Visa debit card to pay for a car service and Sainsbury’s today. ??
Actually it took quite a long time for my £24 payment to clear after I left you at A.C earlier! We were staring at the machine for quite a while, apparently, even debit cards were affected!
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I use Perma Blue on bits, it will never be as good as having the whole metal bits redone, but it does work pretty well on finger guards, the odd marks near the forend, fixing up the odd pin head etc.
But yes, it does work fantastic on /some/ parts, and not at all on others... I use Q-tip to apply, and often on bigger part I just coat the whole of it to make an even finish.
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Actually guerini were on the market before browning -- my wife shoot her Syren for 18 months or so. Fabarm has just released one as well, and it's more of a 'low end' syren, at a much lower price point...
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11 hours ago, motty said:
What brand does your wife use on the ducks?
Hi Motty, we use RC3 Steel 2"3/4 34g #3's for ducks, and #1's for geese -- bought from Just Cartridges. I have to say, I'm quite amazed she can shoot that, but heck, she certainly does :-) But I do recommend these, they bring them down neatly and at some pretty appreciable distances... Only max of half choke on our gun as per specifications, but they certainly work well.
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While I concur on the 21g 12 bore, one of the issue is weight when carrying the gun on walk ups... My wife is 5.2" as well, shoots a guerini Syren on clays and driven days (up to 34g on ducks!) with excellent results -- and yes the weighty gun means she can shoot 34g with it. It takes a while to get used to the weight, but she has a much more stable gun now that she does.
But for walk up the Guerini is just too heavy, she uses a small boxlock 12 bore with 26g #6's (Imperial game) -- basically that cartridge is pretty much a CompX with a game load.
I also agree not to take a short stock, it's a mistake a lot of people make with ladies I think, 'short 20 bore and off you go'. She still gets remarks about it by well meaning people, until they see her shoot with it ;-)
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@Feltwad I got a 'no name' hammer gun that is not nitro proof, I picked a few boxes of black powder carts from just cartridge last year in view to shoot it -- but I chickened out! The gun is in very good nick (I'm not sure it's been shot a lot, if at all TBH) but...
Should I shoot it? AFAIK it has a value of zero -- it'd be destroyed by 'the trade'. The engraving is poor-ish, it's Skelp and not even damascus, it's really a generic under-lever with no lineage, history, and completely average wood....
I'd shoot it because it was meant to!
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Just now, JJsDad said:
If you are prepared to tip me what he did, I will not reveal your name
Enough to buy an AYA? :-)
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4 hours ago, The Mighty Prawn said:
Alternatively you can cannibalise an old SLR lens to remove the aperture mechanism from that - a bit of a faff but you'd get very fine control
I beg to differ, the assemblies in lens are usually 'part' of the lens, and you can't just get the diaphragm out like that... I do service lenses as a hobby, and I can tell you I've spent enough hours fiddling with diaphragm blades with twizzers :-)
That ebay item has a 12 blades iris as well, it's actually an excellent configuration. Most SLR one have <10, often down to 5 because it needs to close quickly.
@steve_b_wales great find!
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4 minutes ago, JJsDad said:
The biggest concern amongst my shooting friends that influences their choice when buying a gun, either new or secondhand, is the underlying concern about an overall ban on lead shot. With a lot of the older English guns having 2.5in chambers, there is concern that they wont be able to get a suitable steel load and hence the gun becomes effectively worthless. Couple that with fact that the majority of new blood coming into our sport are steered toward an `up & over gun` with a 10 year warranty, 3in chambers and a plastic case, then who is going to opt for the elderly English boxlock at the back of the rack !
I think that perhaps a way of 'teaching' everyone is to go out and shoot these SxS out. *Especially* on clays. Go to your local ground and shoot clay with your SxS, and if you do that well quite a few people will start looking at their own O/U or S/A with a raised eyebrow...
I think everyone (apart form people on this topic!) believe that SxS are massively inferior to a modern gun somehow, while the reality is, if you are a good shot, it's probably about 90+% as good as a O/U gun. Now to be honest, I KNOW I can't be /as/ good as with my fancy clay gun, I know for example my hand are in the way for some crossers that requires 'that' sort of lead and you need to shoot 'blind' -- but it's still OK!
So my suggestion is, everyone should take the SxS out regularly, dress the part, and beat them at their own game :-)
For Steel, you have to remember than a LOT of guns are 2 3/4 -- not just SxS's -- Even my modern Guerinni is 2"3/4, and I have to be careful when buying steel to make sure it's not 3". So banning lead would have a much, MUCH wider impact on the gun market than the old english, it'd be devastating for *everyone* really. I think the current status quo is due to the fact that a lot of people are anti plastic wad -- and that steel comes mostly in plastic wad, while a lot of Lead carts come in fiber. Bit of a case of 'choose your poison' :-)
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1 hour ago, JohnfromUK said:
The gun market is a funny old place. For example, an AyA No 1 (basic No 1) is listed at £12,760, or £15,312 with the VAT brand new. A second hand example can be had from £1,695 at the cheapest, with a good choice under £5K.
Now in my view, guns like this don't 'wear out', and aren't 'out of date models. It isn't like cars or washing machines, and in my view second hand is as good as new, but at about 15 to 25% of the price.
Similarly Holland and Holland Royal is new (from) £86,000 (2015 prices) - and a second hand one from £6,250
Second hand prices are taken from current UK dealer adverts, and not inspected for condition.
There is no way I would pay £15K for a new AyA No 1, but I would (and have) bought a lower end price second hand one. (I paid about £3K for mine fitted to me and cased).
Perhaps people who buy these don't plan on selling them, ever -- therefore don't care about the depreciation? Then perhaps their circumstances change (ie, they die or something) and the gun goes on a market with very few buyers in the first place? I always wonder how companies like Boss etc manage to sell guns. I 'handled' a lovely 16 bore at a gun show last year, it was a thing a beauty -- and the nice chap told me it was .... 115K.. <-- you read that correctly, that's the price for a HOUSE. I'd assume they sell 2 or 3 a year perhaps? but I'm likely wrong, and there are probably a lot more people with that sort of money than I can imagine...
Anyway, to be fair (even if I have nothing against AYA of course) if I were to want to blow £15k on a SxS, I would try to find a nice english one...?
But, to be even fairer (!) -- given the state of the market, I'd probably go and buy 15 1k guns instead! :-)
Any knife makers who sell their creations.
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I had a couple of Blue Mountain Forge blades, unfortunately they are hard to get.. I've been trying since *february* to get him to send me pics of stuff I could buy, and he never did. 2 weeks ago my wife bought me a small hatchet from their website as a birthday present, and he just flatly refunded the payment with no explanations...
Too bad, the one I kept (gave the other away!) is lovely. Not the best edge in the world, but it certainly look fantastic.