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18 minutes ago, HantsRob said:
I have flights of fancy and I have bought and sold a few guns. Not for profit, but trying something and deciding I don't like it. I am certainly not a dealer, but I have cycled through a few guns meaning I am on my third certificate in 3 years.
And then you wonder why the firearms licensing departments are backlogged and over worked.
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1 hour ago, marsh man said:
We have had several threads on the Baikal cartridges in the past and they normally end up having light jokes made about them such as setting light to stubble fields and lighting the sky up at night , at the time they were as good as most cartridges on the market and were selling at a fraction of the price , the cheapest we bought them at were £40 a 1000 , this was when Richard's Style cartridges were selling for £50 a 1000 and a tenner was hell of a lot of difference in that day and age .
Once you got used to them you could stop most , if not all the birds that were on the list including geese , this was because they had a little of every shot size known to man inside the cartridge so you never had to worry about having the right size shot , mind you , it didn't always work out where the odd BB would hit the goose and the number 8 would find it's way into the Snipe you fired at but it was all good fun at the time
I used thousands on pigeon, duck and game.
I never opened one up to see what was inside.
I never felt the need as they seemed devastatingly effective (if I did my bit!).
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At the end of January last season I took a load of mixed cartridges on a walked up day. I had nine old paper cased Baikal Records from a box of ten. I have no idea where they came from. I certainly have not bought any since the 1970’s. The nine Baikals produced six pheasants
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14 minutes ago, Fargo said:
I think that was what was wrong with these. Lot of powder left in barrels and had been in an outbuilding for a decade or more. No rust on them though.
What kind of a numpty would store cartridges in an outbuilding?
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If you want a republic.......GO AND LIVE IN ONE.
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1 hour ago, HantsRob said:
those that like to buy and sell.
Err, should have a dealers licence.
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100 year old cartridges usually work just as they should.
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5 minutes ago, jall25 said:
think its irrelevant for Derbyshire as the department are great
I will second that. Never had any problems with Derbyshire firearms dept. since certificates were invented.
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4 hours ago, Fargo said:
I’d rather shoot a wild day for waders and bag 10 than stand on a peg and get 50 to my gun nowadays
I haven’t shot a Goldie for over forty years now. Nor any other wader, come to think of it.
I have gone the totally opposite direction to yourself and now virtually leave the wild birds alone and just shoot reared stuff. I suppose the ‘in vogue’ word for it would be “sustainable” shooting. -
1 hour ago, jall25 said:
What a gorgeous bird
And they are SO delicious!
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1 hour ago, RCB56 said:
Simple. Don't wear glasses.
Surely, they are essential for the right “image”?
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Reminds me of ‘The Navy Lark’ on the radio.
Yeah, I’m old!
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2 hours ago, joejoe said:
I had a Subaru Outback for the same reasons you mentioned. Lovely big boot and could easily handle light off-roading.
I liked the car but it everything went wrong at the same time. Dpf, egr kept going. But the biggest problems where the fuel lines corroded leaking diesel.
And every bit of advice, here and elsewhere, will tell you to buy Japanese.
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I don’t know where some folks get all this doom and gloom stuff from.
Shooting is so popular that if you are offered a place on a day you have to make the decision and snap it up right now. If you wait a week or a day or sometimes even an hour whilst you think about it, the place has gone. -
On 19/03/2024 at 16:39, Scully said:
That’s how long Cumbria licensing authority took to process my 1 4 1 variation for a S1 shotgun!
More than happy with that. 👍Thats more like it; well done Cumbria.
Amazing!
More so because it has just taken Cumbria over a year to process a friends coterminous renewal of a long standing certificate. -
3 hours ago, Stonepark said:
No matter what bore you have choke serves the same function. As choke is a measurement based on the percentage of pellet strikes within a 30 inch circle at a chosen range.Full choke for a 12 bore will give a pattern spread exactly the same as a full choke 410, likewise 3\4, 1\2, 1\4, Cyl.
What is different is pattern density as 12 bore (28g no 7.5) starts off with 400 pellets, whilst the 410 (18g not.5) starts off with 256 pellets.
The secret with 410 is to realise that as you are limited by total load, you need to keep the pellets small to maintain density. No7 is the largest pellet you need (bar certain specialist loads) and 18g of no7 will kill to 35 yards, clays, vermin or game.
The reason most struggle is using too large a pellet and then too tight a choke to try to compensate for the lack of pellets.
Everything else in your post is correct, but there are NOT 256 pellets in 18g No.5.
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Of course not, that’s why all commercials are diesel.
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32 minutes ago, enfieldspares said:
FWIW and it is only my opinion get it done properly and get it done once. That's Holland and Holland at Northwood. Not too onerous from Kings Lynn with the A1 and M25 or make an outing of it and combine it with a visit to London? Proper fitting requires a proper facility of at the very very least a true pattern plate and then the firing of straight going away birds moving to east straight overhead driven birds and then lastly testing the fit on those birds where you throw the gun up and take an instinctive shot with no time to adjust the mount you've got. The worst fitting is that done in a gunshop or gunroom ONLY where there's no chance to then try the gun at other than the three of four yards dimensions of the indoor premises. There is, happily, no obligation after having had a fitting at Holland's to then use them to make any alterations to your gun. It's like an eye test in that respect. They'll give you the "prescription" and you can take it away and if just a lengthening pad do it yourself or if a bend and drop adjustment then shop around.
Second piece of advice: listen to the first advice.
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WOW! Just WOW!
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We have just bought a skateboard sized Toyota, made in Chekoslovakia.
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I have a stuffed bat flying around on a fishing line in my gun room. It’s a Pipistrelle.
It flew into a Land Rover windscreen 25 years ago whilst I was stalking in the Borders. -
That sort of package has been the norm for a trainee gamekeeper for at least the last half century.
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11 hours ago, Weihrauch17 said:
2014. No you can't get a Diesel, they are all Petrol Hybrids now.
That’s the end of those then!
Shotgun cert, not enough space for a new gun.
in General Shooting Matters
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You are certainly not alone, judging by the rate at which most (of the beginners) on here seem to buy and sell guns, largely thinking that the next one is magically going to make them shoot better.
I have owned quite a lot of different shotguns, but I don’t think I have had enough to fill your three certificates over the last sixty odd years.