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@Udderlyoffroad, How wrong can I be? It was just that you said exactly the same stuff as a salesman who convinced a friend’s neighbour to buy an EV. It was only six months after he bought it that he realised that there was not suddenly going to be a charger on each lamp post.

@udderlyoffroad, The EV salesman has really got you conned, hasn’t he? Or are you an EV salesman?

Do these nationalists not feel ‘British’ just like most of us?

I bought it in the early sixties when I started shooting. No man alive can estimate range precisely to a flying bird. You can spout all the theory you like, I know those birds were over forty yards away and clean killed consistently.

PeterHenry, an AYA 25 will be absolutely fine at all times for all normal game shooting, walked and driven, lead or steel. Just enjoy it, and shoot for the head.

Or parked in a wood for a day’s stalking hundreds of miles from home?

Perhaps we bought better quality beer!

You are all overthinking with insufficient practical experience. For fifteen years I shot Canada geese alongside a river nearly a hundred yards wide. For ten of those years I had to use non toxic shot. I found that 32 gram Express Hunting Steel No.4’s killed geese with monotonous regularity approximately halfway across the river. The tightest choke used would be quarter, as I did not possess a gun tighter than that.

It was a good form of money, because for Centrepin’s ten Bob you could have four pints of beer and a bag of chips afterwards.

Udderlyoffroad, I agree with every word of your last post. Change is always coming, all around us. The status quo at the moment is that EV’s are shopping trolleys and useless to anyone who wants to travel anywhere there are no charging facilities. EV’s may be coming as a regular thing, but fortunately I have just got my life in in time and won’t live to have to drive one.

Couldn’t give a flying ****. It was just a thought that occurred to me for yet another reason why EV’s are no use.

How are Australians going to fill their Toyotas from a Jerry can of electricity in the outback?

The Americans seem to think so! But .410 actually works out as a 67.49 gauge.

The last goose I shot was with 25 gram tungsten 5’s from a 20 bore.

I certainly ate a few years back, before I knew it was a disease.

At normal ranges you do not need heavy cartridges to kill duck.

You are all missing the point.........it’s not Christmas yet.

Plus one! I wish somebody would pinch all my neighbours decorations that have been up since the middle of November. It’s like living in Santa’s grotto for two months of the year. They’re barmy, and none of them have kids. Why can’t they put them up for Christmas? I believe it starts on 24th. Dec. Bah, Humbug!

The proof marks tell you it was reproofed after boring out from the original size. Providing it is still substantially in the condition as proved it is as safe as any other gun.

I renewed during lockdown. Everything done over the phone.......and then the FEO delivered the certificates personally by hand! Go figure.

No, it’s not illegal, but most will think you an **** hole for doing it.

As an Englishman, obviously I support England, but I do love the sheer passion in Welsh Rugby.

I make sure to close the breech before it contacts the sheepskin.

Technically true I suppose.

I saw it quite regularly on an inland pond about fifteen seasons ago. Does anyone know if it is safe to eat duck infected with it?