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I shot one day last season on a small walk-up/knockabout day. Three of the other guests were from a gun dealers. Each of them loaded his gun as soon as it came out of his car and placed it, broken but loaded, over his shoulder. Their guns were carried like that the whole day except when expecting a shot, even throughout elevenses. At one point one of them handed me his gun to climb a fence. I took the opportunity to upend it and tip his two cartridges in the mud. He sort of got the message and didn’t hand me a loaded gun again, but continued to stand chatting with the gun held the same way all day. Unacceptable? Is it just me or is this OK behaviour for the modern clay/game shot? PS I won’t be going again!

That’s another pet hate, scarf substitute. Totally unacceptable.

Nobody should RELY on a safety catch, but I have yet to see anyone with a non-auto safety catch that ever uses it.

And then when the clay shooters shoot game .......most of them still don’t use the ruddy safety catch! One of my pet hates, seeing people who want to stand on a drive with the gun broken and when a bird comes close the barrels to the stock as they mount the gun. Straight through the beating line.

A gold medal buck when he’s clean.

A very clever way of showing that, thank you. It is a phenomenon of which I was not aware. Very interesting.

Don’t forget that American 6 shot is Uk no.5

Guns never murdered anyone, it’s the people behind them.

A good friend of mine, who owns a large gun dealership, told me that his best-selling .22 is a semi auto Ruger 10/22 that looks like an AR15. I was shocked and disgusted. I thought, who on earth would want a .22 that looks like an assault rifle. Then I realised.............wannabe Rambos.

Yes! All day long.

There was nothing wrong with the shot. It was the target which was wrong.

I just think that being seen with ‘military look’ firearms does our (UK) image as sportsmen no good at all.

People trying to emulate military sniper’s long range kills should stick to gongs or paper. If the military boys wound their target it doesn’t matter, in fact it is an advantage as more enemy are needed to tend the wounded. There is no justification for trying it on animals of any make. OP is an idiot.

Golf is a game for people who have absolutely **** *** else to do.

Didn’t the Romans first bring the pheasant here?

Yeah, bought a set not to long ago. 235/85/16 Mud Terrains were £151 each if I remember right, fitted/balanced/new valves.

No ,never owned one.

I started shooting in 1960 and can honestly say I have never shot at a glass bottle, even with an air gun as a kid. Bottle tops or wine corks whilst plinking, yes, but not glass. Shooting cars and stuff such as our transatlantic friend is suggesting isn’t shooting as we know it this side of the pond. Over here that would be classed as just mindless vandalism. To me, that is the difference between a ‘shooting man’ and a ‘gun nut’. Without wishing to sound critical of other people’s tastes/hobbies, I personally have no interest whatsoever in owning military style firearms designed purely for one purpose only, that is, killing people. Much as I like sporting guns, and believe me, I love guns.

Most of us don’t shoot at glass bottles either! How do you clean up the mess?

Oh, yeah! You gotta watch ‘em. Until you find one you know well and can trust.

Unless I remember wrongly, the paper case Eley were supposed to fire the paper tube through the bore with the shot and it disintegrated on leaving the muzzle?

I am always grateful if the tester can find a safety issue with my vehicle which I may have missed myself.

If you shot up a car in UK, even your own car on your own property, you would be deemed unsuitable to own firearms and never be allowed a gun again. And quite right too, in my opinion.

Very many, if not most, of the U.S. citizens who come over here for our driven game shooting are using Purdey, Holland and Holland, Boss, Atkin, Grant and other best English guns. But these people were spending serious money on their shooting trip and were obviously not on welfare.

I too use the 25 gm Lyalvale in my English 20 bore and find it very effective. I don’t know what loads are available these days for a 16 bore as I have not owned one since 1962. One ounce or 28 gram would certainly not be excessive though.