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I have preferred short barrels ever since I first tried them over 55 years ago. I still use a 26 1/2 inch Royal Brevis as my main game gun.

Oh! I had success alright. So much success over the one day that the neighbour couldn’t stand the noise of the call bird and the others in the trap and those still around not caught.

What is your budget please? Have a nice Armstrong of Newcastle virtually unused since a total rebuild/refurbishment by Wisemans of Cannock with bills.

I put a Larsen in my garden once. One day. The neighbour complained about the constant chattering. So I just shoot them now.

The antis will be saving rusty steel for the next attack after a lead ban has been achieved.

Never owned one but I have used a few different makes. HONDA.......end of conversation.

They will only explode in a confined space, such as a gun chamber. I have thrown single ones on a coal fire in a house. They just flare up a bit. Cannot say what would happen if you set fire to about 15,000 at once.

Both are good off road with the right tyres. Vitara has the reputation. Duster is slowly earning it.

Thanks TC.

As a non-clay man can you please tell me what is a FITASC? And why do they need any different cartridges?

Oh yes! Many of them would want the gun pre-mounted as soon as birds begin to flush. I have seen it many times and they are astounded when told they cannot do that. But, to be fair, if they have never been taught then you can’t expect them to know. Everybody was a beginner once. I have taken my daughter (40) to shoot clays twice. The second time, after about 35 pre-mounted shots I started her mounting the gun after the target appeared. I was pleased that she was successful and she actually said it felt more natural and she thought it made the shot easier. (simple incomer)

How would anyone even begin to work it out? Well above my pay grade.

Not many clay shooters would actually know that.

I have never used one in anger, but I would have thought a .17HMR would be more than adequate to kill Canada geese with a centre mass shot to the body. I have seen them shot that way with a .22LR subsonic.

Proper English cooking....none of that Dago stuff.

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.

And then you wonder why the firearms licensing departments are backlogged and over worked.

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!). I only ever bought ones labelled No.7’s.

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

What kind of a numpty would store cartridges in an outbuilding?

If you want a republic.......GO AND LIVE IN ONE.

Err, should have a dealers licence.

100 year old cartridges usually work just as they should.

I will second that. Never had any problems with Derbyshire firearms dept. since certificates were invented.

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.