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  1. I don’t think there is a significant difference between cheap / expensive clay cartridges in clay breaking terms. This is simply because they contain a huge number of pellets - e.g 450 size 8 in a 28 gram cart’. Even if the lead is soft and the velocity too snappy, average clays are still broken with poor patterns. With game or pigeon cart’s the quality difference is more telling, as the shot count is far less. With only about 290 pellets in a 30 gram 6, there is more chance of a poor pattern wounding or even not touching the bird. I have come across some real stinkers in budget pigeon cart’s over the years (poor in the field and on the pattern plate) so now use good quality game cart’s for all live quarry. I’ve gone off piste a little in referencing game cart’s, so for what it’s worth, my favourite clay cart’ is Fiocchi Fblu in 24 gram. I just like how smooth it is - and not a crazy price. Gamebore Evo is a close second. Weather their velocity is 1250 fps or 1350 fps I honestly don’t know, or mind, as the difference in all practical terms is irrelevant.
  2. Sounds like you know your own gun fitting requirements - as we all do eventually. Comb raisers are OK and there are plenty of choices, but if you really like the gun then having an adjustable comb is the ultimate solution. If carried out to a high standard by a good smith, it will not negatively affect the value either.
  3. Lots of good insights above. However, one of the key reasons why people often struggle with a 410 has little to do with ballistics, but gun weight. They have all of their timings and muscle memory etc typically tuned to a 7 1/2 lb 12 bore O/U - then pick up a 5lb 410 which ‘rushes to a stop’ all too easily. It takes a while to become familiar with this little garden cane, but when our brain ‘recalibrates’ so to speak, the 410 can become a magic wand and is a great joy to shoot. My advice is to buy one that fits (properly) and just enjoy getting used to it. Re chokes and cart’s, I know everyone has their favourite formula, but here’s mine for what it’s worth: Eley Trap 14 gram 7 1/2 for clays Hull High Pheasant 18 gram 6 for pigeons and driven. Both through cylinder and quarter. I find the unchoked barrel is efficient from about 15 to 25 yards and the choked barrel out to about 35 yards. Hope that helps.
  4. I shot at a sporting ground every Sunday for years. It was once in the countryside far from the madding crowd. No longer. It is now half surrounded by housing estates. One of them has back gardens literally overlooking the ground. The club receives complaints regularly and so do the police, but the club was there first so no complaints have ever been a problem. The club is still going strong. This one in Cumbria just needs to stand firm.
  5. A tip given to me by an electrical engineer: use silicone tubing cut to 1” lengths to insulate the terminals, as it stays put. Works very well. The silly little plastic terminal covers (as supplied) just go AWOL in no time.
  6. This is very true. And……. of course in bonny Scotland you can shoot them with lead shot over land.
  7. Excellent work Conor. Clearly there are several important economic benefits. However, the biggest gain has always been difficult to express in monetary terms, and that is gains to ‘public goods’ via the preservation and enhancement of key habitats. This appears to have relevance which is more emotional than monetary. (I must apologise for not having read the assessment - time pressures etc. perhaps net gain to public goods gets a mention…..?)
  8. Well done for supporting the farming community - and good luck to the Welsh farmers!
  9. Yes I understand your caution, as often these ‘guidelines’ can be adopted more firmly. 10 ducks though…..?! That’s a fair old heap for one gun.
  10. I don’t see anything wrong with what is being suggested. “No more than 10 ducked per person per day” is more than my own self imposed limit, but gives flexibility for those who don’t shoot very often.
  11. Carrion crows yes: 'conserving wild birds of conservation concern'. We all have a few red listers nearby. Have a look at the BASC gen licence summary - quite useful.
  12. The ones I bought were dedicated clay cart’s, called F3. They are red (which of course makes them hit more…🙂) and they have 7 1/2 and 2.4mm stamped on the box. I think they cost about £300 ish now. I’m sure they do an F3 game range also - I hear good things about them but have not tried any yet.
  13. Fair point MartinJ. There is always the fibre F3 for clays and real pigeons. Same thing re UK 7s. Last time I bought them - about £280 / thousand. Probably a tad more now. Quite like these Italian jobs.
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