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  1. Some form of wax that could be applied to the lenses would be your best bet at this stage.
  2. Mandel and Gemini sell Baikal chokes if you can't get any here.
  3. Place your bets on calls to ban crossbows
  4. You're not technically wrong; having no opportunity to use a gun certainly would reduce the chances of having an accident with it, much like not driving a car would reduce the chances of having a crash. But guns are meant to be used, what's the point otherwise?
  5. Why must we tackle it head on? So that BASC can meet their B-corp mandated DIE criteria? Could it possibly stem from the fact that most women aren't interested in shooting? By far the biggest barriers to shooting are lack of land and permissions to shoot on (especially true for firearms certificates), and our very restrictive licensing system. Why doesn't BASC try and tackle these two instead? Just imagine the difference it would make if public land existed to hunt on, like in the States.
  6. The only downside about is the location of the return spring, which is wrapped around the magazine tube rather than in the stock like the benellis. This makes the gun a bit more front heavy, but easier to clean, so pick your poison I suppose.
  7. Having a rifle above the fireplace used to be part of our cultural heritage too. Didn't seem to make much difference, our overlords want us unarmed and docile.
  8. Velocity is not the way to get more lethality out of steel shot, more payload, bigger pellets and tighter chokes are. An 1800 fps steel cartridge would need to use a miniscule payload to keep pressures down, and at 40 yards it's barely faster than if it were doing 1350 fps. High velocity shells do, however, give much more recoil, more blast, and faster pattern degradation.
  9. Complete non-issue. Stomach acid isn't actually that concentrated, it's mostly there to make life difficult for pathogens and provide the correct pH for optimal protease activity. Iron powder (with a massively higher surface area) is added to some breakfast cereals as a form of iron supplementation. So swallowing an errant pellet isn't going to cause an issue (unless you're about to have an MRI scan). @Conor O'Gorman It may be worth having discussions with our price-gouging cartridge manufacturers, for if bio-steel cartridges were offered at competetive rates or cheaper than existing lead cartridges, takeup would be greater, but when you're paying more money for a product which: 1. Has inferior ballistic performance; 2. Has a risk (perceived or real) of causing damage to your gun; and, 3. Has an unknown shelf-life, then it's not difficult to see why people just don't bother.
  10. In my opinion, a 3.5 inch gun only offers an advantage when the majority of the carts you put through it are 3.5 inches. As you've said crows and pigeons will be a main use for the gun, I'm going to assume that the vast majority of shells you put through it will be 70mm. That means for 90% or so of everything you put through it, you're getting 3/4 of an inch of chamber jump and gas blow by. I'm also going to guess that most of your wildfowling will be using either 70 or 76mm shells? If so, the same argument applies. Why buy a gun that offers an advantage for perhaps 5% of your total shooting, yet gives a disadvantage for the remaining 95%? I would get a 3 inch gun, and if you find you need more firepower than a 3 inch steel cartridge, then you'll be much better served by swapping to a denser non-tox like bismuth or tungsten.
  11. Comes with skeet and cylinder, though mobil chokes can often be had cheaply on PW. Top lever is over the centre, will upload photos when I get back.
  12. BASC publicly made statements that are demonstrably false, and when challenged to publicly defend these positions, you have repeatedly refused to offer an explanation. You even brushed off empirical test results and mathematics as nothing more than a matter of opinion, yet elevated the opinions of BASC staff almost to that of Gospel. A private phone call to the one calling you out is not intended to solve the issue, it's intended to shut them up.
  13. As above, Hampshire. Not sure of the model number - no obvious markings on the gun that I can see but it's 3 inch chambered, double trigger non-ejector, auto-safe, 29 inch barrel, fixed full choke in both barrels, ~14 1/4 inch LOP. Gun is tidy as evidenced by pictures. Had the stock off recently and the internals are very clean and undamaged (much better than other Spanish side by sides of the period), bores are unmarked and no pitting on the firing pins. Pity to move it on but it's not getting enough use.
  14. 28 inch, multichoked (mobil), LOP ~14.5 inches
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