hairysausagefingers

Hi, Any idea of barrel length and choking please?

Thanks for the reply. Sorry, but I'm sorted now. Good luck with the sale though.

Hi, do you still have this for sale please?

If you are up in Whitchurch sometime and they haven't gone, I'll have those off you please. I'll drop you a pm.

PM sent. I'll take it thanks.

Pretty sure it fits me better now I've messed with it, but there was a definite vertical drop between the 40yd and 50yd paper targets I shot. At 50 yds I had hardly any pellets above the centre line of the 30" circle. I'll post back when I've shot 40 and 50 with cyl. It is a 36gram load and I'm using 36 grains of powder to launch it with a cx2000 primer. Should be 1400fps ish.

I know this is an old thread but I thought I'd share my recent frustrations. I was shooting some steel commercial goose loads and was a bit disappointed with some shots that I thought should have killed outright. On examination the No.1 shot inside turned out to be No.3 by everyone elses measurements, so I got some components and a Lee Loadall and started loading No.1's in 3in cases on top of alliant steel. 36gram loads. The thing that really, really narks me is that I have to use plastic wads and there is no sensible alternative for the steel homeloader. I'm still learning, but I've moved away from half choke down to Improved Cyl following some patterning. I need to pattern Cyl yet...just not had time. At 40 yds Imp was far better than half. At 50yds, both were very low on the paper, suggesting a real drop off in trajectory, so much so that I've messed with the shims on the semi auto I'm shooting it with. It could have been me, or it could have dropping like a brick and running out of steam. I've not been back to the pattern tests after the shimming, so that should be interesting. I also find it very difficult to obtain decent load data and I don't want to buy 10 different manuals costing hundreds as they'll all just have a short section on steel. It's very frustrating and I really wish a biodegradable plastic-type wad was available for the reloading community. I'll carry on experimenting as I enjoy it and there's great satisfaction from taking birds with home loaded ammo. You can't really blame the ammo when you miss either!

They are passed for .22 Hornet as well and do a pretty decent job. Good luck with your sale.

These are proper 80's throwbacks and a built like tanks. Very well engineered (Japanese) and have chrome barrels and great triggers. I picked a trap gun up last year and have been using on the pigeons. Can't put it down! Quality gun and much underated. Good luck with the sale.

Been "used" for cormorant control...I hope?

Sorry, got sorted with a virtually new Hatsan now. He was similar distance away. Hideous thing - cammo dippped, but the intention is to use it as a tool as opposed to treating it as a thing of beauty. Not shot it yet...maybe I'll be a convert when I do. If not, It'll be back on here soon. Good luck with your sale.

Will it take steel shot too? Looking for a pigeon gun and my mate has hawks but won't feed lead-shot birds to them. I really dont fancy slinging steel down anything I have at the moment.

Ha ha, yes it might just be a new one ?. Well spotted sir! There's also an old Lanber o/u sleeved up behind the net. Not sure which one I shot best with....not much in it. Very sporting little birds. I was shooting 6's but 7.5's would have been ample and a bit denser I think.

I was desparate to get out on the pigeons, but despite a good drive round with the bins yesterday all I could find were some crows on freshly sprouted maize at the side of a wood on the shoot where I beat. I didn't really know what to expect as I've never bothered much with crows but I really wanted some shooting. I had a phone round today and couldn't scrounge any crow decoys off my mates, so I just set up a dozen pigeon shells and waited. First action was a couple of pigeons. Good start! Then nothing, but I was about 200m away from the line the crows were using. Packed it all up and moved. Good decision! I had a fairly steady stream of birds over me and as my crow pattern started to build I started to pull them in. I ended up with 38 jackdaws and the two pigeons. Lost about half a dozen in the wood behind too. A couple of left and rights, so pretty happy. Challenging little birds and faster than they look - I'm sure some dodged through the middle of the pattern too! https://www.dropbox.com/s/9484tyylseo99fk/20180528_172838.jpg?dl=0