Duckandswing Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 As the title really. Its a nice evening. Can I clean my shotguns in my own private Garden? Cheers Duck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cambsman Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 Yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenboy Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 Yes of course you can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duckandswing Posted August 2, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 Cheers Gents, I appreciate the feedback. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitchiet123 Posted August 3, 2015 Report Share Posted August 3, 2015 I do all the time as my parents wont let me clean it inside the house lol. Do get some funny looks from nosy neighbours though, especially when dry mounting and practice swinging! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosd Posted August 3, 2015 Report Share Posted August 3, 2015 I do all the time as my parents wont let me clean it inside the house lol. Do get some funny looks from nosy neighbours though, especially when dry mounting and practice swinging! Dry mounting and practice swinging in your garden probably isn't the smartest thing to do if you are in view of neighbours! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitchiet123 Posted August 3, 2015 Report Share Posted August 3, 2015 Dry mounting and practice swinging in your garden probably isn't the smartest thing to do if you are in view of neighbours! Don't do it often and always point at the sky above the houses. Again, parents wont let me do it in the house. I'm lucky they let me put a gun safe in the corner of the back room! Its a PITA having a mum that despises guns..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent Posted August 3, 2015 Report Share Posted August 3, 2015 In so many respects the best place, one should consider the neighbours as regards your security arrangements and as regards something getting called in as an incident. Depends were you live and who sees you're if your in town or in a smaller rural community etc all relivent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stubear Posted August 3, 2015 Report Share Posted August 3, 2015 (edited) Personally I'd be ok to clean outside subtlely (if thats the arrangement you have come to with your parental units!) but I emphasis would be on subtle for sure! To be honest if my other half insisted I cleaned my shotty outside I'd be saying to her "What would you rather - I clean it inside or a neighbour sees it and an armed response unit turns up?" But if I really had no choice I'd be heading down to the shed or hiding by the back door crouched behind the fence. I dont have a driveway where I live and I get nervy walking 30 yards down the street from the car to the house with the gun in a slip, just in case someone makes a fuss about it. I know I'm not doing anything wrong but the last thing you need is some hysterical Hyacinth Bucket type wailing to the police that "Theres a man outside with a gun!" just to liven up her Sunday afternoon! I definitely wouldnt be practicing my swings in the garden, all it takes is one person to make a call in and you're on the back foot trying to explain yourself to an unamused armed unit! Given how nervous people are about guns generally these days its just not worth the hassle IMHO. Edited August 3, 2015 by stubear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShootingEgg Posted August 3, 2015 Report Share Posted August 3, 2015 I dont have a driveway where I live and I get nervy walking 30 yards down the street from the car to the house with the gun in a slip, just in case someone makes a fuss about it. I know I'm not doing anything wrong but the last thing you need is some hysterical Hyacinth Bucket type wailing to the police that "Theres a man outside with a gun!" just to liven up her Sunday afternoon You say this. I live in a village just south of bristol, a few weekends back was the primary schools carnival, so the main road got closed, my road is of the main one and only one way in / out. I had to park my landy in a adjoining Street, but had been out with my 22... So i made it safe put it over my shoulder and walked home, got stopped for a chat by a local business man whilst he was watching the carnival, I got no problems from anyone.. maybe i got lucky, but i think most people could see it was over shoulder in the slip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psycho Posted August 3, 2015 Report Share Posted August 3, 2015 I always clean my guns in the back garden on my patio table,my Mrs won't let me use solvents in the kitchen I shoot my air rifles in the garden and have nice neighbours so I must be lucky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosd Posted August 3, 2015 Report Share Posted August 3, 2015 Don't do it often and always point at the sky above the houses. Again, parents wont let me do it in the house. I'm lucky they let me put a gun safe in the corner of the back room! Its a PITA having a mum that despises guns..... I wasn't implying you do anything unsafe, but how it looks to a neighbour. If you stood at a clay ground and someone was waving a gun about outside of a cage I don't think you'd be pleased regardless if he said it was empty. Now consider that being done a few feet from your garden. Windows, kids!! Only saying to save you possible grief. Only you can decide how and what you do. Cos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitchiet123 Posted August 4, 2015 Report Share Posted August 4, 2015 I wasn't implying you do anything unsafe, but how it looks to a neighbour. If you stood at a clay ground and someone was waving a gun about outside of a cage I don't think you'd be pleased regardless if he said it was empty. Now consider that being done a few feet from your garden. Windows, kids!! Only saying to save you possible grief. Only you can decide how and what you do. Cos Very true- sad state of affairs when everyone is scared of guns and simply being seen with a gun on your own private property could cause a scare! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitchiet123 Posted August 4, 2015 Report Share Posted August 4, 2015 I wasn't implying you do anything unsafe, but how it looks to a neighbour. If you stood at a clay ground and someone was waving a gun about outside of a cage I don't think you'd be pleased regardless if he said it was empty. Now consider that being done a few feet from your garden. Windows, kids!! Only saying to save you possible grief. Only you can decide how and what you do. Cos And saying that the only people who can see me from my garden know I have guns and like them, but still word spreads to the wrong people doesn't it. Before you know it someone down the other end of the street complaining to police because they don't like guns... Fairplay the FLO for gwent police is very switched on and shoots as well, he knows a bul****e complaint when he hears one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted August 4, 2015 Report Share Posted August 4, 2015 (edited) The good thing about growing up and living in a small rural community such as that which I did was that everyone knew everyone and shooting was an integral part of that community. Many was the time I would clean my guns in the garden and once the local milkman whom I'd known since we were all kids called to deliver via the back door (nobody used the front door; it was for strangers, Sundays and funerals) and found me with all my handguns in bits in the conservatory. He said he wasn't keen on guns personally, but didn't mind others owning them. That was back in the days when walking through the town with a slipped gun didn't turn any heads. I still live in the same small town but it has grown and I no longer know everyone. Shooting still plays a huge part in the local community but some of the incomers object to the shooting part unfortunately. A neighbour once popped his head over my garden fence to complain about me teaching my son to shoot with an air rifle in my back garden, claiming it frightened his dog. He was so abrupt and quite confrontational so I told him to take his dog indoors if it was frightened, but I did stop. He called round some time later saying he didn't want to fall out. Fair enough I said, but we weren't actually doing anything illegal, to which he didn't agree, so I told him he should inform the police if he thought different. Anyhow, we resolved the matter but I bumped into his wife sometime later who is a born and bred local and she said she'd laughed out loud when he'd told her I'd told him to take the dog inside; she told me it is he who is frightened of guns, not the dog. He is from darn sarf, mite. A farmers wife I do pest control for who has a bed and breakfast business plus small caravan site gets really annoyed when the Rooks form the huge walled in adjacent property carp all over guests caravans, her washing and the kids trampoline, but it was sold by a local person who used to keep the rooks and jackdaws at an acceptable level, to a couple from London who wont give anyone permission to shoot in there. The owner says she 'likes to hear the birds calling' which is fair enough but she's only in there a few weeks each year. Funnily enough, not one of her guests has complained when they have spotted me sat quietly in a little niche in the wall with a rifle awaiting rabbits which nibble her flowers. Some of them have almost jumped out of their skins when they spot me, but no one has complained. Some of them are good craic. Clean your guns on your own property if you want, you're doing nothing wrong. Edited August 4, 2015 by Scully Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitchiet123 Posted August 4, 2015 Report Share Posted August 4, 2015 The good thing about growing up and living in a small rural community such as that which I did was that everyone knew everyone and shooting was an integral part of that community. Many was the time I would clean my guns in the garden and once the local milkman whom I'd known since we were all kids called to deliver via the back door (nobody used the front door; it was for strangers, Sundays and funerals) and found me with all my handguns in bits in the conservatory. He said he wasn't keen on guns personally, but didn't mind others owning them. That was back in the days when walking through the town with a slipped gun didn't turn any heads. I still live in the same small town but it has grown and I no longer know everyone. Shooting still plays a huge part in the local community but some of the incomers object to the shooting part unfortunately. A neighbour once popped his head over my garden fence to complain about me teaching my son to shoot with an air rifle in my back garden, claiming it frightened his dog. He was so abrupt and quite confrontational so I told him to take his dog indoors if it was frightened, but I did stop. He called round some time later saying he didn't want to fall out. Fair enough I said, but we weren't actually doing anything illegal, to which he didn't agree, so I told him he should inform the police if he thought different. Anyhow, we resolved the matter but I bumped into his wife sometime later who is a born and bred local and she said she'd laughed out loud when he'd told her I'd told him to take the dog inside; she told me it is he who is frightened of guns, not the dog. He is from darn sarf, mite. A farmers wife I do pest control for who has a bed and breakfast business plus small caravan site gets really annoyed when the Rooks form the huge walled in adjacent property carp all over guests caravans, her washing and the kids trampoline, but it was sold by a local person who used to keep the rooks and jackdaws at an acceptable level, to a couple from London who wont give anyone permission to shoot in there. The owner says she 'likes to hear the birds calling' which is fair enough but she's only in there a few weeks each year. Funnily enough, not one of her guests has complained when they have spotted me sat quietly in a little niche in the wall with a rifle awaiting rabbits which nibble her flowers. Some of them have almost jumped out of their skins when they spot me, but no one has complained. Some of them are good craic. Clean your guns on your own property if you want, you're doing nothing wrong. Sounds like a nice place/time to live and shoot! haha Same issue up my grampas farm- caravanners complain that theres a brave fox scaring their children and pigeons are pooing all over the place yet they don't want them shot and don't like the 'inhumanity' of trapping? Here's an idea, go back to the city, or just don't camp out on a farm? lol Cant win with the general public or antis though I spose! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tx4cabbie Posted August 4, 2015 Report Share Posted August 4, 2015 In nice weather I clean my shotguns in the (postage stamp sized) garden, and whilst I don't practice mount and swing out there, all my neighbours know i shoot, so I don't think any would mind. Guns get taken to cab in slip, and most of the comments run along the lines of "been fishing? ", though I would have thought that the "beretta " down the side of the slip would give the game away! Cab doesn't have a boot, so when I stop on the way back from shooting to pick up a few bits from the shop, unless the shop has a fully glazed front and I can park right outside, I have to take gun in with me, again in slip over shoulder, and it's never been a problem, though it does feel a bit odd wandering around waitrose, less because of the gun and more the way I dress when shooting - I'm usually the only one in there in muddy boots, skeet vest, and leather aussie hat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitchiet123 Posted August 4, 2015 Report Share Posted August 4, 2015 In nice weather I clean my shotguns in the (postage stamp sized) garden, and whilst I don't practice mount and swing out there, all my neighbours know i shoot, so I don't think any would mind. Guns get taken to cab in slip, and most of the comments run along the lines of "been fishing? ", though I would have thought that the "beretta " down the side of the slip would give the game away! Cab doesn't have a boot, so when I stop on the way back from shooting to pick up a few bits from the shop, unless the shop has a fully glazed front and I can park right outside, I have to take gun in with me, again in slip over shoulder, and it's never been a problem, though it does feel a bit odd wandering around waitrose, less because of the gun and more the way I dress when shooting - I'm usually the only one in there in muddy boots, skeet vest, and leather aussie hat. Do you not have to break it down first and take one part in with you, the other locked in the front out of view? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted August 4, 2015 Report Share Posted August 4, 2015 Do you not have to break it down first and take one part in with you, the other locked in the front out of view? No. You can, but you don't have to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrowningB525 Posted August 4, 2015 Report Share Posted August 4, 2015 Cleaning outside is fine. It's best not to try to draw attention to your self. Just act as you would as opposed to waving your gun around like rambo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay_Russell Posted August 4, 2015 Report Share Posted August 4, 2015 Im another lucky guy that lives in a rural comunity. Half the village seam to be into shooting so never have a problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cambsman Posted August 4, 2015 Report Share Posted August 4, 2015 I do all the time as my parents wont let me clean it inside the house lol. Do get some funny looks from nosy neighbours though, especially when dry mounting and practice swinging! My dogs do dry mounting. I kick them in the goolies to stop it. Swinging is a whole different gig. Wot is going on here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tx4cabbie Posted August 4, 2015 Report Share Posted August 4, 2015 Would take part of the gun in and leave part in the vehicle, if there was anywhere out of sight to leave it. I usually take my London taxi when going shooting, and the boot has room for very little apart from the spare, wheelchair ramp, oil and water, etc. The front has nowhere to store bits of gun out of sight, so unless I shop at the nisa which has a fully glazed front, and staff who look out for my cab as they know what's in it (they all want to try clay shooting, I'm taking them to the club soon), I have to take the whole thing. No-one has objected so far, and I'd rather have an awkward conversation than a busted window and a missing shotgun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitchiet123 Posted August 5, 2015 Report Share Posted August 5, 2015 My dogs do dry mounting. I kick them in the goolies to stop it. Swinging is a whole different gig. Wot is going on here? Haha was expecting some kind of comment like that as soon as I posted lmao Sorry for hijacking your post OP! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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