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Greetings from the USofA..

 

Just thought I'd stop in and say hello. I hail from New York in the United States, and i'm an upland (rough) shooter running Gordon Setters. Also have an English Setter at the moment, but, she's a rescue.. We hunt ruffed grouse, bobwhite quail, and the occasional pheasant.

I've shot Trap (DTL), Skeet, and Sporting on a regular basis for many years..

I was born in Fishguard, Wales, and spent most of an idyllic childhood there until about age 5. Back and forth after that. Quite a few relatives still in Wales, although, we're all getting on.

I'm just interested in friendly discussion with peers. I've grown tired of argueing on the internet!

 

I hope to interact and learn from all you good folks in a friendly way....

 

Regards, Bill

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Thanks everyone for the warm welcome..

 

To answer a few questions...

 

mikkey, I've got a Beretta 682 for skeet, a couple of Perazzi, assorted Winchester, SKB, A. H. Fox, and the old Remmy 1100, that we all know and love..

 

A few rifles kickin' around including a Dakota in 7mm Dakota, (based on the .404 Jeffrey)

 

Assorted handguns, including a Glock 19 Compact....

 

Blank guns for working the dogs, a Beeman airgun, and I guess that's about it..

 

Wish I was heading to Wild Wales with you mikkey! Haven't been back in a good many years now. I'd like to see the house I was born in one more time before I'm pushing up daisies myself...

 

Now, a question for the members here...

 

I'm surprised at the amount of gun activity still available in the U.K.! The American press, which is notorious for printing lies, has painted a picture for us that private gun ownership and use on your side of the pond is virtually non-existant...

 

Please explain... or, should I start another thread??

 

Thanks again for the welcome. Bill

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Thanks everyone for the warm welcome..

 

To answer a few questions...

 

mikkey, I've got a Beretta 682 for skeet, a couple of Perazzi, assorted Winchester, SKB, A. H. Fox, and the old Remmy 1100, that we all know and love..

 

A few rifles kickin' around including a Dakota in 7mm Dakota, (based on the .404 Jeffrey)

 

Assorted handguns, including a Glock 19 Compact....

 

Blank guns for working the dogs, a Beeman airgun, and I guess that's about it..

 

Wish I was heading to Wild Wales with you mikkey! Haven't been back in a good many years now. I'd like to see the house I was born in one more time before I'm pushing up daisies myself...

 

Now, a question for the members here...

 

I'm surprised at the amount of gun activity still available in the U.K.! The American press, which is notorious for printing lies, has painted a picture for us that private gun ownership and use on your side of the pond is virtually non-existant...

 

Please explain... or, should I start another thread??

 

Thanks again for the welcome. Bill

hi bill, and a warm wellcome, no your press was quite right, following the massacre of several little children by a pistol owning peodophile (legally owned) only a few years ago, all handguns were banned and some 60 thousand legally owned pistols were handed in and some goverment compensation was paid to the legal licence owners, at the same time the goverment made other draconian legislation which tightened the controll of certain rifles and calibers and use of,this bought other problems for shooters here as chief constables in different areas misinterprented the new legislation (deliberatley) and made it even harder for people to obtain a licence. the only people who have sidearms now in britain are the armed forces, the police,goverment agencies , and of course criminals, who all the time now are shooting people on a regular basis. any sorry to give you the bad news Bill, all the best my friend, Ron,

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Greetings from the USofA..

 

Just thought I'd stop in and say hello. I hail from New York in the United States, and i'm an upland (rough) shooter running Gordon Setters. Also have an English Setter at the moment, but, she's a rescue.. We hunt ruffed grouse, bobwhite quail, and the occasional pheasant.

I've shot Trap (DTL), Skeet, and Sporting on a regular basis for many years..

I was born in Fishguard, Wales, and spent most of an idyllic childhood there until about age 5. Back and forth after that. Quite a few relatives still in Wales, although, we're all getting on.

I'm just interested in friendly discussion with peers. I've grown tired of argueing on the internet!

 

I hope to interact and learn from all you good folks in a friendly way....

 

Regards, Bill

 

 

Hello Bill and the Pigeon Watch Community

 

I thought I would also stop in and say hello.

Ryman Gun dog is my handel, born in the back woods, Potter County, Pa - USA

Grouse hunt and Fly Fish, now prefer to now spend most of my time at home in the Pa mountains.

Now retired, I own and operate a small Gun Dog Training business in the Pa Mountains.

Have Ryman English Setters, Gordon Setters, and Small Munsterlanders in our home Kennel.

Like Bill I hope to interact and have friendly converstaions.

 

Hello from the Pa mountains

Dave

 

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