arjimlad Posted July 14, 2020 Report Share Posted July 14, 2020 Popped out for a look at some freshly cut rape fields, hid in the hedge under a sitty tree with my .410. Five shell decoys, no hide and managed five plus a bonus bunny who ambled past. The little .410 was great fun and I dropped a crosser going away at a fair distance 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted July 14, 2020 Report Share Posted July 14, 2020 well done .......i still have my webley b/a from the day i bought it when i was 14..........killed some rabbits and pigeons with it ..i can tell you the smell of the old paper cased eley furlongs when fired off ....MMMmmmmmmmm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enfieldspares Posted July 15, 2020 Report Share Posted July 15, 2020 At sometime in their shooting lifetime everyone should own, or have at least used and tried, a Webley .410 and a Greener GP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arjimlad Posted July 15, 2020 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2020 Thanks - I haven't had the Greener experience yet although I have fired a SMLE in .410. I wonder about getting myself a double barrelled 3" .410 one day, but the Webley is such good fun. Having just the one shot makes for precision shooting and 12.5g of no7 seems to do the business within sensible ranges. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingman Posted July 15, 2020 Report Share Posted July 15, 2020 (edited) .410 definitely has a bit of magic for me, there is just something nice about carrying a light gun and a pocket full of cartridges around my permission. Dont have a Webley but find myself pulling out my sons Yildiz OU and sticking on a rubber stock extender quite often. Lovely little gun and have dropped some good range pigeons with it and also the odd squirrel. You got me looking on Guntrader now for a bolt action! Edited July 15, 2020 by Wingman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B725 Posted July 15, 2020 Report Share Posted July 15, 2020 There's a webley bolt action in the trade sales on PW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arjimlad Posted July 15, 2020 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2020 I have 2 stocks for this gun, one cut-down for a smaller person to use. I probably still have the picture of my son with his first pigeon taken with this gun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumpy22 Posted July 15, 2020 Report Share Posted July 15, 2020 Returned a pair the same one in 410 and one 9mm. Cracking little guns. My kids love shooting tin cans with the old garden gun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Boggy Posted July 20, 2020 Report Share Posted July 20, 2020 On 15 July 2020 at 10:36, enfieldspares said: At sometime in their shooting lifetime everyone should own, or have at least used and tried, a Webley .410 and a Greener GP. Never aspired to a b.a Webley but I did get plenty of use out of the ubiquitous Belgian folding .410 with the boxes of Fourlong cartridges bought from the local hardware shop. Stalking rabbits from the age of eleven taught me my fair share of field craft. Selling the rabbits for 3 bob each (15p to our younger members) kept me in cartridges. Happy days. OB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted July 23, 2020 Report Share Posted July 23, 2020 On 20/07/2020 at 08:02, Old Boggy said: Never aspired to a b.a Webley but I did get plenty of use out of the ubiquitous Belgian folding .410 with the boxes of Fourlong cartridges bought from the local hardware shop. Stalking rabbits from the age of eleven taught me my fair share of field craft. Selling the rabbits for 3 bob each (15p to our younger members) kept me in cartridges. Happy days. OB if you took the front sight off a piece of copper tube drilled with loads of holes in it... would slip on nice then fill up a mustard (colmans) tin full of old used brillo pads push it over the copper pipe and get yer mate to solder it up.............then go and poach some pheasants............3 pheasants could keep me in fags and petrol for my bike for a week or so.......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Boggy Posted July 24, 2020 Report Share Posted July 24, 2020 8 hours ago, ditchman said: if you took the front sight off a piece of copper tube drilled with loads of holes in it... would slip on nice then fill up a mustard (colmans) tin full of old used brillo pads push it over the copper pipe and get yer mate to solder it up.............then go and poach some pheasants............3 pheasants could keep me in fags and petrol for my bike for a week or so.......... My silencer consisted of a short length of rubber tubing pushed over the end of the barrel. Probably not as effective as yours but got me a few rabbits in places that I shouldn't have been. Pheasants were a rarity in our parts. English partridges were common though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted July 24, 2020 Report Share Posted July 24, 2020 11 hours ago, ditchman said: if you took the front sight off a piece of copper tube drilled with loads of holes in it... would slip on nice then fill up a mustard (colmans) tin full of old used brillo pads push it over the copper pipe and get yer mate to solder it up.............then go and poach some pheasants............3 pheasants could keep me in fags and petrol for my bike for a week or so.......... You lived in a bygone era when selling three longtails would keep you in baccy and petrol for your bike for a week , now taken the expense of the 410 cartridges out and any petrol used to where you done your bit of poaching you would already be out of pocket , if you were very lucky and got a good price you could end up with a packet of Rizla fag papers Mind you , they did pay decent money around here for game , my younger brother lived near Wisbech and would buy a load of Pheasants up there and flog them to Pettitts of Reedham and make enough to cover his fuel when he came back down here to see the family . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandgun Posted July 24, 2020 Report Share Posted July 24, 2020 Pheasants were fair game to me and my mates as kids catt'y's or just a well placed stone throw might result in a back door sale/swap at our local sweet shop...stones were replaced with a borrowed 410 as young teens..😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenholland Posted July 24, 2020 Report Share Posted July 24, 2020 shot my first pigeon with one , as I crept closer to him sitting in the tree being in stealth mode , closer and closer my heart started pounding , then BANG he fell I don't know who was more surprised him or me, that was in the early sixties . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldypigeonpopper Posted August 7, 2020 Report Share Posted August 7, 2020 Hello, I use to get 2 bob for a rabbit I shot with my old 410, those days in the 1960s seem so far away now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Boggy Posted August 7, 2020 Report Share Posted August 7, 2020 57 minutes ago, oldypigeonpopper said: Hello, I use to get 2 bob for a rabbit I shot with my old 410, those days in the 1960s seem so far away now You were done. The going rate here in the 60s was 3 bob from the local butcher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldypigeonpopper Posted August 7, 2020 Report Share Posted August 7, 2020 3 hours ago, Old Boggy said: You were done. The going rate here in the 60s was 3 bob from the local butcher. Hello, oh well I always charged 2 bob, cannot give them away now 🤔 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
243deer Posted August 7, 2020 Report Share Posted August 7, 2020 9 minutes ago, oldypigeonpopper said: Hello, oh well I always charged 2 bob, cannot give them away now 🤔 You could try mincing up any surplus if you have a decent mincer and selling as raw cat food. Our cats preferred food is fresh rabbit (she will catch her own if we do not give her any)and she loves it minced to the exclusion of everything else when it is available. Some folk will pay silly £ for their pets food. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldypigeonpopper Posted August 7, 2020 Report Share Posted August 7, 2020 1 hour ago, 243deer said: You could try mincing up any surplus if you have a decent mincer and selling as raw cat food. Our cats preferred food is fresh rabbit (she will catch her own if we do not give her any)and she loves it minced to the exclusion of everything else when it is available. Some folk will pay silly £ for their pets food. Hello, thanks but that's not something I would consider, cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredwalton Posted August 10, 2020 Report Share Posted August 10, 2020 I recently brought one of these and bloody love it, a lot of fun to use and brought some a few fast flying birds the other week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted August 11, 2020 Report Share Posted August 11, 2020 On 07/08/2020 at 09:00, oldypigeonpopper said: Hello, I use to get 2 bob for a rabbit I shot with my old 410, those days in the 1960s seem so far away now 1/2d for 10 No 6....and the rest for a pint and a packet of crisps...........not bad for 1 bloody old rabbit............cant remember what i got for pheasants i used to sell to Elsogoods the butcher in pot row near kings lynn....but it was a lot of money Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldypigeonpopper Posted August 11, 2020 Report Share Posted August 11, 2020 1 minute ago, ditchman said: 1/2d for 10 No 6....and the rest for a pint and a packet of crisps...........not bad for 1 bloody old rabbit............cant remember what i got for pheasants i used to sell to Elsogoods the butcher in pot row near kings lynn....but it was a lot of money Hello, those were the good old days Simon😁, I shot 4 last night with the CZ 22, red kites or foxy breakfast ! ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turbo33 Posted August 12, 2020 Report Share Posted August 12, 2020 (edited) Can’t beat a 410 session! I’ve popped out twice recently just for a couple of hours each time with my yilditz o/u. Pocket of carts, seat, and just made a hide the old fashioned way, no nets just cut a few sprigs. Dropped a couple and used them as decoys on a hazel stick. Had several left and rights, and dropped many at 40 yards and a bit more. Full and 3/4 choke, 18grm 6/7 home loaded. Great times, no whirlies, batteries, flappers, just how it used to be! Edited August 12, 2020 by turbo33 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arjimlad Posted August 13, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2020 Superb shooting there ! @turbo33 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turbo33 Posted August 13, 2020 Report Share Posted August 13, 2020 3 hours ago, arjimlad said: Superb shooting there ! @turbo33 Thanks Arjimlad, you too. Sorry a hijack wasn’t intended. Nice to be old school with the small gauge. atb t33 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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