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17 hours ago, London Best said:

 

Nothing to do with shooting then.

Not the style most of us do in Britain.  
It was ok for Combat but we must be cognisance that armys use weapons sets in different styles, from my experience the British Army it would not have been as good as other options. How the French deployed their shotguns in Afghanistan it could have been a good option. 

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Blimey, thread resurrection 🙂

They may not be to every bodies tastes but they hold a great deal of ‘Collectors’ value and curiosity, we’re it not then why are they so pricey and unobtainable?

We all collect ‘stuff’, I don’t know what many people collect but I’m sure not into stamp collecting or say classic cars. I don’t have a tin plate toy collection nor a model railway, but I don’t cast aspersions on those who do.

There was a time when the purists poured scorn on using an O/U on any shoot. Now there even a gradual acceptance of semi autos.

If we don’t learn to embrace and accept all forms of shooting and personal choices, then we are indeed doomed. It won’t be the Politicians and Home Office causing our demise, but ourselves. 
 

 

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26 minutes ago, Jaymo said:

Blimey, thread resurrection 🙂

They may not be to every bodies tastes but they hold a great deal of ‘Collectors’ value and curiosity, we’re it not then why are they so pricey and unobtainable?

We all collect ‘stuff’, I don’t know what many people collect but I’m sure not into stamp collecting or say classic cars. I don’t have a tin plate toy collection nor a model railway, but I don’t cast aspersions on those who do.

There was a time when the purists poured scorn on using an O/U on any shoot. Now there even a gradual acceptance of semi autos.

If we don’t learn to embrace and accept all forms of shooting and personal choices, then we are indeed doomed. It won’t be the Politicians and Home Office causing our demise, but ourselves. 
 

 

Quite. There are many who by diverting criticism to others think that what they themselves do, will be deemed more acceptable to our critics. 
Sadly, even our shooting org’s have tried this in the past. 😕
When my FEO was round here the other week, checking on security, he remarked that he loved big bikes, the faster the better. He later asked me why I had so many guns; he wasn’t criticising, just interested, to which I replied ‘I just love guns, always have. Just like you with your bikes.’ He just smiled and said. ‘Fair enough.’ 

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3 hours ago, theshootist said:

Although I think the SPAS 12 was a military failure I'd still love one. As one of the earlier posters wrote, there's nothing better than  clearing a stand with an old pump gun to raise a few eyebrows! 

Apart from use as specialist entry tools or teargas launchers, shotguns have very limited military utility.

If you have an FAC there's one for sale at the moment.

 http://gunshop-eb.com/Autoshotguns.php

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£1500 for that hunk of junk?!

There are some interesting guns on that link, for me the SPAS is the second worst there (in terms of gun and price) only the A5 being worse value. The MP-A taking bronze. 

Actually the SPAS is the gold position. Even at £1000 for such old technology and ugly lines, I would take the A5 over the SPAS. 

I don’t mean to cause offence, each to their own but that is a truly shocking cost. 

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I've shot a SPAS quite a few times at a shooting range in Riga, Latvia.  An old cold war bunker under the city.

Let's just say that out of the SPAS, Uzi 9mm machine pistol, AK-47 assault rifle, colt 45 revolver and Glock 9mm, the SPAS put much more of a grin on my face than the others :D

Might be because they loaded it with slugs and it tore chunks out of the target!

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A very very long time ago . I walked into the gun club , and the owner was sitting behind his desk , cleaning a smooth bore m16 that he'd purchased for one of the other club members . At the same time , he'd also purchased a spas12 for the same guy ( he was a top bloke , with a taste for the unusual). He'd payed £30.00 each for the guns . The m16 came with a large amount of tracer rounds , that we promptly wasted in the field behind the gun club as soon as it got dark , and I was at a clay shoot on the following Sunday morning when the guy turned up wearing his biker gear , and carrying the spas12 .  He wasn't a regular clay shooter , and was quite surprised when he was politely asked to leave.

It was quite funny , he was a huge bloke , and he turned up looking more arnie than arnie ever could 🤣

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Can anybody else remember when you were actually allowed to have fun with guns ?. It was great.

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1 hour ago, mel b3 said:

A very very long time ago . I walked into the gun club , and the owner was sitting behind his desk , cleaning a smooth bore m16 that he'd purchased for one of the other club members . At the same time , he'd also purchased a spas12 for the same guy ( he was a top bloke , with a taste for the unusual). He'd payed £30.00 each for the guns . The m16 came with a large amount of tracer rounds , that we promptly wasted in the field behind the gun club as soon as it got dark , and I was at a clay shoot on the following Sunday morning when the guy turned up wearing his biker gear , and carrying the spas12 .  He wasn't a regular clay shooter , and was quite surprised when he was politely asked to leave.

It was quite funny , he was a huge bloke , and he turned up looking more arnie than arnie ever could 🤣

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Can anybody else remember when you were actually allowed to have fun with guns ?. It was great.

I remember seeing ads in gun magazines (1980s ?) for smoothbore M16s and AK47s… think they were about £100 or so at the time.

Always fancied one!

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1 hour ago, humperdingle said:

I remember seeing ads in gun magazines (1980s ?) for smoothbore M16s and AK47s… think they were about £100 or so at the time.

Always fancied one!

I never got to use an ak47 , and only got to use the m16 once . The guys at the club used to turn up with all sorts of weird and wonderful guns.

It's seems strange now to look back at all the things that we were free to own and use . In thirty years time,  younger shooters will be looking back , and saying , can you remember when we used to be able to own shotguns , rifles , and , airguns.

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11 hours ago, Rock_n_Roll_Outlaw said:

I'm pretty sure you still can. 

Absolutely! Pumps and Pistol gripped Auto's on clays, slug shooting at scoring targets, falling plates, strong and weak side shooting etc etc. Sure, looking back into a rosy past reminds us of what we have lost (my old SPAS was on a shotgun cert!) My Finnish Valmet, magnificently made, AK was a great rifle, my collection of Colt revolvers were a joy to shoot. Still, every day I get to shoot is a fun day, mixing with like minded individuals in a safe and social (if a little distanced currently) environment. Acting as RO/Coach/Mentor has its own rewards too. Encouraging new shooters to try new variations in our chosen sports (within the confines of the law and safety of course) is rewarding in itself. Indeed, I have, just today at auction, bought one of those new fangled over and unders together with an old fangled hammer SxS Both are firsts for me in my 50th year of shooting, I look forward to having more fun in the future. 

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20 hours ago, Rock_n_Roll_Outlaw said:

I'm pretty sure you still can. 

 

9 hours ago, impala59 said:

Absolutely! Pumps and Pistol gripped Auto's on clays, slug shooting at scoring targets, falling plates, strong and weak side shooting etc etc. Sure, looking back into a rosy past reminds us of what we have lost (my old SPAS was on a shotgun cert!) My Finnish Valmet, magnificently made, AK was a great rifle, my collection of Colt revolvers were a joy to shoot. Still, every day I get to shoot is a fun day, mixing with like minded individuals in a safe and social (if a little distanced currently) environment. Acting as RO/Coach/Mentor has its own rewards too. Encouraging new shooters to try new variations in our chosen sports (within the confines of the law and safety of course) is rewarding in itself. Indeed, I have, just today at auction, bought one of those new fangled over and unders together with an old fangled hammer SxS Both are firsts for me in my 50th year of shooting, I look forward to having more fun in the future. 

Guns are still fun , but they used to be more fun . I was always a .22 revolver fan , but , it was nice to burn a load of ammo through a Browning 9mm from time to time , or have an hour on the Range with a waltzer ppk and get all James bond , or as I said earlier , burn through a load of tracer rounds , in the field behind the club, with an m16.

Old hammer guns are great , I have an old j beattie and son  , black powder hammer gun , that I got from wabbitbosher a few years ago . The old girl only comes out on boxing day , and every bang leaves me in a cloud of smoke with a great big 😀

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