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AYA Guns. Any collectors out there?


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On 02/02/2025 at 18:24, ditchman said:

Always had AYA's apart from a couple of english sidelocks i had.....

found the older AYA's were better quality ....they were finished off nicely and the internals as well.......i had a "best quality) aya sidelock and it was in spanking condition and it was decades old.....beautifully made and finished...and the ejectors were awesome (used to chuck the cases 15'...:w00t:...just right for paper cases

myfirst aya was a Cosmos.....bloody long barrell and obsenely tight choke.....(the ejector was poor)...proberly because i used paper cased cartridges......i was young and as long as the gun was longer ...tighter...and bigger......i was happy....i soon learnt the opposite was the correct way

the only fault i have ever had was the brittleness of the firing pins....so any aya i bought ..it was straight down to Frank (ex Darlow) who spun up and tempered a decent set.....

My first shotgun too was a cosmos bought it secondhand of a shooting friend whi had just bought an AYA number 2.The cosmos taught me well but it didn't half kick with baikal and record cartridges.

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43 minutes ago, wisdom said:

My first shotgun too was a cosmos bought it secondhand of a shooting friend whi had just bought an AYA number 2.The cosmos taught me well but it didn't half kick with baikal and record cartridges.

it did kick....i always used heavy load Eley cartrides....luckerly (if i remember rightly) it had a recoil pad on it....

i shot a cock pheasant in our paddock that lifted off at my feet....and pulled the trigger on it at about 5yds.............when i came to gut it 3 days later i found no guts...all the breastmeat and other meat was untouched....the shot had gone straight up the bottom and pushed everything out the crop in a liquidised mist :lol:

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