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I hope everything goes well for you and your good lady.

Wales is about the size of New Jersey with a population of just over 3 million. So it's fairly open country. So there are a disproprotionate number of shooters there. hence there are a lot of guns out that way. Your Grandmother lived in the south Wales valleys I would think. There are a couple...

Good morning. Indeed many British game guns were made as light as possible, and as you say, wouldn't be suitable to have chokes fitted. The Zabala that I've recently purchased has barrels more akin to drain pipes, and the guns weighs somewhere around 8lb. Those are some pretty hefty prices on...

I've seen pictures like that too, and also pictures of folks wearing heavy gloves on their forend hand. It must have made things quite awkward I would think. We have a lead shot ban coming in over here on any live shooting within the next couple of years. Our cartridge manufacturers are up in...

I gave up live shooting some 30 years ago, and even then there weren't many who used a side by side over here. I had my Ranger 120 and a Mossberg 500 with C-lect choke. My Mossy held nine 2 3/4 cartridges including one up the spout, and was a great gun for when the Pigeons were flocking. After...

A beavertail forend does make a SxS look rather bulky. However, I cannot get on with a splinter forend due to having large hands, and as I've said, a straight stock is a recipe for punching myself in the cheek :) I totally agree with you regarding single triggers on a SxS. As Cfullgraf says...

When I started shooting only the term bore was used. However, since the advent of the internet and forums such as this, a lot of American terms are in regular use. Nowadays it's not uncommon to hear someone refer to a shotgun as a 12 gauge and so on. Oddly enough a .410 was just known as a .410...

Good morning all. What a terrific bunch you are. It's great to see your guns and hear your views. You're spot on in saying that pumps and autos are cheaper than doubles. Aside from Baikal shotguns my Ranger 120 was considerably cheaper than any double when I bought it in 1984. I paid £270...

Good afternoon. We see the odd Brno shotgun over here. I don't know if they come from the same people that make CZ. They look pretty well made and durable. I know what you mean about slowing down with age..........I may have to take up Tortoise hunting....... Cheers. Stewart.

Good afternoon. Indeed the Jap bikes slaughtered them all. Mind you, when you look at what us Brits were making in the 70's it's no surprise. BSA= Bits stuck anywhere! :-) That's a good point about Franco's policies. I believe that in about 1980 a number of Spanish gun makers were with...

Good morning. They live in South Oxfordshire, which is a prettty part of the country. As said, there are a couple of good clay grounds out that way. Oddly enough I was talking to a mate of mine the other day, and he's just bought a 16 gauge O/U. As I haven't shot for over 10 years I'm a bit...

Good morning. I do like the term 'front stuffer' :-) There are a few organised black powder days, or SxS days. Most people enjoy shooting something that they're not used to. We're a funny bunch, and there are quite a number of snobs in the shooting world. Back in the 80's and 90's when pump...

Good morning all. That happens a lot over here too. Discount for a guilty plea and concurrent sentences. Plus a lot of crimes that should get a custodial sentence don't. It's down to cost and overloaded prisons I think. I don't know who did away with it. Perhaps we should all find out and...

That is indeed a sad story. Let's hope the young Sh1tbag got an extra few years tacked on to his sentence for sheer vandalism! One has to feel sorry for the owner. If someone steals something (which is detestable in any case). It always seems worse when the item is wrecked. If he'd stolen it...

Good morning Pete. Blimey! You have three classic American doubles! Out of those three the only one I've ever seen is a Parker shotgun. I think it was from the 1930's. I never got a chance to shoot it, but it felt very high quality, and looked extremely well made. Unfortunately I've never seen...

Good evening. My advice would be to try a Pachmayr decelerator slip on pad. I need a stock extension on most shotguns, and the decelerator pad extends the stock by just under an inch which suits me fine in most cases. It also absorbs quite a lot of the recoil which can't be a bad thing. I've...

Good trick with the rock. If I ever take up live shooting again I'll give that a bash. It's funny how some dogs just can't stand small furry creatures. I had a tiny Patterdale Terrier too who thought that she was a Rottweiler! She would knobble every Rat and Mouse that she could catch. Yet my...

Good evening. You're right about the prices Model 12's go for nowadays. I've seen a few on US gun sales sites, and the prices are a bit eye watering! Yes indeed Squirrels aren't considered 'game' in the UK, (probably because they're cute and bushy tailed). Although they can be a bloody...

Good evening. I hope you had a good time riding. One thing I envy about the US is that you've still got lots of wide open spaces, where no one bothers you if you're riding a motorbike, or out shooting etc. It's a trifle cramped here, and there are very few places where one can ride off road...

That's brilliant! I've always felt that there's something special about the traditional SxS, and it's great to hear that your boys appreciate them, and will hopefully pass it along to the next generation. Ic and M (we call it 1/4 and 1/2) are great chokes for most shooting. My new SxS is choked...