Question For British Shotgunners

[fiddleharp]

Are you guys allowed to buy/store 00, #1, etc, buckshot shells in the UK?
I've heard you have a tradition of bird/rabbit hunting with small shot, but is buckshot sold there?

 

[throdgrain]

I dont believe it is no. The biggest I can get is what we call AAA, which has about 35 pellets per ounce.

We mostly use #8 or 7.5 for sporting clays, #9 for skeet, #6 for pigeon (dove) and maybe #5 for rabbit and pheasants. We'd use BB or AAA for foxes, and maybe #2 for goose.

 

[fiddleharp]

Thanks, I know I'll sleep safer at night knowing this!

 

[Hornet 6]

Time to resume the nightmares then
Largest shot allowed on a shotgun certificate in the UK is SSG, 9 ball loads, so about the same as your buckshot.

Neil.

 

[throdgrain]

Oh I didnt know that Hornet, is that sec 1?