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VSS

Joined: 14 Jan 2007
Posts: 2845
Location: Llyn Peninsula, North Wales

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 08 5:39 pm Post subject:
Her .410 is chambered for magnum cartridges, so is comparable to a larger weapon for hunting. With smaller cartridges its ideal for home slaughter - I do all the pigs and sheep with it. A very versatile gun. Also folds in half which is nice.

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 08 5:41 pm Post subject:

VSS wrote:

Her .410 is chambered for magnum cartridges, so is comparable to a larger weapon for hunting. With smaller cartridges its ideal for home slaughter - I do all the pigs and sheep with it. A very versatile gun. Also folds in half which is nice.

I didn't realise you could slaughter with a shotgun. Solid slugs?

VSS

Joined: 14 Jan 2007
Posts: 2845
Location: Llyn Peninsula, North Wales

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 08 5:44 pm Post subject:

vegplot wrote:

I didn't realise you could slaughter with a shotgun. Solid slugs?

No, just ordinary cartridges. Shoot from about 2 - 3 inches away. The .410 just makes a small neat hole.
Shotgun is also legally ok for home slaughter.

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 08 7:50 pm Post subject:

VSS wrote:

vegplot wrote:

I didn't realise you could slaughter with a shotgun. Solid slugs?

No, just ordinary cartridges. Shoot from about 2 - 3 inches away. The .410 just makes a small neat hole.
Shotgun is also legally ok for home slaughter.

You learn several things every day

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 08 8:12 pm Post subject:

KILLITnGRILLIT wrote:

Simple pimple, try a semi auto shotgun, they are slightly heavier but felt recoil is significantly less than any other as the exhausting gases are used to cycle the next shell into the chamber.

That way you can show him how good you are

I use an old beretta A301 semi. The recoil is substantially reduced over an s/s or o/u, and I'd argue that the weight if any isn't noticeable.

VSS

Joined: 14 Jan 2007
Posts: 2845
Location: Llyn Peninsula, North Wales

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 08 9:15 pm Post subject:
Don't you find the semi-auto feels rather clumsy? I've always found that they are very hard to swing through in a "natural" way. A bit out of balance somehow. Give me an English made side by side any day!

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 08 11:09 pm Post subject:
For nostalgia I love side by side. Never did like semi-autos but they don't kick so hard.

Brownbear

Joined: 28 May 2007
Posts: 14929
Location: South West

Posted: Fri Feb 08, 08 5:27 am Post subject:

VSS wrote:

Don't you find the semi-auto feels rather clumsy? I've always found that they are very hard to swing through in a "natural" way. A bit out of balance somehow. Give me an English made side by side any day!

Madame Bear, who has a bad shoulder and finds both the weight and recoil of a gun a problem, used a Benelli Montefeltro. Light as a feather, but the spring-cycling of the mechanism absorbs a lot of the felt recoil. Other people have tried it, and most loved it. Very crisp action when fired as well, none of that 'kerthump-tunk' of the gas-blowback guns.

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Fri Feb 08, 08 7:29 am Post subject:
I like my weird clanking noise, thank you very much.

SheepShed

Joined: 08 Nov 2006
Posts: 332
Location: In the middle of a Welsh forest

Posted: Fri Feb 08, 08 10:08 am Post subject:
I'm happy with my big, black kerthumper semi-auto as well, but for stroll round in the evening with the young cocker I love my Yildiz .410 Makes me feel like an Edwardian gentleman

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Fri Feb 08, 08 10:13 am Post subject:

SheepShed wrote:

I'm happy with my big, black kerthumper semi-auto as well, but for stroll round in the evening with the young cocker I love my Yildiz .410

Makes me feel like an Edwardian gentleman

Are the inuendo's intentional

SheepShed

Joined: 08 Nov 2006
Posts: 332
Location: In the middle of a Welsh forest

Posted: Fri Feb 08, 08 10:22 am Post subject:

vegplot wrote:

SheepShed wrote:

I'm happy with my big, black kerthumper semi-auto as well, but for stroll round in the evening with the young cocker I love my Yildiz .410
Makes me feel like an Edwardian gentleman

Are the inuendo's intentional

Feel free to insert the word 'spaniel' at a suitable place in the text

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Fri Feb 08, 08 11:00 am Post subject:

SheepShed wrote:

vegplot wrote:

SheepShed wrote:

I'm happy with my big, black kerthumper semi-auto as well, but for stroll round in the evening with the young cocker I love my Yildiz .410
Makes me feel like an Edwardian gentleman

Are the inuendo's intentional

Feel free to insert the word 'spaniel' at a suitable place in the text

I was more concerned about your "big, black kerthumper"

SheepShed

Joined: 08 Nov 2006
Posts: 332
Location: In the middle of a Welsh forest

Posted: Fri Feb 08, 08 11:24 am Post subject:

vegplot wrote:

I was more concerned about your "big, black kerthumper"

At least it doesn't make a weird clanking noise like Jonnyboy's.

Did you use to be a script writer for the Carry On films or something ?

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Fri Feb 08, 08 11:29 am Post subject:

SheepShed wrote:

vegplot wrote:

I was more concerned about your "big, black kerthumper"

At least it doesn't make a weird clanking noise like Jonnyboy's.

Did you use to be a script writer for the Carry On films or something ?

Now there's a thought.

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