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A .357 magnum long-barreled revolver.
A .22 semi-automatic rifle.
And a couple more.
I have a slot for a .38/.357 rifle on my FAC and may be getting a Winchester repeater, when I stop spending all of my money on guitars!
I use them for target shooting.
I never shoot game as I just can't bring myself to do it.
I use a Daystate Airwolf .177 CDT (PCP)
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....along with a Weihrauch HW97K MK2 .22 (springer).
Still have the old Webley Tempest .22 and an original 66 .177
Tempted to go FAC and get an Edgun.
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These days with three kids I have become a crack shot with a Nerf gun. Found some cheap bullets on Amazon recently that are so much more accurate than official ones, they're so good they actually make aiming worthwhile. There are also some third party guns that are much better than the Nerf ones. I bought one and have cause a household arms race with my boys.
I'm no fan of any killing of living creatures for fun or entertainment. But if they are either eaten or a pest that needs to be got rid of then that's a different matter.
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As for the .22, it is a semi-automatic, meaning that you have to pull the trigger for every shot. Funnily enough, bump-stocks (which effectively automate the pulling of the trigger) are not illegal in the UK, but I've never seen one.
As for having an FAC, you have to have two referees, be member of a club, not have a criminal record, be interviewed by the police in person, and renew every 5 years.
The weapons have to be stored in an approved locked safe, separate from ammunition (which must be in its own safe) and you can take them to & from designated ranges (ie. not just have them in your car). Your FAC (Firearms Certificate, ie. licence) states which guns you can own and how much ammunition you can purchase and keep.
All in all, I think the system is a sensible one. I've had CRB certificates (my kids Scouts) and security clearance (for work) before, and the FAC is more stringent.
I've also got one of these (not mine in the picture) - the barrel is the whole length and the apparent silencer is really just a sleeve around it. Elsewhere in the world they are available without the long barrel and the appendage off the back.
My other gun, and the best one, actually, is an old single-shot .22 BSA Martini model (as featured in the movie Zulu).
already looking at guns and comparing barrel lengths, bores, wood finish.......almost exactly like guitar shopping! Lol!
Shot a few time son holiday in Vegas , automatics can be fun but I don’t think I’d like to own any guns.
used to shoot a lot as a kid growing up on exmoor. Used to be in the clay club at uni then "pest control" on a few fish farms I worked on as a younger man and that was the last time I pulled a trigger in anger I guess
I would 'naturally' shoot from the left shoulder but my right eye is master so I had to learn to shoot from the right shoulder. Shotguns for me not rifles. You don't 'aim' a shotgun, you point it. Hence the importance of determining which eye is master.
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I have always had and used shotguns. Game, wildfowl, vermin and sporting clays. I shot game with a pair (not matched) of London built side by side guns. Wildfowl and 'rough' shooting with an old Browning automatic, I had several barrels for this gun but mainly used the 28" barrel with no rib. Clay shooting was with my Miroku over and under, this had multichokes fitted in the factory.
The only shooting I had to do, but did not like, was crop protection for local farmers. Two guns were usually required as the pigeons get suicidal when they get the taste for the crop. Serious bags are inevitable in those situations, the guns could and did get hot! Hence the need for two. As I said, a hateful activity but necessary.
Apart from the big bags of pigeons, we ate all the game and fowl shot. The remarkable thing is that a failure to shoot game results in the serious depletion of the numbers of game in the locality. Fairly hard shooting results in increasing numbers of birds. I speak of wild pheasants, not had reared ones. The formal game shoots are always hand reared birds, at those you need the services of a loader (and a second gun).
I enjoyed clay target shooting but the standard is so high that one missed target takes you completely out of the picture. Pressure. I was never good enough to shoot for Ireland but I did compete at National Championships but to no avail. I made a lot of friends as a result of clay shooting.
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