Positive shooting thread!

[throdgrain]

This is my Remington 870 Wingmaster, with a little trophy I won a month or two ago.

It's a 1979 gun, a pump action considered an "American Classic" by people who like this stuff, i.e me

Wanna know something good about shooting? Nows the time to ask

There's my dog under the table, he's called Mossberg, after another of my shotguns. Well, he is a gun dog.

 

[georgie]

I got a question. In Young Guns Doc uses what I now know to be a Sharps 1874 Cavalry Carbine, can you still buy rifles that are that kind of loading/reloading action?

 

[DaGaffer]

I got a question. In Young Guns Doc uses what I now know to be a Sharps 1874 Cavalry Carbine, can you still buy rifles that are that kind of loading/reloading action?

Yes: http://www.shilohrifle.com/

Personally I think the British Whitworth sniper rifles used by the Confederates were more interesting; hexagonal bullets!

 

[Tuthmes]

Booooo!

 

[throdgrain]

I got a question. In Young Guns Doc uses what I now know to be a Sharps 1874 Cavalry Carbine, can you still buy rifles that are that kind of loading/reloading action?

Yes you can, it's a kind of early lever action rifle. You can still buy them today, even in .22 calibre which is the only calibre here where you can have a multiple round magazine.

Here's one for sale right now - http://www.gunstar.co.uk/Rifle/Pedersoli-1874-sharps-gun-for-sale-gs72178.aspx

 

[georgie]

Yes: http://www.shilohrifle.com/

Oh Lordy. The music!

 

[Access Denied]

What's the name of the rifle with the lever at the bottom? Good description I know. It's the one that Brendan Fraser uses in the mummy.

EDIT: Nevermind it's the 1873 Repeating Rifle. Always liked the look of that gun.

 

[old.user4556]

Guns are good.


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoHbSW0M8Qk

 

[Raven]

Yes you can, it's a kind of early lever action rifle. You can still buy them today, even in .22 calibre which is the only calibre here where you can have a multiple round magazine.

Here's one for sale right now - http://www.gunstar.co.uk/Rifle/Pedersoli-1874-sharps-gun-for-sale-gs72178.aspx

Jebus. Some cheap rifles on there. The perceived cost is something that has always put me off.

How much is a licence? Decent gun safe, ammo safe etc? What sort of references do you need?

 

[Shagrat]

Yes you can, it's a kind of early lever action rifle. You can still buy them today, even in .22 calibre which is the only calibre here where you can have a multiple round magazine.

Here's one for sale right now - http://www.gunstar.co.uk/Rifle/Pedersoli-1874-sharps-gun-for-sale-gs72178.aspx

nice link Throd, thats some great rifles on that site.

 

[throdgrain]

Jebus. Some cheap rifles on there. The perceived cost is something that has always put me off.

How much is a licence? Decent gun safe, ammo safe etc? What sort of references do you need?

The cost of rifle shooting aint that bad, particularly .22 rimfire. A rifle will cost a lot less than an air rifle, have twice the range and a lot more kinetic energy. The reason for this is simply supply and demand - less people to buy the things! Ammo is cheap as chips too, particularly if you consider the cost of my shotgun ammo, for example I pay £160 upwards for 1000 clay pigeon cartridges that I shoot maybe 125 in a day. A Brattonsound (defacto) safe costs about £125 and for rifle shooting you need a separate, smaller safe for ammo.

Getting a licence is like anything in shooting - either you have some land of your own, or you join a club. If you join a club you would normally do a probation thing for 6 months or whatever, then they will supply the back up and help you need to get a licence, it will be a forgone conclusion. You need 2 referees and a doctors name and address etc.

Shotguns are much more fun imo

 

[Raven]

Do they have rifles/shotguns for people to use while at the club?

 

[throdgrain]

Rifles and shotguns are almost always seperate, due to the different ways of shooting, unless you're at a massive place like Bisley.

Almost all small-bore rifle clubs will have club guns to use, so do a lot of clay pigeon grounds.

 

[Access Denied]

Guns are good.


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoHbSW0M8Qk

Since when is that an AR-15?

 

[throdgrain]

Looks like an AR15 to me ....

 

[Access Denied]

That's an AR-15

 

[Jupitus]

Getting a licence is like anything in shooting - either you have some land of your own <SNIP>

Errr... would East End London count? I don't exactly 'own' it, but some of the tossers round here make me want to 'pwn' it sometimes!

*Looks like a psycho killer in the making*



PS - It's ok - anyone who has played ANY games with me knows I can't aim for shit!

 

[soze]

It's an internally suppressed AR15 by the looks of it. Only saying that because the barrel looks like the internally suppressed AK47 from Sons of Guns.

 

[throdgrain]

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That's an AR-15

They do loads and LOADS of different bodys, uppers, recievers, all sorts, for that platform, and its still called an AR15