Recent content by Darren27

Thanks all for your comments, lots of information to take away and digest. Having watched quite a few YouTube reviews and the comments here I can see that there is in general little issue looking an older gun from a more established brand and looking around on Guntrader etc, there are more in...

I can't see me doing anything competitive and given my other family commitments, if I can get out 1 or 2 Sundays mornings a month for a few hours at a local shoot, i'll be more than happy. I could push the budget to £850 - 900.  I have seen some Brownings and Miroku in my upper price range, but...

Just on the edge of Buxton, Cold Springs Farm is just under 1 1/2 miles away, as the crow flies.

And the weather up here is great at the moment, I can almost see the local clay site from my house and wandering around the valley right now would be lovely, I must have done something really bad in a past life 🙁

I wouldn't say it was comfortable shooting left-handed, it felt totally wrong and I was all "fingers and thumbs", but despite the fumbling I did manage to hit a few clays and was generally closer all round.  I only shot 10 so hard to say overall, but with practice I think I could become...

I'm sure I'm probably the thousandth person to ask advise about a first gun, but your help would be appreciated all the same. I did a try day a couple years ago and really enjoyed it, work/life commitments meant that I haven't really been able to do much about it since.  All I really managed to...

Hi all and thanks for letting me join the forum. Totally new to the shooting world, I have just started a new job which finally gave me the time (and spare cash) to get involved in something I have wanted to do for years.  Just as  I was about to book myself some lessons and get things...