Recent content by stroudwaterboy

My wife is an administrator at the local medical centre, when I applied for my certificate it was when the first rumblings of the medical reports appeared on here and I asked her of course to keep an eye out if they sent one in for me. Her reply was she had never seen such a request, lo and...

Wet, Cold, Wind blown and did I mention very cold!

How odd that's where I am reading this right now!

Whole heartedly agree with this, dealt with some of these people in the past and I wouldn't trust trust them with a goldfish yet alone a gun!

Simples, my coach told me to as it is the best size for me. I am not the smallest of people!

I now have my first gun, collected it today. Am loving it, so nice to be able to mount a gun and it feels right. But, I have made a mistake, although I have a full size cabinet , to start off with I could not get the gun in at all without breaking it down. I have found a way of getting it in...

Small(very small) amounts of oil hand rubbed in, after a few coats it will shine like stink. Which oil was used?

I have a flight case that is then locked to the security point in the boot. I also have a small separate case that the forend goes in and that stays with me.

As a newbie I can only say thank you. This has cleared up a lot of questions for me that it would no doubt taken a lot of practice to work out, I realise I now have to learn to put it into practice but I will have more idea now. After the first couple of minutes I discovered I was on the edge...

I went through this recently. So long as you have a safe or cabinet which is built to BS7558 you will be OK to get your certificate. I was going to get the ST7+ until I thought about it and decided it would be many years, if ever before I got more than 3 guns so I went for a standard 3 gun...

The deed has been done. I now have a MK38 32" Teague sporter in nice condition, still tight with no bumps or scratch's on it. Tried all the guns on my list plus a few more, the 725 I found to be little better as the recoil was less but the fit was the same and at twice the price for a novice I...

Seem to be one or two second hand 725's but they are holding their price so well it is not worth it. I did attempt to try one at the first shop but they said no point they are not suitable for someone your size! In my inexperienced opinion I found the 725 to be a halfway house between...

Thank you everyone for your helpful and thoughtful replies. I went to another very helpful shop today, was only shown 32" guns, I asked and was told it was clear that 32" was the right size for me. The problem I now have is I tried a Browning 725 and it fitted me like a glove, I had decided I...

I went to my local gun shop on Saturday in anticipation of the arrival of my SGC, talk about little boy in a sweet shop! They were very good with me, suggested politely that my mount needs improving, which was no surprise, I am still working on it. It all got a bit embarrassing as I ended up...

Hello all, Very new to all this so am trying to soak up as much info as possible, no doubt will soon be asking a lot of questions some of which will cause a lot of eye rolling. Am having a good read through to avoid asking too many questions that have already been asked and answered. Robin