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Shaun Hopkins
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Impressive shooting Gary must give JJs a visit sometime.
Shaun Hopkins
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Thanks, was a PB for me, first time with the F-Blacks.
JJ's is good. Only normally one or two tricky stands...but, 6 pairs per stand, really helps keep your focus. Hence why I was so pleased with a 91ex96!!
I must say, I do appreciate the extra bit of oomph...especially on longer stuff.
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ips
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No idea Shaun
Interesting that you prefer pro one to f black ? I haven't shot pro one for prob 5 yrs or so but don't remember being blown away by them. Each to there own of course and as we know cartridge choice is a personal thing.
westley
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ips,
You could well be correct there !
You could well be correct there !
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Oldblaster
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Used Winchester Trap 100 for years loved em, really did the job no worries if you missed you knew you wasn't on em!
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if given the option of best technique/skill OR best gun/shell, I'd go for the former every single time... Anyway, surely the 'best gun' is one that fits the best, not one that costs the most?!....
Wonko the Sane
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That's little less than cruel. You should try to be more helpful and understanding like I'm trying to do. I mean, how many times has anyone refered to you as a "perfectly lovely person" the way I'm hoping they'll refer to me?
You should give it some thot, like, y'know? :girlcrazy:
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Shaun Hopkins
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Very happy with Fblacks! i won a box of pro ones the other week found them equally as lively but smoother to shot and not so tight patterning so i have been using them on closer stuff and often first barrel targets obviously providing its a closer bird not sure the extra cost are justified though. :fie:No idea Shaun
Interesting that you prefer pro one to f black ? I haven't shot pro one for prob 5 yrs or so but don't remember being blown away by them. Each to there own of course and as we know cartridge choice is a personal thing.
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I do Charlie.....I worry every night when I go to bed.... :wink:
I just love the F-Black 24grms they seem to like my gun too.....now all I have to do is put them in the right place more often. :laugh:
I just love the F-Black 24grms they seem to like my gun too.....now all I have to do is put them in the right place more often. :laugh:
Wonko the Sane
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My only worry when I go to bed is that it might be the last time I do that :fie:
CharlesP
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Anyone here old enough to remember Sellier & Bellot? An imported cartridge that had the sole selling point of cheapness.
In the eighties myself and a couple of chums had a rough shoot just North of Brighton, and one very cold and snowy winter we found we were spending more than we wished on cartridges. I was using my Greener (as per avatar), one chum was using his Russell Hillsdon (aka Webley & Scott from the fifties) and my other chum was using a Browning Twelvette, which he had acquired for next to nothing from a local auction. He had been experiencing constant failure-to-feed problems with the thing, but was very fond of it which astonished us. He was (and is) a prominent dealer and specialist in antique arms and armour; you really would have thought that anything so vulgar as a Browning semi-auto would have been very much beneath him. But he persevered.
We purchased a couple of large boxes of these foreign cartridges, and off we went. It was customary for us to wander round the patch doing a sort of armed reconnaissance, and that's how we started off. Lots of singleton pigeons were scuttling around, and we each were firing occasional shots, with mixed success. And with mixed amounts of bang. Sometimes the report was muffled, accompanied by flame out of the muzzle and fluttering debris, usually with the bird happily flapping off into the distance with nary a feather out of place. Sometimes the bang would be just what we expected. And sometimes there was the almighty crack of an anti tank gun, accompanied by a pained expression as the agony from the distressed shoulder registered.
Some of the lesser explosions produced a visible (just) shot string, together with a noticeably downward trend in the trajectory.
But the last shot of the day was fired by my chum with the Twelvette. It was an terrific crack, truly thunderous, really quite shocking. The pigeon concerned sort of disintegrated - a really clean kill in one way but not in others. "Oh S**t!!" said my chum, and we went over to have a look. He was on his hands and knees in the snow looking for bits of Browning. That cartridge had marmalised the thing's innards, and broken bits had fallen out into the snow.
I haven't used cheap cartridges since that day until I started using Armusas from the local Clay Club.
In the eighties myself and a couple of chums had a rough shoot just North of Brighton, and one very cold and snowy winter we found we were spending more than we wished on cartridges. I was using my Greener (as per avatar), one chum was using his Russell Hillsdon (aka Webley & Scott from the fifties) and my other chum was using a Browning Twelvette, which he had acquired for next to nothing from a local auction. He had been experiencing constant failure-to-feed problems with the thing, but was very fond of it which astonished us. He was (and is) a prominent dealer and specialist in antique arms and armour; you really would have thought that anything so vulgar as a Browning semi-auto would have been very much beneath him. But he persevered.
We purchased a couple of large boxes of these foreign cartridges, and off we went. It was customary for us to wander round the patch doing a sort of armed reconnaissance, and that's how we started off. Lots of singleton pigeons were scuttling around, and we each were firing occasional shots, with mixed success. And with mixed amounts of bang. Sometimes the report was muffled, accompanied by flame out of the muzzle and fluttering debris, usually with the bird happily flapping off into the distance with nary a feather out of place. Sometimes the bang would be just what we expected. And sometimes there was the almighty crack of an anti tank gun, accompanied by a pained expression as the agony from the distressed shoulder registered.
Some of the lesser explosions produced a visible (just) shot string, together with a noticeably downward trend in the trajectory.
But the last shot of the day was fired by my chum with the Twelvette. It was an terrific crack, truly thunderous, really quite shocking. The pigeon concerned sort of disintegrated - a really clean kill in one way but not in others. "Oh S**t!!" said my chum, and we went over to have a look. He was on his hands and knees in the snow looking for bits of Browning. That cartridge had marmalised the thing's innards, and broken bits had fallen out into the snow.
I haven't used cheap cartridges since that day until I started using Armusas from the local Clay Club.
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Wow.
yes I remember them. Our local reg club "Westhoughton gun club" used to give them as prizes at the xmas shoot and winter series shoots. Winning them was not a jovial thing, I used to keep them until the annual all round comp in summer and get rid of them that way. Also shot them at floodlit DTL which showed a huge muzzle flame.
yes I remember them. Our local reg club "Westhoughton gun club" used to give them as prizes at the xmas shoot and winter series shoots. Winning them was not a jovial thing, I used to keep them until the annual all round comp in summer and get rid of them that way. Also shot them at floodlit DTL which showed a huge muzzle flame.
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I loved those cartridges!! MkII paper case and sold in 10's. Still got a few boxes in the cupboard.
I agree they were a little unpredicatable, did you ever check out the shot? 6's were anything from 10's to 2's, but when anything was hit, it stayed hit!
I too only use quality cartridges now due to the trauma of firing 100's of these! :sarcastic:
I agree they were a little unpredicatable, did you ever check out the shot? 6's were anything from 10's to 2's, but when anything was hit, it stayed hit!
I too only use quality cartridges now due to the trauma of firing 100's of these! :sarcastic:
They were known as sell your bo....x round the straw bale scene here back then, my overriding memory of them is that they had a very long and noticeable recoil and available mainly in 6.5's so kind of a last resort thing.
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:fie: What about Gytorp ?
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