Yes, don't forget the H&S issues with sporting and skeet, bits of clay flying towards the shooter and anyone else standing in the vicinity. This must make trap a lot safer due to all the bits, or in my case whole clays, just flying off into the distance never to return! :haha:If shooting this doubles thing is as dodgy as you say with folk running for cover then me thinks from a H and S point of view release triggers are the least of your problems.
I also think the old sxs is a thing of great beauty and of great skill from makers of the past.my point being that it is very possible that when cocking the hammer it is possible for it to slip therefore creating a discharge.therefore in the eyes of guru must also make them dangerous and place them on the banned list.we have enough bad press fro ill informed bodies to the general populous without our own ranks adding to it.people do not use release types because they are old.doddery.or idiots.it is to try and overcome a problem and allow them to continue with what I regard as the finest sport there is.i have had some 45 years of shooting and still have all my limbs.never maimed anyone or killed anyone so some of us doddery old idiots must be doing it right.I regard many of the better hammer guns as things of great beauty, because they are. If you handle and examine one carefully beside a current OU this becomes pretty obvious. For some time I have been casting about for a good example of one of these gems of Victorian/Edwardian craftsmanship. It will be a damascus barrelled nitro proofed example, it will be freshly proofed and rejointed, and I will shoot clays with it. With a hammer gun you can see if the lock is cocked - you can't do that with most hammerless designs. After 1869 (Stanton & Brazier's patent) almost all the better ones had rebounding locks which gave them what is effectively an intercepting scear. So to my mind they can be safer than today's clay shooting guns, many of which don't have an automatic safety. I regard most good quality items of a bygone age fondly; they remind me of me.
I think hammer guns are already on the prohibited list for registered competition, and that is what we are talking about here, not an outright, wipe off the face of the earth ban.I also think the old sxs is a thing of great beauty and of great skill from makers of the past.my point being that it is very possible that when cocking the hammer it is possible for it to slip therefore creating a discharge.therefore in the eyes of guru must also make them dangerous and place them on the banned list.we have enough bad press fro ill informed bodies to the general populous without our own ranks adding to it.people do not use release types because they are old.doddery.or idiots.it is to try and overcome a problem and allow them to continue with what I regard as the finest sport there is.i have had some 45 years of shooting and still have all my limbs.never maimed anyone or killed anyone so some of us doddery old idiots must be doing it right.
Nope.....on both of the above.....Mr Cocky Boho Lucks. :wink:Nicola you are talking BOL**CKS! As to the goverment "issue" I guess you are refering to the handgun ban? !
See my above post......I am out..!It gets really boring when the topic gets silly. As Sloppy and others have already said......it is the idiot behind the trigger not the mechanism.So Nicola, why is the ISSF not having grief over their ban on release triggers, or does no one use them in double trap and the other ISSF disciplines?
after my last line a eell very nearly followed itI saw a Krieghoff fly 15 feet on Saturday. It is the shooter who is responsible for his actions.
I can offer a disposal service for eell's totally free of charge you understand.after my last line a eell very nearly followed it
that's ok then as long as its all legitI am the holder of a current level 4 wamitab in waste management so rest assured your disposal would be fully in line with all eec regulations.
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