Just read about members not posting so though I would give it my first crack.
On the topic for the Fiocchi videos, there was mention of the good old Baikal cartridges and being paid to take them away, so got me thinking of other members memories of them.
When I first started shooting, Baikal cartridges were very popular at our local gun club because they were cheap and I was young enough to know sweet nothing about quality etc.
I remember that they either made a noise that sounded like a wet f**t (if you were lucky the shot made it out of the barrel, if not on firing then certainly upon opening them) or a bang SOOO loud you would have thought Concorde had broken the sound barrier over your head. The shot normally missed the clay but I think the noise did the business for you better than any full choke could have done. Anyone stood within 50 yards also became instantly deaf.
I was also brought up on Czech Sellier & Bellot carts (commonly referred in our gun club as Sillier & Bangalot). Ditto all of the above comments with a much greater tendency for the latter noise element.
Finally, you didn't dare look down the barrels afterwards - s**t and cr*p was the understatement of the year. You needed to go on a good vacation after attempting to clean them.
Those were the days - how spoilt we are today!!
On the topic for the Fiocchi videos, there was mention of the good old Baikal cartridges and being paid to take them away, so got me thinking of other members memories of them.
When I first started shooting, Baikal cartridges were very popular at our local gun club because they were cheap and I was young enough to know sweet nothing about quality etc.
I remember that they either made a noise that sounded like a wet f**t (if you were lucky the shot made it out of the barrel, if not on firing then certainly upon opening them) or a bang SOOO loud you would have thought Concorde had broken the sound barrier over your head. The shot normally missed the clay but I think the noise did the business for you better than any full choke could have done. Anyone stood within 50 yards also became instantly deaf.
I was also brought up on Czech Sellier & Bellot carts (commonly referred in our gun club as Sillier & Bangalot). Ditto all of the above comments with a much greater tendency for the latter noise element.
Finally, you didn't dare look down the barrels afterwards - s**t and cr*p was the understatement of the year. You needed to go on a good vacation after attempting to clean them.
Those were the days - how spoilt we are today!!