Recent content by Cosmicblue

I've been shooting BioAmmo (link) for a couple of years now (clays only). Also curious about the true degradability of the components I opened a cartridge and buried the case and wad in the garden. only the metal parts were left after 6 months. I have a feeling the bio bits are vegetable oil based.

Also being in the Perazzi fixed choke camp... I rest the muzzles of the gun on the top of my boot when it isn't in the slip. I found, over time, that the insertion into the slip and removal again polished the bluing away on the MX12...so on the HTS, each time I clean it I apply a bit of cold...

Yeah, Perazzi fixed chokes are loosely interpreted specifications :eek: Both of mine are fixed choke - the MX12 was ordered as 1/2 and 1/4 but seems to translate in the real world as Full and Extra Full. The HTS was ordered as 1/2 and 1/4 through John Jeffries to his 'Legend' specification and...

Even living close to Ragley Hall I didn't bother going - these things (like most exhibitions at the NEC) have been killed by the availability of information via the internet.

I have an HTS with an all-black action, was new, made for me and delivered back in January of this year. The HTS shares the cabinet with an MX12, both were made with barrels weighing 1610grms and consequently handle quite similarly though for some reason I always seem to take the HTS. Other...

Switch to 24grm carts? Our male logic tends to err towards bigger must be better or throwing more lead at the target will create more kills. For most of us normal mortals just getting the lead in the right place is all that's required.

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On a Perazzi factory order you can specify the weight of the barrels (and they are stamped )- so my 33" MX12 and 32" High Tech S have barrels that weigh the same (KG 1610) and are thus very similar to swing.

It seems that having stock and barrel weights has almost become fashionable in clay busters - like a must have.   Adding such features gives the customer the ability to add even more variables to the gun fit/handling/chokes why-did-I miss head game. I owned a Blaser F3 Vantage for a couple of...

A pensions actuary (brother-in-law) explained that whilst life might begin @ 40, death begins at 30 (mortality tables) so whilst a bunch of us have retired in our 60s, few of us have any idea how long we are actually going to live.  So whilst we can speculate that in 10 years time we might need...

You possibly have the 'Perazzi itch', I'm also afflicted and switched more than 10 years ago from a Browning Ultra XS Titanium Prestige which was also a pretty fine gun. Buying a used Perazzi gets you a gun that feels different in a way that's hard to describe - like buying a tool that's...

We all share the responsibility for the forum's activity - one has to post stuff to generate responses.  I'm an Admin on a Audi car forum and there are times when I'll have a thought dump in the off topic section of the forum and it seems to burst back into life.

A mate of mine bought 1500 BioAmmo Steel carts last year - I put a few boxes through my MX12, they broken targets just as well as lead.

Plus either the complete carts or the components are imported from the EU - so HMRC add import duty +VAT, driving the costs up still further.

Shot at the Royal Berkshire Shooting School recently and one of the ground rules was 'No Camo guns'.   I turned up in a blue Musto clay shooting coat - was expecting to get asked to leave for breaching some dress code rule - nice place, expensive. A few years back, I decided that I absolutely...