npinks wrote:

Also i need to decide on what i am doing with been right handed and left eye dominant, do i shoot one eye open, have my shooting glasses modified with a dot, or learn to shoot left handed, it also doesn't help that i am slightly long sighted in my left and slightly short in my right

Totally agree on your under 1k remarks.
You wont hit any more clays if you spent 10k. Another member of the failed FL2 clutch/DMF club, twice.

I have looked at cheaper guns, new and second hand

Problem is a cheap new gun will not holds it's money and when I want to trade up it means more outlay, a cheap Lanber sport deluxe £800 and only worth in region of £400 a year later, were as something like a new beretta silver pig will be worth alot more, taking into account warranty also 3 months, compared to 3 years if I go second hand

Looking at second hand guns, there is some nice examples if you look about, saw a nice looking Beretta White onyx for £1000 private sale, but no warranty or comeback if it went pair-shaped, cheaper guns start looking battered, so having had a long hard think about it, I think I'm going new, unless I stumble across a deal that can't be missed out on Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

A game gun will have a narrow rib, slightly different stock dimension and
will be quite a bit lighter.

A clay gun ( a sporter ) will have a wider rib, this will help disperse the extra
heat generated from shooting more cartridges. The gun will have more weight
to it, this will help absorb more of the recoil from shooting a lot more
cartridges.

If i had only one gun and shot both game and clay's I would buy a sporter and
not a game gun.

Shooting a sporter at game, only down side is you'll have to carry a heavier gun
around all day.

Shooting a game gun at clay's, it will recoil more, it will get hot and very hot in
the summer and that along with the narrow rib will reduce your sight line.

What ever gun you buy it will be a compromise.

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Thanks for your reply TwoDogs

I was thinking somewhere in amongst that myself

sporter it is then

Going to go and order it shortly  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

If the warranty is important to you, and it should be, GMK the
company that imports Berretta are second to none for back-up
and any warranty work, if you shound need it.

GMK is part owned by Berretta and i think that helps.

The importers of Brownings & Miroku's are no upto much, I know
this from experience.

If you buy a Berretta, if it's right for you, you do get excellent
services from GMK.

well i have ordered it with Vic at Swillington, should be in, in 2 or 3 weeks time

Good company, very local to me if required, that alone makes it worth while, as i don't have to do a big drive to have them fix or check things out, as you say the GMK backup of Beretta

So i now await my Beretta Silver Pigeon 1 30" R/H Sporter  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

well done, good choice
have you seen http://forums.pigeonwatch.co.uk/forums/ind...-just-got/

M.

Lol thought my paypal account had been hacked again  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

Yes that thread on Pigeon Watch had me going for a while this morning !

I got caught with one before, I think it caught a few there too  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

mjn51 wrote:

well done, good choice
have you seen http://forums.pigeonwatch.co.uk/forums/ind...-just-got/

M.

They had a program running that inserted the users name

Basically had a thread thanking someones user name fir a donation, when I logged on it was saying how npinks had made a donation to just giving and what a top bloke I was

If it was you logged in then it was have been the same post but psyxologos inserted in making it look line you had made a donation Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

npinks wrote:

They had a program running that inserted the users name

Basically had a thread thanking someones user name fir a donation, when I logged on it was saying how npinks had made a donation to just giving and what a top bloke I was

If it was you logged in then it was have been the same post but psyxologos inserted in making it look line you had made a donation

Picked up the new addition to the family yesterday

Just need to wait till Thursday and a trip to coniston to put a cart through it  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis