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    Interesting thread Jock Slightly geeky myself when it comes to law, case law in particular.
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    http://www.thestalkingdirectory.co.uk/showthread.php/8760-Reloading-Supplies-Central-Scotland Old thread but may be useful.
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    Agreed Benelli or indeed Beretta. I guess if you want absolute certainty that no amount of shooting will clog the action then an inertia system like the Benelli is the way to go. I've never known a Beretta malfunction from shooting less than around 1500 rounds in between cleaning though.
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    Have a read through my pinned post at the top of this forum called "Firearm Certificate", should give you an idea
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    Basically anyone with a position of responsibility or trust who has known you for two years and isn't a police employee.
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    Ratsmasher, I have two .410 hammerguns. One of them is my grandfather's which is a 90 year old Belgian double, the other is of unknown make but probably Spanish that was given to me. I don't use my grandfathers very often because of its age but I carry the other one around the shoot with me quite often if I just want to blat squirrels and things. Its very effective with decent ammunition and I don't find any problem from it having external hammers. The Spanish one has back action hammers which prevent the hammers pushing the pins forward unless the trigger is pulled back so letti
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    Post a picture of the markings on the lugs and flats of the barrel and we may be able to tell If it is like most .410s, it'll be full choke.
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    If he applies now it might tie in nicely with his shooting club. Going by the time some applications take to process, it could be that as the Enquiry Officer comes to visit he is made a full member of the club and can have the land and target shooting added at the same time
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    They do seem to be getting tighter on certificates now Duncan, it seems they're taking them off people who they see as on the "slippery slope"
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    Certain motoring offences will have an effect but a single fine such as that shouldn't. For instance, more than one drink drive offence normally leads to a warning, as does getting banned for topping 100mph. Not likely to lose your tickets though. Those are a few cases I know of anyway.
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    Shotguns are different again. For Firearms it is quite specific in that the "Estate Condition" deal exactly with the use of firearms by non-certificate holders. The full estate condition is in the "Firearms Certificate" thread pinned at the top of the section,
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    I'd be careful what you say with regard to shooting other people's rifles. I've explained on other threads that some police forces do not interpret the "Estate Condition" and the term "Occupier" as they are advised to do by the Home Office guidance and stick to the original wording. Depending on how and when you have fired these rifles, you may have very technically committed an offence. Two FEOs I've comes across from two different forces believe that shooting another person's rifle without that person being the actual occupier or his servant is illegal. With the amount of ambig
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    Looks like a good place to go hunting abroad, Though for roughly £11,000 all in for a large stag, its certainly way out of range for me.
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    I may just pay money to see the look on the person in the licensing department's face if they granted me just ".22CF" and I sent this round back on my acquisition form... It is a .22 Centrefire after all. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.22_Eargesplitten_Loudenboomer
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    Turns into a rather expensive pipe bomb in that case Snappy
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    Its an anomaly on my FAC as well and I've seen on dozens more. No idea why the licensing departments don't amend it to the correct calibres, they're obviously not that interested in the difference between a .22LR, Long, Short or CB. If you're mate's intention is to buy a .22LR just buy one and then send off the notification with the correct calibre, i.e. .22LR
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    How much residue are we talking? As in visible flakes of unburnt powder in the barrels or just flecks like you'd expect from firing a 20+ year old cartridge i.e. not modern smokeless powder? If its the former then it sounds as though the powder has got damp somehow and isn't burning efficiently. How old are these shells? The rust of obviously a very visible sign of them being kept in moist conditions which isn't good for ammunition.
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    Posted to where Posted above with the advert
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    Can we have a rough price posted please
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    If you were closer then you'd be welcome to try mine. I have a CZ452 in comparison which is a heavier rifle with a heavier barrel but I almost always prefer to pick up the Browning because its a light rifle which I can carry around.
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    Just re-read your original question. If the person you intend to shoot with is over the age of 17 then there are differing views, as is always the case with Firearms law in the UK. S.16 of the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988 covers what is known as the "Estate Condition" This condition/section allows the use of a borrowed rifle on private premises providing that the rifle is borrowed from the "occupier or his servant" of those premises and is used in their presence. Now, there is no definition of an occupier or servant in law. Some police licensing departments take the view that
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    Neither of those sections from what I can gather relate specifically to someone shooting a S.1 firearm without a certificate. S.11 is the exemption which is used by rifles clubs, clay clubs etc to allow them to lend guns for the purpose of shooting whilst at that event, not as a general exemption to every such activity. Sporting shooting is not specifically mentioned in that section. The most relevant part of that section is that minors are allowed to carry firearms and ammunition without certificate for the use of the person who owns them, not themselves. S.22 is the exemption for m
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    An old Belgian S/S 12 bore, hangs on the wall
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