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Think that hypothesis is fairly well established as true to be honest 

Apart from Longthorne making their standard offering guns in the £12k to £35k range, the bulk of the U.K. gun making industry are in the £70k+ for “off the shelf” region. We are mainly looking at German and  Italian gun makers with some Turkish, Japanese and maybe Belgian guns thrown into the...

I’m curious to ask those of you who have been shooting for a good few years about your experiences and perceptions of the rising cost of shooting. It has been recently pointed out that one manufacturer has increased their prices twice in the last six months adding some 25% to the cost of their...

🤔 That’s a handy width. Just enough room to stack boxes of 28 gram cartridges sideways on. 😂 I know what you meant, just couldn’t help myself 😉 My cabinet is also in a three foot wide room/closet. I fixed it into the corner with the hinge away from the wall. I removed the plaster and epoxy...

Ahh... So that’s the reason I was subconsciously sucking them🤔

Well, the upside is I haven’t been into the office since March, having now a third forced break from shooting for a good few weeks, no dining out, cinema, pub, coffee & cake with the Mrs, shopping or holidays. I’ve saved at least ten grand, three grand from my commute alone and the...

Hahaha. I found out the same way. As it happens the “other shooter” is also a student of Ed’s. Maybe he has special powers that makes us do it? 

Funny discussion came up about a funny little tick that I share with another shooter and got on to the subject of other idiosyncrasies we have and have seen in others. I’m a fore-end finger flicker. I flick my fingers against the fore-end two or three times before I shoulder the gun and then...

To paraphrase one ultra-marathon runner “[shooting] is 80% a mental game. The other 20% is in your head” My first and only 25 straight came on a training exercise where on a small layout, I was given targets at random from four traps, a teal, an income, a looper and a crosser, all within 25...

Well, a slight underestimate on my part then 😬 Perhaps he said 150-200 a month? I can’t find the interview now to cross reference unfortunately 

Pahhh... call myself an engineer? I shall go stand in the corner and face the wall until lunchtime.  Good to know you have a solution 

As price has been mentioned in the context of high end guns, meaning rare wood and bespoke engraving and the obligatory personal customer service, I thought I’d have a dig around and see what this means.    I came across a pice in which Maurio Perazzi was being interviewed. He mentioned...

Thanks for clearing that up. When in fact it is a copy of the Remington 32

Or even a 1931 design Remington 32. That was considered a premium gun back then apparently. I wonder if it cost 5-10x the price of an average gun? Doubled in 4 years... Wow! WTF?

Actually when I first heard the name Blazer, I immediately assumed it was some ATA knock off type brand 🤣🤣🤣 Don’t get me started! 🤬

Well, at risk of being pedantic, £8,259 for a stock F3 grade 5 wood. Plus another £2,003 for the custom stock. That’s getting up towards Perazzi “experience” territory, but without the “experience” so to speak. Its also the second price increase in the last 6 months, totalling approximately...

Blaser have had another price increase! A factory custom stock now costs just over £2,000 A F3 Competition Sporting (flat rib) with a grade 5 factory custom stock comes in at £10,262 My 2015 F3 with about 4 ½ years warranty still remaining plus MR stock cost a smidgen over 1/3rd of that. You...

*You think? *Really? *I mean... is there a history of this to back up this claim? * rhetorical questions... the answer is clearly evident all over social media

I’ll tender this. The idiots guide would be to go see someone who isn’t an ***** in these matters. That person would undoubtedly be @EdLyons of Flint & Partners/Ed Lyons Sports vision. For a good few quid Ed will tell you more than you could possibly hope to ever find out on your own. Not...

Of the five thousand or so clays I’ve shot at less then 100 have been shot without an experienced coach looking over my shoulder. Of those 5000 I would hazard a guess I’ve broken 3000 give or take a couple of hundred. So that’s quite a lot of missed targets right? Of those 3000 or so hits...