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I appreciate the comment, I really do.  It children? Isn’t that just correcting a mistake with a mistake. i don’t think either of us are children do you? for what its worth I don’t take what @jwpzx9r says personally to heart  I’m sure he’s a nice chap if you really knew him. Most folks are...

I do not. I don’t know any experts, but I do work with a scientist who did a minor in ballistics. I could ask her if she could shed any light at all, but I’d ask the question that Luke raises. Does it matter? What could you learn that could make any difference?   I’m  a bit of a numbers/facts...

@jwpzx9r well, I agree and I do feel for you, but honestly your embarrassing display doesn’t tire me or bother me   It is I confess actually entertaining. Am I bad? (more than happy to keep bringing this down to your level.)

@jwpzx9r Now you’re asking if something is wrong with me? Really? Ok. Well, I know where that kind of ‘if I can’t win the debate I’ll increase the level of personal insult’ campaign, goes.    Anyway. You again simply put forward your reduction of wall thickness as in your words put it “any...

@jwpzx9r The ‘fact’ is neither you and certainly not I are in possession of the full ‘facts’ it is a ‘fact’ that you claim “Here is a fact. The makers of that barrel took a rod of steel with a certain tensile strength... lets say for argument sake 250 tonnes / cm2 I have no real idea [fact]...

@jwpzx9r Youre demonstrating a considerable about of bluster yourself here and being somewhat contradictory and could be taken even as inflammatory.    you’re claim makes that the barrel manufacturing is carefully designed and processed and whose safety is essentially guaranteed, whereas the...

I get this often. I blame autocorrect.  it’s spelt ‘p e t t y’

If you’re going to call be out as an extreme BS then you might want to provide extreme evidence to support your proposition.  First of all, I qualified my statements as being academic. Maybe a better word would have been hypothetical. But I’d guess that would not satisfy here either. ...

I concur. Gasses are quite simple things. They always take the easy way out and expand to fill the available space.  So in a sealed annular housing surround a a big gaping 18.whatever millimetre hole, how does gas cary so much dirt into such a confined and apparently sealed region? Unless of...

Sounds to me like a situation I’ve been recently familiar with.  I still consider myself a novice.  Your description of “aiming like a rifle and not seeing the barrels is weirdly better” is a remarkably familiar story. Please don’t beat yourself up too much about shooting 50 Ex 100. It’s...

Of the guns I’ve shot, I’d say not a single one made me feel I could shoot any better or worse. Just a different feel. You likes it or you doesn’t. Cartridges and chokes too. But again, I’ve developed a preference. I’d say the only thing that I’ve changed about equipment which has given me more...

I hear what you’re saying.  I don’t have a lot of experience but have briefly owned a 525 which I liked a lot.  I would concur with your comment that they handle like a fence post in comparison, but inversely so.  My guess is it’s a very personal and very subjective thing. I’ve shot other...

The Sporting has the stock balanced as standard. The barrel balance weights are optional and available from Ian Mulliner. £200 for four  of 1 ½ oz weights or £240 for four 1 ½  and a pair of 2 ½ oz.  The  stock balancer is optional on the Game model. £90 from Ian Mulliner for the entire...

Just for reference, I paid £2,500 for a 1 year old F16 from Simpson’s of Newmarket which I was told had fired just a few hundred shells.  The oldest being 3 ¾  years old, they tend to bottom out around £2,000

I’d back those claims up for sure. The  F16 Sporting comes with 30” or 32” barrels, with sock balance weights as standard and optional barrel weight. The F16 Game comes with 28” or 30” barrels, optional stock balanced and no facility to accept barrel weights. The Game is suppose is perhaps...

The choke is cut a quoted 2 ¾” (69.8mm) deep, so allowing for the damaged area and to cut out any material that may have been put under stress, I think you’d be hard pressed to get 29” out of it.

And look what showed up in my email today  https://www.sportingshooter.co.uk/kit-tests/shotguns/browning-b725-sporter-test-and-review-1-6885759?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=DM33023 And one from Mr Yardley too who is “blown away” by the EGE E61 and to quote ...

That really highlights for me a good reason to buy a quality used gun (second hand, previously owned, pre loved, 2nd life etc for the Del Boy types) My Less than one year old F16 would have cost just over £4,000 new. I got it for £2,500. F3 new would cost north of £8,000  My five year old F3...

Condition for me is everything. My F16 was less than 12 months old when I got it and had fired a claimed “few hundred shells” My 2015 F3 must have done much more I guess, but looks like new; all the blueing is nice and even, no dents, scratches, not visible wear on mating surfaces etc. It...