New gun advice

[Clanchief]

Four grand on a Mirook? 

Goes to show  you can make sweaties out of sh*t if you add enough sugar. :haha:

 

[Salopian]

Yes but you call it haggis

 

[Jonny English]

Get something that appeals to your eye, if the shooting is going badly at least you can look at her and appreciate what a fine piece of artwork it is.  If it looks a dog and you have a bad day, its easier to think that you'd have shot better with a different gun, when often you wouldn't.  You want a gun that when ever you open the cabinet or pull her out the slip, you think 'hello baby'

 

[altnipper]

I would go for a Krieghoff, straight away, then you will have bought supposedly the best,if it suits you fine it's a keeper, if it doesn't suit you you can downtrade to a Perazzi and only lose a bit of money, if that doesn't suit, you can buy a DT10 or 11 then get a 682 and wonder why Beretta ever made a a DT10 or 11, if those don't suit you could buy a Browning which may suit because of the different action profile and gun dynamics. Then finally you could exchange the Browning for a new Miroku and wish you had saved all that money you had spent on your journey.

I reckon part of the fun is buying new stuff even if it turns out not to suit us. I think we all know in this game the equipment is only going to make up a tiny number of clays hit compared to the person using it but it's great fun thinking it will help and also partaking in retail therapy.

 

[RobertBeard]

I reckon part of the fun is buying new stuff even if it turns out not to suit us. I think we all know in this game the equipment is only going to make up a tiny number of clays hit compared to the person using it but it's great fun thinking it will help and also partaking in retail therapy.

Totally agree and its now even more fun with the internet at our fingertips.  Remember the old days - write away for a bunch of catalogues that took an age to arrive, read all the magazine reviews and adverts, phone around places - it almost put you off before you started! :gamer:

 

[Les53]

Try as many as you can, all the guns you mention are good and I have owned or shot most of them at one time or another. It's all down to personal taste/feel. You will not go far wrong with any of them to be honest, they are all very well made, but if it was up to me I would go for the high grade Mirook! B)

 

[Clanchief]

Totally agree and its now even more fun with the internet at our fingertips.  Remember the old days - write away for a bunch of catalogues that took an age to arrive, read all the magazine reviews and adverts, phone around places - it almost put you off before you started! :gamer:

And not to forget the "Please allow 28 days for delivery" 

 

[ips]

, but if it was up to me I would go for the high grade Mirook! B)

Bah ................. Beretta every time unless your a farmer then by all meens buy a mirookookoo

oops incoming

LEGAL STUFF

No offence intended to farmers or relatives of farmers alive or dead.

No farmers were hurt during the making of this post.

 

[Les53]

Bah ................. Beretta every time unless your a farmer then by all meens buy a mirookookoo

oops incoming

LEGAL STUFF

No offence intended to farmers or relatives of farmers alive or dead.

No farmers were hurt during the making of this post.

According to a wise fisherman I know, there are three things you never see! A glass hammer, a dead donkey and a farmer on a bike! :slow:

 

[ips]

Ha thats true apart from the donkey ............ ours died last year at the age of about 187 and I did see it and it was definately dead when we bunged it in the hole at the bottom field.

 

[Darkside]

According to a wise fisherman I know, there are three things you never see! A glass hammer, a dead donkey and a farmer on a bike! :slow:

I'm a farmer who rides a bike, has shot a donkey and I own's a fiber glass hammer...and none of it has anything to do with this post about someone buying a new gun!?!?!?!?

 

[ips]

Oops thread drift again

 

[wylye]

According to a wise fisherman I know, there are three things you never see! A glass hammer, a dead donkey and a farmer on a bike! :slow:

There's another - a butcher smoking Woodbines.

( for those of you born after 1964, Woodbines were cheap ciggies smoked by the ordinary working bloke)

 

[ips]

Yep and bloody rough they were too.

 

[Guerini Guy]

Makes me cough just thinking about them !

 

[RobertBeard]

Replaced by No6 weren't they?

 

[SoR]

Ooh senior service what my grandad smoked

 

[RobertBeard]

Ooh senior service what my grandad smoked

That's what my Dad smoked!

I did try "Passing Clouds" once - a big fat oval cigarette

 

[ips]

I will stick to me cigars, anyway enough of this drivel back to the original topic or Darkside will have a go ............. 

I think you should buy whatever takes your fancy safe in the knowledge that before long you will think its sh*te and spend huge amounts on various new ones over the years thus finding a new best friend in your local gun dealer who will love you forever

 

[Les53]

I will stick to me cigars, anyway enough of this drivel back to the original topic or Darkside will have a go ............. 

I think you should buy whatever takes your fancy safe in the knowledge that before long you will think its sh*te and spend huge amounts on various new ones over the years thus finding a new best friend in your local gun dealer who will love you forever

This is very true Ian, most of us have been on the "Grail Trail" at some point ! :hunter:   :hunter: