New, old 410 bolt action shotgun

[enfieldspares]

As the gun is a single barrel gun any decent machine shop ought to be able to take the choke out with a variable reamer. The job is no different from enlarging a hole in any other sort or metal tube. I'd reckon 5 thousandths on an inch of choke would be ideal.

 

[kenbro]

I do wish we could shoot cormorants in England. Absolute pest.
D

Some can

 

[JTO]

I do wish we could shoot cormorants in England. Absolute pest.
D

Permits are available, but all sorts of hoops to jump through first.
Used to be covered by Southern Sea Fisheries Committee Shag Permit. They paid 7/6 for a pair of feet, I think.
They are supposed to be good lobster pot bait.
I know of a fish farm that hang them up for the maggots to fall in the water to feed their small fish.

 

[Cyres]

Last time I fished Chew there were many hundreds of the flying rats.
Very many pits in Cotswold Water park devoid of fish due to cormorant predation.
Even hammering the R Vvrnwy in mid Wales.
Terrible state of affairs.
D

 

[Smellydog]

They are supposed to be good lobster pot bait.
I know of a fish farm that hang them up for the maggots to fall in the water to feed their small fish.

Proper recycling and should be approved by the green party and vegans forced to observe

 

[JTO]

Here in Denmark we hunters, are asked to help reducing the number of Cormorants, as there is way too many of them.

I thought Cormorants were protected in all EU countries.

 

[Smellydog]

I thought Cormorants were protected in all EU countries.

In other countries it's not vegans and socialistic restructuring types in total control.
Hell, they can also hunt with archery gear too.
Plenty water around the coast for corms, inland they should be shot....with lead!

 

[bobo]

Cormorant are protected by some EU directive, or whatever such protection is called.
Before this directive, we kept their number at a tolerable level.
The problem is that the Cormorant population has become far too high since the 00s.
Bird lovers and nature conservationists said that nature itself would regulate itself, the great eagels would take care of that, but this has not happened, even with plenty of them around.
Instead, there have been more cormorant every year until about 2022, where the ministries of agriculture, fisheries and the environment asked us hunters to regulate them, now we finally see a little decline.

The cormorants are still protected, but if it is considered that they are causing damage in an area, we can get a permit to shoot them.
I have a permit in 2 places.
One place is to protect the growing area for the Baltic cod. The other is to protect small salmon that migrate to the sea.
My friend has permission to protect his forest that stands on the edge of a freshwater lake. Unfortunately, 10-15% of the trees on the edge are already dead.

 

[JTO]

In other countries it's not vegans and socialistic restructuring types in total control.
Hell, they can also hunt with archery gear too.
Plenty water around the coast for corms, inland they should be shot....with lead!

You might think that, but I couldn't possibly comment!

 

[Smellydog]

where the ministries of agriculture, fisheries and the environment asked us hunters to regulate them

Wow, imagine that. A ministry doing their job instead of VR ( vegan relations) specialist's.....

 

[Squirrelbasher]

I do wish we could shoot cormorants in England. Absolute pest.
D

We can, I have a license from Natural England to shoot them.

 

[bobo]

Today was a day off work.
went out to see if there might be some mackerel left, at the end of our mackerel season.
A handful of mackerel then came into the bucket, but there weren't many.

As often happens when fishing from a boat here, cormorants ignored us and a few even came close out of curiosity.
This time there was a little surprise for them. Over the course of the day, we managed to shoot 5 of them in 7 shots with the small 410 shotgun.

 

[Smellydog]

Today was a day off work.
went out to see if there might be some mackerel left, at the end of our mackerel season.
A handful of mackerel then came into the bucket, but there weren't many.

As often happens when fishing from a boat here, cormorants ignored us and a few even came close out of curiosity.
This time there was a little surprise for them. Over the course of the day, we managed to shoot 5 of them in 7 shots with the small 410 shotgun.

The best view of a cormorant ever

 

[Cyres]

Well done. Better still is a v max out of a .243.
Terrible flying pests. Pity they don't have an annual cull shoot in Englsnd.
D

 

[sich1]

Today was a day off work.
went out to see if there might be some mackerel left, at the end of our mackerel season.
A handful of mackerel then came into the bucket, but there weren't many.

As often happens when fishing from a boat here, cormorants ignored us and a few even came close out of curiosity.
This time there was a little surprise for them. Over the course of the day, we managed to shoot 5 of them in 7 shots with the small 410 shotgun.

as an angler, and as a shooter, the best cormorant is the one is your picture....dead!. well done

 

[old keeper]

As a lad, I got a bounty for shooting cormorants. We had to take the top beak into the harbourmaster's office, where we got 2/6d ( twelve and a half pence) each for them. Good money in those days!

 

[Squirrelbasher]

Yes, horrible things imo. My license specifies minimum 20 gauge shotgun and #4 shot or larger.

 

[jammygunner]

Lot of fun to be had with the .410 and recently returns to using with modern 3” cartridges.

 

[Dunwaters]

I used a rifle, .22 LR and a .22/250. Got a few ricochets off the water with the .22, none with the centre fire.
I didn’t bother picking them up though, not after the first couple anyway.