Poor Gun Handling
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that's a ND waiting to happen
Perhaps he never had a father who had heard of MH Beaufoy
If a sportsman true you’d be
Listen carefully to me…
Never, never let your gun
Pointed be at anyone.
That it may unloaded be
Matters not the least to me.
When a hedge or fence you cross
Though of time it cause a loss
From your gun the cartridge take
For the greater safety’s sake.
If twixt you and neighbouring gun
Bird shall fly or beast may run
Let this maxim ere be thine
“Follow not across the line.”
Stops and beaters oft unseen
Lurk behind some leafy screen.
Calm and steady always be
“Never shoot where you can’t see.”
You may kill or you may miss
But at all times think this:
“All the pheasants ever bred
Won’t repay for one man dead.”
Keep your place and silent be;
Game can hear, and game can see;
Don’t be greedy, better spared
Is a pheasant, than one shared.
By Mark Hanbury Beaufoy
If a sportsman true you’d be
Listen carefully to me…
Never, never let your gun
Pointed be at anyone.
That it may unloaded be
Matters not the least to me.
When a hedge or fence you cross
Though of time it cause a loss
From your gun the cartridge take
For the greater safety’s sake.
If twixt you and neighbouring gun
Bird shall fly or beast may run
Let this maxim ere be thine
“Follow not across the line.”
Stops and beaters oft unseen
Lurk behind some leafy screen.
Calm and steady always be
“Never shoot where you can’t see.”
You may kill or you may miss
But at all times think this:
“All the pheasants ever bred
Won’t repay for one man dead.”
Keep your place and silent be;
Game can hear, and game can see;
Don’t be greedy, better spared
Is a pheasant, than one shared.
By Mark Hanbury Beaufoy
timbrayford
Well-Known Member
Inadequate back stop around the bell as well to catch ricochets, especially with kids living next door!
Freeforester
Well-Known Member
The clangers aren’t bouncing much in that video…
enfieldspares
Well-Known Member
Not a true bell target either. The thing shown is a bell used as a target. Which is not the same. A proper bell target is an full enclosed metal box with a bell inside it (usually one of those half sphere shapes that used to be on a field telephone or desk of an hotel). This is fixed to the back plate of the box so that the thing faces the shooter like a shield. The front face of the box has a small hole drilled in the front of a thick round metal disc fixed to the front. The idea being on a true bell target that a shot passing through the holes rings the bell. So indicating a centre bull hit. Shots that didn't pass through the hole would (being lead) make a strike mark on the front metal disc face and be scored as 4, 3 or 2. At one time until I sold it I bought from and owned the one that was in Edna Parker's place in Birmingham.
BELL TARGET SHOOTING
BELL TARGET SHOOTING is one of the oldest club and pub sports in the country. There are still a number of Air Rifle and Airgun Target Shooting Clubs in the UK. By 1905 there were around 1600 Bell Target teams in Birmingham alone. It all started in the 1890’s by the Victorians to improve...
www.belltarget.com
I thought I might have heard someones drone overhead, maybe trying to see the mischief, 
Anyone think he is suffering with emphysema?
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