Semi auto

[Benelli m2]

Still pondering on getting one anymore use one on pigeons chucks the empties everywhere I know
Do you use magnetic stick to pick them up cheers

 

[Liveonce]

yes and yes

 

[Tim.243]

Still pondering on getting one anymore use one on pigeons chucks the empties everywhere I know
Do you use magnetic stick to pick them up cheers

It is very rare to shoot 3 pigeons with 3 shots just a good tool to waste 1 from 3 shots, besides the first shot and the third shot will be from the only choke size you fit. With a O/U then you can select the chokes you have fitted. If you need 3 shots then buy one

 

[Liveonce]

It is very rare to shoot 3 pigeons with 3 shots just a good tool to waste 1 from 3 shots, besides the first shot and the third shot will be from the only choke size you fit. With a O/U then you can select the chokes you have fitted. If you need 3 shots then buy one

just because you can load 3 shots does not mean you have to do so you can load 2 personally if i miss with 2 i think the pigeon deserves to live a little longer

 

[Tim.243]

just because you can load 3 shots does not mean you have to do so you can load 2 personally if i miss with 2 i think the pigeon deserves to live a little longer

you can't load 3 at a clay ground

 

[Flash G 74]

Hello, Plenty of shooters still use a semi auto and they can be bought for very reasonable price as people give up their SGC or want room in cabinet , Are you looking at gas operated or inertia ?? I made a magnetic stick when I had my Semi Auto, although you can buy one around £20

 

[skypie]

Is a pain when the you can’t find the empty cartridges.

 

[Tim.243]

Is a pain when the you can’t find the empty cartridges.

Yes, pick up your empty's leave only feathers...or in the dive brief put the loo paper in the box not on the reef.

 

[Liveonce]

you can't load 3 at a clay ground

yes and no, CPSA rules ban 3 however competitions like the beretta spauto follow cpsa rules but allow the full three-shot capacity of the firearm.

 

[cjm1066]

Happy owner of a Franchi Affinity, easy to clean shoots 24g upwards and doesn’t fling empties to far.

 

[Benelli m2]

Hello, Plenty of shooters still use a semi auto and they can be bought for very reasonable price as people give up their SGC or want room in cabinet , Are you looking at gas operated or inertia ?? I made a magnetic stick when I had my Semi Auto, although you can buy one around £20

Not sure yet I've tried the maxus but didn't like it so still looking

 

[Tim.243]

yes and no, CPSA rules ban 3 however competitions like the beretta spauto follow cpsa rules but allow the full three-shot capacity of the firearm.

Guess they need 3 lol
Sounds like Starmer & Co making it up to suit themselves.

 

[enfieldspares]

In theory a gun that you cannot break open to reload is the safest gun of all in a hide as it is always pointing upwards. The other advantage is that it usually quicker to "top up" with a single cartridge than is a side by side or over and under. As to choke I have all my game guns bored (when I get the funds to do it) to improved and improved in both barrels. My duck guns (when I shot such and that was with lead when lawful or bismuth) were half choke and half choke in both barrels. The late Colin Willock did similar I think?

As to the "flinging" bit I have only used Browning A-5 guns in either 12 or 16. My current is a Standard Sixteen A-5 that was made with 2 3/4" chambers. The barrel on that is now away being taken out to improved in anticipation of using steel shot in the future. These post 1950s A-5 guns have the "speedload" feature so none of this rack bolt back, turn, insert cartridge, press bolt release, turn mallarkey. It is merely rack bolt back and insert cartridge into magazine and the gun feeds and chambers for itself.

But back to "flinging". It is no more onerous to do than if you have been on a busy peg on a driven day with an over and under or side by side ejector. And as it ejects when the gun is shouldered and fired the cases are mostly in the same area. And with modern brightly coloured cases they should be easy to see and, yes, as they are mostly steel headed Euro trash (as the Americans call them) you can use a magnet on a stick.

The other advantage of a 16 bore (or a 20 bore) self-loader is that it will shoot any and all factory cartridges as the gun is designed for in 16 bore 28 32 gram and in 20 bore for usually 28 gram loads. So they usually work with 28 gram 16 bore and 24 gram 20 bore OK. So no ejection issues as with some (not all) 12 bore self-loading guns that being set for 36 gram loads struggle with 21 gram loads.

 

[One on top of two]

Guess they need 3 lol
Sounds like Starmer & Co making it up to suit themselves.

Some of the stands will release three clays on report other stands will release a pair but one clay will allow two shots and the other single so full use of gun .

I’ve shot the beretta SP auto about 5 times now , fantastic comp with fantastic course setters .

I’m booked on already 30th aug if you fancy it , not take you long to trot over from Essex .

 

[wb123]

I've never owned a semi auto but always wondered about whether it would be easy enough to make a magnet attaching bag like cartridge catcher. I like the idea of a semi but don't want to be scattering empties on the foreshore.

 

[Flash G 74]

Not sure yet I've tried the maxus but didn't like it so still looking

Hello, If i see any on Pigeon Watch local i can let you know,

 

[Tim.243]

Some of the stands will release three clays on report other stands will release a pair but one clay will allow two shots and the other single so full use of gun .

I’ve shot the beretta SP auto about 5 times now , fantastic comp with fantastic course setters .

I’m booked on already 30th aug if you fancy it , not take you long to trot over from Essex .

That is very limited in these shoots, yes they have a discipline for them but in mainstream comps use but load two. If they were that good the top boys would use them but they don't! Thank you for the offer but shooting clays on and off since 1975 I lost the will to go to these events, brought up on rough shooting also pigeons so the only thing that I found remotely exciting was the bolting rabbit a going away bird and springing teal.
They cant replicate a clay to put on the brakes tip a wing roll in the wind and make you miss lol

 

[enfieldspares]

That is very limited in these shoots, yes they have a discipline for them but in mainstream comps use but load two.

Correct. CPSA rules allow only two shots to be loaded in the gun. That applies if it is self loader, pump action, bolt action or Akkar triple barreled type.

Some top level shooters I see do use gas operated self loading guns but very much by reluctant and forced choice (as there is no ability to have a choice of choke as being single barreled what is fitted in the gun when you targets are released is what it is).

They do so from those I meet only because injury or illness now prevent them using a over and under owing to recoil being a problem. But nobody of the top level shooters I know if they don't have injury or illness (that forces that decision) by intentional free choice uses one.

It is for them Hobson's choice!

 

[WalkedUp]

I use different guns for different tasks, the best in a hide is a semi automatic. My semi auto is 40 years old and beautiful, I never fire three shots. Just keep her topped up. Minimal movement reloading, keep still and kill. I love the side by side on the marsh or walked up, the over and under for game and clay, and the single shot for moderated little tasks.

 

[One on top of two]

That is very limited in these shoots, yes they have a discipline for them but in mainstream comps use but load two. If they were that good the top boys would use them but they don't! Thank you for the offer but shooting clays on and off since 1975 I lost the will to go to these events, brought up on rough shooting also pigeons so the only thing that I found remotely exciting was the bolting rabbit a going away bird and springing teal.
They cant replicate a clay to put on the brakes tip a wing roll in the wind and make you miss lol

You’re thinking about it far too much , it’s just a day out having a laugh and a bit of a shoot up.