Fao Shoota

[retrocop]

Yes from the age of 16yrs I won a couple of medals at Bisley. Now at the wrong side of 60 I have a SSG 69 7.62mm Manlicher with a Nightforce scope.
A Browning .223 A Bolt with a Bushnell scope and a Converted Lee Enfield Mk 1V by Fultons of Bisley firing 7.62mm with a Edgar Bros scope. Shot in the PUK championship the year before last at Bisley.Missed out this year due to cancer op but will compete this year again,if my good luck holds out.All rifles zeroed in at 100yds and ready to put at least 3 rnds in a 3" grouping at 600yds.
Must confess I find today's shooting a bit of a cheat. Telescopic scopes and a bipod Pah. In my youth iron vernier sights,a two point sling and a trusty .303 service rifle achieved a more satisfying result especially when the old mince pies were a bit sharper.

[shoota]

I defend live quarry shooting with evangelistic zeal, to me it is a perfectly natural thing.

[retrocop]

Me too.Our team,based at Barnes, escorted the Iron Lady back to Chequers.She was certainly not shaken or stirred by the experience and was gracious enough to give the lads a personal guided tour of Chequers in gratitude for their efforts.

[gness]

Shoota.....you need to explain to your friend that some of us prying women shoot...guns and bows....probably better than either of you....but with you it's breathing things......☺

[shoota]

We probably passed in the corridor at the Station Road TN as I was based at Richmond, frequently worked from TN and had a home beat in Barnes in the early 80's (82?)

[retrocop]

grasscarp
I remember that Waterloo range well.Never shot there though. .22 only wasn't it?

[shoota]

Gness - 'probably' is spelt 'possibly but unlikely'....

[grasscarp]

Yes it was.2.2.

[shoota]

We will have to lobby the Ed for a 'Guns and Shooting' topic in the list on the right.

Gness can be the founder member as she is so active in the field.

[retrocop]

Yes I remember you telling me a couple of years back. I was at TDB and based at TN Station Road as well as the TSG. I remember driving the local CID officer to a certain Property Officer's address in the T Division district after he was spotted on hidden CCTV for thieving in the nick. Jock somebody or other.

[grasscarp]

Let's have end slot with Weapons. Sub topics. Small bore. Full bore. Professionals. Amateurs.

[shoota]

Do you still shoot grass?

[grasscarp]

No. It was all a long time ago. I toyed with buying a Vostock pistol but decided not to. I left BBC when I had first child.

[retrocop]

Nice thought grasscarp but I fear it would never take off the ground.Us dedicated sensible shooters are regarded as homicidal maniacs who are hell bent on replicating Hungerford and Dunblane.The government do not show much sympathy for our sport either. Kneejerk reaction dictates that we hand in our handguns. Now only the bad guys can possess them with impunity on the streets of London it seems.Still hope,very faint albeit,is on the horizon. Rumour was heard in Shooting circles that Mr Farage would reintroduce the legal possession of handguns but I will be kicking up daisies when and if that day comes.

[retrocop]

Shoota
Wasn't it great we had Imber court range on our doorsteps.Ihurled many a piece of lead down that range with my 9mm Glock and Model 13 S&W .357 plus the .22 BSA Century that I bought on behalf of my 15yr old son. Mounted branch didn't like us much though. Said it scared the gee gees and I always thought they were trained to accept loud bangs at demos etc.

[shoota]

I used Imber a lot, helped run the 5 area shooting club.
Ihad a .38 Davis Windmaster, a S&W 586 .357, a S&W 581 .357, a S&W M14 .38 tuned by Davis, a S&W 'Chiefs Special .38 snubby, a S&W M17 .22, a Browning HiPower 9mm, a Llahti 9mm and a Browning Buckmark .22

(I liked S&W's.....)

[retrocop]

Me too. Always confusing though when doing a 5 rnd tactical reload in a 6 shot cylinder S&W after just finished shooting a Colt.Now which way does that cylinder turn, clockwise or anti-clockwise so I don't get the "dead man's" click on my first trigger pull?

[shoota]

S&W 11 o'clock, Colt 1 o'clock



I think....:-)

[stuey]

I love to wake up in the morning and whilst sipping my cup of tea enjoy the aroma of cordite wafting o'er the air while I'm polishing my weapon...Great joy.