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vegplot
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Cathryn
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whitelegg1
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| vegplot wrote: |
| Cathryn wrote: |
Does that mean that in several months/years time threads like
this one become intelligible?  |
Yes, sorry they can get a bit techie. BB's article is an excellent guide especially the bit about not taking what someone else says as verbatim. The only advice I'll offer is get out there and shoot, beg or borrow your gun and shooting ground, try as many as you can and you'll soon feel what is right for you in terms of comfort, needs, performance and price. |
Be careful about using a FIREARM that is not yours.
There are some very grey rules about using a shotgun or firearm that is not yours, with regards to supervision or not, whether or not it needs to be on your licence, in fact whether or not you need a licence.
If in doubt try to find someone who knows.
The BASC are a good source of information, and members can call them up and ask advice on this sort of issue.
Unfortunately, when push comes to shove, the opinion that matters will probably be a beat P.C. who doesn't know gun from gum! After a doo-gooder reports the sniper/poacher and the guys swoop down in the helicopter with the Heckler & Kochs!!  It does happen, although thankfully rare!
If I can be of help, drop me a line.
If your thinking of an air rifle, the regulations are less stringent, but there are still some lines to toe....
Pete
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vegplot
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vegplot
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| whitelegg1 wrote: |
| vegplot wrote: |
| Cathryn wrote: |
Does that mean that in several months/years time threads like
this one become intelligible? |
Yes, sorry they can get a bit techie. BB's article is an excellent guide especially the bit about not taking what someone else says as verbatim. The only advice I'll offer is get out there and shoot, beg or borrow your gun and shooting ground, try as many as you can and you'll soon feel what is right for you in terms of comfort, needs, performance and price. |
Be careful about using a FIREARM that is not yours.
There are some very grey rules about using a shotgun or firearm that is not yours, with regards to supervision or not, whether or not it needs to be on your licence, in fact whether or not you need a licence.
If in doubt try to find someone who knows.
The BASC are a good source of information, and members can call them up and ask advice on this sort of issue.
Unfortunately, when push comes to shove, the opinion that matters will probably be a beat P.C. who doesn't know gun from gum! After a doo-gooder reports the sniper/poacher and the guys swoop down in the helicopter with the Heckler & Kochs!! It does happen, although thankfully rare!
If I can be of help, drop me a line.
If your thinking of an air rifle, the regulations are less stringent, but there are still some lines to toe....
Pete
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A careless use of words. My apologies. |
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Cathryn
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whitelegg1
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Jonnyboy
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Brownbear
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On the topic of borrowing a gun, with a shotgun, if you have no certificate you can use the gun of another in their presence on land where you have permission to shoot. I didn't go into details of multiple gun or gun type ownership as it's about just getting started. Borrowing firearms just isn't worth the hassle TBH. Issues of 'closed' and 'open' certificates, is one the landowner or the landowner's 'agent' etc.
In Cathryn's case, if Lauren has a shotgun certificate, she could purchase what shotguns she wishes (up to the level of storage given by the person who inspects the storage (the Firearms Enquiry Officer or FEO)), and Cathryn could use these in Lauren's presence and with her permission, but Lauren would have to be the only one with the keys to the cabinet. If you both had certificates then you could both have the keys, but all guns in the cabinet would have to be registered to you both.
If Rifles were involved as well, it's more complicated. If one of you had, say, a .17HMR for bunnies, then only that person could have access to it, which in effect means two cabinets. If you both had a Firearms Certificate (FAC), then you could both have the rifle on your tickets and both have keys. When only one person has access the law says that only the certificate holder must know where the keys are.
It may be possible to have a shared cabinet - if only one person had access to the place where the rifle's bolt and ammunition were stired, but I don't think they'd like it. It's less fuss in the end, in those circs, to have two cabinets. That's what we do at home - I ahve the keys to the ammo safe and the cabinet with the rifles and the FAC shotgun, and both of us have the keys to another cabinet with the three 'normal' shotguns. |
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kevin.vinke
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Cathryn
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Brownbear
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In Lauren and Cathryn's case, it would probably, if you definitely want a rifle as well, be better to apply for what is called 'co-terminous' certificates, when you can save ten or twenty quid by getting the firearms and shotgun certs at the same time. As you have land, that isn't an issue, so I suggest that you both apply at the same time for co-terminous shotgun/firearms. Get a cabinet with a lockable top that is large enough to accommodate one rifle and several shotguns (I can get them for you at a reduced price from my wholesaler).
It might also be a good idea to get a bit of training - the chap who runs my rifle club does shooting training for the Forestry Commission and issues certificates of training which the police accept. You could also put me down as a 'mentor' who will advise you on such matters.
If you're really serious about having a rifle, I'd suggest you both popped down for a day or so, and I could arrange some professional coaching and certification, and then take you shooting on some land I control bunnies on. |
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KILLITnGRILLIT
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vegplot
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Cathryn
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| Brownbear wrote: |
In Lauren and Cathryn's case, it would probably, if you definitely want a rifle as well, be better to apply for what is called 'co-terminous' certificates, when you can save ten or twenty quid by getting the firearms and shotgun certs at the same time. As you have land, that isn't an issue, so I suggest that you both apply at the same time for co-terminous shotgun/firearms. Get a cabinet with a lockable top that is large enough to accommodate one rifle and several shotguns (I can get them for you at a reduced price from my wholesaler).
It might also be a good idea to get a bit of training - the chap who runs my rifle club does shooting training for the Forestry Commission and issues certificates of training which the police accept. You could also put me down as a 'mentor' who will advise you on such matters.
If you're really serious about having a rifle, I'd suggest you both popped down for a day or so, and I could arrange some professional coaching and certification, and then take you shooting on some land I control bunnies on. |
Thank you (sorry I feel I am hijacking the thread a bit). I need to think about this some more but I know Loren definitely wants to do more and I want to encourage this so will learn at the same time. (She always enjoyed pistol shooting even in the depths of winter at the freezing cold gun club that we used.) We will definitely get a lot more local training.
(And we'll come and visit. ) |
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