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VSS



Joined: 14 Jan 2007
Posts: 2845
Location: Llyn Peninsula, North Wales
PostPosted: Thu Feb 07, 08 9:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Don't you find the semi-auto feels rather clumsy? I've always found that they are very hard to swing through in a "natural" way. A bit out of balance somehow. Give me an English made side by side any day!

vegplot



Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd
PostPosted: Thu Feb 07, 08 11:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

For nostalgia I love side by side. Never did like semi-autos but they don't kick so hard.

Brownbear



Joined: 28 May 2007
Posts: 14929
Location: South West
PostPosted: Fri Feb 08, 08 5:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

VSS wrote:
Don't you find the semi-auto feels rather clumsy? I've always found that they are very hard to swing through in a "natural" way. A bit out of balance somehow. Give me an English made side by side any day!


Madame Bear, who has a bad shoulder and finds both the weight and recoil of a gun a problem, used a Benelli Montefeltro. Light as a feather, but the spring-cycling of the mechanism absorbs a lot of the felt recoil. Other people have tried it, and most loved it. Very crisp action when fired as well, none of that 'kerthump-tunk' of the gas-blowback guns.


Jonnyboy



Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 08, 08 7:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I like my weird clanking noise, thank you very much.

SheepShed



Joined: 08 Nov 2006
Posts: 332
Location: In the middle of a Welsh forest
PostPosted: Fri Feb 08, 08 10:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I'm happy with my big, black kerthumper semi-auto as well, but for stroll round in the evening with the young cocker I love my Yildiz .410

Makes me feel like an Edwardian gentleman

vegplot



Joined: 19 Apr 2007
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 08, 08 10:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

SheepShed wrote:
I'm happy with my big, black kerthumper semi-auto as well, but for stroll round in the evening with the young cocker I love my Yildiz .410

Makes me feel like an Edwardian gentleman


Are the inuendo's intentional

SheepShed



Joined: 08 Nov 2006
Posts: 332
Location: In the middle of a Welsh forest
PostPosted: Fri Feb 08, 08 10:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

vegplot wrote:
SheepShed wrote:
I'm happy with my big, black kerthumper semi-auto as well, but for stroll round in the evening with the young cocker I love my Yildiz .410
Makes me feel like an Edwardian gentleman

Are the inuendo's intentional

Feel free to insert the word 'spaniel' at a suitable place in the text

vegplot



Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd
PostPosted: Fri Feb 08, 08 11:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

SheepShed wrote:
vegplot wrote:
SheepShed wrote:
I'm happy with my big, black kerthumper semi-auto as well, but for stroll round in the evening with the young cocker I love my Yildiz .410
Makes me feel like an Edwardian gentleman

Are the inuendo's intentional

Feel free to insert the word 'spaniel' at a suitable place in the text


I was more concerned about your "big, black kerthumper"

SheepShed



Joined: 08 Nov 2006
Posts: 332
Location: In the middle of a Welsh forest
PostPosted: Fri Feb 08, 08 11:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

vegplot wrote:
I was more concerned about your "big, black kerthumper"

At least it doesn't make a weird clanking noise like Jonnyboy's.

Did you use to be a script writer for the Carry On films or something ?

vegplot



Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd
PostPosted: Fri Feb 08, 08 11:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

SheepShed wrote:
vegplot wrote:
I was more concerned about your "big, black kerthumper"

At least it doesn't make a weird clanking noise like Jonnyboy's.

Did you use to be a script writer for the Carry On films or something ?


Now there's a thought.

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