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£40 per year, no range fees or other fees except drinks. (Tea or coffee only!). Competitions (by post) have their own fees. Airguns and BP firearms (pistols and rifles and smoothbores but not shotguns) and rifles up to range limits (depends on calibre and velocity of rounds).

All serial numbers are printed on my firearms licence and registered in my name on the police database. :(

Is the 531P the one with the peep sight and tube magazine?

My grandad had a Crossman .22 air rifle that was too heavy for me to shoot unsupported, but from that first shot, age about 7 or 8 I was hooked! UK gun laws and family took me away from shooting for a while but really got into things when I inherited some rifles from my father in law about 10...

An Italian Colt Walker repro. Didn't cost much and had some issues that needed fixing but it was just too big and far too heavy for me to shoot safely. I never trusted the wedge to hold the barrel on and the loading lever fell down after every shot. The sights were terrible and the trigger was...

From the UK - Office of National Statistics - Crime survey to September 2018 "Headline figures · a 3% increase in vehicle offences, due largely to a 10% increase in the subcategory of “Theft or unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle” · a 17% increase in robbery offences, continuing...

London is not representative of the UK as whole. Would you use the New York crime rate as indicative of crime in the USA?

Any violent crime is a problem in most countries. Don't believe all you read in the news.

I live in the UK. I, like most people I know, do not live in fear of crime, of being robbed, burgled, assaulted or murdered. I live in a nice market town with a low crime rate. My sons live in cities, members of my family live in London and other bits of the UK. They do not live in fear of crime...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I admire the work and craftsmanship that goes into elegant firearms design, well carved checkering on a shotgun, elegant engraving on a lock-plate, the patterns of colour case hardening, the patina on an old, well handled revolver, the oil, sweat and grease...

If you are a hunter, going with a guide into bear country, learn how to use the self-defence weapons that are to hand. If you are a guide, show the hunter(s)/members of your party, how to use your pistol / rifle, just in case you can't. I am not a hunter, so I am happy to be corrected on this one.

A single shot Kentucky style BP pistol in .44 by Bondini. Not shot it yet as waiting until I'm fully recovered from a cycling accident (broken wrist and kneecap).

I shoot the odd pheasant in season if I get the opportunity but otherwise I don't hunt nor shoot competitively very much, I only really shoot for fun. I still enjoy it as much as I did as a kid, maybe more so as I have 'real' guns rather than just air rifles. My real love is for BlackPowder...

Ooo now there’s a thought, a good Bowie knife!

Down on the range one night, I was spoting for a friend when I got a sharp rap on my shin. Looked down to see a perfectly round lead ball that had come back at me from two lanes down from a bloke shooting a BP pistol with not enough powder. the ball just bounced straight back!

Nice rifle, could almost be the brother of mine! Cheers guys! Now, what else do I need to add to complete the 'Kentucky' set? :)

Thanks, that's what I was thinking. I'll re-do the stock so that it will match my Kentucky rifle!

I have always wanted a single shot BP pistol and finally I have found one at the right price. Please can someone tel me what this style of pistol is called?

A Daisy, .177 smooth bore air ‘rifle’. Got me hooked but it then took another 35 years and the death of my father in law to start my new collection.

On the rare times I have the house to myself, especially a weekend and the weather is lousy: Sorting out my gun cleaning tool box Sortijng out and cleaning my range bag Re-loading Cleaning / checking / admiring my guns Thinking about what other guns I would like to add to my collection...