Red partridge hunting

The Past

It often happens that affected savages continue their flight or their run and go to die far away. The phenomenon is commonly called "past" and can be caused by: low extent of the injury because it affected soft and non-soft parts ...

Hunting pellets in the wild

Hunting pellets in the wild

There is a precise relationship between the weight of the shot and the size of the game and it is usually 0,001 to 5, that is 1 milligram of lead for every 5 grams of game. However, no one takes this into account and usually we ...

The Wild Shot Distance

The Wild Shot Distance

The game being shot is usually between twenty and fifty meters and therefore the chokes of the rifles have been created in such a way as to give optimal results at such distances. In a series of tests with loaded cartridges ...

Wood pigeon club

Pink in shotguns

Each shot pattern has a length determined by the distance, the thrust received by the bullets and the density of the air. To get an idea, consider that with a full choked barrel (1 mm) and 12 gauge the length of the grouping ...

Try the pattern of your firearm

Try the pattern of your firearm

It is relatively easy to carry out a shot pattern test which consists in calculating the percentage of pellets that come out of the barrel and are directed towards the target, radiating as a swarm longitudinally and transversely. However, the dispersion is never accidental but it depends ...

Hunting cartridge

Hunting cartridge

The cartridge consists of a casing, called a case, once made of cardboard or metal, today almost exclusively of plastic. Inside it houses the gunpowder, an ignition device and a bullet or, in the case of ...

Semi-automatic shotgun

Semi-automatic shotgun

They are single-barreled and manual repeating rifles. The lever-operated automatic was designed by Winchester engineers in 1887 based on a Browning design. Once a shot is fired, a lever moves forward under the bridge: in this ...

Shotgun. Here's how it's done.

Shotgun. Here's how it's done.

The closures - and it is intuitive but not properly considered by all - are of fundamental importance. When the shot occurs - of course it is necessary to consider infinitesimal times the action is subjected to some stresses including a torque of rotation that acts on the ...

Shotgun barrel bursting

Bursting of the Rifle barrel

This is what a shotgun looks like after a shooting accident with the accidental bursting of the gun barrel. Shotguns are safe. Tested at the National Test Bench, they undergo considerable stresses and therefore offer very high reliability ....

To each his own rifle ..

The shotgun is like a suit: it must have measures and features suitable for the wearer. If this happens, as soon as he takes hold, he immediately goes to the target according to the intentions of the hunter. An excellent gunsmith, and it is not easy to find, will be in ...

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