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Happy wet Sunday afternoon from the fireside in Worcestershire.
Ive recently altered the chimney on the woodstove and this is its first lighting since the spring.
Glad to say it works. Winter seems to be starting early and you never know what kind of winter this year will bring.

I started shooting when I was 11 with an old double hammerd .410.
By the time I was 13, I was down the woods and round the farm on my own and progressed on to the Greener 12g full choke and the Winchester '74 .22 when I was 16.

Got my gun license when I was just 17 and have held it since.
I dont know what took me so long to finally apply for my FAC last year, and it took West Mercia 10 months to get round to it. There have been some jobs changes at the firearms dept and the backlog is now reducing from the 3500 ish at the height back last spring.

Finally got it granted in end of June and bought a gorgeous Marlin 39M Golden Original.

Ran @ 900 rounds through it and got a variation to include a multishot 12g, another .22 ( I technically own dads old Winchester'74 but baby Bro wont give it back cos hes enjoying hammering the bunnies with it when hes not bagging the 200+ foxes per YEAR on the family farm. The more he shoots, the more keep coming) and a .223.

So last Tuesday, I collected my new VEPR12 from Oleg and then on Friday I went to Leeds and bought a stunning SGC .223. I called by Henry Kranks to collect a bunch of ammo for a RFD friend and also picked out a scope and rifle case for the .223.

Yesterday I set up a target in the field out the back and started zeroing in the Viper 6-24 x 50 IR with some PPUs

All I can say is..............Im in love. :grin:

Now im hoping you guys can teach me about reloading please? Ive got room for 600 rounds on the ticket so need to fill it up . tongueout
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#2 Post by ovenpaa »

Welcome to the forum Amy and what a great first post as well. We had our heating on last night for the first time this Autumn.

Sounds like you have made a good start with the FAC and choice of rifles, now you need to post some pictures, one of the unwritten rules of the forum. Pictures of rifles, targets man, erm woman caves (Reloading area) and anything else that is interesting.

It is also good to see a person of the fairer sex on here as you lot are in a minority albeit well represented with the Viking as Admin.
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#3 Post by dromia »

Hello! :wave: :grin:
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Thank you for the warm welcome guys and Viking ( hi Christel, thanks for sorting out the glitch)

Was trying to post pix in my first post but the pic size isnt happy and im not a geek so not sure how to resize them. Got to warn ya though, they are serious gun porn pix
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#5 Post by Mike357 »

Welcome Amy.
It's not the pace of life that concerns me, it's the sudden stop at the end!
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#6 Post by 20series »

Amy welcome to our humble forum :wave: :goodjob:

That's probably the best intro I've seen and as for gun porn the nastier the better bangbang clapclap :lol:

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#7 Post by John25 »

Amy, welcome to the forum, great post, I'm envious, land to shoot on.

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Hi Amy and welcome to the Forum, if Carlsberg did forums... tongueout
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BTW,

Pictures on this forum have to be less than 3.5 megs and 800x800 so scale back to that and you are ok.
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#10 Post by ovenpaa »

Gun porn is always good, I was going to suggest speaking to Dromia as he has history with posting pictures... :lol:

If in doubt mail them to Christel and she will resize them for you. :good:
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