Yep, I’ve seen a good few deacts get sold at auction and I can guarantee that no one had a Garda authorisation for them.

.22 rimfire in some cases of the acts,and on your license as .220 inches!

Does the 5 round restriction require destructive work to block the extra chambers or is there a more sympathetic option than welding and permanently destroying the piece?

An interesting Friday read. Gunpowder magazine on the Irish Army Ranger Wing.

Wonder how much is hype, and truth? But seriously,They are still using the SPAS12??The worst military/police shotgun ever made?🤣 Sell them to collectors lads,thy are fetching about 5 thousand dollars now and buy more Benelli M3s or M4s.

https://gunpowdermagazine.com/irish-special-forces-the-army-ranger-wing/

Very misleading, most of those will be renewals although I know it's basically a new application but there is not now 95K new guns. Plus I would expect 2021 to be higher as the three year licences started in 2015, six years ago last year so a lot of renewals would be up. Is my logic sound on that?

That was a polite way of saying I was way off! I took a quick date that related to something else when I read further.

That long ago already?Time flies when you are miserable!🙄😅

Nope.

Was reading a magazine the other day. And there was an article/review on Sig Bluetooth rangefinders - and this may be well known, but rangefinders are not something I’m too up to spend on.

My understanding is that, the range finder has a ballistic calc build in. when you range a target. Instead of saying just 300m, ot also gives you the adjustment, in moa/clicks. And if you pair it with a scope with a digital reticle. You don’t need to adjust the scope. Just range the target, and the holdover mildot illuminates.

Is there something wrong with the time stamps on thread posts in the Hunting Forum atm??🤔

The last posting there is dated 20/9/2022 - which doesn't seem right when I search the forum via accessing Shooting Sports first🤨

I reported this last week to the development team but got no reply. The "last post" is jumping around and showing random threads. This has been happening for at least 2 weeks

Very nice indeed.

I'm too mean to pay for a sub to the paper, so went looking and found the full text elsewhere - hope it's from the right article :

[quote]

A newly developed student accommodation building in the heart of Trinity College Dublin will come with a unique offering: a firing range in its basement.

The Printing House Square project, which has cost €60m to develop and will house 248 students when it finally opens over three years behind schedule off Dublin’s Pearse Street, will be the new home for the university’s rifle club.

The Dublin University Rifle Club (DURC), which has been in existence for over 60 years and has 100 members, said on social media last week it expects its new underground range to open in mid-October and it hoped to open every weekday evening.

The club trains and competes in the Olympic target shooting events that include using a small bore single loaded 5.6mm (.22 inches) calibre rifle over 50 metres and an air rifle over 10 metres.

The new 10-lane range will be located under the student accommodation, a new Disability Hub and Health Centre.

The shooting range is part of a sports centre that also includes squash and handball courts. There have been security concerns raised at the board of the university over the idea of having a rifle shooting range in a student accommodation building. The redeveloped building faces on to Pearse Street and the garda station located there.

Minutes of a Trinity board meeting from January show the issue was raised with Professor Kevin O’Kelly, the building project’s lead in Trinity.

He told board members that at an early stage of the project’s design, board members had been invited to a presentation from the rifle club and Trinity Sport.

“He confirmed that there is a separate entrance from outside the building into the range and that there is no direct access between the accommodation and the range below,” the minutes state.

“He also noted that the facility is very secure with the rifles themselves stored in a separate location to the ammunition and that An Garda Síochána were satisfied with the security measures in place.”

The minutes show Linda Doyle, Trinity’s provost, said the matter could be discussed further at a future meeting. Another board member requested a visit to the new range be facilitated. This was arranged for April.

This weekend, TCD said the DURC and its range facilities have been in existence in Trinity for over 60 years.

“The rifle club is dedicated to the sport of Olympic target shooting, with disciplines including air rifle and small bore,” it said.

“We believe the security arrangements around this facility are second to none. The new range at Printing House Square, Trinity College Dublin, replaces previous long-term and temporary facilities on campus, and has been developed in conjunction with best practice and the latest design regulations, as advised by the national range inspector from the Department of Justice, and a representative of An Garda Síochána.

“The range and club operating model meet the required national safety and security standards, along with appropriate procedures and approval systems within the university.

“DURC will continue their long-standing presence as a university club from the new Printing House Square facilities later this year.”

A garda spokesman said gardaí in Pearse Street “have not received any application in relation to the construction of a rifle range in the Dublin 2 area”.

In response to this, TCD said there is one final authorisation due from gardaí. “This can’t be completed until the range is fully operational and has reached the high standard required by An Garda Síochána,” it said.

The DURC did not respond to requests for comment. [/quote]