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Seeing as I've got some land to shoot over now and plan to decoy some pigeons on there I was wondering if pigeon shooting is good reason to request a slot for a section 1 shotgun?

Gazza wrote:Seeing as I've got some land to shoot over now and plan to decoy some pigeons on there I was wondering if pigeon shooting is good reason to request a slot for a section 1 shotgun?

Some shooters are granted section 1 shotguns for pest control, but the circumstances would have to be very different to some casual pigeon shooting. The arguement would be, that if people with doubles or three shot semi's/pumps manage bags into the hundreds then why would you need more cartridge capacity?

My S1 Shotgun was granted for 'Vermin' and I was not specific and when the FEO visited he did not ask further.

Vermin control is good reason, that is the most common reason for an fac shotgun

Does anyone have slug allowed for Vermin?

For boar. And in parts of Kent and Susssex they are akin to vermin....

wildrover77 wrote:Vermin control is good reason, that is the most common reason for an fac shotgun

Sounds good

The correct wording is for "flocking birds, in accordance to natural england polices" i use a m2 comfortec 10 shot on crows and pigeons, i have slug for practical and vermin.... So no probs... Lots of folk do..

My initial s1 shotgun grant to allow me to keep my old 5 shot when the law changed was "for the destruction of pests". Stated like that until about 10 years ago when I got the condition changed to allow target and clay shooting with it as well

Had to make sure I destroyed them and not just killed them.

I got my first FAC shotgun for pest control (pigeons) at the time though I was a member of NPPC which has access to large amounts of land for pest control and the objective is to cull every pigeon you see to protect crops rather than 'a bit of sport'