Nice one. There's nothing like the satisfaction of swinging the barrels to follow a clay whizzing through the air and seeing it disintegrate as the gun kicks. And of course there's also the satisfaction of there being no reason for them to deny you a gun. What kind of shooting are you going to do? You do realise you'll probably end up with more than one shottie if you go multi-discipline, right? :-)
I used to shoot with a farmer friend about 5 years ago. I always had the satisfaction of swinging the barrels to follow a clay and seeing nothing happen. (I must have hit about 1 in 10. I was a bit pants).
I am still very much a beginner at the moment. I want a second hand gun to go clay shooting; we have a local club. Also, there is a guy at work who shoots rabbits on a farm he knows so I'll probably join him.
As for multiple guns, I've got a 4 gun cabinet but I think one will do for one now until I really get to know what I am doing.
As for the satisfaction of there being no reason for them to deny you one, thats probably the only area of firearms law left where you are allowed to be trusted as an adult. I wonder how long that will last. I did ask the firearms officer who interviewed me and he mentioned all the royalty that hunt with shotguns.
A four gun safe will probably do unless you get so good at everything that you want a trap gun, a skeet gun and a sporter, and maybe a field gun for rabbits. And then maybe Mrs Bucko will want in on the fun as well and you'll wish you'd space for six or eight :-) Even if Mrs Bucko enjoys clay destruction as much as you four's probably good for now. Talk to your local clay club and see if you can book some tuition that will give you some time on skeet, trap and some sporting layouts to see which you like most/are best at. I like trap disciplines but some people say they're boring and predictable compared to sporting layouts which can be changed to create a new challenge between one visit and the next. Some people who like sporting will take skeet at a pinch, but I find skeet so bloody fast and from such tight angles I miss much more than I hit. The advice I was given, and it might not apply to you so seek your own out, was start off with a second hand sporterised trap gun as it's sort of a jack of all trades, but above all else to get one that was a good fit for me. A badly fitting gun will look and feel as wrong as badly fitting clothes, and more importantly it'll be a hell of a lot harder to shoot well.
Enjoy your new hobby, mate. It is quite literally a blast.
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