Rules for the choice of smooth-bore hunting rifle

There are a few rules that need to be guided in choosing the gun:  

Always inspect the weapons carefully. 

2.     Good gun is always the same lies in the shoulder. Try to raise his gun several times. The trunk should not outweigh the bully up or butt. The sight each time must coincide with the direction of gaze. This so-called "handiness" guns, it depends on how guns the size corresponds to the growth and shape of the hunter, from the placement of the center of gravity and balance arms.

3.     Weight gun - is another important feature. Heavy guns difficult to wear during long hunting light gun is not intended for normal charges. In the case of lightweight reinforced gun charge, increases efficiency, and weapons wear out quickly. Too heavy for a hunter gun very quickly become unsupportable burden, especially when it comes to hunting deer, moose or bear, when the persecution of the beast has been delayed for hours.

4.     Pay special attention to the barrels. Look at them inside and out. On the trunks must be free of cracks, potholes, bumps and troughs of metal. The walls of the shafts must be the same otherwise the charge will be rejected. On the inner surface of the barrel with a muzzle side one can see a number of concentric rings, they must be equidistant and have a regular shape, otherwise curved barrel.

Checking machinery and parts

Always check the quality of the soldering trunks, regardless of whether you buy a new gun or old. To do this, hang a rifle grenade for the front hook and hit the trunk several times. If the sound is not smooth, the barrels are welded to the defect.

Upon such verification, will not join the forearm, Abut butt in the hip and swing the gun in the cross, and then in the longitudinal direction. If you feel very little pitching, give up the purchase of the gun.

The hammer must platoon with a sharp and shrill click. To test the strength of hitting the hammer, put it on his sleeve and pulled the trigger. If the sleeve is jumped by less than half a meter, the force of the striker is not sufficient. 

Buying shotgun, meticulously study his passport and check the operation of all mechanisms. Shotgun - a serious thing, and mechanisms should work without extraneous sounds, smooth and debugged. 

The wood must always adhere to the metal. Through the gaps and cracks dirt can get into the gun mechanism.

Remember, you are buying a gun every day or even once a year. This thing will stay with you for a long time. Come to the choice of shotgun seriously and carefully, do not rush.

Permitted caliber shotguns

Gauge shotguns characterizes the diameter of its trunk. Size is determined as the number of round bullets spilled on the trunk diameter from one pound of lead. The pound of lead is 454 grams.

Smooth-bore hunting rifles are available with gauges from 32 to 12. The lower the number, the larger the caliber, which she represents.

Under current law, a deer, bear, wolf, jackal, lynx can walk with any caliber smoothbore gun, but only with the use of bullet cartridges. Using fraction is not allowed.

On the "earthen" game, such as chipmunk, squirrel, mink and wolf, hare, marten, you can walk with smoothbore gun caliber 22.

Hunting for a duck and other game birds, steppe and field game, the mountain and upland game caliber is not limited, but it is best to use a gun 16 and 12 gauge.

Shotguns 20-gauge have an advantage over large-caliber weapons due to economies of powder and shot. However, because of the smaller caliber weapons more difficult to get on the game as a killer in terms of these weapons less. Hunters with a little experience is necessary to use a weapon of a larger caliber.

Small-caliber rifles are used mainly taiga hunters, usually on a fixed shooting game. Such weapons not only saves ammunition, but also maximizes the retention of the animal's skin.