OT: UK members... single shots with extra barrels?

[O.S.O.K.]

I was just wondering if you could have more calibers if you owned a TC Encore or even an NEF and several different caliber barrels. That would allow you to own say .22 Hornet, .357 Mag, 30-30 and 45-70 - all for "one" rifle.

After all, you could only shoot one at a time - I don't see why that wouldn't be a great way of extending your shooting options w/o having having to deal with the multiple requests... or whatever you've got to do...

Or... even better - a switch-barrel levergun... yeah. Again it would be just one rifle... not as flexible, but still would allow several different calibers within a range... like 25-35, 30-30 and 38-55... that's entirely feasible. So is .22 Jet, .357 Mag...

[gamekeeper]

As I understand it, the police require our firearm certificate to have all major parts like extra Barrels, Cylinders etc to be listed. Each caliber we apply for has to have a use IE:
.22Lr vermin control,
.223 Fox control,
.243 Deer Stalking.
We could have all three or more listed for target shooting but that excludes their use for hunting. So if you buy a rifle chambered for .22 centre fire and you wanted to put, say a.308 barrel on it you would have the same paperwork to go through with the police.

The rules on shooting Foxes with Deer caliber rifles has only just been relaxed so that a stalker can take a Fox with say a .270 without having to ask the police to say so on his certificate.

Our gun laws make little sense other than to inhibit people taking up shooting as a sport.

[gundownunder]

Here in the land of Oz its pretty much the same as gamekeeper outlined, and to show that the mentality is the same, if you get a Ruger super single six you need to apply for the license for the .22 and .22mag cylinders separately.

[Old Ironsights]

That's why them Krauts invented Drillings...

[deerwhacker444]

you need to apply for the license for the .22 and .22mag cylinders separately.

How Ridiculous..!

[O.S.O.K.]

Well, just a thought - and I agree, it's really stupid...

[AmBraCol]

The mentalities of the hoplophobe and the bureaucrat are incredible. And a hoplophobic bureaucrat is even worse. Down here you're only allowed to carry a weapon up to about 9.3 mm (or whatever 0.380" resolves to in mm) And you're issued either a "carry" license or a "possession" license. You're only allowed up to two carry weapons - or perhaps it's only one anymore. And the place where you possess the weapon (for possession permits) must be listed specifically by address on the permit. So you can possess a shotgun to protect the farm or to shoot game, but you can't carry it around. The only exception is to carry it to the range to practice with - in which case it must be disassembled and unloaded and carried separate from the ammunition.

A friend had a multi caliber Colt 1911. It had both 38 Super and 45 ACP barrels (maybe separate slides, don't recall) but it could NOT be registered as a carry weapon since it had both calibers - including the 45 ACP which is over the legal limit for carrying. So it was a "sporting use only" - and therefore useless to me since I prefer to shoot IPSC competition with my carry weapon (for me it MUST be practical to a certain degree - don't care for the current whizzbanggewgawspacegun tendency). I thought about buying it from his widow but since I don't have a 1911 for carry use the sporting use weapon makes no sense. Anyway, it doesn't have to make sense to a sensible person. As mentioned above, the laws merely serve to prevent folks from getting involved in the shooting sports. SO FAR pellet guns aren't regulated here so I'm doing about 99% (or more) of my shooting that way. I hope to bring back a target type pistol next year and relegate the Crosman 1377 to plinking and pest control.

Anyway, the idea of multiple calibers is intriguing, but not practical where socialism has reared it's ugly head even further than it is in the US. Vigilance is the price of freedom. If we slack off then the US will follow the path of England to hoplophobic destruction of freedom. As a US citizen I hope we never see that day - but see too many folks who don't realize "It can happen in the US too."