Buying an A.Y.A. No 2 side-by-side 12-bore with auto-eject, side action and in good condition. This evening, assembling and disassembling and cleaning my gun and then packed everything up for an early start for Scotland in the morning.
A good night, having got used to the bed and temperature again and then breakfast with the girls, fighting with them for enough milk to have with my breakfast! Once they were off to school, I got ready and then opened the mail before meeting Nigel by arrangement for a trip to his Biggleswade gun dealer. We spent some time looking at guns but they were mostly "over-and-unders" for clay pigeon shooting and I wanted a "side-by-side" field gun. Back to St Neots to meet Diana for lunch at Brackenbury's, having done the round of building societies for the latest interest rates. A nice snack meal of soup and then "egg salad bap" before setting off to get some tea of trout and fresh prawns from the supermarket.
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Once home and unloaded, I telephoned a couple of gun-dealers and then made the journey first to Bedford and then to Peterborough in search of my gun. I ended up with an A.Y.A. No 2 side-by-side 12-bore with auto-eject, side action and in good condition for £750 plus a gun case for £160 and a cleaning kit and stock extension pad thrown in for the total of £910 which I though was quite good. Home a little late for tea but I had telephoned ahead to Diana and she had everything ready for 5.30pm so I could feed the girls on trout for their own health. This evening, I practised assembling and disassembling and cleaning my gun and then packed everything up for an early start for Scotland in the morning.