RE: Scratchbuilt Fleets

Mikko wrote:
> Tim Jones wrote:
> > 
> > In the UK you can't buy shotgun cartridges without a shotgun
> > licence, fishing weights are a substitute, but are usually split,
> > but that would make a good half turret.
> 
> Don't buy entire shells -- the pellets should be available
> separately for use in muzzle loaders and reloading. Those shouldn't
> require a license to buy, unless brits are considerable sicker than
> I thought.

I'm not sure. I do know that a friend of mine had to get a shotgun 
license before being able to fire a matchlock musket at civil war 
re-enactments. So it's conceivable that even the pellets are only 
available to those with a license.

After all what else could you want them for? ;-)

	Steve
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