When we were kids there was a local disused limestone quarry that was being used as a landfill rubbish tip site, a short walk from that there was a sewage processing plant and various walking trails around the area, a small river, an old apple orchard, stretch of old disused railway line embankment with power lines running adjacent to it. Great for us with our air rifles, various rubbish we could shoot at in the 'quarry' (tin cans, windows, TV's, etc) and there were rats, crows, rabbits, partridges, pheasants, pigeons all around the area and on the extended walks. If you got hungry on a walk at certain times of the year you could have apples and rabbit to eat. The sewage plant sometimes pumped part treated sewage into 'settling ponds', they used a bulldozer to create these square embanked settling ponds and waited for the sh*t to dry out before coming back to collect the dried out stuff weeks later. We would dare each other to walk over the precarious embankments. One day instead of taking an air rifle I took a shotgun and while we were walking across an embankment took a shot straight down at the semi dried out sh*t thinking it'd be funny to see what happened... Where I shot it left a hole around 18 inches round and 18 inches deep in the drying out sh*t so you could see the dirt bottom of the settling pond but the sh*t from the hole seemed to disappear. Then the sky seemed to turn a bit darker and we realised the sh*t went up in the air, we tried to run along this embankment without falling into the settling pond at both sides of it while sh*t literally rained down on us. All different now, the landfill site was filled in years ago and they recycle stuff now, the sewage plant is no longer allowed to have settling ponds, a lot of the old walks kids used to go on down the old railway embankment etc have all overgrown, can't just walk into a gun shop and buy ammo without showing a licence (or if underage). Shotguns have gone, still got a couple of my old airguns though, a Weihrauch77 and a Webley Vulcan and was out plinking with my 10 year old son last week. Still got an old 'garden gun' too, old bolt action 9mm shotgun but that's useless for anything except maybe shooting rats if you could get close enough. We used to drill out the rear of old .22 air rifle barrels to create a breach, modify the air rifle transfer port to fit a firing pin to the piston, fit a weaker spring and use 'Spit' nail gun cartridges to increase the power of the air rifle, put the pellet or bullet in the barrel first then the Spit cartridge.
