PaulEamonn

If you want to PM me your number I will pass it on to Tench for you.

Eminently sensible suggestion Reaper. However, it's not that old and I neither want nor can afford to take the hit on selling it second hand and then adding more money to the pot to buy another one. A couple of inches off the barrel would likely be the cheaper option. The cheapest option would be to get a hole saw, and cut a hole in the gun cabinet for your rifle to fit into... That too is a good idea Kurt. However, the reason my gun cabinet is too short is that it's got an internal ammo safe. I'm not sure what my FEO would say about me hacking a hole in the floor of the b

Eminently sensible suggestion Reaper. However, it's not that old and I neither want nor can afford to take the hit on selling it second hand and then adding more money to the pot to buy another one. A couple of inches off the barrel would likely be the cheaper option.

I envy you Skot. I'm seriously tempted to have a couple of inches chopped off of mine just so I don't need to.

Skot - I've got the FAC version and, because of the long barrel, I have to remove my mod every time I put it into the gun cabinet. I've found that, provided I grab hold of the barrel just below the mod with the other hand while unscrewing the mod, I've never found any problems with the barrel coming loose.

I was talking to Tench about my HW100 and he mentioned that some people over-tighten the grub screw that holds the barrel in place. This results in it being pushed back into the block further than it should be and this causes problems. Just 'tweak' up the grub screw when you replace the barrel and, provided you've followed A1WOC's advice and put it back 'dry', you shouldn't have any more problems.

Just a thought.............. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIbkLjjlMV8

Tench can be contacted by going to the Shooting the Breeze forum and sending him a PM. He can be a bit tardy at checking his messages but he gets back eventually. Alternatively, if you're in a hurry, let me know and I'll contact him for you.

I've got about a dozen tree rats in the freezer so it's on the menu for next week.

Here ya go Phantom. It looks like the link got broken when the thread was moved.

Something I came across on The Telegraph website - not that I think too many Telegraph readers will be jumping out of their cars to retrieve the bunny they've just mown down on the A46. Nevertheless, they look worth trying. The one thing that you must do is to watch the video on how to cook the squirrel. Peter Stafford's comments at the end are priceless.

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I bought a couple of those PelletSafe tins from Range Sports. I reckon they are the dog's. Probably not that good while out hunting unless you line the tin like Pianoman suggests. But for generally keeping pellets around the place that my old arthritic hands can access easily, they are the business. Giro - the video you are looking for is on here.

That's spooky Moxy. I said something very similar to that on both occasions.

I'll have to look ay the instructions again as I thought it was 6 inches I wasn't having a pop at you at all mate. I actually thought your link was very funny. It was an "in general" statement. As this just happens to be a topic I know the answer to (even though it looks like a certain member doesn't believe me), I thought I'd share the knowledge. Especially as I probably won't know the answer to the next 10 questions I see. I wasn't questioning your post mate , I was questioning my own as I've always done mine from about six inches feck knows where I got that information from , th