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    Not shot with a shotty first either Si. ??
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    Pretty well normal I would say Si. Phil
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    philpot replied to villaman's topic in Airgun Hunting

    I am selling a lure set up but got several more ready to hit the river as it gets a bit colder. I have got back into sea fishing so have my eye on the tides in order to get on the whiting and cod as well. I must admit that I have not owned a .410 for about 45 years or more but really fancy one again although the cost of cartridges is bloody high. I used a .410 o/u on clays a couple of years ago which got me thinking again about buying one. Te Hushpower do look good but you need low velocity carts otherwise the noise level is hardly reduced at all, as I understand it. An auto or o/u would
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    philpot replied to villaman's topic in Airgun Hunting

    Don't knock it until you try it grumps. Come up north for a weekend in a nearby Hilton and I will take you clay shooting............................oh bugger, that reminds me, I promised to take Si. Sorry Si, when do you fancy going buddy. Phil
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    Nice write up Mr Maclean, now the first is out of the way, feel free to keep posting, then, like the rest of us, we can take the p1ss out of you ? Good luck with the rabbits, sounds like you are going to be busy. Phil
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    philpot replied to villaman's topic in Airgun Hunting

    Nice going Mitch. We have just made some new feeders for a new area on one of the perms which with luck will produce some sport this winter. Phil
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    I have just been looking through the exhibitor listing for the Northern Shooting Show next May and Discovery Scopes are going to be there which is good news so an ideal chance to get up close and personal with them. Phil
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    Ah, I should explain. The garden centres do a range of hampers / bags with a variety of Christmas goodies which the farmers wife also enjoys, some wine for both of them goes with the hamper so both parties are happy and the wife remembers the nice man who includes her at Christmas. Extra support where it matters and at about £25-30 all in, it seems well worth while. Not quite such a posh git Mitch, maybe part way there. ? Phil
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    I had a couple of hours to spare this afternoon so decided to go and look for the geese which had been feeding on ajoining farms but so far not on ours. I took both the 12 gauge shotgun and the Impact so if the geese were elsewhere, I would have a go on the crows with the Impact. There were about 3-4000 geese on our perm but not in a position I could take a shot however a reccie showed where we could possibly ambush them as they flight in so all was not lost. The crows were not to be seen anywhere and the rabbits had not come out to play yet so it was the pheasants to concentrate on.
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    Interesting but why the vat of cold water, is it that the fill is very quick and the cylinder gets too hot. Phil
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    I am with you on this Mark, I am off to buy a few hampers this week to take to the land owners but the cost is shared with my shooting buddy so not bad. Phil
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    Welcome aboard matey. Let us know how you go on with them, all feedback is valuable. Phil
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    A nice thought and there are a few cod being taken around the Humber area but not many unfortunately and the better whiting seem to have gone out. Phil
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    Yes I know what you mean, I am keeping my fingers crossed. Are the ones you had Mitch the same guy as in the link I posted. Phil
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    I have paid out for both Rapid and FX Impact spare mags which are quite a price and thought at the time why Weihrauch have managed to keep their mag prices at a sensible level, well it is quite a time since I bought any mags for HW rifles and got a bit of a surprise when I asked for prices for my HW110k spare mags......................nearly £40 each. Well I may live in Lincolnshire, but the Yorkshire blood in me started to froth up, £40 for an HW mag, no bloody way so started looking on flea bay to see what came up. After a while of looking for some s/h mags to no avail, I did wonder abo
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    Most clearly not the information I was given by my the firearms office locally so we will agree to disagree on this one but as a thought, why would the police firearms dept have a trained and qualified tester along with the equipment to do the job. Perhaps a different policy in our two areas, I simply repeat what the department advised and which I am inclined to believe. It's all a bit out of the window as far as I am concerned as 95% of my air rifle shooting is done with a 47fpe .25 fac Impact anyway. Phil
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    This was also something I discussed with my firearms dept and they said that it is very very rare to send out to an independent tester who charges £380 per test with proof of test and that was about two years ago so it is highly unlikely to bother with an air rifle query at that cost to the police force. Phil
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    Not in a springer but in a couple of .22 PCP rifles I have had really good results with JSB exact Jumbo RS. Falcon Accuracy Plus have been tricky to get hold of locally but the JSB's are easier to get. I think I am right in saying these are basically AA Field Express pellets but cheaper as Express in my area are bloody pricey. https://voymir.com/jsb-22/191-jsb-exact-jumbo-rs-airgun-pellets-cal-22-552mm-500-pcs-5906554324010.html Phil
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    Push / pull turrets according to the info on that scope I posted the link. Phil
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    This is a question I put to my firearms dept a couple of years ago. In this area the normal method to test an air rifle / pistol is to take a sample of the pellets used but if no pellets are available, the police will use their own stock which in many cases will take the gun over the limit. Of course this is the method used when the police take a gun from a user who has been reported to the police and the gun taken away from the user. The police will carry out chrono tests using a Skan chrono which I am told is the standard issue for police firearms departments to use. My local RFD uses
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    Just get the Sportsmatch with an arrester pin for recoiling rifles. https://www.sportsmatch-uk.com/air-rifle-rimfire-rifle-1inch-medium-range Phil
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    It's outside his mate's pigeon loft ? Phil
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    We tend to find the rats and rabbits are fewer on the ground when there is a full moon to the point where we rarely bother. Phil
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    I really like this one but I doubt that I could get the Nitesite unit on as well as the scope mount unless I can find a single strap picatinny mount. Just looking through the range and annoyingly I was down in Suffolk yesterday picking up a couple of shotguns, only 40mins from Bury St Edmunds, bugger, I could have taken the longer route home and called in to look first hand at these scopes. https://discoveryoptics.co.uk/vt-3-compact/ Phil
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    A side focus Airmax is as near as possible twice the price of your scope matey so value for money looks perfect if the image quality is there. Phil
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