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No not mine, I don't have the cash and if I had, I would not buy an sub 12 Impact, fantastic fac but to me a waste of money in sub 12 but my close buddy had made his mind up to have one. He is in Spain at the moment but asked me to set it up so after a good clean and fit the Airmax 30 compact scope. His choice of pellet was AA Fields as they are what he uses in his other guns but at 25mt in the rfd range the grouping was shit so digging out some other pellets including JSB Exact, JSB Heavy and AA Express all of which produced better groups than the AA Fields BUT not groups that I would be hap
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Even a numpty like me can fit both in less than 10 mins................honest DB.
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Ratting........................sport of kings, well me and my buddy anyway. ? Phil
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My Tikka T1x is cracking, I found the RWS gave the best results by far although Eley subs were close. If you look on ebay, you can get a different set of grips to change the angle of the pistol grip and also if yo like a fuller shape to the forend, again you can get an extra clip on forend. I have fitted both and find it a far better comfort for both and it takes only a few minutes to fit them. Phil
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Well done, when the farmer sees you bothering about crows that nobody else can be bothered with, you are on to a winner.
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The hides worked well this afternoon in terms of the few birds that were around took little notice of the new hides. Having been on the rifle for the last few weeks, It can play havock with shooting with the shotgun but after a few misses on those very wary crows, I managed to take one or two along with a couple of pigeon but conditions were not ideal with no breeze and quite humid. We were happy that the hides were just about spot on for this shooting although I wish I had taken the air rifle as well as a few woodies were sneaking in on the sitty trees. It has been quite some while sin
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I must admit the weather today is warm and quite humid, not quite ideal to be taking loads of wood, tools etc up the fields to build two permanent hides for both shotgun shooting but also perfect for air rifle as they are only about 15 - 20 yds from two sitty trees. We are lucky as all the cammo netting we use and all the wood support posts are free as we get them from the village tip and the worst is perhaps me having to cut 3 x 3'' post down to 2 x 2'' posts in order to get them in the ground a bit easier. Back home for a bit of lunch, cool down and off again in a few minutes to try the
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I have shot 3 times at my dairy farm perm in the last two weeks taking my buddy down last night. It is not a mega perm now the rats have almost gone ( it was a 1000 a year rat perm and sadly missed ) but nevertheless it is enjoyable to go and shoot 12 - 20 birds a session and home again in a couple of hours. Last evening we had just walked into the yard and I saw a feral sat on one of the barn roofs which is where we shoot most of the birds including crows, I took the shot and the bird dropped off the roof and with a flutter hit the ground with a thud, within a second one of the farm cats cam
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I was asked to look at a stables yesterday and I will do but the owner said they were inundated with rats, must be thousands.....................hmmmmm we will see, you never know there might be Yahoo if there are thousands.
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Ah thank you Ian, I didn't know that. I am feeling relieved that I have not attempted to go for any in that case and I am not going for a centrefire as it is just not worth doing so for me, I am happy to see them around the perms anyway. It was just a thought. Phil
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Strange that as I never had an issue with either calibre but there will always be the case that the shot didn't do the job but in the most part, I prefer .177 in sub 12. Whilst on holiday a couple of years ago at John Bidwell's shooting ground in Suffolk, I shot two rabbits with my .177 HW110 compact from the verander of our lodge very late one night, lazered at 63mt outright kills which was as far as I would take it. I do think sometimes we can get a notion in our heads and nothing will change and a new gun is the only way you can see things getting better that but nevertheless I hope t
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I have never shot a deer so forgive my ignorance but what do you mean when you say it was ' clean ' as I can't work that one out. We have a lot of deer in the part of Lincolnshire where I live, in fact I have seen quite a few wander into the village and many a night when I have been out on the rabbits, the deer showing up on the nv were only 40 - 50 yds away. The ones we have thought of shooting are the muntjac which are getting more common but not sure if an hmr would be suitable as I only have .22lr, sako quad with hmr and wmr barrels. I was told the muntjac are a bit of a bugger to
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I don't think I could see 258yds let alone shoot at that range, wheres me walking frame...................... Phil
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Just as a matter of interest Jason, is it the calibre you didn't get on with and if so in what way didn't you get on with it or was it the gun that was a problem. Phil
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That is a nice rifle with a good reputation, you shouldn't go far wrong with that Jason, I am well pleased for you mate. I will have another 110 compact our Jimmy simply because I loved my two and no faults found but I do accept they have had problems although mine were fine, my buddy has two which are fine, his son has one which is fine and another pal has two which are fine.....................................................I only know I like the hw110 compact for lightness and they were spot on accurate but if the pension would allow, it would be another Wildcat in sub 12.........
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Whatever the gun, I just want another rat perm, ours is shot out so nothing but feral pigeon there now and I really miss rat shooting. My favourite type of shooting with an air rifle.
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TWAT...................................who the hell has told you ? Phil
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Yes I think it does which is why I use a stock extender and that allows you to shoot with more or less the correct position for your head. Nite Shite as Mitch calls it, may not be the best screen type out there but it has helped me to shoot hundreds of rabbits and thousands of rats so they DO work but as said they have gone bust but you could build your own or my pal builds them for about £110. Phil
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I still have two 'NiteSite' screen systems although rarely used now, I would never sell them as they are by far the best system for ratting around buildings although Villaman will be on shortly and MAY disagree ?. Pard seems to be the most popular add-on nv with the 007v being the main one but they have relaunched the 007s which is a compact version but we tried it out with poor results. I bought a neoprene stock extender/recoil reducer so that I can set the scope position in the right place for daylight shooting then just pop on the stock extention with the 007 and the gun still feels as it
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A pcp pistol will only be a maximum of 6fpe with most spring pistol less than that. I have a few old spring pistols but the last time I put them through the Chrony they were less than 4fpe so not good enough to despatch live quarry. I did put a local river warden onto an SMK pcp pistol that was perfect for the job and seeing him later, he confirmed the pistol did the job perfectly but not sure if it was rats in traps or mink in traps, sorry just cannot remember, so it may be worth bearing the SMK in mind if you don't get any response here. This is the pistol the river warden bought.
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Cheers Stav, I have just had a phone call from our estate agents that we have a viewing on Sunday afternoon so looks like I am on 'tour duty'. Nice idea though but it will have to be another show............?, however if the cottage sells soon, I feel a new 32'' shotty coming my way.
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Really not sure what to say................. ???? BASC has lodged an official complaint with the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) following comments made by Merseyside Police around legally-held firearms. A newspaper carried quotes that the force had: “work ongoing to remove and reduce the amount of lawfully-owned firearms across Merseyside so that they don’t fall into the wrong hands”, and that “the force is prevention driven so we are looking at removing that threat before it emanates”. BASC stated in its complaint that the comments were both intimidatory an
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It is a good show and I have a ticket but none of my pals are going so not sure if I am going to bother.............................................. well maybe...??? Phil
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Are you wanting a cheapo pump because you cannot afford an air tank which will will you gun in seconds and not produce a heart attack in the process........ Phil
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Ratworks is near to you, leicester area. Ask your local rfd. Phil
