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  1. The Lord Flashheart
    Good stuff! Lee kit loads good, straight ammunition. I deliberately said "shiny-shiny" to illustrate that whilst the more expensive kit makes things easier in some cases and is nicer to use it won't necessarily load better ammo. A note of caution though, beware cheap electronic scales and use the Lee scales to load for this cartridge. The cheaper end of electronic scales ( and by cheap in this context I mean less than a grand or so) work by a method called a "load cell" which is basically a block of aluminum with the middle milled out and piezo strain gauges stuck top and bott
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    *Eventually This is Jon "The Waco Kid" Jon we are talking about...
  3. The Lord Flashheart
    Perhaps not such a bad thing, a quiet life is what some people prefer.
  4. The Lord Flashheart
    I imagine that the pigeon was fouling the building and that it is impractical to fit spikes to said TV aerial. Having therefore tried to prevent it from fouling the aforesaid building, leading to material property damage and a material health hazard to the young children living in said dwelling, as per the terms of the General License, the pigeon was humanely culled so as to prevent further damage and hazard to health.
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    The friend who's 17 hornet I used is not a home-loader and finds obtaining factory ammunition to be difficult. Fortunately, he doesn't shoot that much and laid in a supply when he first got the rifle, which is a very accurate CZ incidentally. So more fundamentally than saving money you need to home-load for a cartridge like this so as to ensure ammunition availability. If you don't and buy ammunition in drips and drabs as it becomes available then you will be using different brands and/or different batches each time and will waste a lot of ammo checking zero or re-zeroing. It therefo
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    That pigeon is laughing at you right now Jon. Whilst crapping on your car.
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    Cheers mate!
  8. The Lord Flashheart
    Handloading is a satisfying hobby in it's own right, particularly if you have an engineering bent. Buy a basic manual, not so much for the load data but for he basic grounding in safe homeloading practice. Ideally find someone to show you the rope for your first few rounds, ask a member close to you if he doesn't mind you looking over his shoulder. I've only used a 17 hornet on precisely one fox but it seemed reasonably capable inside 100 yards.
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    I am indeed, thank you for your welcome. Do you post there?
  10. The Lord Flashheart
    The steel gives it more compressive strength and hardness than straight epoxy, there may very well be some differences between JB and Devcon in this regard but they will be insignificant compared to the differences between either of them and non-steel filled epoxy.
  11. The Lord Flashheart
    Cool beans mate, I'm trying to decide whether it's louder than a HMR or whether it's all in my head! I'm using the 33gr Remington accutip ammo at the moment, what are you shooting?
  12. The Lord Flashheart
    Good hunting mate, I am growing fond of the calibre after getting one a few months ago. Hits much, much harder than a .22LR but quite loud with the SAK moderator that came with the rifle. How do you find yours?
  13. The Lord Flashheart
    Thanks chaps.
  14. The Lord Flashheart
    In my humble opinion a man who wants a SB will be disappointed with a Hawke... 204 suggests varminting gun to me and further more not out as far as target rifle would push either. Therefore look for the great unloved illegitimate ginger step child of the SB scope line up the 4-16x50 PMII. It doesn't have the adjustment range of the 3-12 or 5-25 and so the long range target/tactical boys don't want them and the extra mag over the 3-12 can be handy.
  15. The Lord Flashheart
    Gempro 250 seems to be the cheapest decent electronic scales. Anything that is a load cell scale and not a professional EMF restoration balance is going to be effectively worse than a good set of beam balance scales IMO.
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    Devcon Steel bed 110110 is the stuff that the professionals recommend but I have used JB Weld Steel reinforced epoxy as it can be found in Robert Dyas in tubes just like the normal stuff. You want something that isn't flexible epoxy, isn't quick setting epoxy and is steel filled or reinforced.
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    Perfectly legal as long as the ammunition you are using in the 7x57R produces a muzzle velocity of more than 750 m/s with a bullet that weighs more than 6.5 grammes. The use of slug or buckshot in the shotgun barrel is illegal for deer, practically speaking in your circumstances in any event. As long as you have the right paperwork, you are legal. Whether the gentleman you are the guest of would prefer you to use something else is another matter, perhaps he's worried about an inadvertently loaded rifle chamber whilst shooting birds or something. Best to ask him.
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    Personally, I think that £400 is better spent on a SH fixed SB, Zeiss or swaro than a new XYZ brand scope with more features. Glass quality always wins out and you will always find a use for a scope of the former format whereas you will eventually hanker for more than the latter can provide.
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    Niggeloh. Very good quality, grippy on the shoulder and the stretch makes for a more comfortable carry with the heavier rifles.
  20. The Lord Flashheart
    Hello all, looking forward to contributing and meeting new, like-minded folks.
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