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scope recommendations
Meece replied to lifelong cumbrian's topic in Shooting Equipment & Accessories
Why is it that every time there is a question about scopes people talk about really high magnification and cheap scopes that are way over the top for the purpose in hand ? Quote ...... About 40yds is the most i would do, rabbits mainly, got a couple of places lined up for a bit of ratting. ..... Got a mtc mamba lite 4-16 44, !!! ??? -
One was a chimpanzee, another a fellow of foreign origin and the other one had a set of man boobs. At the end of the day the selection available wasn't glittering. They all have the same hand of cards to play, it is what it is. That's the way it is.
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Potentially you can get static on any plastic funnel irregardless of make. You have to reduce the static. This can be done by wiping the plastic parts with a dryer sheet or washing with detergent. The danger of static is that part of one powder charge .can get stuck on the funnel making that charge low and then added to the next charge making that one over the top. Both charges can have very dangerous consequences. Ps. A 22-250 isn't any different to any other .224 neck size so you don't need a special funnel.
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Which caliber would you pick ?
Meece replied to shovel leaner's topic in Rimfire, Centrefire & Shotguns
When read, the generall comments about the 270 are that it is a banger, that it damages carcasses, that it kicks like a mule and other ill informed nonsense written by people that have never used one. A 30.06 or 308 don't get labeled as such and they poke out bigger bullets at similar velocities. Some years ago basc published a load for the 270 which was a gun that they used of forest lets. The load which I .can't tottally recall ( anyone know/remember what the load was ) ? was something like a 130grn being propelled by a reduced charge of H4895. This was a sweet, accurate quiet load with -
Which caliber would you pick ?
Meece replied to shovel leaner's topic in Rimfire, Centrefire & Shotguns
If I were only shooting rabbit and fox it would be the 22 LR. I've taken a lot of both with no problem with my 22 OR. If I was shooting bigger stuff, then I would use a 270 win. A proper animal of a calibre. Downloaded it can be like shooting a 20 bore and maxed out to have that much poke that the recoil hurts. It will take the largest red stag way out there. A 130 grn pumped out at 3300 fps has over half a ton of energy at twice the speed of sound out at 300 yds. -
Good replies. I'd feel sorry for an unsuspecting emu but I don't suppose any politician would merit such concern. Still they might make excellent running target ; ( holders). And is a given that any target must be positively identified as a safe emu free area, before opening fire. ?
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a few hundred pounds worth or maybe 3 large crane bags + individual sandbags !!! That's a bit over the top isn't it. Most sand butts on 25,mtr indoor ranges are either a sort of special rubberised back sheet or sand which is wet. If I were making a small range for single gun use i would fill a 25ltr drum with wetted sharp sand layed on its side and put the target in front of that. Neither a 22lr or a 1.7 hmr is going to get through that and if you .can't put the bullets into that area then either get closer or take up Tiddleywinks. I have seen a 40 gallon barrel used where it was laid on
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I don't know any real specifics but one year the club went to a blokes farm and he had made a 150 yard range with sleepers dug in to a bank for the butts. He had made it to zero his centre fire rifles. I remember another member comenting about range approval and this bloke saying .... No. It's just a bit of shoring to stop the bank slipping. Who give a flying anyway. I suppose that a 6.5 can be used to shoot rabbits ?
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Oh no ! not the dreaded Rich O'shay Not much good for the pot then. There's not much worse than getting splinters caught in your tèeth. It depends on what is behind the backstop area. If it is an empty fourty acre field you're ok but if it is a car park , probably not. My 22lr will go right through a steel 40 gallon barrel at 100 yards and I really was surprised when the 17.hmr of my mate put a bullet clean through the side of a farm trailer ( of his ) at about 70 yards. The metal was about 3 mm thick. PS. Don't tell people that you've set up a range because I
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I remember farther saying that the human race was too clever for it's own good and that we would destroy ourselves. National service. In the second world war the top age limit was 45. National service was only there to keep the young men off the street and relieve pressure in the job market so that ex servicemen had a chance to find employment and thus not end up with an unemployed army of disgruntled ex servicemen loitering about on street corners looking for revolution. After ww1 my grandfather repaired tools used by road gangs of ex servicemen who were employed making road but modern warf
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Get them 10 Tory mp's deselected. Any MP not following the democratic vote of their constituents should be wheeled in and read the riot act and threatened with investigations into outside conflicting interests. I'm sure that suddenly their personal interests would sharpen their minds on the task in hand.
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Good grief !! A like minded soul . I just don't understand how so many people can't see that basic are run as a business and are /and have been a totally useless fraud for many years. If the people in the organisation were in any other commercial outfit they would have been p 45d a long time ago. They ought to be working like the Nra does in America . Politicians are put on notice that their actions will result in no votes. And companies are also on notice of boycotting of their products. We cut our own throats or surrender before a shot is fired. Basic are more concerned with trying to g
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You will detect them ..... but it is illegal to shoot winged vermin at night. Just saying.
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Did you notice the Toyota pick up with the word Toyota in mirror image ? Well did you ? make my day! Back to the semi normal, if there is such a thing. Jam in a van. Garry Clark jr again. Clapton among other greats rate him as one of the best, ever ! He is married to an Australian super model and has received a fair amount of racist stick especially as he bought a big ranch for her. The local red necks hate him and write the N word along his fence. I just love that 1954 Fender Mustang bass line.
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you told me to. ..... I love Carlos Santana. Well musically ? and then there's this.... Oh Kate. I would but she's on the other side.
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Ha, ha, ha. My older brother is a very wealthy man but when it comes to paying for a tv license, he won't hear a bar of it. He's been on about it aĺl year that next year he'll qualify for a free licence. Ha ,ha not any more brother ???. He'll have to be careful that there isn't a rat trap in his pocket. I've a good mind to ring him up to advise him of the change of license fees.
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I quite like this. and this... and this....
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You can,? I bloody well can't. I like stuff like reggae, old family stuff (hung up down) Toots and the Maytals, the jam, Tamsin Archer, Ottmar Liebert , Manic street preachers. The list is big and wide. But to sift through hundreds of pages..... on a hunting site! Cant abide rap.
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Yes there is loads of good stuff. In fact every post piece floats someone's boat but not everyone's. This is a very popular thread with 585 pages, 8768 replies, 225,900 views. I just feel that it is a bit of a bottomless pit. When I look through there is stuff that I like and other stuff I hate. It's a pity that this stuff couldn't be categorised. Such as country, rock, jazz, folk ect. I have no interest in listening to some random version of the Irish rover for instance. I like lots of different stuff, I quite like this but others won't. This piece is from a performance at Glastonbur
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585 pages is too much to sift through.
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It doesn't matter what your opinion is, or mine. If the orgs dont get their finger out and apply some pressure back up the line our sport will suffer again. Like the hunting ban, lead shot and multitudes of other things. Death by a thousand cuts. The end result will be the same.
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Foes try it on all the time. Shooters are just shooters they arent legally savy and the vast majority are fairly subservient when it comes to the law. If the feo told them to drop their trousers and present, most applicants would do it unquestioningly. Dont make it right and the orgs should play merry he'll with any department allowing foes to carry on like this. ( AS for BASC and other orgs, they didn't find out what was happening until we did, they were completely in the dark. ) Completely in the dark ? Why was that then ? Their stated aim is the protection of shooting sports.
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Thank you for the advice and guidance. I am aware of the General license system and how it is used. I didn't communicate very well in my typed response. But I can still see The feo's trying it on with the unaware General shooter. It's make it up as they go along and they say stuff like it is police policy to do xyz. Basic don't get to grips with this sort of blatant law buckling and rip them a new one. This is why kiwis has ben effective. He has a target and goes in for the jugular unlike our orgs that say stuff like " we mustn't rock the boat".
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Carry on as normal.
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I can see a situation where when people apply for a new shotgun certificate, plod/foe will ask " what do you shoot with your shotgun sir " ? When you say, vermin; they will say "where is your general license" ? ( if a licence is / has been issued or available )! So..... Sorry sir, you cant have a new cert because you haven't got a valid reason for having it. The only valid reason is sport shooting of clays , controlling rabbits foxes or wildfowling with appropriate ammunition. As usual basic reckon their on the case but as usual they are a total waste of time because they have no influ
