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  1. Deker
    Difenacoum Toxicity Oral doses in mg/kg: LD50 rats 1.8 mice 0.8 rabbits 2 hens 100 dogs 50 cats 100 pigs -100 Lots of sources for figures, by all means do your own maths, it can be fun and games for secondary poisoning, but whichever way you want to look at it the non target species would need to eat an awful lot of poisoned rodents!
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    In normal situations where there is an ample food supply it is an issue, where they are hungry and food is scarce, they may take day 1.
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    Rats are neophobic, they don't like change or new things! Almost anything is better than this, and a lot cheaper!
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    A rat carrying a disease...never heard of anything so preposterous! How about Weil’s disease, Salmonella, Tuberculosis, Cryptosporidiosis, E.Coli, Foot and mouth disease, etc, then there was a scurrilous rumour about the Plague as well.
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    Squib loads usually means little or no primer spun into the rim, or indeed little or no propellant in the cartridge, possibly even both I guess! There is nothing you can do to prevent this as you simply have no idea until you try and fire it. Carry a cleaning rod and it will usually remove a bullet stuck in the barrel. By the whole nature of the event there has been little force to move the bullet, so it will tend not to have expanded too much in the barrel and generally should be quite easy to remove! Just the same, it is rare I carry any rods with me!
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    Sorry, but that is utter rubbish. It takes a huge amount of rodenticide bait to kill a dog, and a vast amount of dead rats. Unless the rat had been baited with something like Zinc Phosphide, which was withdrawn in 2006. Part of the problem is that vets are over cautious and prescribe Vitamin K treatments to make money at the first sign of any potential poisoning. :yes: The LD 50 for dogs is high for all the recognised approved anti coagulants, to suffer any poisoning issues through secondary poisoning would take a massive intake of contaminated rodents. If this dog
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    What does the Beretta Manual say? I would not be too concerned, probably best to forget very light or low recoil carts for the first box or two though.
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    Common is open to interpretation, but lets just say the HMR seems to get a fair proportion! Personally I have not experienced this on the HMR or WMR (or any centrefires) but I have at least twice on the .22lr. This will generally be down to quality control and is seldom anything to do with split cases, which most commonly occur at the time of firing, although sometimes before!
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    :yes:
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    I think that has been mentioned at least twice, first off in #4.
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    There should be more ammo options as its been on the market longer. If the hmr had been on the market as long as the wmr it would probably have the same or more im guessing The calibre lends it self to more versatility of ammo than a HMR!
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    :laugh: :laugh:
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    Odd really, CCI actually makes a wider variety of WMR ammo than HMR ammo! :laugh: :thumbs:
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    Why do you keep and love your WMR then if ......there's noting a WMR can do that a HMR cant do and vice a versa.... and the HMR is a clear winner and a lot easier to shoot? Whatever, at least your judgement and views are based on your experiences with them, when some appear to know more than regular shooters of the calibres because they read something!
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    You have to remember that neither Deker or Charlie like the HMR. That's fine we all have our preferences. BS I personally prefer it over .22. The .22 has it's place and it's stood the test of time, but it's far more prone to ricochet and personally I'd take the extra power of the HMR and the shock over the silence and poor expansion of .22 any day unless shooting close to houses at night. You would be better to stop reading and try shooting, do you ever intend to get a FAC or simply continue to BS the world with what you heard or read somewhere! BTW Deker there are plenty of peopl
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    Up to 100 yards true. However, open it up to 150 or 200 yards and HMR is a clear winner. That said, it's horses for courses and clearly for Canada, the extra bullet weight has some clout from your experience. Now if you really want a Rimfire performer and aren't worried about the carcass or are prepared to headshoot, then WSM looks like the way to go. Unfortunately in the UK you can't buy it yet. In the real world nobody in their right minds buys a HMR or a WMR if they intend to shoot all their quarry at 150-200 yards.
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    I'm not following you, so why does anyone use a .22lr when a HMR or a WMR is better, and why use a HMR or WMR when a Hornet is better than either...because they are different, figures on paper don't make for better calibres, they make for different ones, with differently suited applications, on your basis nothing would exist except a cannon, because it has better figures on paper than any rifle!
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    Get their money up front if you do! You may well find lots jump on the bandwagon and tell you what a good idea it is, but they tend to evaporate after your pallet of carts turn up which they need to buy 1000 of to save a couple of ££.
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    Have you got/had any other rifles? Prone is good, as much support as possible, (ie firm base), as still a day as possible, get comfortable, best not to use too High a scope magnification usually, and stop if you get tired, even if the job isn't done.
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    Ok, forums are about discussion/debate, but I have to question your ".17 HMR is a far better round than the .22 WMR". The HMR has its uses and the WMR has its uses, they are different. From my point of view I have never seen my WMR as a rabbit tool, the HMR seems to suit that better for me, but the WMR has its uses, and whereas my last WMR really rated the 40g CCI my latest loves the 30g Hornady V-Max. Arc and accuracy with the 30g WMR V-Max are VERY close to that of the HMR 17g V-Max but they are devastating upon arrival. Smack a HMR V-Max into a Canada and you need to take a bit of
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    Plastic (Silhouette) stock is a different fitting to the wooden (American etc) stock, so my best guess is, if you have a wooden stock HMR a Wooden WMR Boyds would fit, but only my best guess. I can see the difference in my plastic and wooden stocks and it is simply a few different parts form Edgar Bros to make them fit from what I can see, but a few £££ as well I'll bet!
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    Royals

    Deker replied to thebiggerdog's topic in General Talk

    The problem is simple...dear Tax payer, would you care to pay increased taxes to cover the cost of Flood defences for events that happen every 100 years and effect 10,000 of the population... answer **** off! Then when the rains and floods come everyone complains! I am not defending anyone here, but there is only so much money and at the end of the day it is ours!
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    This question has cropped up more than once, I have had contact with these over the years and frankly remain bemused. They are not an accurate target tool and whilst they may be adequate for some field work I would not want to walk around with one...and you commonly pay a premium for trying to look like Rambo. So, performance wise, they lack in many areas, for the grin factor and using up lots of ammo, why not. Each to their own, but I still don't get them, no practical use to me! ATB!
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    What rifle? My CZ American WMR and Silhouette HMR (BOTH 452) are fundamentally the same but fitting kit/parts to hold the metalwork to the stock are different, I think they could be made to fit each other with a few more parts from Edgar Bros, but they are certainly not immediately interchangeable. So I guess the answer to your question depends on make and model!
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    Would like to see them put that in writing and submit it to court, wouldn't stand a chance. They are flexing muscles they don't have, hoping to intimidate shooters into complying.
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