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  1. comanche
    Have yet to measure it on my Son in Law's chrono but the Tornado is matching my HW97K pretty much page for page in slightly unscientific penetration tests using piles of magazines as a backstop. Out of interest . Have you found that your Relum has any preference when it comes to pellets?. The Accupels that my HW likes were inconsistent . Apart from the odd weird "flyer" I've managed a few thumbnail groups using cheap old Marksman pellets up to 20 yards whereafter my aging speccy- eyes,crude open sights and general wobblyness combine to limit further accuracy .
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    I remember seeing what looked like a burning missile light up the sky early one winter evening . It passed over ,turned sharply and accellerated into oblivion in an upwards direction. I was standing in the farm yard talking to Dennis The Head keeper. He was a real characature of the dour Yorshireman . Not a man given to expressions of delight or surprise . Well ,this thing rocked us both . Even Dennis was moved to comment ."That were no ******* shooting star,an I've********* sin a ******** few". Was his immediate reaction. A day or two later I was listening to local radio on in the
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    Its no trendy carbine ! Overall its 45" long and the barrel is close to 18.5".It's well balenced though and feels just right for open sight hunting in cover where something with a bit of swing is an advantage and a scope would be a hinderance . The whole thing is a little crude and workmanlike -as you would expect from an East European manufacturer- but the quality of the barrel and accuracy is surprising for what was an inexpensive rifle that probably harks back to the mid 1970s. Sadly I think later Relums lost a bit of their robust quality and became just another budget air rifle wit
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    MISTAKE NUMBER 1 ...I only really intended to whack in a new washer and replace the original springs with an old Weiracht one I had kicking about just to get the thing working . So apart from a cursory wipe with a rag on a stick the cylinder itself recieved little attention. This was a mistake . After reassembly the thing was only popping out 6ftbs. Ok, so I hear cries of "What do you expect. Its a Relum". A mere five minutes with a couple of screwdrivers and a hammer saw the beast in bits again. The piston had obviously hit a foreign body at the end of the cylinder and the n
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    For some perverse reason the subject of white poo almost has a cult following these days . A bit like the Austin Allegros and I guess there is a similarity .... Most of us older persons will be more than familiar with the sight of a "teacher poo" -as we used to call em on account of the chalky appearance . It adorned grass verges everywhere . Throw back to the days when dog food came from the butcher not the supermarket shelf . Dogs love bones but as Skycat warns ,a bit of quality control does'nt go amiss.
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    Try P Messaging "Tyler". He's local to you.
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    Snuck away from work for a day out of Littlehampton. It was hard going but while i was hard pressed to catch a few pout ,mackeral and small bream some of the other lads managed to fool a few bass . This was the best of the lot.
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    Several folk have suggested the "crap" steel theory but my memory of the original spring in my old Telly was that it lasted well and the ten quid Relum certainly performed better than the Meteors that seemed to be a common rifle of choice for a lot of my mates in my youth. Maybe I was lucky. The central spring is relatively weak and I can't think that it performed any usefull function as far as adding to power output.
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    Saw an old underlever Relum Tornado in a customer's out-house and mentioned that if he ever wanted to sell it I'd be interested . "Its knackered and you can have the bl**dy thing", came the reply!. When I was 14 I skipped school lunches and saved my dinner money to buy a Relum Telly-the break barrel version of the Tornado- from my Mum's catalogue . I really liked the look of the Tornado but they were £14 so settled on the £10 Telly before Mum began to ask questions regarding the missing dinner tickets .. About 30 years ago I fitted a PTFE washer and spring upgrade which definatly in
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    The early (so-called MK1) collars designed for use with the "Grey Box" reciever will not work with either the swiftly withdrawn MK2 reciever or the Mk3 reciever . All the Mk 2 collars I've seen have been made from black plastic as oposed to the MK3s which are grey. The MK2 will work with a MK3 reciever but the ones I have tend to "tick" faster than the Mk3 collar. Maybe this is why theMK2 collars seem to eat batteries faster. Don't assume that just because they were fine on the last trip that they will still be ok.Apart from the shorter battery life they will be fine . This is wha
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    If you use a torch use a red one. The back-light off your bicycle will do. If you are worried that your Trusty Dusty will malfunction at close range don't use it. Simply tape a 35mm camera film canister or plasic egg cup to the end of your pole . Pop a bit of ficam in it , push it into the centre of the nest,jiggle ,remove ,retreat .
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    True buzzards are great scavengers and eaters of insects -lazy some say compared with other birds of prey . Hell ,faced with a pen full of naive poults you can bet they've learned to take advantage of easy pickings . Especially as the baby buzzards fly the nest just in time for the release period . Under the old rearing fields and release systems that used broodies and coops and usually had a keeper or two on watch the buzzard would not have had the oppertunity to learn bad habits or lead its youngsters astray . Nowadays buzzards are making a big come back into a Gamekeeping scene
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    I've found on a couple of occasions that ferrets back out with their tail like a bottle brush if a mink is home . I well remember once when my jill had emerged somewhat bristling and shaken . The dog continued to mark the hole -albeit in a rather perturbed -looking manner . Like a pratt I stuck my head down the hole and came face to face with minky. He spat and shrieked and I made a girly sort of noise !. Last time I saw a mink while ferreting it popped into a pipe under a gate . Blocked one end with the spade and poked a 410 up the other end .
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    As has been said -very useful to compliment a Talpex or barrel trap if you break into a three way tunnel.One of the few traps that actually contract when sprung so they don't need any headroom around them and are thus great for tight spots. I would'nt feel under-equipped without them but they are useful little tool in the armoury.
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    A shared phone line with the neighbours . Can't remember how it worked as i was pretty much banned from using it without God's permission . Then there was the Summer of 76 when it was so hot the roads melted and you had to lean your motorbike against a wall because the stand would just sink into the tar and the bike would fall over . I blame The Fonz for the handlebars !.
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    Hi mate i would rather be with bear because i think ray would try and bum you, who's that old bloke with him You probably mean Gordon Hillman if you are thinking of the chap who knows his edible plants . Though he did work with Ray Goodwin who is very respected canoeist . Never heard of ray being a bandit until this thread . He was living with a girl he met on one of his courses . it would be sad if she was the dead wife that has been reffered to .
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    I would'nt like to argue with either of em. Ray would be my choice though . I met him once and in the few minutes of conversation he came across as a self confident sort of chap with a bit of humour about him -not at all pompous. Bear comes across as as bit more gung-ho and more of a showman-fair play to him it makes him a living and I read that recently a lad in America got himself out of a sticky situation by remembering something he'd seen on a Bear Grylls programme . Ray is more than a survival expert . He is a wilderness living expert and there is a difference . Stick with him an
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    The best technique is one that nobody knows about coz its illegal to hunt squirrels with dogs . Except for flushing .
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    mate i've been brought up, that the saying over kill is nonsense. if you going to kill something you cant over kill it, once it dead its dead. if u shoot it with a air rifle or shotgun youv'e killed it my opinion mate Fenn mk6 is a far more effective and humane tool for squirrels . True the mk4 is approved but when you've come across a few squills ,albeit dead, and cleanly caught round the neck and chest but with their back feet braced against the trap as if trying to lever themselves free it is fair to assume that death was not instantanious .
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    Had a couple of nests very early in May and it has built up from there. I had a call from one chap who turned out to be an insect monitor for his local chapter of the Conservation Volounteers. Apparently it is official . Insects -at least in this area -are two weeks ahead of their usual timescale .
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    I forgot to add that the squeezy "tactical" ,pressure activated palm switch on my Ledray was /is junk !. Mind of its own . I know modern electical gadgets are not cheap but the Ledray is overpriced as far as I'm concerned .All said and done its just a torch with a clamp and a fancy switch .
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    You don't mention what sort of rifle you have . I use the GL4 with standard red beam . It is fine-almost ideal- for air-rifle shooting. I have used it on my .22 rimfire but to be honest despite the claim that it sends a beam 120 yards picking out targets in the red beam at much over half that distance was'nt that easy .I was'nt convinced that the rabbits were that fooled by the red beam either . maybe LED gives a different type of light ?. To be honest I use it mostly for spotting jasper nests these days .
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    I saw one of these at a tool stall at a boot sale a couple of weeks ago. And ,yes it would have been an expensive buy !.
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    Nothing wrong with pink nets as long as you don't mind a bit of ribbing from your ferreting mates who may never again trust you to hold their legs when they reach into a trench to retrieve a layed up ferret.
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    Not true scarecrow. You can hold ammunition for obsolete calibres without a cert. And you can hold shotgun cartridges without any certificate, you just can't buy them! Er ,actually you can own an obsolete calibre of firearm as a part of a collection or curio but live rim-fire and centre-fire ammunition even for obsolete calibres fall under the same fire-arms Laws as modern ammunition. Even more exciting is the prospect of owning an unlicenced "obsolete calibre " firearm and somehow dropping onto a box of matching "obsolete" ammo or even a single round . Th
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