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  1. ianm
    Only 5 or 6, amateur!?
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    If he is a knob as you so eloquently put it, there is only one course of action open to you. Tell him to "foxtrot oscar" and i would tell him why as well, but that remains optional for you.?
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    It is a matter of looking through them to see if you are happy. I have an ATN Trident tubed on a .204 as a back up. To be honest if that was all i had i would be happy. I have shot a fox at 270yds with it. It is really good in moonlight not needing i/r but with cloud cover using the srx it is like green daylight.
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    Drone or tubed.
  5. ianm
    If you aren't shooting on estates ie: paid stalking and aren't putting the carcass into game dealers, then i would stock up on lead and continue as you are.
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    Yep! If I can neck shoot them I will, but when I go for them I want to kill as many as I can so I don’t have to go back for a while.
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    I sometimes have to shoot Sika as you know and to be honest i was sick of the 243. If they see you they get pumped up straight away and even with with a perfect heart shot they run. Where i have to shoot them they invariably run into plantations or other dense cover making extraction difficult at best. On buck ran down a ravine and had to be butchered on the spot to extract it. Then i decided to try a 30/06 and to date have had no bother at all, it literally knocks them off their feet. With the advent of toxic free ammo 243s are going to be redundant for deer because they cannot shoot the larg
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    The 55grn rounds i used and will use again are nosler varmageddons hollow points. Trajectory very similar to my .204s but carrying more energy. If zeroed correctly this round is capable of foxes at 400 yds no problem, i know because i have done it. I rarely get the luxury of sub 150 or even 200 yard foxes due to the ground i shoot over. Anyhow why are we talking about .243s, chavvy 223s and old mens .222s when the lad asked about and has quite clearly stated his ticket is for a .17 hmr (spit). Oh! and regarding 243s on deer, why use the MINIMUM calibre you can for the job? That is like tr
  9. ianm
    10" -1
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    That would depend on the twist rate and your intended use. In the two 243s i have had, i used 55grn bullets in homeloads and used them on everything from crows to sika. I will say that i never heart and lung shoot deer always neck shot. The next 243 that i buy will also be used with 55grn homeloads.
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    I don't turn up to 200 bird days full stop. However the little syndicate i am in does have a 410 day. We invite lots of people who aren't in the syndicate as well. Everybody puts one hundred pounds in and the proceeds go to a local childrens hospice, we usually get two to two thousand five hundred pounds for them. We usually shoot fifty to sixty birds which are dispersed among everyone.
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    As far as i understand this lead shot thing is for anything going into the food chain. I think shooting vermin with a 410 won't be affected.
  13. ianm
    Yep! she has cubbed and they are weaned.
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    I have two Berretta semi autos one of which is an Extrema 2. The price of Berrettas has steadily crept up until i don't think they are worth the money now. My grandson needed a semi auto 3 1/2" for the marsh and i managed to find a brand new Winchester SX3. We have bought this because it can be altered to fit via the shim kit supplied with it, unlike the SX4. I think the Winchesters are very good value.
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    I thought Peter Sutcliffe was dead! ? I am wondering if they can still limit ammunition because expanding rounds are no longer section 5?
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    Although i use thermal for spotting i am not too keen on them as a scope especially after the incident i had. I was foxing one night with a mate, i had just met up with him and we where driving down a long concrete road to the farm. Either side of this four hundred yard long road are very low hedges. I scanned the right side as i was driving slowly. There was a fox mooching about two hundred yards along a hedge that runs at ninety degrees to the one i was driving along. I stopped the Jimny and got my rifle set up on the top. I had a minutes delay as i couldn't find the magazine. Once eve
  17. ianm
    Well done on getting your fox and especially well done on writing a proper account of it. I like the way you got it to pose upside down with the rifle too. ?
  18. ianm
    Looks like a blackbird to me.
  19. ianm
    What a crock of shit! ?
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    Quite a lot of 204s don't like the 40grn bullets but if home loading shoot well with sierra blitzking 39grns. I have not found a need to shoot either as the 32s do well for me.
  21. ianm
    At least they get it right occasionally, feo's never do!
  22. ianm
    As in the rifle doesn't like them or it was a shite night?
  23. ianm
    That just goes to show that the feo's know absolutely f*** all. It is the only job that you can get away with being pig ignorant of the subject you are meant to have at least a working knowledge of.
  24. ianm
    Let us know how you get on. That would be 1500 POUNDS not dollars.
  25. ianm
    Classic example of a salesman! ?
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