ianm
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Yep! just like the DSC bullshit pushed by the likes of basc to make money.
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Mark Ripley will recommend anything he gets paid to recommend, i nwouldn't take much notice of what he says. DM80 are really good mods good sound attenuation, strippable for cleaning, calibre specific, custom made to whatever length you want and less than £200. I have them on all my rifles now.
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My new Tikka varmint stainless
ianm replied to shovel leaner's topic in Rimfire, Centrefire & Shotguns
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Yes you are absolutely right, the first offerings from British cartridge manufacturers where abysmal to say the least. The performance in steel comes from the powder they use and they seem to have learnt that from the USA manufacturers.
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To be honest the modern steel cartridges aren't bad at all especially the American ones. Our good friends across the pond won't put up with shit like we do. I have been using Remington sportsman three and a half inch for a fair few years now and they kill really well at good range. I know someone who only uses Eley lightning three inch steel for everything from partridge to geese and he has no problem at all.
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You don't f*** about do you!
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Or get your choke opened up. I use a Berretta extrema 2 for wildfowling with three and a half inch cartridges. The choke is quarter and that is all i have ever needed. Modern steel is quite tight on the pattern.
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All guns are steel proof according to my rfd. It is only when you start using the high pressure stuff that a problem may arise and or more than half choke.
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Thanks for that.
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Last night i went to a relatively new farm for me. I have been once before and shot a dog fox. The farmer said he has seen three foxes eating a dead lamb so could i have a look. I didn't get there till eleven because my mates wife was at the pictures till late on and he had to look after their daughter. When we arrived we parked up near the top of a big sloping field which gives you a really good area to scan over. At the bottom of the field there is a wood which is around seven hundred yards away. Well i tried all the favourite calls and more besides but nothing showed apart from hares. After
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If it is for a Tikka and you aren't homeloading then sako or Norma but they will be expensive. I have found quite a few 243s don't like 100grn ammo .
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Are you getting a T3X supervarmint or just the sporter barrel?
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I have two T3 supervarmints in .204 and i am really suited with them. The thread is 18mm on a varmint barrel and 14mm on the sporter. A mate of mine bought the supervarmint in .243 a couple of months ago and i shot it whilst setting his n/v scope up for him. It was shooting ragged one hole groups with factory winchester ammo.
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Good turn around, i know some forces do it the same day if you take it in. What are you getting?
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Sausage i don't normally disagree with you but this time i will, just out of my own preferences though.? I have had two mates that owned Sauer rifles. One in .243 that would not group from day one no matter who shot it or what ammunition was used. It eventually went back to the importer as "not fit for purpose". The other one was a 308 and had a known problem with the dovetail mounts. When fitted with a scope, the screws holding the mounts on used to pull on the holes. Eventually they stripped the threads and in my mates case the scope fell off whilst shooting in Africa. ? No i
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A friend of mine went on a tour of the Tikka/Sako factories a few years ago and found out that the barrels for both are from the same production line. The Sako 75 was a good rifle and most would say better than the 85. The T3 is a good accurate workmanlike rifle straight out of the box. The Sako is a little better finished. What i don't like about Sako's is the dovetail mounts. They are Sako specific, therefore reducing your choice, that and the fact that it isn't easy to fit n/v without using a dovetail to picatinny adapter rail which raises the scope even higher.
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Yep the .204.
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Grandparents and Grandkids always get on because they have a common enemy.?
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Whenever i have tried using poults as bait where there are a lot of pheasants it has been a failure. They don't seem interested in dead ones. But replace them with pigeon or rabbit and they will take them straight away.
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.Cattle are a nightmarel controlling foxes, they wreck you're motor and interfere with the caller. If they laid eggs to procreate i would smash every last one i found.? My keeper mate came from down south and started leaving a car radio playing connected to a car battery and speaker next to the pens. He said it kept foxes away where he last worked and i told him it wouldn't here. One day we found two poults eaten within fifteen yards of the speaker, i told him he may aswell leave lit candles for them to enjoy their meals with music and candlelight.?
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I have done a bit of that "waiting at the pen caper" for a keeper mate of mine. Quite often they don't turn up till the early hours . If he has had one coming every night i have often bit the bullet and stayed till it has made an appearance to minimise the damage they do. He had one last season that turned up and would kill twenty or so that where outside the pen and leavethem in piles of four or five on the field. I killed that after two nights.
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Awesome film!
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After binning Sky and BT sports off because they are far to expensive i spent most of yesterday afternoon sorting out a TV package through a firestick. Eventually i succeeded just after tea time, Mrs M likes to watch various things on the box so all was well again. I watched a film with her till eleven after which she said she was off to bed to watch something or other and i said i will go out for an hour or two. I decided to go down the road from me partly because it only takes two minutes but also because i thought they would have cut the grass. After getting my gear together and jumpin
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I used a Pulsar n750 for three years and shot a lot of foxes with it but being only four and a bit mag i struggled on a lot of them and couldn't shoot at some due to distance. It was 100% reliable though. Another thing i had to cater for with it was it would white out if a fox ran in much closer than i had set up for. I soon learned that a half turn on the up/down screw on the adjustable mount with my fingertips was enough to lift the beam above the fox but was more than enough light to shoot with. Then the drones came out and i decided to invest in one because of all the shooting i do i like
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Good luck! how are you finding the pulsar?
