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  1. danebrewer10
    you like the recoil eh? well get youself an 8x68S ! I don't have one, but I do know someone who does, I haven't shot it, but it has some serious recoil!- 187gn @ 3200 ft/s for 4191 ft/lbs! (source: wikipedia) have yopu tried the 50gm 3" Gamebore "mammoth Hi-bird"? THAT is recoil, cor blimey.... :tongue4: Cheers DB I'm not sure about the versatilit aspect, the rifle can shoot targets at much greater ranges, and given the right bullet and calibre you can shoot anything in this country, but I guess the shotgun is better for a farmer as it doesn't have a scope to get knocked out o
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    I didn't vote be cause I like both!, I like the shotgun for it's speed of action, fluidity, snap shooting, and general fun walking about, sneaking up on a smart squirrel, waiting for pigeons etc, but I also like the rifle for the accuracy, care in shot placement, stalking, trigger control it's all together a much different ball game as I say I can't decide!, possibly going with the shotgun I think though Cheers DB well I voted shotgun, it seems people vote with what they are best at, which is understandable, but then I guess because you don't enjoy it as much, you don't to it so
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    I don't know of any offhand, but I'm sure there are some out there i'd do a search on amazon... or google, I feel that there is no right or wrong way to shoot, there are better ways, but what works for one, may not nessecarily work for the other, if you have an air rifle, you can do loads of practicing in various positions, stances, breathing, timing all the rest of it pretty cheaply.... Cheers DB
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    loads mate, absolutely loads of mod choices, ASE Jet-Z is good, Wildcat do them, ASE seems a big player, do a google search or ask your gunshop, there are lots of options... Cheers DB
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    huh that's news to me, I always thought that SSG shot was the legal minimum. dooont go shooting deer with a shotgun, unless there is no other way, 36gm of AAA which seems to be that max load in AAA you can get, really dosen't have that great a pattern at 30m, even with 3/4 choke- see a post I did on this very thing HERE I wouldn't bother TBH, too great a chance of wounding, plus as the ranges are close, it's likley to be high on adrenalin, making killing it that bit harder. I feel AAA , in the current shot charges available, the pattern is not dense enough, , get hold of someone with a rifle.
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    huh that's too bad, my FEO wasn't too concerned about my use of my FAC air rifle on other land, ( also ghave a SGC and .17 HMR, and have been shooting sub 12 ft/lbs air rifles for quite a while), I would just be careful as you would with any other firearm, and be much more wary of shooting things out of trees.... Cheers DB
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    'bout £5.50 a box or I think I last bough Eley Impax 30gm no. 6 at something like £54 for 250? I forget
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    aah I was wondering when the 6.5 would crop up, as someone else said they're fielding a 6.5 at the moment, the 6.5 grendel, invented by a brit incidentally in conjunction with Hornady mfg I think, looks like a great round, uses standard AR magazines with a different follower, holds I think 26 rounds vs 30, but has a lot more oomph. the only thing is that it dosen't show it's full potential as by my understanding, it's pressures are kept fairly low to operate well in a gas operated weapon, so performance is lacking, you can load it up pretty good in a BA or single shot rifle, and it looks like
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    man up? rubbish, there's no point in beasting yourself, get a sporter style rifle, it'll be just as accurate for foxing, go for one of the established brands, tikka, sako, steyr, kimber even they look good, plus it's be much nicer to carry about, you'll just have to shoot fewer shots at the range before allowing the rifle to cool down that's all... or go chop the 6" off the end! i bet that'll lose a pound or so! Cheers DB
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    y'know I was going to post about the same thing,.... great just great, just what we need, do you head that? sounds like tougher gun laws and the anti gun lobby marching down the road to whitehall. they haven't said whether the rifle was legally held or not, I bet it was.... still, there'll be a knee jerk reaction that makes it harder for all of us. great. DB
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    why does a perfectly rational thread with a normal question always descend into pitiful bickering over a difference of opinion? I was under the impression that it was only kids and politicians to whom this domain belongs.....
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    they do make quite a difference, some manufacturers chokes are slightly different to others, beretta chokes that come with the silver pigeon are slightly more open than briley chokes of "apparently" the same constriction, (not by much but it's there) get yourself a few rolls of brown wrapping paper from sussex stationers, about 30" wide, cut some 30x30" squares and shoot it. then compare the shot distribution at a set range with different chokes, then you'll have a good idea of how your gun, chokes, and cartridges you intend to use are performing. for me, so long as there are no gaps that a bi
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    wgat about a caplock enfield shooting a minie ball? they look like good fun.... SEE HERE
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    NOOOO! ster wellclear of plastic! they are absolutely rubbish!- I had some for a while and one of them cracked the clear casing within a couple of months of use so I bought a set of aluminium ones- a good compromise IMO cheaper then brass ot stainless but much more durable than plastic... as for my HMR- as I can de-cock it, and I'd be surprised if you couldn't with other CF rifles, there's no need for snap caps....
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    oh I stand corrected probably "the best" because it has been around longest and has the reputation I'd have thought.... I use a SAK as well....
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    you could use old shells but that rather defeats the object of doing it, the firing pins will still be resting on the back of the primer and not fully relaxed- that is why snap caps have a spring in them so that the firing pin can depress the spring and the firing pin spring is at it's full extent. though this may not be true for some types of gun- I'm sure SAGE will pick me up on it. DB
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    I'm pretty sure that a mod is not a firearm (you can have a spare barrel lying around and you only need a FAC for it if it is chambered for a cartridge, before that, it it is just a rifled tube you don't need a FAC- not what you need to know, but interesting all the same), but when applying for a FAC you'll need to state that you intend to purchase a mod with the firearm, and state the serial no. if there is one, I think also that if you purchased a mod separately you'd have to have it crossed off your FAC as well, I may be wrong on this last point.
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    I just thought I'd share my surprise with you all. My mum had just chucked out an old non stick frying pan where the coating had come off, so I though i'd turn it into a swinging target, the base being a handy 10.5" in diameter, so I cut the rim off and drilled out the rivets holding the handle on et voila! one target. I experimented first by sticking it in the ground, propping it up with a pricker at 30m and shooting it with my O/U with a 36gm AAA cartridge, I was surprised to say the least when there were quite large dents in the metal as well as a bulge at the back, the plate went down in
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    Please show evidence of bullets being over stabilised. There is a myth, contained mainly with inexperienced shooters that a bullet can be "too" stable. John I think what MR L. is getting at is probably more applicable to the US where they tend to love their magnum calibres and blazing fast varmint rounds- where the .22-250 and .220 swift etc are concerned as well as the faster magnums, I read somewhere that people were pushing light varmint bullets so fast that they were unable to cope with the centrifugal force- (opposite force to the centripetal force which acts inwards, maintain
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    I have no doubt people would be interested what with the lean to wards that horrid "tacti-cool" world of heavy rifles and black and camo everywhere you look, but £40 to re-finish a stock'd be fine I'd say!- I have a 6x42 S&B on my HMR so not for me, but I can definitely see people being interested, probably won't seel like hot cakes but there'd be a steady trickle... (hot cakes? hot cakes are ming- best wait when they're a couple of hours old and have cooled down...) what about offering a service of matching a piece of wood to the existing stock and replacing the comb all together?- perh
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    hmm well if it's between those two then I don't know- I was just going to suggest the SAK like a lot of other folks- much cheaper, just as good if not better than more expensive models, if's easy to strip and clean, cheap, and the best value for money you're likely to find!
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    how about sights from trijicon or truglo or perhaps meprolight? something with tritium sounds the best bet- I looked at the same thing a while ago- perhaps snap on rifle style turkey sights would be the best bet, or ones that fasten on with a clamp so you don't have to go drilling the rib, but I don't recall seeing anything like what you'd need- something so you can see the front sight but also be able to sight down the rib properly- necessitating the use of a rear sight- either ghost ring or "standard" type..... the closest thing I found were some truglo snap on turkey sights from midway UK-
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    aaah right then, that is what I didn't get- well I think that if you have a 100gn bullet that shoots well for deer, then I'd be surprised if you were able to shoot a 55 gn and obtain the same level of accuracy as it wouldn't stabilise the bullet, but both hornady and nosler do varmint bullets (nosler varmint and hornady v-max) in the 60- grain range that would probably be a better choice- as far as load data goes, I can't help there!- best bet would be to have a look in a reloading manual- Hogdon/IMR have an online one that you can look at and download the pages you're interested in HERE perha
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    I have to admit I have skipped through this so a lot of this may have been said or passed over..... ....a 22CF will knock down a Roe just as easily in England and Wales as it does in Scotland, problem is it isn't legal. Deer Act says a .240, but seeing as they are about as rare a rocking horse s**t the reality is it tends to end up as .243, but then you can take ALL deer legally... So forget the .222 and get a .243, 58g V-Max is an excellent fox round!! ATB rare as rocking horse shit! you can say that again, I recall someone telling me that Holland & Holland made a .
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    hmmm I don't think the double discharge was down to the dodgy ammo, a friend has a Browning Cynergy black ice and that discharged both barrels once, plus it shot one of its ejectors across the clay ground... but that's another story. I think the primer getting stuck in the firing pin hole may be down to the cartridges being old and/or dodgy, as I have an old S/S and the firing pin holes are quite big, and I did have a part box of some pretty old No 5s, which made the gun not want to open, so I got rid of them, but it works fine with Eley cartridges which is what I use... the gun will probably
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