harry mac
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Everything posted by harry mac
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Been there, done that. Do a hundred cases that way and you'll gladly pay the £40odd that either Midway UK or Smartreloader are asking for a case cleaner.
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But Diana went bust last Autumn of 2008. Boar in Estonia are heavier than some other Eastern European countries because the feeding is better and the population is lower. Many boar in France are in fenced areas and the cost can be quite high when you add everything up. Bag records mean nothing unless previous posters say how many shooters were in the group and how many days they went shooting. So saying "we shot 30 last time we went" etc. etc. does not give a meaningful indication without number of guns and number of days. Yes, you're right, I didn't find that out until after I'd posted th
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Did I see you on the firing point yesterday on Short Siberia? If not, you've a twin and he was in Surrey this week end!
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I'm going to have to start shopping in Aldi myself. A mate of mine just picked up a pair of electronic ear defenders for me. £15.99!!! They certainly work. I wonder if they'd start doing guns?
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Harry Mac take it from me an expensive piece of optical equipment like the one`s the pro`s use will take a kick and even the like`s of an over weight ex Butcher twist slaughter man sitting on them never mind a peice of slop like a gralloch being dumped upon them I don't think for one minute our Boulter would take my comments as a dig HarryL? Some of the weaker one`s amongst us might but not our Boulter.. Regards Sako 85 fan Sorry mate, didn't realise you two were on piss taking terms. Doesn't always come accross as humourous when it's gone via a soulless keyboard. NHF.
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Or it could make him look like somebody who doesn't want to lay an expensive piece of optical equipment in the wet gras, where it's easy to tread on 'em, kick 'em, or even drop the gralloch on 'em. Good result mate.
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Hi November, that was a cracking account of your first Schwartzwild. Where abouts in Germany do you have your revier? I used to hunt in Sennelager, a little place called Ovenhausen a few miles South of Paderborn and in Bergen Hohne (Jagdrevier Meissental). I got my jagdschein in 1996 and left Germany in 2000.
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Christ Harry Mac, you've been about the place a bit with your .308 fella !! WAB It's a god awful job, but somebody's got to do it! A posting to Germany, a Bosnia deployment to save up the money for the African safari and an end of service gratuity to finance the Estonia trip all helped. I certainly aint no international jet setter. The yacht and the birds would be welcome though!
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You need to have the prrof marks looked at by someone who knows about such things. If you write to Bill Harriman at Shooting Times Magazine with a close-up, clear pic of the proof marks he WILL be able to tell you whether Austin was registered (or not) as a gun maker or retailer and how long he was in business and where. With any luck you might even get your name and letter in the magazine.
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One of our deer group bought a T3 Lite in 308 and took it back in short order. Apparently touching off a 308 in a gun that light aint no fun. I use a Sauer 202, had it for more than 10 years and it's as accurate now as it's ever been and it's been shot quite a bit. Mine's a standard (old model designation), but another one of my mates has the Outback version in 6.5x55. Niether of us has any complaints about Sauer.
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I'll add one more voice to the chorus. 308 is a bloody good calibre. Mine has done duty in Germany (boar, roe and red deer), Estonia (boar), South Africa (warthog, duiker, blesbock springbock, bushbuck) and UK (roe, muntjack and fox). It is a true one gun arsenal.
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I had a good experience with Diana Hunting Tours (do a google). My trip was to Estonia after mainly elk (moose), but boar were thrown in as well. I shot a bache the size of a sofa. They grow 'em big in Estonia. Unfortunately the moose eluded me.
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Some posters have hit the nail on the head here. Using dogs to hunt is illegal in UK. Like it or not that's the law. Get convicted and you'll lose your dog, your vehicle, and kiss goodbye to you FAC or shotgun certificate. This is not the middle ages. Buy a feckin' rifle and do it right. The only time it's appropriate to use a dog is in tracking a wounded pig. P.S. You also stand a good chance of ending up with a dead dog and a well pissed off piggie!
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Firstly the trader you're selling to has to be a licensed game dealer. Once that requirement is satisfied you have to supply the pluck and head with the carcass unless you have qualified hunter status (newer DSC1, or game meat handling certificate). If you are classed as a qualified hunter because you've got the relevant piece of paper, all you have to submit with the carcass is your hunter number.
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Try using the .22 brushes. I recently bought a PH (Bisley) mop for my 243 only to discover that it's exactly the same as the .22 one I already own!
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My first rabbit. It was 1983 and I'd not long had my BSA Centenial (still got it) and me and a mate were shooting rats at the local sewage works. (Seems unbelievable today, but it was almost normal to see some kid with an air rifle in places like that. Even the foreman would come up and ask us if we'd shot many.) Anyway about 30 yards the other side of the fence, actually in the compound a rabit appeared. I just took aim, gave it about an inch of holdover and squeesed off the shot. There was an unmistakable THWOCK and the rabbit jumped sideways and fell over. The H&N Coppapoint had hit jus
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Nothing but a gimic. Save your money and buy a decent scope.
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I stopped reading Airgun World when I got to 16, but it still read like it was talking to a 12 year old. Also noticed nothing ever got a bad review. Even if a product is crap the worst they'll say about it is "good for the price".
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When it comes to optics you'll always hear "buy the best you can afford". I'll second that. I take it that because you'll be using them for 17 and 22 C.F. your targets won't be overly big? Get a good pair of 7x50s or 10x50s. If you won't be doing a lot of low light work without a lamp then you can come down a bit on the objective lens size, say 8 or 10x40. Don't bother with zoom binos they aren't all that good (unless they're Leica Duovids) and don't be tempted by the latest crop of cheap glasses using the roof prism system. A lot of these are really good looking binos but fall down badly on t
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I have used 308 for years for most of my stalking and a few years ago tried 150 grn flat nose bullets on the recommendation of a friend. The first deer I shot with them was poked neatly through the ribs and dropped to shot. "Job's a good un", thinks I. The next one was at about 40 yards, over sticks, completely un hurried and deliberate. Aimed for a heart shot and made the shot. The recoil settled just in time for me to see the deer hobbling off all hunched up like it had been gut shot. Any way I gave it the mandatory length of a cigarette wait before following up and fortunately found the de
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308 heap good medicine. A real do it all calibre. 125 grn ballistic tips will do double duty for fox and lighter deer, but do cause quite a bit of meat damage on the deer. 150 grn bullets are good all rounders but will not be absolutely ideal for fox as they do kick quite a bit compared to your other option, they are, however more than accurate enough if you do your bit. Will you be mainly shooting fox or deer? To be honest I can't speak too highly of 308, I've used one for well over 10 years and only ever lost 2 deer in all that time. Other thing to consider is that 243 CAN be hard on barrels
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308 heap good medicine. A real do it all calibre. 125 grn ballistic tips will do double duty for fox and lighter deer, but do cause quite a bit of meat damage on the deer. 150 grn bullets are good all rounders but will not be absolutely ideal for fox as they do kick quite a bit compared to your other option, they are, however more than accurate enough if you do your bit. Will you be mainly shooting fox or deer? To be honest I can't speak too highly of 308, I've used one for well over 10 years and only ever lost 2 deer in all that time. Other thing to consider is that 243 CAN be hard on barrels
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Had a fabulous tea tonight (that's dinner to you Southern Jessies). One muntjack neck and a chopped onion cooked very slowly in the oven (5 hours) at about 90 deg C in water containing 2 lamb stock cubes. Once that's cooked through and the meat can be easily stripped from the bone, strip the meat, drop it in the stock and discard the bones. Then put in a handfull of frozen mixed veg, a handfull of frozen peas, two or three chopped mushrooms, a cubed, largish potato and a cubed, largish carrot. A tin of chopped tomatoes and a shit load (or, "add to taste") of paprika. Stir it all together and t
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Aint that the way? I take it you have to fit your management round the shooting syndicate?
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At least for bedding down, deer will always go where they feel most secure. If the miscanthus is the densest cover you have on your ground that's where they will tend to gravitate to to relax and chew the cud. Once they've had their nap they will leave the cover and go pretty much where they like. Where in UK are you, and what deer do you have?