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The guy who sold Jimi Hendrix his last line of speed. Ric
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You do have an appropriate site name Swampy. You're always up to your arse in crocodiles. I think it's a shame that fox hunting was banned. There are 10,000 urban foxes in London. I'd love to see the Quorn at full tilt, Old Jug Ears in the lead, tally-ho-ing round Marble Arch after some mangy old ratbag (Maggy Thatcher?) at 9 o'clock on a Monday morning. YES! Aristo's and merchant bankers getting wasted all over the landscape! Dream on. Ric
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Jamie - I'm sorry but you are wrong here. Read your own post. If "you went shooting someone that has centrefire", he would not be able to guide you! Mainly cos he'd be dead! Of course if you meant to write "with" someone that has centrefire . . . Smart ass? Me? Perish the thought . . . Ric
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Can you get a sense of humour transplant on the NHS or do you have to go private? There's a few folk in this forum could do with one. Ric gottya go private mate. Gov't cut backs an all. Carefull you don't get a transplant from the germans! the body often rejects it! Whats it like being back at uni then? You free loading student bum! hope all is well rgds swampy ninging without an education Majick. The only thing I don't like about Uni is all the friggin students! I invite you to imagine the reaction from my fellow first years when I said that I shoot ani
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Quoi? Toi? A sceptic? Perish ther thort. Aziff. Ric
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i had a mate buy a nightforce for stalking we went out one morning and he couldn't see the deer through his scope... while i could clearly make them out with the leupold..... he sold it the following week............ Snap. Tho we're getting a bit off thread here I LURV this argument. I like the idea of Kahles as low light level scopes. They make a main point of using glass which transmits the wavelengths to which the human eye is most sensitive at low intensity. Don't like their reticles tho. By the way, a "reticule" is a handbag . . . Ric
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For your first FAC you are only going to get rimfire. Go for .22lr, ask for HMR. TBH, if you ask your FEO for a .223 as a first gun, he might decide that you know so little about firearms that you should not have a ticket at all. Frankly, I agree. Go for FAC air to start with. Ric Ric...we all have our own preferences and our own experiences, mine seem a little different to yours in part! First question in response to thread is..What do you intend to do with it? A Centrefire is not impossible on a first application, I know of several! That is not to say I agree, especia
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I've been thinking about using a camera tripod. Too heavy to carry round on a mooch but if you're setting up a hide for long range shots I reckon you could modify one to take a rifle. Get together with your gunsmith, design a rack to hold the gun where the camera would be. Then you could tighten the thing up to hold the gun steady and when you spot your quarry loosen the locking bolts and the gun should have free movement. Sniper not a stalker! Ric
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Can you get a sense of humour transplant on the NHS or do you have to go private? There's a few folk in this forum could do with one. Ric
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There was a thread on this subject a whille back in "Rimfire, Centrefire and Shotguns". A farmer had lost several sheep, badly savaged. All that had been seen of the killer was that it was a large black animal and bloody fast on its feet. It had also been marauding on other farms in the area. When it took an old tup who was flock leader and a canny old beast, the farmer set up a hide and settled down to wait. After a few nights the killer arrived, and left wrapped up in a tarp. It was a lurcher, gone feral, but not feral enough to cope with an 85gr .243 Accutip. There may be a few big cat
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And back-to back British World Champions! :clapping: Ric
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Also a lot of dead dogs . . . Ric
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perhaps go with a .22lr and a 22 hornet or .17wmr/hmr to start with and progress from there to the centrefires after a bit of use and experience. Agreed. Take small steps. Ric
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So if we are talking low light levels we are back to Kahles. They use glass which is optimised to transmit frequencies to which the human eye remains sensitive at low intensity. Sadly, they don't seem to make high-mag scopes. Has anyone else noticed that we are increasingly considering seriously expensive gear? "There's no substitute for class". Get the best, fugh the rest. Suits me. If it's worth doing it's worth doing well. Ric
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For your first FAC you are only going to get rimfire. Go for .22lr, ask for HMR. TBH, if you ask your FEO for a .223 as a first gun, he might decide that you know so little about firearms that you should not have a ticket at all. Frankly, I agree. Go for FAC air to start with. Ric
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did you crono them mr l ? i wouldnt go by what the factory rounds tell you for speed on the box I've looked at several reloading sites from the States, and they all say that Hornady's figures for MV are correct . . . Hornady factory ammo is phenomenally accurate . . . It is not possible to reload to higher MV than factory. So you would reload if you were firing a lot of rounds, to save money, not to gain performance. And yes, I realise I'm contradicting myself. Mr L is correct about the accuracy of factory .204 Ric
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Well no. Likkle tiny fragmenting bullets zinging off the walls and bouncing around the target area might not be a good idea. Although I've got a "back of the envelope" design for a 4.85mm/.19" 60gr FMJ spire point boat tail using the 5mm/35 SMc case with an extended throat chamber. Should be good for sub 1/2 MOA at 1500 yards in low wind conditions. Ric
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Amen to that. Hence my concern about downrange killing power. Will you be reloading? I know there's not much choice of factory ammunition, but at those ranges the Remington 32gr V-Max should be a one shot drop. Ric got a mate who reloads his 303 he says if i get him all the gear he,ll reload for me is there much off a saving and do u still get the same accuracy your get better accuracy then factory and over the long run it will work out cheaper Just what I was gonna say. Any half decent reloads should be MUCH more accurate than factory ammo. As for cost, depends how many
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Oo - er. No but seriously I've always regarded Bisley as the dogs dodgy bits for <1000 yard shooting. Is .204 really outside that envelope? P'raps I'll need an 8-32 after all!
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Nice to see what it can do! Getting all excited now I am. Ric
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Thanks again guys. My prejudice against variable mag lenses goes back to my years as a keen amateur photographer, when I had a couple of zoom lenses that spent more time being repaired than they did on my cameras. Fixed lenses also give better optical performance. (I gave up photography in disgust when all that digital shite hit the market. Takes all the skill away, moan moan call me Victor Meldrew!) Well apart from anything else it wouldn't really be practicable to carry 3 or 4 different scopes, and by the time I re-zeroed, the quarry would have got bored and buggered off home, so a varia
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So far 74% of respondents are in the 2%. Odd that! Ric
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Figures. It's the worst blended whisky in the known universe. The really cruel sport is conning folk into thinking they're drinking summat worth the effort. It is truly CRAP scotch. I'd as lief drink Bells. Or Johnny Walker Red Label. Now offer me a 15 yr old Glen Morangie. Or a Macallan. Or a Laphroaigh. Or even a 10 yr old Knockando . . . Damn you sir you've set me off. Ric(hic)W
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Yer local market. Or a furniture shop. Straight up, a good furniture dealer carries skins to cover chairs and cushions. All you need is some decent offcuts. Ric
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Snap - you and me both. I learned to shoot long range with aperture sights. As you know, you can't "aim off". Dial it in, boy, dial it in. As I said above, KISS. I don't want all this crap in my field of view . . . Looks like a fixed mag scope, around 12x, 1/4 MOA/click turrets is gonna be my best bet. Back to where I started from. Now, if you want to talk maker I've taken a lot of long shots with a camera. Nikon make some classy 'scopes . . . and they always were the best glass . . . Ric personally think your away of the mark going for a fixed mag due to the range variati