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    since starting this thread i have a few additions and had a swap around.
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    I use this method to great effect. but you must angle the long thin blade upwards slightly so it is going into the animals cranium and into the brain. a quick cut accross the base of the ears to find the joint(i to practice on dead deer) then the point through the atlas and up into the brain. A very dead animal in about 11/2 seconds.
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    will take £600 for quicker sale
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    Its sat on my 6.5x55 right now, great optics and very clean scope. No marks on lenes and no dents on tube. It includes a butler creek cap. Finally sold my Lecia binos and now if sell this will be close to my dream scope the Zeiss 6-24X56 fl. So its proven to be in great order its used nearly every day. http://s11.zetaboards.com/hunter_world/topic/7315291/1/#new £650 will secure or an offer very close. It has a No8 reticle.(duplex) this stays same size relative to target. Sportsman have this scope new at £1159.95 The one in the foreground
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    Well to quickly fill you in. On another forum a friend of mine put up an outing for the winner to shoot a buck. This was for charity, Malcolm who will be known to some of you (he helps me with some clients and on the shoot i run) lost his step daughter earlier this year to an agressive cancer- she was 27). So I agreed to take the winner out for a deer as well in the hope of expanding the bidding. Tom won with a bid of £270. This is his write up of the outing with me. Well me and John finally got out again yesterday morning. We arrived at the ground at about 6:30am with the light just cr
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    Nothing here in yorkshire yet, I start work again on wednesday so don't think I've missed much while I've been rearing. Seeing roe everyday on the shoot does mainly and certinally NO chasing.
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    .17 I think you mean matey. 1.7 would be a little overkill unless you were shooting light armoured cars. They are 2 very different rounds for 2 very different jobs. Both are good for the job they were designed to do. What are you wanting to do with either.
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    Cheapest method is to find a local mentor. Failing that try a few guides all are different in methods, land, species etc. This can be an expensive route so stick to culls and grass more beasts for your £'s. Another route could be go beating somewhwere and get to know the keeper and help on work days you may get asked to help shoot a deer or 2 if you drop enough hints. If you genuinely want to learn as much as you can about deer go and do a dsc1 course it WILL help your rifle application along. regards john.
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    Well done T.T. I had a go on friday called a doe in. And saturday night client missed a big buck. another week off now to be with pheasants before the rut starts.
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    I must have missed something ...but fox has orange eyes to me, although I have had a couple over the last two years with BLUE eyes, very unusual and new to me...my lad is colour blind and sees things I find strange, who knows what who else sees, but as long as it is consistant does it really matter? Depends on the age of the fox in your lamp. Generally the older the fox the more orange they will appear. Can vary from pale green/watery blue through to orange. Sorry mate but after over 20 years and 1000's seen and shot I must only have ever seen youngsters they ALL look green/white t
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    It may have been removed We are not allowed to take badgers here. They maybe didn't see you were from Germany. regards John
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    Why do you need to clean it?? I have same on my HMR for 4 years probably 8-9000 shots never been cleaned. (Though rifle cleaned every 25 shots)
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    I run a 22250 and would suggest using a heavier bullet in a swift than a 40gr.(if you love your barrel anyway). My experience is they were fast and very flat (4108 fps in a 22"barrel). The trouble was they never penetrated foxes at all simply splashed on the surface reasulting in very wounded foxes. These were handloaded 40gr blitz kings they worried me as to what barrel wear was going to result. I would source some 55gr for a swift. Regards John.
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    Well earnt and as with a wily fox patience and perseverance paid off. well done
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    I hear this alot about eye colour. we are all different but they have never looked orange to me.(and i've personally shot very close to 2,000 now). Very light green bordering white to me even under a red/amber filter, white under blue/green. My lamping buddy sees them as yellow ??? Deer green badgers orange and rabbits/hares red
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    Well said that man THIS makes sense.
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    My T8 fired 4000 rounds before it got shot out. And was never cleaned. It is handy though to replace burnt out baffles.
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    I've had x2 T8's and a north star/ never rated that. Now have x2 custom alloy ones very good. I see alsorts clients turn up with and think the quietest of all is the PES ones but they are heavy and I dont like the way they allow the gasses to touch the barrel. Wildcats are good as are many others.
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    Nice one im busy trying to reduce the foxes. Enjoying the break from the deer but getting revved up for the impending rut now.
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    Who cares he enjoyed it shared it with us and its another dead fox the only good sort. well done
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    Good to see you lads have not done a DSC1, well I hope you haven't.
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    They had an expolosion in the factory and it halted production. Kranks had a shipment recently so ask your dealer they are in stock now. i read that when i done a search, also a guy said they burned rather dirty. did you find this when you used them mate ? col. not at all but i clean my barrels every 20-25 rounds so never gets time to built up.
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    They had an expolosion in the factory and it halted production. Kranks had a shipment recently so ask your dealer they are in stock now.
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    Been reloading for 20 years now. For accuracy NOT cheapness I buy good components and it can cost me more than some factory ammo. I have just found that privis shoot well in my 2250 and at a £10 a box using them for practice and crows to save on my dearer handloads. You can load cheap but often cheap heads are shite when used on large game not expanding or over expanding. Also the initial outlay will buy alot of ammo then you have to work up a load which might be easy it may not 2-3 powders at £35-50 a tub. So my advice if you dont fire loads and have a factory round which works well
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    your maximun budget will struggle to buy high quality like German optics which wil not let you down. Especially if you shoot at dawn and dusk. Is it for hunting,target or plinking. A little more info would be useful. There are still good scopes out there for that money but buy carefully first time or buy twice
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