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  1. JohnGalway
    Have a look: http://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/topic/224338-ireland-petition-for-a-restatement-of-the-firearms-act-and-to-extend-the-remit-of-the-firearms-consultation-panel/ The more names the better!
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    Hi folks, Please take a read of the below petition and sign up This will put Firearms law into one place, make it easier to read, and shine a light on the bits that are currently broken. The FCP can then hopefully help to fix those broken bits. http://www.contact.ie/petition/we-wish-call-review-firearms-act-and-have-remit-firearms-consultation-panel-extended Thanks, ATB, John.
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    Oh, about 500 a week should do, 50/50 split
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    http://www.independe...nk-2921730.html
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    Leica CRF 900 range finder, it's a fantastic thing, wouldn't be without it. Either zap the fox or near him with it, or if you're on a stand like I do, you can zap a few places around the area to get an idea of the range. Some scope reticles will also allow you to range animals at a specific magnification once you know the height of that animal. There can be some juggling being a one man band but that's the fun of it, practice makes perfect. It's also one of the reasons I use the 40 grain bullets, seeing as how they're fairly flat shooting, zero an inch high at 100 and pretty much j
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    40 grain V-max Mark, I was using Federal 40 grainV-shok before them and Hornady 40 grain before that. Cut the skin around the tail, make a loop with the twine and put that loop inside the cut, stand on the fox and give a good pull on the twine, off comes the tail. Twine is easier to carry around than anything else IMO.
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    Monday, 31st October. To get away from the Halloween bangers I headed out onto the bogs to find me a fox. In conversation with the local Garda today he mentioned how he'd been seeing a lot of them crossing the road near there. So off I went with my unofficial Garda intelligence report on the red lads I was literally thirty seconds at my first stand, I had scanned about with the lamp and nothing popped it's head up that wasn't a sheep. I turned on the rabbit squeal and bang! A pair of eyes a couple of hundred yards off which started belting uphill with the wind. I'd picked out a ni
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    Seems that a lot of people don't think the Pro is worth the price for what you get above the standard.
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    I haven't had it but from all I've heard and read about it I hope ya don't!
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    Well done, not always easy to get them when they start running off.
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    I done a thread someplace here about taking a scope mounted LF apart and completely rewiring it. Should still be knocking around. There was photos with it as well but they may be gone as I changed about my Photobucket account, but if you find the thread I can replace them. I went into a car shop and told the guy I needed two core cable to light up a 100W bulb from a 12v whatever amp battery and told him what length I wanted. Done the whole thing myself and it's been great since. Best thing you can do is get rid of the cable and all connections and do up your own properly.
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    Sorry, I couldn't find the silly mistake, didn't get past the Britney Spears pics
  13. JohnGalway
    Does anyone here know the proper name for the "Adapter" in the video in post #8 please? Had a look in a DIY store and online and didn't come up with much.
  14. JohnGalway
    When the HMR was a .22lr I shot another through a solid wooden gate that had half a board missing They're wary sods, ambushing them is very satisfying!
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    I had planned to head that way again this evening to pop another perhaps, but it's raining yet again!
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    I was checking the ewes on the top of the farm Wednesday morning. Outside of the top wall is where I head shot that fox the last night. As I was walking along the wall five or six greycrows took to the sky. Yesterday I was away, but today I brought the HMR along, as you do Took the low route up to the top wall so I'd be as hidden as I could be. I made my way up along the wall crouched over. The wall is about four or four and a half foot high. It's made up of badly shaped stones, which leave gaps in the wall which get filled by smaller stones. So there were plenty of holes to look through. Got
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    Monday, 24th October. Headed out for a look around the commonage on my own. Had spent the late afternoon with John thinning out the bunny population with the HMR, didn't bring the camera as I thought he was in a hurry away home again. Turned out not to be the case Long boring story turned into a short boring story I saw precisely nothing besides sheep on the commonage and two other places I checked out. Decided the I would head for my own farm. There's a high road across the little valley that I often go up to just to have a scan of the farm and surrounds, has paid off before. And
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    I looked at similar items before, but with the cost of the ones I saw (not that one) I thought I'd have more fun cobbling something together myself Need to do a right job like in the YouTube video though, that would be a lot handier, all lined up, slide on , slide off, job done!
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    Snap Shot...

    JohnGalway replied to Malt's topic in General Talk

    Happy birthday Snap
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    It's a .22lr Paulus, got some info off lads on another <site>, but if anyone knows anything else I'd appreciate it. Especially the odd offset scope, it's like looking through the bottom of a milk bottle. Has two horizontal lines from either side and one bottom pointed post as the crosshairs.
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    Fella I know got this below. It's old, it's odd, it's rusty/dirty. He thinks it's a collectors piece. I think he's half right Someone here may know something about it, I call it the Walt Disney Gun, may have the ability to shoot around corners.
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    Jealous My luck didn't hold, went out looking for a fox and saw nothing. Saw a bazillion rabbits though, could catch them with a shrimping net
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    I placed them for effect after the fact
  24. JohnGalway
    This is the better way of doing it:
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    All I can tell you is I bought two Rangers before. Both were made in different countries. One was significantly better than the other, I bought mine off an Ebay seller named scope stop, based in New Jersey I think. I was told by the UK seller of the inferior Ranger there couldn't possibly be any difference, there was , and a big one, friends verified it too. Eventually got a refund on that one. I done a bit of searching of my old posts on various sites. The one to get is the one made in RUSSIA, it'll be labelled on the underside of the unit. There's one made in one of the Baltic countries
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