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Everything posted by goldfinger
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Longer chain all day for me as well, Deker,but as I say a standard is a standard and I expect to receive what I have received before that's one reason to maintain standards happy customers happy company simples,but at the end of the day if they have changed the standard to x3 links and they say so then I at least know weather to buy or not.
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Worth a try, they must have a standard for what they manufacture.
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£14.00 IanB,I have e.mailed BMI asking about there standard.
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Ordered some more of these traps and they arrived today but noticed that the chains are now getting shorter 3 links now instead of 5 links that I had before this might not sound much but I do prefer the longer chain,I just wondered if the chain length standard has changed.
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Same here a little scrub with a small wire brush before setting keeps them from sticking,IMO the triggers work better with some corrosion on surface, I use a small spark plug brush.
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When rabbits and anything else has been lamped at night they can become weary of that colour light,so if lamped with a red light they can become spooked by the dull red glow from an ir source and bolt, you can see this happening though your ir sight the rabbits will actually look in your direction when they notice that dull red glow,if there not lamped regularly they won't bolt.
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Hello some trails that I did back in 2015 using a Nightsite Wolf, at a ir wave length of 850nm i was getting much better visibility at distance and if I can remember correctly the night Wolf was at that time using 850nm,the problem was that at that wave length the dull red glow that is unavoidably emitted by ir can still be seen quite easily and I was getting problems with charly seeing this and turning and running before I could get him in distance with my .17 hmr,so I trailed a (T67 950nm) ir torch which at this wave length the dull red red glow is less visible to us humans and animals,the
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.17 hmr makes rabbit shooting to easy,I generally use mine for out and out they gotta go.much more enjoyable with .22 rimy imo.
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I found 2" carts to open a pattern at anything other than very close range.
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Get them to lend you a buggy mate.
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As with any caliber they all have there uses step outside its capability and you run the risk of not being fair to your quarry, every caliber has its pro's and cons do your research before deciding to buy a rifle and stick to the right distances it can constantly and accurately kill humanly,all of us at times strive to get that really long shot pushing the caliber well beyond what we knowing should, just so we can say we did.
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If you google this subject there are some quiet technical what look like valid reasons to explain this phenomenon.....
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Probably someone on here will be able to explain more professionally on this subject than me, I was today very surprised with difference in sound between the two rifles.
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Been out today checking zero .22 rimy the farmer brought along his .22 to do the same,he said whilst zeroing that my silencer was not as quiet as his, we were both using the same ammo,my rifle is a CZ 452 and his a bruno,so I put my silencer on his bruno but his gun was still shooting surprisingly quieter than mine even with my silencer fitted and still as quiet as with his, the only difference with the two rifles was the barrel length my CZ is 16" and his not having a tape measure handy at the time was around 22.5",to cut this story short I decided to look this up and found out that a longer
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If I had to get rid of all my guns loosing the .22 rimy would sadden me the most, its a fantastic caliber to own and shoot.
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Just a word of warning with all this modern technology you can soon shoot out your permission, I tend (unless told other wise) to look at managing numbers rather than a total wipe out to a point were they find it difficult to recover, this way the population can still give you an enjoyable day/night shooting with a few in freezer and keep Mr farmer happy as well.
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I shot HMR for a few years now took plenty of rabbits at all ranges,poly tip ammo generally stops expanding around 150 mark because of volatility drop,usually the damage is not as some would say all mine have been edible the odd one you might have to discard a portion off the rabbit,the expansion that found on rabbit was usually around size of a golf ball,IE: taking hart lungs out or part or most off skull,stick to head/shoulder shots and they should be fine to eat.
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I went the thermal route about 12 mths + ago, a totally new world opened up for me,never looked back very expensive but worth it.
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Imo .22 rim-fire is far more versatile than the .17 hmr I have both and both have there place, yes the .17 has a flatter trajectory but the downsides are noise and cost of ammo,the small round is very influenced by wind at distance,as for the .22 this is very cheep to feed and extremely quiet and an absolute joy to use,my .17 is saved for pure pest control days up to 150 mtrs on a good calm night/day only which at times are not very common,nearly all my shots are around 40-80 mtrs range on bunny's at these distances the .22 with winy's 42grn bullet is the dogs nuts.
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Very good advise there Aslone.
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Both calibers have there uses for different situations,I personally prefer to have this option, but imo theirs nothing more satisfying to shoot than the .22 rim-fire,I would suggest to anyone starting out go for the .22 first.
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Any of the commercially available rodenticide poisons difenacoum bromadiolone will do, you can get it for the moment in multiple 1.5 kg tubs blocks or seed get it from a local farmer outlet, so long as you use it correctly you should have success allow for a couple of weeks of feeding for best results don,t expect immediate results (if its being eaten keep feeding) don't stop unless the bait is no longer being eaten and then leave it down for a few days after just to make sure.
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New look not for me.
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I would definitely recommend a purpose made bait box and poison i would recommend bait blocks secured in bait box, as much as possible away from dog access but on rats route to food up against a wall or similar put something heavy on top to stop any of your dogs moving it from its position,keep topping up as they eat it and after a while they will be gone, blocks are better then grain grain can get spilled out of box and put pets or none target species in danger rats food source if its in your garden or next door probably be bird food?,traps imo find are hit and miss with only the odd rat gett
