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    Airguns are treated as firearms under the firearms act, so you might as well have been blasting away with a .22rf! Call your local Firearms licensing department and ask to speak to the clerk who deals with your area, explain the whole mess and ask her opinion, it might also help if you requested a meeting with the head of the department to discus your position. At the very least contact the FEO for your area and discus over the phone. John
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    BUmmer....just seen this Must be quicker!! If the sales falls apart then PLEASE let me know (PLEASE ) John
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    First, WELL DONE TO THE OP FOR PASSING THE DSC1!!! sincerely, congratulations! Grousekeeper : Not everyone insists on using a .308 for deer, there are many suitable calibres out there that can be used on a all UK deer species. The problem is that not all calibres are universally suited to all species. The .243" is not suitable for big Exmoor reds but great for roe. The .308 is a superb calibre to shoot as many Bench-rest shooters will testify, it always amazes me the people to claim to shoot the BIG .308 and how they go in to graphic detail about the serious recoil and shoulder injuries th
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    I certainly will, all depends if my mate can find a set of 5-0-5's John
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    There are some very cheap digital scales that are very accurate and don't take up much room. In saying that I have a mate in the US on holiday who is picking me up an RCBS 5-0-5 scale with luck, so my Hornady scales might be up for sale at a very reasonable price. John
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    Quickload is a great tool for reloading, especially if like me you only have access to an out door range for testing loads. In the summer load development is fun, in the winter it's a drag. Quickload will enable me to compare different loads to known pressures and velocities, which on the whole results in similar barrel harmonics and thus accuracy from the comfort of my computer chair. I've been working up a 'theoretical' 75 grain dual purpose load for my 1in12 .243", 75 grain SP driven by H380. With luck the load should be suited to spring time roe & fox shooting. I've settled on a load n
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    Ran the load through "Quickload" the results stated that the load was near max chamber pressure and that tolerances would produce dangerous pressures. It's likely that the two rifle chambers were / are different, the load might be safe in one rifle but in the other not so, and in my experience Howa rifles have tight chambers! Temperature can and will effect chamber pressures. Data for the above is 3909 bar with a MV of 3273. A reduction to 43 grains would produce a MV of 3204 and a chamber pressure of 3648 bar, my advice would be to reduce to 43 grains, the load would still be deer legal.
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    Might help if you gave a location, lenght of MOT, any tax? any pictures? Thanks John
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    It's horses for courses! Small bore rounds, for example .17 HMR, .22rf & .22 WMR will all kill fox, if you hit a vital organ but as already said the rounds are not really suited to fox. So, the next step you need to take is to decide exactly what you will be shooting the most. For example if you plan to shoot 99 rabbits for 1 fox, then you need to consider which calibre would be best suited to rabbits and the occasional fox, you get the idea. So presuming you plan to shoot 99 foxes for every 1 rabbit, you'll be looking for a dedicated foxing calibre. .22H or the .22 hornet is the smallest
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    Never have more truer words been typed! Almost every site I visit require evidence of qualifications, the police, MOD, Blue chip companies, government agencies all require paper work before they will let us carry out pest control. Next week I'm on a two day H&S course, brain numbing but necessary. Britain is crippled by this "blame culture" and as you point out, when the numbers are crunched 'they' want to see "qualifications and training records", seconded then by formal risk assessments & method statements, quickly followed by insurance which incidentally is invalid should any
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    I'll go 10p ? John
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    Yes another letter has to be sent. John
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    I tried one of the cheap car tyre compressors, blew it up! A divers bottle worked well but now I have a small compressor which works very well, but have to admit I haven't used it on the last four deer because it's more hassle to set up than skin the deer If I had two or three here, no doubt I would set it up just to make my life easier. John
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    Always up on always get an incident number!! and if you think the police need to be in attendance, ask for their co-operation, even it that means they need to set up a 300 yard road block! John
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    Best I could get using 58 grain V-max was 3509 fps, short of the 1700 ft-lb mark. The round gives one hole groups in my Pro-hunter. (not that I would use such a round on deer!) John
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    and reloading isn't getting any cheaper £37 for 100 .243" 75 grain V-max John
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    I'll be honest and say that I've never seen anything like it, other than with severe cases of bovine TB and that was a long time back, but if the lumps were calcified then the only explanation would be due to damaged ribs. John
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    Cracking buck Vimto!! Now where have I seen that rifle before ???? PM to follow! John
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    I haven't shot many Muntjac at all, but the ones I have had took me ages to skin. A fried told me about using an air compressor which to be honest has made things real easy on all the deer. Certainly looks like a top notch buck to me. As for taste, I'd rate muntjac right up there with roe. In fact to my mind, others might disagree and in order of preference: Best eating would be, Roe (not unlike lamb x veal), Muntjac (sort of a cross between lamb & boar. I know a few chaps who would never sell a carcass), Red (one shot fills your freezer not unlike beef), Sika (not unlike red x fallow) ,
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    Very nice deer, well done. Do you use an air line to skin them? John
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    Bob, were these lumps hard? TB lesions can form along the ribs and look remarkably like what you have shown! Did you fully inspect the pluck & head lymph nodes? Did you try to incise these lumps? John
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    Tiss' not that, I have a chance to swap something I never use for a pair of 8x30's (which I'll never use )but I'm a little worried over the low light performance of 8x30's. Well off topic, sorry John
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    Shot the doe back last January (this year has flown by), I normally forget a camera especially this time of year when leaving at 3am After the gralloch I opened the carcass with a set of new spreaders that Mrs HZ got Santa to leave under the tree. The steam given off even from a small roe was quite a sight but there was a very cold wind that day. I prefer to hoist the reds to gralloch (if I can) but the carcass never seems to cool as well. I have a lovely little set up that didn't cost much to put together, 2x climbing ropes (donated by a tree surgeon) 1/2 tonne pulley donated by a garage t
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    I wish! this girl ran 200 yards with no heart! I'd be real happy if all my deer dropped on the spot. It's also worth noting the size difference between Vimto's reds and this roe. John
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    There is a VAST difference between a roe and a 25 stone red deer. Little bit like a rabbit and a fox, if you would like it in clear terms average weight of a roe is what, 20 kg? Birth weight of a red is what 12 kg? Look at the deer above, bigger than a man and what three to four years old? John
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