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  1. Colster
    Seen this a few times, hit them when they're on the burrow and the kicking will drive them down the hole. Stick your arm down next time, you'll probably find it didn't make it far and you can pull it out.
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    I find young rabbits particularly prone to this, they can flip and twitch for ages. So much so I have on occasion ran up to finish them off only to find half it's head missing or blood pouring out of the ear. They're dead, it's just the nerves and muscles don't know it yet.
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    Done it twice with my LR using Winnie Subs, first time was intentional, the second time I didn't even see the rabbit behind the first one until I picked it up.
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    Fantastic news, you'll love the LR. I was like a kid at Xmas when I got mine but now a few months down the line I'm still the same when it comes round to lamping night.
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    You lot would be better off letting this poor idiot know the error of his ways on his video rather than just posting on here. Thought I'd give him a gentle nudge
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    Weihrauch .22 Air Rifle Moderator - 1/2" UNF, not on ticket £40 posted - SOLD
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    Oh dear It's not all about velocity I'm afraid. I agree, there is more than a slight difference in bullet weight and since when was a 1200fps difference considered neglible?
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    Wish I'd had one of these when our ducks came of age, the last one I just breasted as I was fed up with pin feathers by then.
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    Eh? That makes no sense! haha Assuming the barrels are the same bar size of course. I think it's because the barrels are supplied as 20" for both rifles, then for the 16" they are cut down and re-crowned/threaded, so there is extra processing and wastage on the 16"
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    Minimum for Roe, Sika and Red, CWD and Muntjac can be taken legally with .222,.223 or .22-250
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    16" costs more (I was quoted as much as £70 but paid £20 more in the end), as far as accuracy and range go.. no. They'll both do the job out to 120yards easy enough in good conditions, the 16" is just much easier when you're in and out of a vehicle with it.
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    The most popular calibres for fox seem to be .222,.22-250 & .223 but you can go lower - HMR (in some areas), WMR, .22Hornet etc but I'd stick with the first three as then you have something you can use on Muntjac and CWD too. Probably find you'll spend more than half your budget on a scope as you're likely to be shooting at large distances in failing light, second hand 8x56 S&B would do you proud there but the other top makes will do the job too (Zeiss, Swaro etc), although if your budget won't stretch to those there are cheaper makes that will do the job.
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    http://www.thehuntin...howtopic=153993 Bargain at £15, I have 3 now!
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    Don't sweat it mate, you have done nothing illegal. The humane destruction of a wounded or injured animal has absolutely NOTHING to do with conditions on your FAC. Some shooters will have specific conditions for humane destruction if they are on a list to be called out to perform the deed but it doesn't mean you can't if the need arises. The priority is always to end the suffering as long as doing so does not cause further danger. If the deer had made it on to farm land you also have a legal right to go on that land and finish the job unless it could be proved that you had prior knowledge that
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    I have the 16" Silhouette (synthetic stock with blued barrel not nickel). I paid £340 for it at the end of last year but they have gone up a little since then (not £100 though). Definitely worth looking about second hand as they're pretty bombproof and I'd agree you don't need uber glass on a rimfire. I have a Hawke Endurance 30IR on mine and the red dot is great for lamping but the scope itself is everything I need. Works great in fading light too, where my WTC used to really struggle.
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    I can't argue with FTB that shooting bolting bunnies with a shotty is great but apart from that as I don't really go in for driven game, the 12b only really comes out for shooting over ferrets and the odd days rough shooting. Whereas the LR is getting almost daily use this week, bunny numbers in the freezer are at an all time high so just bought a mincer on eBay. This weekend I will be making bunny burgers! Out of every part of shooting I have had experience of, lamping is still my fave.
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    If anything I'd say my LR is quieter than my FAC Air but like said above it does depend on the shoot. I was using the FAC Air on some pastures last week and able to shoot one rabbit without spooking the others, last Sunday with the LR a group of rabbits 150yards off to my right would all run back in when I was shooting away from them (they didn't take long to come back out though so going back tonight with the FAC Air to have a pop at them).
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    So other half was away for the weekend and come half four, the grass had been cut, daughter dropped off at her mum's and the dog had been walked so time for some me time. I'd been noticing an increasing number of rabbits on a permission just down the road from where I live and realised my LR doesn't get to come out much during the day, just recently bought a new scope for it (Hawke Endurance 30IR) so seemed like a ideal time to give them both a run out. To get on to the field I walk about 100 yards up a footpath which often has rabbits sitting on it, cos they know I can't shoot them th
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    ... and a lot of old boys in the trade still call them Brno's (or Brunos) even if it's a CZ. As said above try before you buy if you can but in LR they're pretty bombproof anyway.
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    I had my WTC 6.5-20x50 on mediums on my CZ452, it was close (4-5mm) but still a gap under the bell... but it does vary from make to make, I don't have that scope or mounts now and can't think for the life of me what make they were. I usually take gun and scope into my local gunshop and try a few different ones (my local chap usually mounts and boresights it too!)
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    Was talking to my local gunsmith about these a while back, apparently they don't stop richochets just less likely, I seem to remember them being almost HMR money too.
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    Personally I don't think we get enough of this sort of reporting on Afghanistan, when I was a kid during the Falklands the news every night gave an almost blow by blow account of the progress there. With this conflict, all we ever seem to hear is more deaths of our troops due to roadside bombs etc. It's like the media just want to give it a negative spin, it's no wonder most of the British population can't work out what we're doing there. However, and before I start I'll qualify this by saying I have no experience whatsoever of long range shooting (my furthest was a 120yard bunny with a
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    Your mate and boss will be fine. As said above, can't use family members, serving police officers or RFD's
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    Spent my twenties as a Sales Rep for a Builders Merchants so around election time, politics was often the topic of conversation as I went on my rounds. The most common comment I heard back then was "If I thought the Liberals could win, I'd vote for them"... Due largely to the TV debates, the Liberals are seen as a much more serious contender now than in previous years and I'll be voting for them. You hear all this scaremongering (from the other 2) about the "dangers" of a hung parliament. I'm not convinced a coalition government would actually be a bad thing. A few more checks and balances
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    I put vermin and pest control, it's not that important as they are never going to deny you a mod for an LR, same goes for Expanding Ammo. They ought to add a condition to purchase expanding automatically if you put pest control rather than target as your reason but it's worth making sure. For ammo I put 1000 and 1200 but it came back 500 and 750. That wasn't a problem for me as I have a gunshop near where I work.
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