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  1. silentshot1
    Welcome back to real hunting mate! Cracking read, look forward to your next post,
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    awesome going mate, i'll get my coat!! SP on the way!
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    Ahhhh, finally I get it! When the now stretched Saddam Hussain was found to be making a super gun with parts smuggled by a British company, it wasn't to destabilise the Middle East, it was to pop that freaking big bunny! Makes sense now!
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    I had a pop with a cyclone in a shop range about a year ago. I really wasn't keen on it after an HW100 or any HW come to think of it, exactly as someone else said, it felt a bit like a toy. To each their own and all that!
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    Hi all Not going to bore you with a huge write up... this time, but had a blinding time over the wheat stubble yesterday. I was using 5 flocked decoys with UV pen added. I put them out in a loose U, with the arms about 10 meters apart spread between 15 and 25 meters from my lay up spot. I wasn't using a hide, simply sitting under the shadow of some trees, against the fence line, near where I had seen a lot of activity the evening before. n Although the dreaded blue car crappes where flying over the pattern, at first they were heading in to the trees for a look befo
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    Awsome shooting mate, have a slut!
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    Lovely idea and thanks for the open invite. I would love to but am taking a friend of the in Laws out on the farm this weekend! I'm sure someone else would be interested though!
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    Congratulations on a successful return! I had a similar one shot wonder the other night. Have an SP for the effort. I've always figured it's not the amount you shoot but the achievement of each shot! A whole day with one in the bag can be as rewarding as a two hour trip with 6 shot. Nice one mate and great write up!
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    Hi Mate HW's are heavy because of the action, not the stock, so I'm not sure that apart from looking cool, what difference a custom stock would make to the overall weight. I struggled with the weight of my HW77 for a while, both when I first got it and after using an S410 TDR for 6 months. Once you get used to it and you will, the extra weight becomes a real ally, especially at longer distances as the weight will give you a more positive hold. That said, if you have the cash spare, a custom, properly fitted stock can really make a difference as well!
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    Only thing I can add is don't forget to include the price of charging gear.... It can come as a sting!
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    I was chuffed at bagging just one crop scoffer last night, the joy's a bit tarnished now! Great bag mate.
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    Have certainly done the 'Bovine Bog Run' a few times, as angry cows defend their calves. Not for a few years now, but when you have the combined weight of 50 odd angry cows bearing down on you, the weight of your kit plus newly acquired underpant ballast seems to disappear, replaced by a wish to survive! Certainly keeps the heart going, that one!
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    Good stuff and an sp on it's way mate.
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    Proves nicely that the being there out ways the bag size every time! Great read - SP!
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    If you time it right on a Saturday, you can get out before your shopping half realises and totally avoid John Lewis all day, without to many quiet patches, making you want to give up!
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    I freakin' love decoying pigeons!! It's all about getting feet on the deck and shot placement for us Air Gun types, far more challenging than with a 12g Howitzer! A real challenge! In your case, with an opportunity all ready there with the warrens, you could always drop 4 or 5 shells, 2 up right, three feeding, a few meters from the warren. Keep them about a meter or 2 apart and in no specific pattern except for approximately facing in the direction of the wind, if it's blowing, the real ones will want to join! Bits of advise that can help are 1. Try and use flocked decoys if you
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    I really like that mate, SPA for your fondness of the '77 and reviving a classic! One thing I have learnt from using one intermittently... Don't forget the safety! The amount of times I've squeezed the trigger and nothing's happened because the safety was still on, is incredible!
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    Saw a second user HW80 on the for sale section here. Worth a look!
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    Good read mate, just shows what patience and perseverance can do! SP on it's way!
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    Bonnie and Clyde, V-mach or Weihrauch original parts, mate. HW's are amongst the best and lowering the engineering quality with sub standard springs is a bit of a false economy. It'll only end up causing you to change them again!
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    Mate, I was doing what you seem to be doing, at the begining of the year. Just get a 40 Yard/Meter(Whatever's your preference)ball of string and tie a twig in it every 5 meters, from about 10 meters on. Stretch it out on the ground and dig an old spoon in to the ground by it's handle, next to each twig. Having checked your zero, first of all shoot the spoon at your zero, then work up and down the line. It might take you a day, and seem really boring to think about doing, but when you can happily shoot up and down the line in no particular order, hitting each spoon head, you've cr
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    Reminds me of a BSA Lightening XL, but about half the price! Looking forward to hearing what you think of it in the field.
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    I with Stealthy1, I have an aged HW77K and it's still awesome. It would be the last gun I chose to get rid of.
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    Top stuff mate.
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    Hi Mate Like you, I only have 30, 30 rets on all my scopes. If you practice, practice, practice, you will get there in the end on being able to judge hold over/under. That said, I will be buying a milldot for my .22 as Tony and Davy are two of several people worth listening to on here and if it works for them, I'm in!
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