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  1. Yokel Matt
    The current list looks like this: .22 LR .17 HMR .223 6.5x55 If I has to make it 5 the it would have to be a Holland & Holland Royal .470 Nitro Express Double Rifle. The good reason...driven muntjack.
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    Nothing like a good quality fixed power scope to get those brown blobs on the floor and then in the larder hey Kev! Keep at it old timers. It'll never happen to me.... 20/20 and the reactions of a cat forever...
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    This is what first came to my mind. Hopefully your friend inspected the animal before distributing into the food chain and no doubt it is perfectly healthy - if it does turn out to be this gland it is nothing to worry about. That said i'd still push it to the side of the plate, If the growth is inside the muscle is may be a cyst from an old injury of some kind or if attached to the muscle on the skin side could be a parasite. Bon apertite
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    The dogs Christmas dinner is sorted then. Big buck as well, lucky he didn't go through the windscreen - poor buggers.
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    Oh come on Deker, have a guess, or is this one of your leading questions with no correct answer - Target Shooting maybe.....? Alsone - this is my concern. Some areas make you go through hoops, sure you winge about it at the time but when you get the experience you understand why. It's like saying ammo consumption = experience. Bollocks.
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    Sounds like an FEO fob off to me - The question was more directed at the people who do have experience with shooting centre fire at night on whether they thought this was a good idea or not. I wouldn't be surprised if your variation got knocked back or was granted subject to mentorship or FMJ only for range shooting but good luck with it anyway.
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    .. and 6 months with a .22 rimfire counts towards a slot for a centerfire with expanding ammunition
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    Great brace there mate - you look as stoked as you sounded. Have you boiled the head out yet?... be a gent and do mine at the same time will you
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    Inconsistent velocity and accuracy in experience.
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    I've had a volquratsen (spelling?) conversion 10/22 which was top of the range on paper.... By that I mean for the amout it cost it should have been brilliant. Very accurate, fun to shoot and useful for a 'blink and you miss it' second shot at a rabbit against a hedgerow BUT.... When they start to jam.... To put it mildly It will piss you off. I hated it eventually, bought a cz452 and never looked back.
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    I'd agree about getting them in as close as possible - no point taking a long shot just for the sake of it but you can bet one day there will be one which is wise to you, either by being schooled by you or someone else.
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    I'm sure feo's make things up half the time.. What a load of tosh, you could fire 1 million rounds of .22lr down a rimfire range and still be none the wiser for a centre fire in the field. As for .223, I use 40gr v-max nosler ballistic tip. Very accurate, very flat with a lot of splat power. Why 200 meter max my the way? Even 300m is no great shakes with the right glass.
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    Sour the ground is a good term... dont they just! Some species take more exception than others I've found, roe seem very intolerant of it but I've seen sika mixing quite happily and a red hind actually nestled amongst a group of couched sheep in Scotland.. Not that she could do much about it as she only had 3 legs and was more of a pet than anything else but looked none the worse for it.
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    I think anyone be a mess after a drag that far and out on that terrain after the recent wet weather, nice doe.
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    It was almost like it was both glued and nailed on. Give me a muntjack any day.
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    Between the two of us Owen and I had a run of luck only Martin could trump in the run our trip further West in search of my first boar. Whilst many mortal men would have stayed at home for fear of further misfortune we laughed in the face of it and headed down to make our own luck. In contrast to the washout of a weekend it was a lovely sunny day with a light breeze and this if nothing else was a positive sign as we headed down the M5. We stopped off at a roadside café and enjoyed a good breakfast to stand us for the highseat session we had to come and listened to the locals as they discussed
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    I'll be the back was aching despite the quad - fair weight of venison there, nice shooting Tex.
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    It boils down to what your intentions are. If you're specifically out on a fox control day then I'd pack bb's and leave other quarry alone. If you're rough shooting with the chance of a fox maybe keep to 5's and be sensible about the range. If your on a game shoot and are using 7.5's a) give yourself a slap and put a proper game load in make sure you clear ground game and vermin with the keeper before hand or be prepared to take an early bath. Be sensible with the range and even clay dust shot will do the job but go out with the specific intention if shooting foxs and slacking on the prop
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    Cheers fellas - he went on the hook at 77lb so he wasn't that big. I'm boiling the head out in the kitchen now while the wife is out so could be about to make things a lot harder for myself...
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    The problem with leaving nature to do it for you is that you get bad staining of the skull which is nigh on impossible to remove even with peroxide and the attractive dark colour of the antler gets weathered out leaving the whole think looking shabby. In addition to this the skul plates become weak and the whole thing can just fall appart. To do it properly skin the head and remove as much of the flesh as possible inclusing the eyes then boil it out and scrape it clean or better give it a blast with a pressure washer. Then wrap it in a couple of layers of toilet roll and pour hydrogen pero
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    The alarm went off at 3:30am and the first thing to cross my mind was what the hell was I doing! I'd only been in bed 3 hours after a hellish week, the wife wasn't well and neither were my two young children. It was going to land me firmly in the red on the brownie point factor but a day trip down to Dorset had been in the diary for ages and I wasn't one to shirk on my social obligations. Tim turned up at 4am and we bundled the gear in the my car and headed down with the conversation very much on the subject of the weather and were we going to get away with it. I'd had a call weeks earlier
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    Proper job - totally agree about the give and take with the landowner. A little good will goes further than poind notes with some people which is now it should be.
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    Lovely buck there mate, i expect that black one cant believe his luck as hes probably got the run of the herd now. lucky the farmer was in to drop round with the transportation or your legs would still be aching. Not surprised the liver was rank, rutting bucks arn't renound for their culinary qualities and the offal gets the worst of it.
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    I took my .177 Diana airgun to a clay shoot my dad had organised before the season opened when I was around 11. I badgered them all morning to let me have a go with it and when it was my dads turn he let me have the first one of his set.... not sure who was the more surprised but I nailed it!
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