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My bolts are secured in a separate locking box. I use my ammunition box, as I believe do most FAC holders if they store their bolts separately. The same is true of moderators. They are classed as firearms and hence must be secured.
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Roy, did you get that in writing, because it is wrong, and dangerously so for your certificate. Failure to store securely is a serious breach of the conditions on your cert and could lead to conviction, a criminal record, a fine and almost certain loss of your SGC. Unless you have the FEO's opinion in writing you will have no defence!
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The Duncan. No, it doesn't! There is some mention of a discretionary allowance in ACPO guidelines, but there is nothing in settled law that says you can't be done for less. Common misconception (I used to work in road safety, with a "safer roads partnership" and traffic police, and trust me you CAN be done for exceeding the speed limit by 1mph!) If you "checked your facts" then I'd like to see chapter and verse in law!
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Free gloves? Yes please mate, it's chilly out there, my poor little fingers get all blue, I keep thinking someone's swapped my hands for a smurfs!
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A 6 ft.lb air pistol can be an effective tool at very close range, on rats and such, I know a few pest controllers who use them in buildings. Anything more than about ten yards and they don't have the power to ensure a clean kill. Whilst it's not illegal to shoot an animal with an air pistol, it IS illegal to cause "un-necessary suffering" and if you don't stick to very short ranges, and use a full powered pistol, you are leaving yourself wide open to an accusation of causing unnecessary suffering. I've used an air pistol to dispatch rats in live catch traps, and very effective it was,
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Depends on your FEO I think. When I moved house the FEO came out and handed me my certs without looking at the cabinet. He knew the cabinet was ok as it was the same one I'd had at the old place, and it was mounted the same as in the previous place, so he was happy with that. If you want the number of weapons you can hold to be increased they'd probably want to look at them though. Best bet is to ring them and ask the question.
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Written law. Firearms act 1968,part iv section 57 1) Interpretation. In this Act, the expression “firearm” means a lethal barrelled weapon of any description from which any shot, bullet or other missile can be discharged and includes— (a) any prohibited weapon, whether it is such a lethal weapon as aforesaid or not; and ( any component part of such a lethal or prohibited weapon; and And your barrel classes as a "component part"
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No, it is a pressure bearing part, so classes as a firearm and needs to be secured.
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Badger cull areas revealed.. to start after the olympics!
matt_hooks replied to Waz's topic in General Talk
Have a trawl through the NE blurb. Anyone wanting to cull has to demonstrate shooting to a similar standard as that required for DSC1. Also all persons shooting badgers under licence must have received specific ‘top up’ training on the humane shooting of badgers. (Click the last sentence to go to the NE FAQ page) -
Badger cull areas revealed.. to start after the olympics!
matt_hooks replied to Waz's topic in General Talk
Question is, who is running the training for the people doing the culling? -
The info on katabatic and anabatic flow is interesting, but not entirely sure how you would use it to explain an upwind beast scenting you. There are some places I know where the wind at the bottom of the valley can be the exact opposite of the wind half way up. That's often due to an influx of air from a hanging valley or some other funneling effect. That can seriously b####r up your stalk. You're happily trotting along towards a herd of bambi, wind in your face, then suddenly you feel the wind swing round to your back and herd of bambi disappears into the sunset. For the "wind in you
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Hehe I was "conker". 11m isn't CB though, it's licenced amateur territory!
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A 3 meter head is easy. One of the cheap submersible pumps will do the job fine, but you'll need a power supply.
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Firstly, what's your head? I.E. how much height does the water need to gain? The distance pumped is pretty much irrelevant, it's the height gained that's important. Secondly, how long is an acceptable time to pump your 100 gallons. Thirdly, how much do you have to spend? The submersible type pumps will do the job at a reasonable head, at a reasonable flow rate and a reasonable cost. Obviously as you increase head, or increase flow rate, you increase your cost.
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Nice Maran! I really need to get a scope back on my pcp at some point, it got moved on to the .22LR.
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I love the Ultra, as an accurate pigeon popper. The boss bought his son one, and I've been having great fun at work picking off the pigeons. It's pin point accurate, FAR more accurate than I am that's for sure! It's in .22 and is a mag version not the single shot. The cocking system takes a while to get used to, the odd empty crack or no response because you missed a part of the loading/cocking sequence out, but once you get in the swing it's fine. I've not put any groups down with it, but at the 35 yard zero POI is repeatably within half a pellet diameter of POA, which is good enough by a
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Hi Rake. Sadly not the thumbhole, she is one of the very very early guns. She's in lovely condition and has the original moderator on her. I think DavyT and a few of the others have seen her, way back when.
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Do I NEED SGC for just using clay shoots
matt_hooks replied to nightcrawler's topic in Rimfire, Centrefire & Shotguns
Jack, wrong, and dangerously so. There is no "estate condition" for shotguns. You can use a borrowed shot gun at a police approved clay ground, and you can use a shotgun under supervision of the owner/occupier of private land. There's an argument about what actually counts as an occupier, but you can't shoot with just anyone. What the OP was asking is covered by sec 11 exemptions, but NOT shooting on land that isn't police approved. -
Indeed Simon, zeroing at 12 yards will put you a way over at 75 yards. Zeroing at 18 yards would put you bang on at 75 yards. Unfortunately because the effect of drag has been ignored, the calcs are not very reliable.
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Yeah. Look how far below the line of site the dark blue line is at 12 yards. The first zero is definitely more like 18 yards than 12 yards.
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Whether he gets fined or a custodial sentence, he'll have a criminal record for a firearms offence. Armed trespass is a serious offence, he could well be sent down for it. How old is he?
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I've tried "popping" them and had some trouble with the stomach bursting and coating the inside with half digested grass. Maybe that's a technique thing? I also like to open them up in the field to allow them to cool faster. The knife method is what I do, hold by the front legs, knife in at bottom of rib cage and open them all the way down, two fingers inside and hoik all the guts out. The skinning method is the one I use too, quick and efficient (easier if they are still warm too).
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He may well be... He's also entirely correct.
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Ahhh ok, thought so. Look at your right hand chart. You're near zero point is more like 18 yards than 12. Also somehow your velocity is staying constant, which is giving you a significant error.
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i zero at 12yrds and double check at 75yrds as the zero point is roughly the same this means the round is only ever a max 1 1/2 inch out over that entire distance so up to 75yrds its a case of point and shoot not having to worry about hold over ect. I just ran that through a ballistics calculator for the CCI HP Sub, it would put me 3.05" high at 75yds. if on the other hand I Zeroed at 75yds the maximum I would be high is at 45yds with a figure of 1.33". However at 15yds I would be low by 0.18". So what you said is correct but according to my calculator, only if it was zeroed at 75yds wh
