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  1. matt_hooks
    Like I said, sometimes you'll find a rifle that will fire one or more HV rounds accurately. Nobody knows why, it shouldn't happen, but the world would be boring if things did what we expected all the time! I've never understood why the ammunition manufacturers make what is inherently an inaccurate round. I guess the marketing bumf about more power and range (again a falsehood, the turbulent flows will strip off extra speed very quickly) and the fact that they work occasionally is enough to make them economically viable. I guess the extra cost to manufacture is minimal, and they can fetch a
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    Wow, trying to imagine a 72mm front end, must be like having a dinner plate on the front of the rifle!
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    How about something a bit different. An original Theoben Scirocco in .22, nice wood, shoots beautifully and smooth as anything. It has the rechargeable gas ram too so you can vary the power if you have the adaptor and a chrono (don't want it over the legal limit!). Accurate as hell and a real piece if British shooting history!
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    The .22 case isn't big enough to drive a round fast. It can't hold enough powder (and there are pressure issues with the rimfire case too). A bullet travelling in the high supersonic region (as most CF rifle hunting bullets do) is very stable. This is because the airflow around the bullet is all supersonic and so regular. A bullet travelling in the subsonic region (as most LR hunting rounds do) is stable because the air flow around the bullet is all (well, mostly) subsonic, therefore incompressible and therefore stable. The reason the LR HV rounds are inaccurate is because they fly
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    And how would you feel if the headline were "Taliban fighters pissing on dead marines"?
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    Is the guy next door also called WXM by any chance? That is very cheap at the moment, someone's gonna get a bargain!
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    The trick is consistency. Your hand rested should be fine, as long as the gun isn't in direct contact with the rest and you grip the same as you would normally.
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    The LED Lenser torches are brilliant (excuse the pun). I have several. Not cheap for sure, but they'll last forever if you look after them, and can take the odd knock or drop without breaking.
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    Sub sonic all the way. HV gains you nothing, but loses you a lot in accuracy. It's all to do with air flow in the transonic region being unpredictable, with some bits supersonic and other bits not. A true subsonic round doesn't suffer from this and flies in air that can be considered to flow in a laminar, incompressible manner. The real high velocity stuff (pretty much all of the rifle cf rounds, and the magnum rimfires) runs in the supersonic regime, where all of the airflows are supersonic and so flow is once again stable. All the match ammo that I know of is also subsonic. The round
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    You will almost certainly get a different point of impact mod on and mod off. Removing and replacing the mod shouldn't affect zero, and it's not considered good to leave a mod on, as it means all the gases evolved in firing are retained close to the muzzle and can cause crown damage.
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    It's generally considered to be good manners to introduce yourself before trying to sell stuff. Selling in the main forums is also frowned on, as there is a section purely for sales. Of course you need a certain length of membership before you can post items for sale...
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    No. The LED emits in a very limited band of wavelengths. They don't produce a lot of IR radiation (heat) so you wouldn't get much passing an IR filter.
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    The clay shoot I use insist on carrying semi's in a slip between stands, which is fair enough and easy to abide by. I also use a safety flag, which is basically a plastic cartridge with a long bright flag on it that shows the breech is empty. eBay link
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    Recommended practice is to leave the gun locked in the boot. Ammunition too. Take a part that renders the weapon useless if possible (bolt/fore end) and your FAC/SGC with you. If you are on the way home and have to stop then it's acceptable. However, if you have passed home, or could have popped home, dropped the guns off and then come out, then it's frowned upon. The HO "Firearms Security Handbook" (link) says:- PART 7: FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION IN TRANSIT Carriage by Road – Section 1 & 2 Firearms & Ammunition Private Individuals 7.1 When carrying firearms
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    if you have a reason to own they carnt turn you down Haha, hahahahahahaha. Wanna bet?
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    The slugs need to be on FAC, but the shotgun doesn't. Generally any shotgun can fire a slug. Some slugs require an open choke whereas others have fins which allow them to pass through a tighter choke. There are a few reasons for using slugs, though generally I'd agree that a rifle in the proper calibre is a better bet.
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    This argument has been done to death, and is totally irrelevant to the OP's post as it only applies to England and Wales, and he's about as far as you can get from England and Wales within the UK. I still say if he fires from outside the boundaries of his permission then he is committing an offence. If he stays within the boundary fence then he isn't.
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    Game, sounds like it was his own "firm" by all accounts. Attack, they make a whole lot more sense than the EDL c##ts!
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    Depends Paulus. If you mean the general opinion that firing a firearm near a footpath or road is completely illegal, then yes, it's a myth. If you mean that there are certain circumstances when you can be prosecuted for firing a gun within 50 feet of a road then definitely NOT a myth!
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    Lab, that's a quote from somewhere, where is it from? Yes, there is no absolute offence of discharging a firearm within 50 feet of the centre of a highway. The offence requires that a user of the highway is "injured, interrupted or endangered" to be complete. It's poorly worded, define what interruption or endangerment is! Also remember that it needs to be "without lawful authority or excuse". Now you could argue that being a servant of the landowner and requiring to control a pest species qualifies as "lawful authority" but I can't find any precedent in law for it, so you'd be tak
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    Paulus, below is an actual quote, from the actual legislation (Highways Act 1980) Now tell me that the 50 foot rule is a myth. The Highways Act 1980, Section 161: Penalties for causing certain kinds of danger or annoyance. (1) If a person, without lawful authority or excuse, deposits any thing whatsoever on a highway in consequence of which a user of the highway is injured or endangered, that person is guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding [level 3 on the standard scale]. (2) If a person without lawful authority or excuse— (A) lights
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    Paulus, I suggest you google the piece of legislation I mentioned in the quote above. It is NOT a myth, but it is also not exactly what people normally think it is.
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    A quote from the BASC code of practice on Lamping which gives the source and the wording that is relevant. Of course that doesn't apply in Scotland. You could possibly be prosecuted for endangerment, but there is no actual statute in Scotland that relates to the section quoted below in English law. The Highways Act 1980 Section 161 in England and Wales makes it an offence to discharge without lawful authority or excuse any firearm within 50 feet of the centre of the highway and in consequence of which the user of the highway is injured, interrupted or endangered. But that doesn't mean
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    The Sellier on the right is a collectors piece!
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