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    Ah apparently Gecado was a trading name for Diana rifles. Very nice rifles, but fairly old now. The mod 50's not been made since the early 's. Not sure if you can get a gas ram to fit them, would be worth contacting the gas ram manufacturers and asking.
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    Si, I'm not arguing that the .22 has more retained energy, but the fact is both the .177 and the .22 retain ENOUGH energy to do the job admirably. As for pellet frontal area... A .22 has a nominal diameter of 5.59 mm, so the area is 24.54 square mm. However most pellets are actually 5.5 mm dia, so 23.8mm square A .177 has a nominal diameter of 4.50 mm, so the area is 15.91 square mm. Ok, something wrong with my mental maths at that time of the morning I guess, my bad. I'd still say, using the info in the FBi document, that it's not that relevant to killing ability. The
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    Please don't limit your ponderings, we all learn from each others ramblings (and I ramble more than most!) I'm not familiar with the rifle you mention, is it possible that it's an Aussie thing? Your best bet for finding out which gas rams fit which rifles is to approach one of the gas ram manufacturers. I would definitely recommend a gas ram over a springer, so much quieter and so much less recoil. Out of interest, as you need to have a permit, are you limited to the power you can have? In the UK we can hold a rifle that produces up to 12 ft.lb (16.3 J) without a licence. Any more than
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    Karpman, post mortem movement is not unusual. I shot a pigeon in the head with my .22LR a while ago, and it flapped around for ages, and flew over an 8 foot hedge from one field to the next. When I got to it, thinking I'd missed and hit it in the crop or something, I was that it was a totally clean head shot, and I had completely removed the top of the skull and emptied the brains out. The skull was completely empty! It seems that pigeons are sometimes too stupid to realise that they're dead! The calibre that kills best, is the one you are most confident with. If you use a calibre a lot, a
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    Not entirely sure what you're asking here. If you want to know if it's possible to have the same weapon listed on two certificates, then the answer is yes. This allows more than one person to have access to a gun cabinet. As it's just shotgun you're talking about, there is no problem with "reasonable cause to hold". However, if the shotgun is stored in a cabinet with FAC weapons, then you will need an FAC too, and to have the FAC weapons on your FAC, otherwise you can't have access to the cabinet, or the FAC weapons have to be secured within the cabinet such that you can't use them (a welded i
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    Hob, I kind of agree. I hold FAC and SGC, so applying for an air rifle would be very little problem for me. However, what level of checks would be in place? Would it purely be a stalling tactic, like the American "cooling off period" idea, or would it involve the same medical questions and background checks as the SGC or FAC? The police firearms licencing people are understaffed enough as it is (and officious enough in some cases) so adding a huge number of airguns to their workload would bring the whole system to a grinding halt, unless significant investment was made in personnal and sy
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    Guntrader is good, so is the "for sale" section on this site. It might be an idea to look for a Daystate forum where people who know the rifles well will hang out.
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    If you don't like being able to hear, then by all means shoot without hearing protection. If, however, you enjoy music and speech, then ear defenders are an absolute MUST! The electronic ear defenders are very good, and even the cheapest ones will reduce the sound pressure at the ear enough to prevent serious hearing damage. The little yellow foam plugs are brilliant, they don't get in the way, are easy and light to carry and really cut the noise down, but with them in you can't hear the birds or anything much else. The electronic ones allow you to hear what's going on around you, but still st
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    One of the "informed minority" was a member from this site. The usual inflammatory twaddle we've come to expect from Vine and his cronies (yes, I know it wasn't him presenting, but the same production team) with little regard for common sense or the facts, and a great deal to tugging as many heart strings as possible. The woman about the cat, WTF? Ok, if someone took potshots at any of my pets with an air rifle, I'd be fu####g livid, but how was it relevant to the discussion? As you can tell, I wasn't very impressed. (I don't know why I ever bother to listen to Vine, it only ever
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    Chelsea aren't above the law. The police need to get in there with their big stomping boots on and give him a kicking. If the club try to interfere by witholding evidence, or trying to suppress witnesses, then THEY need stomping too!
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    Mushroom, Simon? Or Kieran?
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    Did anyone see the Sun coverage of it? Apparently an AA S410 (I'm sure that was the picture they had anyway) is "A deadly, high powered, lethal air weapon". You'd think he'd shot him with a bloody 12 bore! Frankly, Cole should be taken away and locked up for five years. Anyone idiot enough to point a gun at someone else and pull the trigger, whether they believe it to be unloaded or not, deserves to spend a few years as bubba's b###h! And it's a firearms offence, so the club trying to cover it up isn't going to go down well. Seriously, send the prick to prison! We would expect the
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    So Davy, that's why it took you ages to reply to my text, you were too busy at the bar! Right about the time you were posting that "we are at the bar" post, I was driving past your house pondering knocking on the door for a cuppa!
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    Shepp, the show will be available on the archive, just takes them a few minutes to get it on there. BBC iPlayer radio
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    Your requirements hog tie you a little. The ONLY calibre that will allow near silent shooting is the .22LR, with subsonic ammunition. You COULD go for a moderated shotgun too, but you asked about FAC. The LR will allow you to take rabbits confidently out to 100 yards with practice, and will be ok for close range foxes. Anything more than 20 or 30 yards and you will want something harder hitting. A .22WMR will extend your fox kill range to about 60 yards, a little more if you can VERY confidently place your round in the skull. Anything more and you will be looking at a centrefire. The .
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    I disagree. Air resistance makes a huge difference to the speed change with distance. It changes the amount of air resistance, and therefore directly affects the rate the pellet slows down at (and therefore the point on the arc that it impacts the target.)
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    Looks exactly the same as the GunTuff that people love so much, but with a different name printed on it. They've stopped selling them now, sold out!
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    The cylinder is a fairly tight fit in the tube, if I remember correctly from the ones I've fitted. The pressure is the same, so the total amount of energy available to accelerate whichever end you use is constant. A lighter item will have less inertia than a heavier item. So the lighter item will accelerate more quickly. I'm still uncertain that what you are suggesting can be achieved though, could you clarify what you intend to do? Remember that if you accelerate the air faster, you are likely to increase the power level, possibly pushing you over the legal limit.
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    A few points on this one. "Expansion" in a sub 12 ft.lb airgun pellet when striking anything softer than a steel plate is a myth. I've dug hundreds of pellets out of various animals, and have never seen one that has expanded. No matter how hard/soft the lead is. The amount of retained energy is of little importance. What matters is placement. As long as the pellet has sufficient energy to penetrate to the depth of the vital organs (to penetrate the "hardest" point on a rabbit, the skull, requires around two foot pounds) then placement is the prime factor. The difference between a .177
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    Lampingboy, the law says that the maximum magazine capacity for a pump or semi is two cartridges. Obviously you can have two in the mag and one in the chamber, so an overall capacity of three cartridges.
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    Aye, looks like the DB4 to me. About £49.95 brand new. The sight might be worth a bit though, what make/model is it?
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    Haha Buster, I was about to ask how many aircraft engineers Moley thinks have commercial pilots licences. The answer is very few! (I have both qualifications, but use neither, go figure!)
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    Hmmmm, 50mm is the ID of the waste pipe I think, whereas most scopes the dimension is the OD of the objective bell, so I don't think it would fit.
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    Strangely no. There is no requirement to hold an FAC to hold an RFD. You can get development RFD certs which allow you to carry and fire the rifles too (most gunsmiths have these to allow for testing) but a normal RFD certificate doesn't allow the use of the weapons, only possession for the purpose of business.
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    I'd agree with the 75 idea. Certainly the stock checkering looks like the 75's I've seen (the S shape at the front and the shape on the pistol grip!)
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