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    Interesting vid that, and the first time I've heard anyone in the British army own up to the fact that the camouflage pattern is as much about image as about concealment! The old DPM is great stuff, one of the better camouflage patterns about at the moment. I don't think that the new pattern will make a great deal of difference in terms of concealment, but it'll look smart, and that's most of what the uniform is about. I don't think the colour of the camouflage is so important, even when the colour is vastly different from the background (how many orange trees do you see in the jungle
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    Sadly not Side. I was told that because of the damage to the tube it was no longer economical to repair (especially as a replacement off eBay would set me back less than £50!
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    They won't group well when you're trying to shoot them off a trampoline. Still, if it justified the S400 I guess that's ok!
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    This is true, though in the case of an FAC it's not much use unless you have the weapon on it, even if you don't actually own it! Again, this is fine for shotguns, the SGC confers the right to borrow someone elses gun and use it on your own. The FAC doesn't however. Unless you have the weapon on your FAC (that doesn't mean you necessarily own it, more than one person can have the same gun on their FAC) you are not allowed to use it on your own. Even under the estate condition you have to be under the supervision of the person with shooting rights (and the estate condition only applies to t
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    Firstly, did you serve any prison time for either conviction? You are only automatically disbarred if you are sentenced to a certain amount of time in prison. The ban is 5 years if you are sentenced to more than 3 months, but less than 3 years. Any sentence of over 5 years means a lifetime ban. However, the police will still take the offences into account, even if they were below the sentencing threshold for automatic bans. I think a lot of it will be down to the circumstances of each offence. I note they are both for violent offences, which would tend to go against you. However, it m
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    Sorry, but this can't be a scope issue (other than the scope not being vertical on the rifle). The most likely problem is a UNFG error. Basically the soggy organic bit on the end of the rifle isn't aiming in the same place. Could be down to paralax, or just not quite getting everything lined up properly. It is not possible for a scope to cause you to be to the left at one distance, and then to the right further out, unless it is grossly out of alignment with the barrel. Even then, the errors you're giving, at the distances you quote, would mean that the error was readily noticeable! Ha
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    ok, I believe with ammo that if I give written permission to some one over 18 and my license that they can buy it on my behalf, does anyone know if this has changed? Never heard of that one mate. As far as I know you can only buy ammunition if you have your own cert. Could be wrong though.
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    Excuse me? Exploding ammunition? Or do you mean "expanding" ammunition? The .22LR gives a good general pest control option. The .22 shorts are very low powered, not a huge amount more power than a legal limit air rifle, so yes they are a little safer in very tight locations, but then again you shouldn't be taking shots where there's a risk of overshoot no matter what gun you're using. I really don't see the benefit in using them in preference to a .22LR, and I believe that they are more expensive too! As for "they don't carry" what exactly does he mean? They will still carry letha
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    No. It is an offence under the firearms act 1968, as modified by the violent crime reduction act 2006, to sell or rent a shotgun, or any ammunition for a shotgun, to someone under the age of 18. You can still have an SGC, and you can be gifted a shotgun, but you would need to be gifted the ammunition too.
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    Hmmm, as I don't have range finding kit, I can't prove that (and I've still not managed to get my cam corder to talk to the comp either) It's a shame really, cos one of my chickens thinks she's half Ostrich, I weighed one of her eggs the other day, nearly 4 oz, from a standard sized chicken. I can tell which one they come from, she always has a slightly cross eyed expression! I'll see what I can do about one or two of these challenges one day! Don't suppose you'd let me have the .243 for the egg challenge? No, thought not. Damn!
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    Almost justifies a trip over to Norwich for those prices! saving £3.90 per 100, so if I bought my full compliment of 1000, I'd save nearly £40! OK, not quite enough to cover a trip to Norwich, but not far off! Anyone getting them similar/cheaper?
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    I hate you!
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    Whippeter, want to send some of those my way? I'm paying £5.50 per box of 50 Winchester Super X subs. Sickening! I can remember paying £2 per 50 Tenex back when I was at school!
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    Can I use my .22LR?
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    Are high magnification scopes necessary? Not really. I took a deer in Scotland before christmas at 185 paces with a 4x mag scope. (With my .243, before we get the deer/airgun debate) Of course that's probably not ideal, and the larger mags allow you to be more precise and more certain. However, a high mag scope on a short range tool like an air rifle will often turn out to be more of a libility than an asset. I use scopes with magnification up to x16 on my PCP, and I will use this when zeroing the rifle. Other than that, it very rarely goes above about 6X for rabbits, pigeon and tree rats.
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    Not really Stevo. You might approach whoever runs the allotments, as they are more likely to give you permission in a place that's not directly public, as long as you can prove that you're competent and safe. As for the parkland, the council DO have a duty to control the rabbits. Every part of the UK, apart from a few spots (the "square mile" in London, and the IOM I think, though could be wrong) is a permanent rabbit clearance zone, meaning land owners have a legal duty to control the rabbits. Of course, how they do this is up to them. Most councils will gas warrens and the like, rather
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    Ric, indeed, in terms of time a heavier bullet does not fall faster than a light one, gravity is (relatively) constant. HOWEVER... The trajectory of a heavier bullet will appear more curved (for a given ME) because the heavier bullet will travel less horizontal distance for the same vertical displacement. So timewise, it will be at the same point vertically, but distance from muzzle wise it will drop more quickly. As you say, if the muzzle velocity is the same then the trajectory should be the same (BC and so on taken into account) but heavier bullets tend to move less quickly!
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    The Gamo Extreme Hunter in the video's on youtube is running somewhere around the 50ft.lb mark, so you could have one in the UK, but it would have to be on a firearms certificate. As for using it to shoot pigs, let's just say I wouldn't fancy facing up to one with nothing more potent than a low powered air rifle to stop it! More usual weapons for wild boar run in the range of 3000 ft.lb (no, that's not a typo, my .243 at 2500 ft.lb would be considered a bit anaemic for the job by some.) The French usually use solid slug 12 bore shells, firing over an ounce of lead at nigh on 1000 fps,
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    You'd need a bloody weighty moderator to make any kind of bend on a gun's barrel, Si. It's to do with the fireing cycle and the gun barrel's relative position dureing the lock time Not as heavy as you might think Andy. With a modern fully floating barrel, the weight of an added moderator, cantilevered over the length of the barrel, can cause apreciable droop in the lighter weight barrels usually fitted to air guns. Remember, even a half millimeter change in the curve of the barrel can cause a considerable change to the POI. The recoil cycle on a PCP is so slight that they're n
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    I predict that this post will disappear in short order when a mod arrives!
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    Jake, sounds like you should be ok, of course I can't answer for the vagaries of your individual force area. As far as I know there's been no change in the licencing conditions since the Bird incident, so it shouldn't impact your application. I live just down the road from Hungerford, so I can understand the concern. As for "mentoring" basically avoid it if at all possible. Basically it would mean that you would have a condition on your FAC stating that the rifle could only be used "under the supervision of [named person]". Depends on the force as to what is suitable to end the mentoring c
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    Correct, gravity's not optional, it's the law! Get your mitts on a chronograph and measure your MV, then google "ballistics calculator" or similar. ArmChair pro I've heard is good. Put the details in, so MV, bullet details (ballistic coeffisient, mass, twist rate etc.) and it should tell you where to zero for maximum point blank range (not, as the press seem to think, with the muzzle touching the target, but actually the range of distances where a bullet will fall within the radius of a circle of the required size if the aim point is kept the same, for deer a 4" circle for example) For my .
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    Firstly, the rimfire is a .17, not a .177 which is an air rifle calibre. As for your chances of gaining a licence, well, you have lots of premission, is any of it cleared for firearms? If not, are the owners/occupiers happy for mr plod to come and check it out? If you have the land, and written permission, then you can show reasonabel cause to hold. Do you have somewhere you can mount a gun cabinet? That's another bit of the puzzle. Also, is there any reason they might not issue, or example criminal history, history of violence, anything like that? Also have you ever been diagnosed wi
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    We're not the only ones who like to use the countryside!
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    What ammunition are you using? The box often has information about the trajectory, and best zero range. What do you consider a "long range" shot?
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