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    Where did you pull that from? Not much point putting quotes up without the source mate. The age limits have all shifted wround recently, making it virtually impossible to understand imho, be worth checking the current legislation. The violent crime reduction act for starters! Edited to add, a quote from the BASC response to the Home Affairs Committee inquiry into firearms comes the following:- Which I believe comes from the above mentioned violent crime reduction act 2006, I will find chapter and verse shortly. So no, you cannot legally walk unaccompanied to your ground. Wheth
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    Aylesbury's not far from Woburn, so you'll almost certainly have Munty, probably CWD, and definitely Roe. Probably a few Fallow too. Unlikely to see red or sika in those parts. There are boar around those parts, but whether there are any in that specific area I don't know.
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    If it's the Combro, then they're pretty well respected. That sounds a little steep for one though. I paid £60 on FleaBay for a "Chrony Beta" which does everything, from bows to paintball guns, through air guns and I have just used it to chrono my new .243! Brilliant bit of kit and at £60 cheap as chips! Might take a while for one to come up on eBay, but worth waiting for! Far better than the Combro, which is pretty limited!
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    Nothing wrong with shooting birds after dark, as long as you can see them. What's illegal is "using any torch, mirror, dazzling device or other artificial illumination" to shoot them, when using the general licence. As pheasant are game, they are not covered by the licence, but there is no law preventing their shooting at night.
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    Put me down as a vote for the soggy organic bit on the butt! If you dismantled everything then you are more than likely to have changed the zero anyway. Check all bolts are tight, and do the flinch test (friend required).
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    Good luck fella, hope it goes well. You'll have a little one to start gun training with soon!
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    Well, your average bunny isn't very strong, so you'll need something lightweight. What was your bunny planning on shooting? Something with a decent sized trigger guard also, so his big furry paws will fit through...
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    They will rarely give .22 for fox, but most forces seem to be leaning towards the "any other legal quarry" condition these days, which would cover fox. Of course some forces a re more pro-active about that, some will give it without asking, others you need to request it, and others won't even consider it.
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    I've been out a couple of times trying to find charlie. He's been spotted a few times sniffing around the turkey pens, and I know he has a taste for the local chickens, so the rimmy is getting a few outings. The .243 might get an outing soon if I can't get near them. They're great little creatures, tough and tenacious, but when they're showing too much interest in my chooks, I'm afraid they're likely to be on the reveiving end of a lead injection!
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    Or you could follow Davy's example, and get all nice and comfy in your sniping spot, then fall asleep! The bunnies will get really close, and the snoring doesn't seem to bother them much!
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    That's what we like to see, another youngster being taught about shooting, and learning it the proper way, being taught about safety first. I had to learn "A Fathers Advice" and be able to recite it by heart before I was allowed to handle a gun. Old, but still sound advice. Keep it up youngster, you'll soon be outshooting your dad. And Gary, I reckon Shannon's not about to give up her gun to you, where else would she get the opportunity to show you up?
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    The restriction on shooting from vehicles applies to deer, as it's in the deer acts not general firearms legislation. Of course, you can also commit an offence by discharging a firearm within 50 feet of the centre of a carriageway, where by so doing you cause disturbance or danger to a member of the public, be aware of that. Also obviously it must be somewhere where you have permission.
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    The only comment I would make is that the supplied batteries aren't always of the best quality. I have had to replace the rechargables on the three I've bought because they died after a few recharges. It's worth investing in some decent batteries for them, as there's nothing more frustrating than putting the batteries on to charge overnight, then getting out the next day and finding that they've died!
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    Some break barrel rifles are hunting power, others aren't. Basically you have two main types of air rifle. Spring powered and precharged A Spring powered air weapon(I include gas ram types in the spring category) is where the gun has it's own power source on-board, which has to be "charged" (cocked) usually for each shot. A precharged (often known as PCP, which is short for Pre Charged Pneumatic, where the rifle is as the name suggest precharged with the means of producing several shots, normally with a reservoir of air, though also CO2 capsules can be used. Spring powered inc
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    Diver, sounds like a great setup you have. Now wouldn't you be p####d off if someone came in and offered the landowner more money for the shooting rights? Also what you are talking about is game shooting, rather than pest control. The land owners don't really gain much from your shooting deer, other than what they charge you. The kind of shooting most on here do, with air rifles for what are considered vermin species, the landowner gains a great advantage by having good, responsible hunters on his land, in terms of reduction in crop loss, and also in terms of having someone with a bit of n
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    Davy and Rob, brothers separated at birth?
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    Again, this has been subject of no end of discussion. The general consensus is that the spirit of the law, where it states "land owner or his agent" refers to someone who has the right to shoot over the land, so someone that the holder of the shooting rights has given permission to shoot qualifies under that. It doesn't have to be an employee, as long as the holder has permission to shoot over the land.
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    Agreed Deker, in this case it's all about the definition of "supervision" for the estate condition. But if you're next to each other that's fine.
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    I've got it's big brother, with the 50mm front end, on my .243, and it's a cracking scope. I could have spent £1000 on a scope, and it might give me 2 or 3 minutes more shooting at each end of the day, but otherwise the Nikko scopes are perfect. If it can deal with the cf recoil then it'll be fine on an air rifle. Can't go wrong!
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    Oooh be careful making statements like that Darryl, you know what these squaddies are like, you'll never get it back! Now where did the "running away" moticon go?
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    Hi. Duck shooting in Dumfries a few years back a couple of teal sprang from a burn we were walking. I swung through and dropped both birds but at the same time a salmon was leaping which got caught in the pattern and landed on the far bank. When we went to retreive the fish we found that the shot had carried through and dropped a rabbit. On picking up the rabbit we saw it was laid on a pound of mushrooms. DD No need to be facetious DD. It DOES happen. I've not seen it with light calibres, but I've seen two deer drop to one shot before. One fallow drops to good chest shot, go to
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    If the rifle's not on his ticket, then he would be using it under the "estate condition" which means that he can use it "under your supervision" which is usually taken to mean that he is within sight/sound of you. So if you were both hunting the same field, then it would probably be ok, as long as you can prove that you are effectively supervising the weapon. What you couldn't do legally would be to give him the gun and let him wander off on his own with it.
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    True that Si. So this time, to avoid the problems, I'm bringing the shotgun and the .243. Tell me I missed the rabbit with that!
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    Rossi, you can use the laser in a third way too, but it takes a bit of maths (or playing about on the range. The laser is mounted a fixed distance from the scope centre. Whether that's a vertical distance (mounted abouve or below) or horizontal (mounted to the side) makes no difference. Basically, for accurate range finding you need to know the angle that the laser line makes with the scope line. If you zero your scope at 30 yards, and then set the laser on the crosshairs at the same distance, then by measuring accurately the distance from the centre of the scope to the centre of the l
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    I notice you keep putting .177. Is the FAC for an air rifle? If not then the calibre is .17, not .177! If you have your FAC already, then you will have specified the calibre that you want, and given the FEO sufficient reason to hold it. Mine all say "and any other legal quarry" so I quite happily take foxes out to 40 yards with the .22LR, as long as I can make a good head shot of it.
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