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  1. matt_hooks
    Oh, and I meant to say... Jammy b#####d! Why do these deals never come my way? A Logun for £200? That's pennies mate! Even if there's no tank with it, a s/h tank will set you back another £100, decent hunting set up for £300, with a Logun! I'd be happy with that! Get some pice up mate!
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    Spare magazines are good, but difficult to get hold of for some models of rifle. I use an air rifle pellet pouch. It seems to work ok.
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    I think you'd need to change a lot of the internals too, as a .177 uses more air to get the speed required to give good hunting power, so pushing a .22 over the limit. (I know, counter intuitive but it's the way it works) hence why you should never put a .177 spring into the .22 version of a rifle.
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    Fold of the wing pest hunter. If you take a dead bird and open out it's wing, you'll see where abouts the fold is.
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    At sensible ranges, a chest shot can and will deal with most of the airgun prey species cleanly and efficiently. When deer hunting, the preferred shot is chest. Some people take head shots, but at longer ranges the chest shot is the recognised "best practice" as even if death isn't instantaneous, it will come shortly due to blood loss from damaged blood vessles, which the chest/longs/heart are particularly rich in. Head shots can be very effective, however, the head is the part of the animal that moves first, and moves fastest. So between you being on aim and squeezing the trigger, and
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    Best place for guns round there is sporting targets in Riseley. Not heard any bad things about Northants police. If you hold the certs already they shouldn't cause you too many problems!
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    5.56 dice, and they "should" in theory work ok in a .223 chamber, very slightly different shoulder profile but should still work fine. The case deforms a fair bit on firing, so if there is some kind of foreign object in the breech, or even some minor damage, it will be deeply impressed into the case. Damage would tend to do the same to every case, so possibly a bit of muck has found it's way in there?
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    Unlikely to be the gun. Could be the sights, most likely the person holding the gun I'm afraid. Springers are tough guns to shoot accurately. How are you holding the gun? Are you resting it on something hard? The recoil from a springer tends to make them vrey unpredictable when fired off a hard surface. If it's the gun or scope, Phantom will sort it out!
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    Red is the least visible, amber/orange can be good. Steer away from greens, they are highly visible to foxes and rabbits. Blues also are highly visible. Do you "need" to buy more? Well, are the foxes getting lamp shy? If yes, then a change of colour might help. If no, then no need to bother yet, though changing them around might mean it takes a bit longer for them to become conditioned to the filters.
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    Slightly different kettle of fish I know, but with the .22, the loudest noise is the round hitting the bunnys skull!
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    Why you cheeky git! He's right though.
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    WMR and LR are not interchangeable in .22 either, and yet either can be held on a .22rf slot! Granted short and long CAN be fired from a .22LR, but it's not a great idea!
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    Definitely a trip to the gunsmith! Don't heat the barrel any more, you'll ruin the carefully worked out temper of the metal and could weaken the barrel!
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    For the roughing out, it's worth hunting down someone with a decent band saw, saves hours! Then a decent drum sander to bring it close to what you want in terms of curves, then do the final finishing by hand, otherwise you'll end up going mental doing it by hand! The other issue is bedding it in. You need to be careful to make sure you get the bed the right shape to make sure the rifle is properly supported. Are you going for skeleton, thumbhole, anything special like that? It's a lovely piece of wood, £20 is a bargain! Keep the pics coming.
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    What he said! Just a point, you mean modERATOR, not modIFIER!
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    3 birds in 3 hours, and how many shots? Looks like an expensive meal to me! I'll stick to the air rifle for pigeons thanks, 3 in 5 minutes for 3 shots, at about 2p a shot! Pigeon is like duck, or a really good steak, if it's "cooked through" it's ruined! I like my meat so a half competent vet could bring it back to life!
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    Your head is the one next to the chamber when you loose off several thousand ft.lb's of energy, entirely your call!
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    Beat me to it! Remember the law says "capable of producing more than 12 ft.lbs muzzle energy with ANY projectile" If they take it into their heads, they will spend days trying to find the pellet that puts it .1 over!
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    Agreed Deker, highly flawed. The worry is that by "overhaul" the government will actually mean "massive tightening so that it's almost impossible to jump through the necessary hoops to hold a rifle". It's pretty difficult now, and it doesn't help with the police being able to set whatever arbitrary condition they feel like with no right of appeal.
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    The 25-06 and the 6.5x55 are different calibres, as are 300 and .308. The .17 is a .17 no matter which case it's driven from. As someone said, it depends on the area, but it shouldn't!
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    Let's put it this way. You SHOULDN'T have to specify the chamber, only the caliber. That's all it asks for on the form. Speak to BASC about it. My FEO told me specifically that under a .22 I could hold ANY .22rf calibre round, so .22 short, .22 long, .22LR and .22wmr. The .17 calibres are similar, .17rf rounds. Some forces might try and limit it, don't let them!
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    The only thing I'd disagree with is storing your rifle in it's slip, especially if you've been out and put a damp gun back in there. When you get home, get it out and put the slip somewhere warm to dry. Wipe the woodwork and barrel down with an absorbent cloth, and then a very lightly oiled rag over the metalwork. If your stock is bare wood you can give it a drink of stock oil, but make sure you don't get gun oil on the stock. If it's varnished then there's not much to be done with it except make sure it's dry. For storing, I have a cabinet, but that's mainly for FAC, but I put
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    Not quite the type of birds we like to have "trouble" with though!
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    Hi Deano. There is a thread, ND3 laser designator which covered this a while back.
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    Davy. There is a lot of thought about this in deer hunting circles, where a lot of the time the shot doesn't actually kill the animal outright. Research amongst people who have been shot suggests that pain does not start to occur until a good 5 minutes after the impact. The nerves can't process the shock and energy, so they effectively "shut down". Add to that the fact that a prey animal (rabbit, deer, whatever you choose) has no concept of death, or any fear of it. You will see that, actually, you have a good amount of time to get to the animal and deliver the coup de grace.
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