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It depends on how the permission goes with what's growing to support the rabbit population Chimp. Mine's a huge shoot spread over several miles and yet, the barley crops this year are only just starting to show through and the rabbits are becoming only visible just now as a result. I expect it will be similar experience for other lads here. Some alas have only a small crop-growing area to shoot over; or no permission at all. You can only shoot what pops out in front of you, regardless of how many other fields you have to shoot over. If the general view was taken, not to write and post up anyt
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I didn't get the significance of the line till the penny dropped that this was a Clint Eastwood/Dirty Harry movie line and this is a post from the secret world of Moley Mike . To you or me, it's a shot on a rabbit in the grass, calculated, estimated and trigger released; job done!. But to Mike, it's turned into a shot on a sneaky unshaven bad guy in the dusts of the American west, a building music score by Lalo Schiffrin heightening the drama of the moment and a quietly uttered, "D'ya feel lucky punk!" through clenched teeth gripping an unlit fag. He may be using a BSA PCP but, it's now
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My permission is only just starting to come alive Karpman so, it can't be too long before yours will too mate. If you both have Foxes present and also Buzzards and Stoats or Polecats on your shoot, as I do, it's going to have an effect on how free and easy the rabbits can allow themselves to be at field-surface. They have to come out of cover to feed at some point and it might be worth preparing for a good dawn sortie, as I will have to start doing now, as this may be the time they feel is safest to be up feeding. Rabbits are very aware creatures. They have not survived for thousands of years
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Thanks Mark. I'm not sure this Gentleman would want an FAC tuned spring rifle but, such as it is, I do have a Weihrauch HW80 .22cal. Standard length rifle on my ticket. It's tuned with custom made parts and a Titan high performance spring. It developes 19ft/lbs and is precision accurate on H&N FTT .22 ammo I shoot with it at normal air rifle ranges to get the pellet to the target vermin fast with less chance of wounding or a complete miss, should my rabbit suddenly bolt the second the shot fires. It's a magnificent rifle. The HW80 is the very best spring rifle that easily tunes to
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Hi Rich/Tailfeathers and welcome from England! I have been fascinated by the Lewis and Clark expedition and the Girandoni air rifle. A friend of mine here posted up a vid of it too. The hammer was, I think purely for aesthetics, in keeping with the appearance of conventional flintlock powder and ball muskets of the day. Though of course, it lacked the Frizzen and fusepowder priming pan. It was a beautiful piece of precision gunsmithing and an astonishing weapon for it's day, firing a 46-calibre ball from a tubular side press-magazine of 22. I read somewhere how just one of these rifles held o
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Now that is classic rabbit hunting with an air rifle as it always should be. Beautiful, warm day, lovely landscape, plenty of healthy adults in the meadows and fields; and a top-notch shooter and his rifle working together. Well done to you mate. The pictures say it all. But the write-up was a great read with them. Great respects to you for sparing the kitts. I know everyone will have a view on shooting or conserving these but, I always think it's sporting to give them a chance. And they are fair game by the autumn or, indeed, next season's sport And I have to say, your rifle looks a lot
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By the way Gary and Darryl. I used to go to an aunt's near Newcastle for holidays when I was a very young lad with my family. I remember we would go to a big swimming baths and pool on a place called Leem Lane, or Leam lane, at Felling. Is that near either of you? Simon
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Wow hey Gentlemen thank you each one and all for the kind responses to this outing. It's only a shame we couldn't have spent longer out, or the bag would be much bigger I'm sure. I know exactly where you will be static next time Davy ; a good hot-spot that, on that particular field. That leaves me with another I know of to cover ! Si might be right, your kill could have dropped into a hole, there's more than enough of them around there. It'll have joined my woodpidgeon on Charley's freebie dinner mooch by now if it didn't. An airgun Journalist. God Wurz I'd love that mate, I really woul
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Hi Nick. If you start shooting birds in your garden it's only a matter of time before some snoopy neighbour reports you to the council or police. Whether you have the right or not. Have a friendly chat with the farmer. Discuss the tree and shooting permision in one. Keeping him on-side would be a good position to be in for you. If all else fails, get a young female cat! ATB Simon
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Awww come on you two. You are both fine lads and it's a sad sight here, reading you both bag-swing at eachother like this. Come on Si, don't bugger off mate, you'll only have worse rows with irate pimply youths in their late teens over there because you've dissed their Gamo Whisperingdeathspunkmeister .122 wotsit! (Christ knows I bloody would! ) Come onnn...Have a hug and shake hands with our Bill Simon
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Yes! .22 is a beautiful round for hunting Shepp, and it's just as every bit accurate as .177. It's always a raging argument; ".177 is more accurate. .22 hits harder, pcp's are more accurate than spring rifles...!" And so it goes on, forever and a day. You just need to know how a calibre type like .22 behaves in its own trajectory characteristics from a sub-12ft/lb rifle. To find that, just set up a series of equally measured targets from 10 metres out to 50, 60 or as far as you are comfortable as a max range. Zero your rifle at 25 metres on the crosshair and then, shoot a 10-shot stri
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Well, All the way from bunny bopping in his native Swindon, Davy is up working in God's county doing a job just half an hour's drive North from me, so, after a phone chat and a PM, he's brought his Air Arms S410, MTC Mamba scope and ammo and at just after 18:30 he was at my house ready for a shooting foray. A thirty five metre zero session in field No1 got his Air Arms Pre-charged rifle and my HW77 spring rifle singing on single-hole precision zero on my third mildot. That also gives me 7 to 25 metres dead-on centre-to-centre with just a centimetre's holdunder/holdover difference. I set
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Darry I agree 100% with everything you've said here mate. It's a bugger when honest accounts of the true nature of air rifle hunting have to be censored or deleted. But then, consider the times we live in and the Anti brigade would make capital out of such a post. I personally have no taste for shots that inflict accidental suffering rather than a quick death, but, they happen, no matter how good a shot we become, no matter how considerate to our quarry. And they will happen again to everyone of of us who hunts this way. Perhaps writing about them might show the less experienced hunter wh
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Well done to you both lads, Your new permission looks lovely and so does the sport you're getting. I really enjoy the vids you lads both make and your shooting is really top notch quality. Darryl, do you keep your HW100K here as a dedicated NV-scoped rifle? Can't believe no-one has given you a SPA for such a nice write-up, so have one from me! All the very best to you both Gary and Darryl. Simon
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BEAUTIFUL - i had a one with the wooden stock before i went pcp and they are MINT to say the least. atb scott Cheers Matey, Love HW's & Air Arms Springers, But have taken the plunge and Ordered my first PCP, A Rapid MK 2 Left hand stock & Action in .177 cal, Not bad for a young 44 yr old. Nice one Daz. Pics and write-ups of the new arrival when you get her running pal. You'll have some great sport with that rifle! I love the look of the synthetic stock HW97KT. I'm tempted to think of spray camouflage painting one as, this type of gun-plastic would lend itself w
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1985 ish...?? That's about when the HW77 appeared Andy. I'd love to find some of the early original 77s and see how they shoot. Wonderful rifle. Simon
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I've always washed my pellets and lubed them with WD40. A very fine coat mind, or you'll get dieselling. If you ask the other lads they'll no doubt point to other lubes like Napier's Power Lube. Some swear by spray wax furniture polish. That works on Air Arms Field .177 4.51mm for my TX200HC. I think I used Johnson's Pledge and Mr Sheen. Give it a try. You should at least, wash your ammo Henry. ATB Simon
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Nice one Tony. This is what the best of this section is about. Good folks helping eachother. Kind lad you are . Simon
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Looks really nice. I love no-fuss compact scopes like this. Let us know how it performs with your rifle oman Simon
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Yayyy! You'll love the Prosport Henry. I would have had one in a heartbeat but, they never made it in Lefthand format, unlike the TX200, until recently, but too late for now, I've got my HW77 instead. These rifles are really just as accurate as the most sophisticated pcp. You won't regret the decision to buy it. All the best. Simon
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MANIC depression. Be careful of your spelling Mary, it gives the wrong impression. Is there a mod around who can delete this now please?
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All right lads, come on now. Think of the Polar opposites in your mind of joy and sorrow, the soaring heights of absolute pleasure and the plunging depths of hopeless despair, with nothing in between. Now magnify them and actually believe these are real and the worst is going to happen. Not funny and it can strike anyone at any time.
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Scarlett Johannson in a leather catsuit...Cheers for that Daz mate. Ahhh I still go misty eyed for a particular SLR I once was issued with. Loved it to death. I forgot about MTC Henry, they have some very nice looking scopes if you can get along with the SCB retical. Their Mamba series seems good value too. Worth a look!
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Dearest Mary. I've used the time to put a fulsome response that might have more of a chance of being read than here before it gets pulled. I'm not a pig headed fool with it rammed up my arse. I will have no bad blood or ill feeling with anyone where I'm concerned. Have a read and have a think. Simon
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Mike and Mary. And all else here. There is a recent thread gotten out of hand that will probably and wisely be deleted by now so, I'm putting this here Okay? I'm not doing PMs for some, where others will be wondering what's going on. It was aired openly, it will end openly. I am not such a head-up-my-arse prat that I hold grudges, or ill-feelings towards you two folks or anyone else on this forum. I am more than delighted to continue correspondences and discussions here with you both and put the current sorry saga to an end. I am indeed a plain speaking no-nonesense guy and I do not pu
