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    They are yours SJT. How do I do a PM?
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    Still no reply to my offer of adding to your rat numbers........for half the bounty!
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    I have had a clearout of my .177 stuff - sold my last rifle so .177 pellets aren't much use, they tend to rattle down the .20 cal barrel! I have 2x tins of H&N FTT Green in .177 - posted for £10 (not each, the two tins) One tin unopened and sealed, the other might have 20 missing at most. SOLD I have 2x tins of H&N Barracuda Green in .177 - again two tins for £10 posted. Same deal, one totally sealed one with a few missing. SOLD THUNDERBOLTS The fastest pellets out there. I have the following: 2 Boxes of 5 grain .177 (500 per box) 1 box still sealed in poly bag inside.
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    NO. Far better than an AWT. Carbon tube with baffles set at varying distances to suit the actual barrel, calibre and the air volume released. Fairly large volume to first baffle, very tight tolerance to calibre (20 cal and hole in baffle ring is .21) important to ensure the pellet holes are concentric too. Muzzle tube is 12" long, but being carbon is very light.
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    The sound moderator doesmore than muffle the muzzle blast. It also acts as an air stripper from the tail of the pellet - or at least it should do! It adds weight to the muzzle, so acts as a muzzle weight too. The benefit when hunting is that the sound is not linear and the quarry cannot pinpoint the direction of the noise. There is still noise that they can hear, and very often they won't like a pellet striking close to them, but if you miss through the air beside them, all they hear is a hornet wizzing past and often stay put. I have a Twink 2 on my Huntsman and it is perfectly good for accu
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    Amazing what can be achieved with all the air going in the right direction! Well done, that will boost your confidence - and no, it wasn't a fluke. It was careful aiming, careful breathing and careful trigger control. Just replicate it and the same thing will happen, it isn't anything more than that. Half the route to good groups is inside your head. Whether you believe you can, or you believe you can't, you will be correct. Have faith in the power of positive thinking.
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    This reminds me of the policy we had at sea. P&O was the company I sailed with, as a navigation officer back in the 70s. The company policy was to pay a bounty on rats,any caught were paid for, not a great sum, but a useful top up for the crew, who were Cantonese, or Honk Kongers (as they were called in those days). They bred them in the lower hold! How much will give you me for the ones I shoot on my farm yard? Go halves (I asked first! )
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    Nope. I have my own chrono thanks. It is more ot do with the frontal surface area, grain weight and velocity. For ease of target shooting, there is no argument. For shocking power, which hunting requires, there simply is not enough. The Olympus, pictured, being a break barrel, didn't have a regulator For years it remained at 11.4 ft-lbs with AA Fields.
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    Location: YORKSHIRE.......get away! Whatever you paid for the rifle, with a proper tune it is worth far more than the monetary value. If you don't believe the difference a good tune can make, have a go with a properly tuned one....the £100 or so is money well spent, because you will have a rifle that will still be shooting the wings off midges at 40 yards in 15 years time - and all it will need is a new spring and seals and it will be good for another 15 years after that. Even at £150 for a tune, spread over 15 years that is only £10 a year. I know, you are from Yorkshire, so you can'
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    Nice coursing picture.
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    Have a look at the old Webley springers - NOT THE NEW ONES. You want something that has been in a shed for 20 years at least. They are very tunable and in a nice stock would be a superb project.
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    I have used all three, but the .20 has had me won over since 1996, so I have given it a good go! I still have .177 and .22, but there is no comparison and I won't take a .177 hunting ever again - nor willanyone bring one on my land to hunt. SORRY, but that is how it is.I have seen far too many woundings with it from good riflemen - pigeons hit well, seen the feathers move at the strike through either binos if spotting for others, or through the sight and they fly off and tower later, even ferals from the cow cubicles. .22 is fine, but given the additional velocity available with the .20 th
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    Good, used Rapid mk1 (as they are easier to get running sweet than the mk2 and cheaper) Accuracy to match anything. In .22 shot count of around 250 per fill from a 400cc bottle.nothing more rugged and very reliable.
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    Having gone up to Scotland and back for work I had to get a few hours to myself. I took both Fly and Tigs, my lurchers, with me, they needed to get out and do some hunting too. The boys have taken them for walks, but only in the park or up the drovers' road. The Huntsman had a full gauge and I took a pouch of pellets just in case the squirrels were out in force, I hoped. The wood I intended to shoot is about 400 acres, but is mostly larch. At one end there is a good mix of hardwoods, beech, oak, chestnut, ash and sycamore with a good scattering of holly amongst to give cover. The chestnuts
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    The old Defiants (lead) were brilliant in my T10 though - 50 yard groups of one ragged hole. in the SLR98 they group really well too and very efficient through the air. I haven't tried the Ogive ones, but I can't see why they are rubish - they just won't suit some rifles,like any pellet, PLUS it is IMPERATIVE you get the right head size for th ebarrel. That Scorpion used the L size (.22 which I think were 5.53) If i used the M sized ones those groups went to 3" at 30 yards - it isn't the fact the pellet is bad, just not right for that barrel. The SLR uses L size too (or should I say MY SLR use
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    James, you are thinking on paper, and air rifles don't read the rules! the reason people state mass and power is because, as you say, the legal limit remains the same, but the results from different pellets differ in performance and efficiency in different barrels. NO TWO BARRELS are the same. You can have two 'identical' rifles off the production line and they can differ in pellet preference and power. Take an air rifle. Put a particular pellet down it and the chrono reads the velocity, then because ti is a clever chrono it does the sum and reads the energy from that pellet (provided
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    Be even better to arrange a delivery to the Cricket Club at a prearranged time.....administer a little Social Justice. I know some poachers that haven't revisited a certain water because they were educated about the error of their ways. dangerous places waters and woods - cricket grounds are notoriously dangerous places.
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    Nikon Prostaff. knock the MTCs, Hawke Panorama and even Bushnell into a cocked hat - you can still see to place a shot 40 minutes later than with an MTC Viper (a much more expensive scope) Depends whether you want a good, rugged, top quality lens/coating scope with no whistles and bells for simple, fast, accurate shooting with an excellent reticule - or a scope with toys attached that you have to play with every shot.
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    Depends on other thigs actually - I MIGHT be on expedition to the south of Chile - Magellan Strait. If it comes off I will be leaving on Boxing Day and away a month.
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    ANY of those! wonderful collection JohnBaz. Amazing. HW35 makes a superb legal limit rifle - not expensive to buy either. Was in a particular airgunsmiths the other day when a chap brought his tuned 35 E in to be checked...it was doing14 ft-lbs. So 25 minutes later it was back together and did a string of 20 shots within 5fps of each other and at 11.6ft-lbs. Good enough for jazz and certainly as good a rifle as any other out there. I bet it didn't owe him more than £200.
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    before making your mind up, have a look through a few. i am getting my old 77 done up slowly. Not at the stage of needinng a scope yet, but I shall probably opt for the 2-7 x 32 Nikon Prostaff, as I have two 3-9 x 40 Prostaffs and they are very, very good indeed. What I like about them, other than the absolutely TOP quality lenses (on a par with the best European scopes) is the fact they are compact, light and simple - no fiddle faddle adjustments to make. Set the scope for your eyes with the rear focus bell, thats it. Zero and check the drop at range for where it coincides with the Ballis
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    The Rapid is a very good design, simplle, effective and very air efficient. The magazine on ALL rifles is a fiddle - you want to try daystate, and they are supposed to be top dog. 12 shots in a Rapid long before HW even thought about a PCP. If you are a pipsqueak shooter (.177) then the Rapid gives you 17 shots per mag. The only thing I would suggest is you go for a MK1 not a regged mk2 - easier to get running sweet.
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    Managed to escape for a couple of hours with the dogs this afternoon. Nice sunny autumn day, I took a rucksack qith a telescopic spinning rod in it to have a few casts for a pike, but in the end didn't get it out. Took both Fly and Tigs, who is now just gone 1 year old and already catchinng and windinng game well. In the first part of my wood Tigs suddenly started sniffing the air ahead hard and became very interested, then suddenly he was gone like lightning. I heard the deer stamp as he set off and saw the grey back and white rump of the fallow......that was that part of the wood knackered w
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    get the oli stone out and sharpen your bill hook and the fork, ready for the next time!
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    How did you find out for sure? I didn't get involved, but I did send the guy a messge offering some advice - no reply was ever forthcoming. So, what was it that gave the game away?
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