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  1. Acuspell
    I think you'll find that using 60lb line would garrott the dog. The line would go through it's neck like cheesewire, he was on a wind up, which is why he continued it with 60lb dog = 60lb line. Like I said, there are some idiots on here, on both sides of that post. The one who put it up and the one who believed it.
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    The Air Ranger is only a modern copy of the Rapid, so you will love it. Forget the electrics models - don't even go and look at that second hand one! yes, they are superb when they are shooting, absolutely precise in shot to shot consistency with the clever electronics providing the exact same pressure behind the pellet every time, even as the bottle empties....BUT they are very expensive to repair. If you go target shooting and that kind of precision is critical, fine, you will have the opportunity to be more careful with it. If you are huntinng, it will get knocked, it will get soaked and
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    I run my Rapid at around the 21 ft-lbs mark, for extra shot count. It will go to 27ft-lbs but halves the number of shots in the bottle! It remains accurate at the higher power - 5p groups at 50 yards. Pellet choice is as stated above, either FTT or JSB Exact which although a little heavier at 13gn (FTT are 11.5) actually come out of the muzzle at almost the same velocity - 10fps down is all. I tend to run around the 910 fps mark with FTT and 900 witht he JSB pellet. I am still trying to work out which is the better. The JSB will carry energy downrange better due to it being heavier, so I m
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    It never pays to buy cheapest. You will always come unstuck with some of it, some you might be lucky, but the others will make up for it. I would advise you to look at the Nion range. They are the best value for money on the market and the optics are very nearly as good as Schmidt & Bender, closer to Zeiss and Swarovski and Kahles. 3-9x40 prostaff (not even an expensive scope) is only 5 minutes behind the Zeiss, Swarovski and Kahles in a side by side test, looking at a DJB roe deer target set up under the hedge LOOKING INTO THE SUNSET. The target was in the shadows and the light wa
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    I have been a convert to .20 since 1996. I wouldn't give house room to a .177 any longer and sold them off. I keep my HW77 in .22 out of nostalgia, because my son likes using it and I bought it new in 1985. I also have a Theoben SLR98 in .22, and that is such a sweet shoitng rifle I won't be parting with that unless something drastic happens. My other 3 are all .20 calibre: Theoben Taunus, break barrel gas ram Theoben Rapid mk1, 1996 - BRILLIANT rifle, you won't regret it. Daystate Huntsman with a Theoben barrel on it, one of 20 Huntsman .20 they made with left over Rapid 12/200 barrels bou
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    Just try a few different pellets and pick the one type that gives you the tightest grouping. If you have bought the rifle from someone else, ask them what they were using, they may have done much of the experimentation for you. If it is brand new, try known pellet types from other s200 owners that work well in their rifles - THIS IS ONLY A STARTING POINT. You still need to find a pellet that works well in your barrel - that includes the head size of that pellet, .177 pellets come in three different szes! Different barrels prefer different head sizes. BSA tend to like bigger ones. .177 4.51mm
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    Use better hooks than those. Thin wire will open out in a decent fish. I use saltwater hooks, having gone to the effort of tying a good fly, I want it to last, not go rusty under the tying. Vcut 2600 are good ones, not expensive, just very good hooks. GRIP saltwater hooks in 4/0 are another very good hook for tying pike flies on. I know some people use the Sakuma Manta (which is a Varivas hook) but they are black nickel and go rusty - I prefer good saltwater, stainless hooks. Shorter shank too, so the fish has less leverage and less chance of throwing it.
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    Zoom it to highest magnification. Look at somethinng that will provide the required resolution differential )looking along a brick wall for instance, one set of bricks will be sharp with others closer fuzzy and others further away not quite so fuzzy....measure how far away the sharp bricks are - someone to mark them in some way (drop a hat there) might help or if there is a drainpipe or something? You just need to be able to recognise which bit was in focus so you can measure the distance. Job done. The distance they tell you is only a factory setting. It isn't gospel, it will be rough
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    What is the muzzle velocity though. The Deer Act states a minimum calibre of .240, so it ticks that box. It also states a minimum bullet weight of 100gns, so it ticks that box too BUT the minimum muzzle velocity of 2400 fps might be a sticking point. For small deer, which in this country (Britain) that means Roe, Muntjac and Chinese, you can use a .22 centrefire provided that complies with the minimum 50gn bullet weight and muzzle velocity again of 2400 fps. I agree with the concept, but the deer act is such that you can use .243 on red deer,but you can't use a 404 Jeffery because it f
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    Thanks Leveller, at least one person on here has some intelligence. I gave the site a miss because of the idiocy prevalent and my first post back gets similar response. We have enough problems without pointing fingers at each other as well. Why do we have to hide our faces when we have nothing to fear? Some of us work our dogs within the law and with permission.in my case something like 70,000 acres of permission and 1500 acres of family land. It is a shame there are very few rabbits on it and the 70K is 200 miles away, so doesn't get visited as often as I would like.
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    Been breeding and working bedlington cross types for years (35 of them!) My stock came from Derek Croucher and Mark Blake of Cornwall whose family used to run a pack of gun hounds. Mum and the pup we kept for ourselves. I actually picked a bitch but circumstances changed and we had a friend who toook her and I kept the one my son was going to have - he'll be at stud in a couple of years, only 10 months at the moment, so no proven ability.
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    None whatsoever. My dog(s) are free to work loose - they stay beside me until they see something I haven't, or I send them. If stalking, they don't run in at all, they stay beside me or just in front, a pace or two so I don't tread on them. If bushing, they go when there is something worth going after. Mother, now 8 MUM and PUP (10 months this week) Tigs a week or two ago. Not quite 10 months. He bowled his first deer tonight. We were out blackberrying and the fallow came out about 200 yards across the stubble...he saw it and was gone. T
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    Use a slightly BULKIER fly. It doesn't have ot be big, but think whatthe pike sees and feels - you want a fly that moves water, so the materials want to stick out sideways in all directions, then as you pull it the materials pulse, sending out a much bigger signal for the pike to pick up on - they will see it at around 3 feet, they will FEEL it at 20 feet! The same is true of bass My first over 25lbs, just. Stick with the 9or 10 weight. Caching pike on anythin gless than an #8 is simply irresponsible. THINK OF
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    You don't leave a run to develop when fishing with fly - and a 4/0 hook for me is not large, I use 6/0 and 8/0 pike hooks from Holland, totally barbless. When a pike takes, it is hooked, I have never had a deep hooked pike fly fishing. I have watched bait fishing people fighting with the trebles caught in their net, stuck in the side of the gill cover (one in the mouth, one loose) and lure anglers with the second treble stuck in a pectoral or even in the eye - LOTS OF TIMES I HAVE SEEN THIS. It takes them an age to unhook their fish, mine are unhooked within a couple of seconds, maybe as many
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    If Ladybower gets pressured like Blithfield has over the last couple of seasons it will go the same way. Blith is just down the orad fromme and I do somme guidig on there for pike too - I fly fish for them and have done for 30 years. The constant pressure has resulted in the piking not beinng as good as it once was - better tackle and knowledge plus more people at it. Ladybower hasn't had a great season. I have a ticket on there as well. Only a couple of dozen fish caught, BUT, with the new management and if the pressure is limited, then there is no reason why it shouldn't come back. I pla
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    Not at 12 lbs. The Fenman only uses an 8" barrel and gets ful power.
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    You half an inch low ....6 clicks up That black blob is completely unmolested.
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    Interesting thoughts Shepp. I have got rid of my .177s and am sticking with the 20 calibre as choice. A marmite calibre perhaps...I like marmite! I also don't like to follow the crowd, you tend to end up at a well known supermarket. Rapid will be just as boring as the HW100 or R10 - they all just go "phutt". The Rapid is just one of those rifles that has built a reputation over the 25 years it has been produced for being reliable, and if something goes wrong t is very easy to fix - the only there is to go wrong is rubber seals. The difference is how easy they are to get at, replace and get
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    Sounds like a bit of "Irish Justice" nees to be administered!
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    What pressure are you starting out at? When does the group tighten up? What pressure range is the sweet sector on YOUR rifle (only one way to find that out - by trial). On my Rapid, shooting from 180 bar - 110 bar the shots are consistent and all within a pellet diameter of each other. If I pressure up to 200 bar the first handful can be as much as 2" out. Without changing anything, if I continue to shoot, as the pressure comes to 180 bar, they are bang on again - it is purely down to the pressure being too high.
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    What recipe have you done and what performance are you getting out of yours? The original 12/20 used a specially commissioned barrel....mine is 1987 vintage and still driving tacks in!
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    You can't just say Air Arms are the best....WHICH Air Arms? EV2 is a good target rifle, but a bloody aweful hunting one - yes it will hit what you aim at, but you can be my porter and how would you cover up all that bright anodising? If you mean the s200, it isn't an Air Arms, it is a CZ that Air Arms market over here under their badge. If you mean an S4oo, it is only a single shot and there are much better target rifles out there (EV2 for starters!) If you mean the 410, the Rapid will knock it into a cocked hat, and a 12 shot magazine that works perfectly every time. In fact I would say t
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    It isn't the gun. You know that because ti was grouping perfectly well.The only thing that has changed is the scope...I would say the reticle is loose. There is nothing wrong with the Theoben rifles, they are actually very much top of the range. It isn't wise to put a cheap scope on a good rifle. The old rule of thumb was to spend as much on the scope as the rifle. A "cheap" rifle will shoot nearly as well as an "expensive" one. You can only shoot as well as you can see though. The difference between Hawke and better scopes is mind blowing when you get to look through them IN POOR CONDITIO
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    Glad to help. Defiants and Thunderbolts are made by the same firm, PAX in London. Defiants are lead, Thunderbolts are zinc and designed for indoor target use (even though it says hunting pellets on the box - well, would you tell potential customers they aren't right?!!) To be honest, ANY decent dome headed pellet will work the best for hunting.You want a SOFT lead pellet (the defiants are soft lead), so are Acupell, Verminpell are also good and I have found any rifle that shoots Accupell well, will also shoot verminpell, but only to 30 yards. The flat front loses speed faster and they
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    Just take it a stage at a time. You might get frustrated if you get constant "tings" and few knock downs with the rabbit target. Put up a sheet of A4 card (cereal box when it is empty - I get 4 good targets out of a cornflake box, because I am a cheapskate!) Mark yourself a target on it, closer to the top than the bottom, say 2/3rds up. A 5 pence as a circle to draw round, or the inside hole of a CD are what I use (inside a cd now, the hole where you put it on the drive) that is about a 10mm target. A good size to get used to. If you can hit that, you can kill a rabbit. With your target se
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