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    Gurwurtz (wine link by any chance?) Thanks very much. The SLR is a 98 rather than an 88, but it is still 2001 vintage, so 10 years old. They stillmake them - shoots incredibly well. Fly is fine. The Sudocreme worked its magic! Took her out for a stretch of the legs this afternoon, gambolling around like a spring lamb, pup in tow!
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    just tell em "get the fook of my land" IS IT your land? Or are you there by invitation too? In my case, yes it is our farm, but so many peole who are given permission to shoot then think they own the place.
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    hi Rob I find this hard to beleive ,you are having trouble shooting a PCP have you seen the post with the targets i put up,for different ranges for hold over http://www.thehuntin...eroing-targets/ print these off,and after a session with these you should be fine keep me updated! and I will try and help you as much as I can,you have a nice PCP and it will be a shame if you get disheartened by this problem.so keep me informed check this post code out http://www.old-downs...uk/where-we-are and if you want some on hands advise and tips,then make it here! Please dont loo
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    Unfortunately the confrontational attitude dsplayed by some of the replies is as ignorant as the people who show a dislike for what we do. We need to hold the moral high ground, not lower ourselves to their level. hence my suggestion of a few, considered, responses. You are carrying a firearm - it is very easy for them to say you threatened them with it, become educated, learn how to speak properly and hold your temper.
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    Are they really that bad? Glad I got an AA 410 then! I'll stick to my Theobens too - the Rapids are loved by them that have them, very reliable I am led to believe with early MK 1s still cutting the mustard 20 years down the line. The PCP that really started the revolution.
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    Try telling them about the incredible, immorale waste of the supermarkets - over 30,000,000 tonnes of food is wasted every year in this country. Just go round to the back of any supermarket and look in the food skips. It is completely unecessary too. If they can defend that, then it is easy to defend shooting wild creatures fo rthe table where there is no waste whatsoever. The other tack I have taken is to ask them if they think it is OK to eat meat from a butcher. If the answer is yes, then the simply retort is - so it is OK provided someone else does the killing an dpreparation for you,
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    Anything by JSB should work well - AA fields are made by them, just different quality control, the JSB actual pellet is much tighter control. I love Accupell in my .22, I haven't tried them in .177 but don't see why they wouldn't work. Another pellet well worth trying, and very reasonable in price, is the RWS Superfield. Many rifles shoot them as well as JSB Exacts. About 20% cheaper per tin. Bisley are excellent pellets, but expensive because they are cheats and only pack them in small tins! Have you tried the Falcon Accuracy range too - be worth a go, unless one of the others
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    Thanks chaps. The Sudocreme has worked its magic (again). Brilliant stuff, but you doneed to give the wound a good wash out with strong saline first. Boiled water, about a cupful, then just keep adding salt until you cannot get any more to dissolve - a couple of tablespoonfuls at least. Then just bathe the wound (I used kitchen tissue paper) it smarted because she isn't a whimperer, but she squealed when i started and bit at the wound I was washing. I calmed her down and she accepted it after that, just a bit of a shock to the system I think! Dried the wounds off and put a generous dab of Su
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    I set the alarm for 06.00 to give me plenty of time to get some breakfast and be out to the wood by first light. I just took Fly and the Theoben SLR with two loaded magazines and about 20 spare pellets in a pouch. Well you never know! We arrived at the parking place in good time. The crows weren't even starting to call whilst I was getting my boots on and organising myself. Fly just sat in the boot patiently, like she does. She is old enough and experienced enough now to know that she will get plenty of freedom to sniff around later. As we started off across the field to the far side
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    Good nick, but not boxed (I left it behind in Scotland! - I could get it). £40 plus post.
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    Orange fly too!
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    The sam ehere. The rabbits have been decimated. We used to have plenty on the farm and liked to keep a stock (which has got me into trouble on other airgun forums for telling people they shouldn't be shooting milky does with kits dependent upon them). Anyway, we alwayslike a few rabbits about, not hundreds, but we can stand a small area of the winter barley or winter wheat being eaten down in return for some nice rabbit casseroles. I have a ring of 2500 acres with only the farm track through it, yet on the lamp if I saw 3 rabbits all last year on the whole acreage that would be it. I shot my f
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    Get in touch with Adrian at A&M Custom gunsmiths. He has BRITISH, high quality springs made to suit any spring rifle. If it is .177, don't try and take it over about 11.5 ft-lbs, you will only end up blowing the skirts on most pellets and accuracy will go down the drain. You do not need extra power, my .177 AA custom is running at bang on 11.4with AA fields and I can hit Swan Vesta heads at 35 yards with it - there is enough power in that pellet at 11.4ft-lbs to kill a rabbit stone dead at 60 yards (probably more) BUT you have to hit in th eright spot, so accuracy is more important t
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    The chairgun two lines thing - that is the top and bottom of th etube, if you like. Don't forget, your error is in 3 planes, not just 2. You can have some error sideways and still be in the kill zone - the kill zone is a circle of your own choice in size. A circle on a pigeon kill zone is smaller than the one on a rabbit - but whatever size it is, imagine that circle extending back to the rifle as a tube. Point blank range is the length of tube that you can shoot down by holding dead on - for example, a .177 sighted in at 33 meters and an acceptable kill zone of 1" would relate (roughly)
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    Pick up your fly rod, a #10, and cover the water!
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    Keep your head down Chris. No doubt you'll lose weight with all that kevlar in the heat. Good luck. stay safe.
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    It is actually quite easy. You will need: A pencil and a notepad Target set up with a small cross drawn on it that you can see at 45 yards (50? yards) A good rest suitable for the rifle - so soft for a recoiling rifle. More of a hand steady than a rifle rest. A set up zeroed for 30 yards (30 for now, you can tweak it later to suit your needs - this will work for 177, 20 or 22) At 30 yards fire a group of 3 at the taarget. You should clover leaf on the centre of the cross. Now try from 40 yards. Either move the target, or your shooting stand. Place the cross hair on the cross of the ta
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    Rapid 7 or 12. You will get a good, full outfit for £650 - reliable, deadly accurate, high shot count, easy and cheap to work on. If you can get a 20 cal - you won't regret it!
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    The first thing you need to understand is that to fish in any freshwater you need an EA license. That will allow you to fish a maximum of 2 rods. If you wantto fish 3 rods, you need a second license (madness, but there you are). This applies even if you want to fish in your garden pond. You just go to th epost office and buy one, or get one on-line. On the canal, you are better NOT fishing from a boat, just off the bank. If you have access to the water then all you need is a waterways fishing license. If there is a fishing club, thye will control the fishing from the towpath side only. The
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    Actually, they are very accurate BUT, you do have to get the correct head size and you have to have a clean barrel. Shooting a group on a leaded bore will produce nothing at all in the way of a realistic group. Try shooting 100 through the barrel FIRST, then try them. You will get a completely different result. That said, thye are NOT a hunting pellet. they have been designed for indoor shooting where there is no wind. 5g pellets are going to be very susceptible to wind, even the lightest huff will shift it, but on an indoor range (such as most shooting in Germany, for instance) where ther
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    Funnily enough, NORMA (not the one with wrinkling stockings) did a lot of work with deflection of bullets. they put up witness sheets 3 feet behind targets and carefully clipped twigs and light branches to see how much deflection there was. The theorists said that light, fast bullets would be deflected more than slower, heavier bullets.The results of actual tests showed up something quite different, they actually showed that fast, light, frangible bullets got deflected by as much as 6 feet within that 3 feet to the witness sheet. Slower, heavier bullets got deflected just as much. The big
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    Driven boar boar requires fast acquisition of the target, not high magnification. That is why all the "Battue" scopes are low power. Also in the woods you will find the brighter image at lower power for whatever magnification. Out of the two, simply because you also want it for deer (higher mag, unless they are also driven) my choice out of the two would be the Schmidt, even though I am a die hard Swarovski man. As you say, the 24mm front lens won't be bright enough for low light stalking - so the Schmidt will be more versatile and cover a whole range of uses. Even back home, the 6x42 aspe
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    You haven't enough funds in the bank! I know a nice Indian man who will buy one of your kidneys though.
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    If you over load a 12ft-lb gas ram you will burn the piston crown. For FAC rifles they use a totally different internal set up with different seals and a different piston. This is one of the reasons so many gas rams get trouble, people over pressurise them and do damage. My Theoben gas rams are 1986, 1995, 1996 and 2001 respectively an dnone of them have ever given any trouble - I think because I just leave them alone and use them. Most problems are caused by the nut that joins the sight to the trigger.
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    I have a Scorpion and an Air Arms s410. The Scorpion is incredibly accurate, 5p sized groups at 50 yards (YES, 50 yards) in .22 - loads of hold over, the bottom post in fact, but it groups brilliantly. They are very good rifles - but like said above, once you get it sorted! I had to get mine worked on by John Bowkett, even almost brand new. However, it is a great rifle - th eScorpion SE is the one to go for though, THAT is a reworked Scorpion and is simply incredible, all the problems ironed out and plenty of shots per fill. The Air Arms is also incredibly accurate, it is a .177 and I
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