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    You might be as well buying a second Rapid - 12/200 and fettle it. Unless you sell the current bits to help offset. Glad you like the .20 - I have been using it almost exclusively since 1996. I keep telling people, but many are still wary of it. For sub 12ft-lbs and not pure target shooting I cannot understand anyone using anything else. Even at 925fps it is still a phenomenal calibreand I would have it over .22 at that velocity unless the size of quarry dictated heavy projectiles.
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    BSA Meteor or Meteor Super I thought - with pellets lodged from that kind of range? Can't be capable of shooting the length of the garden. The RSPCA Chief Exec was up before the Charity Commission the other day - they are not squeaky clean themselves, just more powerful than an old man on his own. I don't think he did himself any favours by not showing any concern for the quarry - but trapping and shooting with an air rifle is perfectly acceptablemethod of squirrel control Wildlife conservation projects do it all the time. W ith regard to checking quarry - yes I do. Touch the eye, that wi
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    Bisley Superfield also a good pellet (if it suits your barrel) 11.4gn my Taunus happens to shoot both FTT and Superfield exactly the same. I prefer the Superfield for hunting. Just a personal thing. Accupell are also available in .20 The thing is, there will be a good pellet for your rifle and it is easy enough to find which one. .20 the same weight as .22 will still hold higher - at 100 yards two IDENTICALLy tuned rifles (Rapids shooting 950 fps) one was .20 the other was .22. The same weight pellet (Crossman premier) and the .20 hit a good 5" higher with the same point of aim and zer
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    Zini - I know you weren't. Just clarifying. See what I said in my first reply:- The biggest problem with them is the nut that joins the sight to the trigger. Most problems with rapids are caused by their owners. The last few years they have been very hit and miss- old ones were the legends that created the reputation, and lets face it, the Rapid spawned the rise of the mass market PCP more than Daystate. They were still chasing the dart gun and Rentokill market then. The other problem gun MANUFACTURERS have is that the designs invariably get tweeked a bit to suit manufacture and then the
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    I was going to say a thrush (a blackbird IS a thrush). It isn't a deer at all - only one set of tracks if you think they are cloven hooves! A munty would knock the corners off the corner of each print as it lifts it leg and moves forward - this is a bird hopping. With no sense of scale it is difficult to say exactly - out in the fields in the snow it is likely to be a redwing or fieldfare (again thrushes). BUT they travel in groups so there would be more around in the same area, not necessarily overlapping, but with yards. No magpie - no tail feather trace. The terrain and size would narro
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    Blinkered by experience actually Zini....the one I had was nothing but trouble. i got a refund after three retruns. My friend also had one - same string of problems,lack of indexing, loss of air overnight, then constant leaks after repair....it has been fixed now only because he persevered with it. My rapid has ben almost faultless its entire life - ALMST, yes a couple of seals were replaced 2 years ago.....I can live with that! The Rapid is pig ugly if aesthetics are a worry. Very robust though and virtually nothing to go wrong in the field. I prefer the self indexing magazine system to
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    Isn't Knaresborough in Yorkshire?
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    yep, for real, Iron age men - as opposed to modern day pansies. there are some people who shouldn'tbe allowed the joys of a Rapid. I wouldn't swap my 20 year old one for a brand new HW100 that's for sure. If you go for a Rapid, don't be put off by used - they are so easy and cheap to fix. The biggest problem with them is the nut that joins the sight to the trigger.
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    Whyis price a consideration? Airgun ammo is so cheap as to be discountable, especially when hunting. I have just bought 500 12ga shells - £130.00 500 airgun pallets at DOUBLE their current price still make them a very, very cheap way of putting meat on the table. Crossman prems are not easy to get hold of, which is why they would have been snapped up as soon as their whereabouts was published. Maybe they are the same weight and price as .22, but I do know that they hit nearly 5" higher at 100 yards than their .22 counterparts, from identically set up rifles (950 fps Rapids with the same
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    Leave the ones above you as the best decoys you can get.
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    This is the kind of thing that gets airgun users a bad name - ILLEGAL ACTIVITY. Wow, what a way to set an example to the newcomers........ Zini - none taken, but I do get vexed about people talking up cheap, mediocre scopes as the best there is, when they have experienced nothing else- and the sheep mentality of "my mate uses it, so it must be good......" the Panorama is more expensive than the Nikon and uses inferior lenses with less effective coatings - the bells and whistles are what you are paying for, but at the reckooning, you can only shoot as well as you can see. A mildot reti
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    £150 On a hawke? For that money you can get a MUCH better Nikon. the 3-9x40 Prostaff or if you want more compact, then the 2-7 x32 is a FABULOUS little scope, built better than the hawke and with MUCH better lenses. 3-9x40 is more verstaile, but the 6x42 is a standard stalking scope. If you don't shoot rats or squirrels then you might not need the ability to shoot closer than about 10 yards. The 3-9x40 will give you the ability to open up andsee to shoot closer when needed. That is an arbitrary point, if you are shootinn at greater ranges than that all the time, you don't need the
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    The last one was over the abolition of slavery!
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    What calibre? The .20 and .22 are the more desirable ones. Deadly accurate, they were calibrated to 1/2" at 40 yards as minimum factory accuracy. Get a decent scope - don't go for a cheap one., it would be like putting a good whisky in a plastic beaker! Mine: It won't be going anywhere fast. Just too good.
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    dont touch it with a barge pole.
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    hi there.we have no greys up here...... YET...... there are on the way but as it stand we have none and the reds are doing fairly well.cheers P Keep it that way! Squirrels are responible for much conservation damage - like the loss of the Purple Emperor butterfly because they have a great liking for the pupae.
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    Bisley Superfield are spot on in my Taunus - 5p size groups at 40 yards. Bisley Pest control are good for short range work - out to 30 yards they hold well, but at 35 the group has gone from 5p to 2" - those 5 yards are just too far. Verminpell (flat headed version of Accupell, 14.3gn in .22) are as accurate as Accupell in my SLR and they were in the Scorpion too. The trouble with most hollow points is the balance is all up the shoot, because the hollow point takes the weight out of the head of the pellet, the very place you want it for stable flight - the Superfields only have a tiny
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    Red is considered the better light because it makes red eyes shine up bright -but they do get educated to it, foxes, rats and rabbits. Some green wavelengths are less visible to the rats and arbbits - i haven't tried it yet myself, but green is the brightest wavelength that our eyes can see (at sea, a green light - starboard - is always brighter than the red - port side - light at the same distance) but green makes bunnies and rats eyes glow WHITE, because they are red and the combination of the red and green makes the eyes appear white - i finnd red eyes easier to spot. Blue is good for f
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    Wouldn't Aerosmith frighten the quarry away?
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    Phantom - I have a limited edition collector's box of the Lazzeroni cartridges - John Lazzeroni gave them to me when I was pronghorn hunting in New Mexico with him one year. Any interest to you - the long magnums and short magnums.
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    About the same weight as the Huntsman actually - not heavy, but meaty where it matters, the action is strong enough to take 60ft-lbs easily in .22 Cost? Budget on £500 and be surprised when you manage to find one at £400 or less - and even if it has problems, the £100 will have it like new - they really are VERY simple and easy to make right - absolutely right.
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    I also have a Rapid - superb. They are bomb proof and those in the know are snapping them up. I have a friend who has bought 5 since Theoben closed their doors (on top of the 3 he already had). Price of Rapids is going up....mine is not for sale. That is also in .20 Easy to work on, rugged, reliable and very strong. Accuracy is excellent, every bit as good as any modern rifle. The Rapid can hold its own in any company.
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    Hugh - it is the Nikon P7100 - you can get them for £230 now the next version is out. Brilliant little camera, fits in my pocket a treat.. I got a remote release for it for £1.99, it is a cheap Chinese copy, but that price if it does a couple of outings and gives up the ghost I can't complain. I want to get a waterproof housing for it - bought one from hong Kong....doesn't fit, so it has gone back. It does video quite well too. Only 720, but plenty for me and what I need it for. Here is a short clip of mechuckin gone of those squirrels for the pup to do some retrieving practise. I had done a c
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    I have a feeder set up for the squirrels and they have found it. I intended to set up a remote camera to get som epics of one on it, before I shot it...I had the camera and tripod, but I forgot the radio trigger! Numpty - so no pics of the squirrels on the feeder.I'll give it a week and go and do it again. Anyway, I had the dogs for a walk too, got into the woods before it was light and there were patches of fog. I had hoped to find some pigeons sunning themselves before going off for breakfast too, but I didn't even hear the whistle of wings, they must have been up the other end of the wo
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