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  1. Acuspell
    Like this one! .20 - it is the only way to go for hunting at sub 12ft-lbs - and I even prefer it at 20ft-lbs.
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    Acuspell replied to Karl Daw's topic in Airgun Hunting

    They taste like boiled mud - with a hint of fish. Curried they are just about palatable. The plumage is sought after in traditional fly tying circles - so ask your local fly tyers guild if they want any and what feathers....or whole skins. Cure with borax from the chemist.
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    Yep. Alien species vermin, open season. As in they are afforded no protection other than those which cover cruelty to animals, so you can shoot them, provided you do not cause unecessary suffering intentionally.
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    There are new rapids on dealers shelves - but getting snapped up. A friend has travelled the length and breadth of the country buying them........he has 5 now. Spares and tuning no problem. Built like a tank which is why they are reliable at high power/ high pressure and big volume internals. Buy a used Rapid with confidence and get it tuned. Rifle for life.
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    I was being facetious, because I didn't get fatigued at all. It depends how you carry it in the crook I supose - balanced and cradled like a baby the weight is actually close to the base of the levers, so you get very little muscle fatigue and the muscles you use to carry are different to the ones used to support the rifle when shooting.
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    .25 at 12 ft-lb limit power will not do anything that a .22 can't, or a .20 for that matter.
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    Right then, lets look at the additional information gleaned from your after posts. You want FAC power. The Huntsman is limited to around 30ft-lbs (in reality - don't believe what Daystate tell you about 40ft-lbs - yes wound right up ONCE on one gun) with limited shot count (as others have said) You now want a reasonably short, handy, pointable rifle - that rules out the Wolf and what I was going to suggest over it, the Ranger because it is not electronic - electronics and the wet in hunting don't mix well - and do you fancy the price of an ordinary rifle in a couple of years for the mo
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    So, all the miles I carried my 270 like that in the mountains of New Zealand on the eradication scheme of the 70s where I was shooting between 50 and 200 deer a day, not to mention the goats and tahr when we moved south....and the miles through the Irish mountains, Donegal National Park, Killarney National Park and Wicklow Mountains I was too tired to shoot the 450 animals a year I was getting was I.
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    And when he says quiet - he also means STOCK STILL....no fidgeting. the number of people who I take out and ask them to stay quiet roosting pigeons - and they are like bloody jack-in-the-boxes! Hands and heads moving all over the place...I ask them to be still and they reply "I am"........still means, still like a corpse. Any movement needs to be VERY slow - lifting your hand to scratch your nose should take no less than 5 seconds....SSSSSsllllooooowwwwww Same with head movements, swivel your eyes in their sockets, that is what they are designed to do. Moving your head needs to be as slow as
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    I don't, they get in the damn way and rattle and make noise and swing around in the wind when you try to take a standig shot....just cradle it in the crook of your arm. I have one on my Huntsman, but take it off once i am shooting.
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    My mate had a Viper on his Wolf....he had to give up shooting 40 minutes before me, because it got too dark for him....he cam,e tramping up through the woods where I was roosting the pigeons still, happily shooting away. he wondered where I had got to, and couldn't believe I could still see to shoot accurately. He changed his scope as soon as he got home!
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    The Goldstar wasn't a true repeater, the magazine was simply a place to store 10 pellets, you had to turn the magazine drum by hand between shots - cock lever, turn drum, close lever. The SLR88 and later 98 (same rifle but CNC machine made rather than hand turned) you loaded the 7 shot magazine (the magazine used on the later Rapid 7!) and dropped it into the top loading port, it sits flush with the piston cylinder. As you use the cocking lever the magazine AUTOMATICALLY indexes to the next shot, so it is a true auto loader. Which would I go for? The Theoben in a heartbeat. Iconic rifl
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    Have a look through the Lightstream - anyone who tries mine are just blown away by the clarity and contrast of the sight picture. Low light performance is within a minute or two of top end S&Bs - the same lenses as go into Leupold top end scopes. There has been no cutting corners with the glass - the bits that have been dropped are the unecessary gadgets. TRUE mildots that can be used to accurately gauge range and not as weighty or cumbersome as the Falcon 9also good, but weight and size disadvantage). If you have a magazine rifle the length could be important so it doesn't foul the magazi
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    How does the scope with the AO compare to the one without? I don't like the front AO turntable thing on my hawke night eye ir ao and prefer my old hawke endurance with any fancy things on it. Plus why get the larger 50mm compared to the 40mm I also prefer the 44mm lense to the 50mm lense of the nite eye? Thanks I agree with you entirely. GOOD LENSES of 40mm will outperform mediocre lenses of 50mm - a Nikon 32mm will outperform the Panorama! The 2-7x32 Prostaff is a fabulous, compact scope - for FAC I would look a little higher at the 3-9x40 or the 4-12 x 40 Prostaff. The BDC ret
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    Great stuff - good for you for getting out early. The first few hours of daylight are often the most productive - or last knockings. I tend to make natural hidea around the place, so I don't have to do anything but creep into position...I even plant shrubs to grow into hides around the place. Trailing holly is always useful, just pull up some suckers and plant them where they can be of use. A pair of secateurs in my pocket or bag and I can prune a hide into a clump of bushes easily. Nets are great for making a hide where you can't make a permenant natural one though.
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    Will you take into consideration the angle of the shot - some rangefinders do it all for you, others show linear distance only. Angled shots are equal to the horizontal distance, not the straight line distance, so range estimation to the bottom of the tree is near enough.
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    Or is he half left ? I suppose it depends which way he swings.
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    A little chart in your pocket, on a string, is another way. Laminated it won't go soggy in the field either. You shouldn't need to refer to it all the time - in fact you would do well to try and range things WITHOUT resorting to the gadget. The time it takes to range find a squirrel in the woods, then look up your aiming mark, then pick the rifle - do you think it is going to sit there whistling Dixie while you do all that? See, estimate the range and remember your hold while you are putting the rifle to your shoulder...the aiming point becomes your focal point and you can then just lift
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    Nothing like doing it for real.
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    At long range a standard weight .22 is going to carry more retained energy than a standard weight .177 (standard beinng around the 14 - 15 mark for the .22 and 8 - 9 ish for .177, before some clever dick says there is no standard pellet weight - yes, there is!)
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    Julian at Bond is an absolutely diamond chap - you will have no worries getting stuff from him. He is (or should be!) also the first port of call for anyone with an Air Arms that needs spares or servicing.
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    I have said it before, but I don't apologise for saying it again. Having tried every calibre I have settled on .20 as being the most versatile and easiest to use - it has sufficient punch to make up for slight inaccuracies, flies flat enough to make shooting easy and carries plenty of downrange energy. I got my first .20 in 1996 - I have had .177 but there are far too many slow deaths with it for my liking - yes, IF you hit the button it will kill,but in a windy wood with things happenig fast you don't have the luxury of time that the target boys do....for target disciplines there is no argume
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    Have you tried slightly lighter pellet? 28 yards is what I have mine set to, using either Accupell (14.3ns) or Defiants (14gn - awesome long range grouping too!) The slightly lighter pellet will fly a little faster and a little flatter, and you won't lose anything on the impact. Not so you would notice - I wouldn't want to be down range if either of them! However, this is only any good if your rifle likes them.
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    Great rifle the S200, really it is a BRNO with an Air Arms badge - and BRNO make some cracking rifles. Those are some nice rabbits, I have forgotten what they look like! AND it wasn't raining down your way - what's all that about? Everywhere else is like a lake......
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    The recent cold weather and all the wet has driven many rats in from the fields and hedges in search of dry shelter. We have a stack of barley loose on the floor, it is a magnet for them and partridges and pigeons.....I spent a couple of hours ambushing the twitchy nosed ones with the Huntsman as per Noddingdogs advice. Arriving just before dimpsy so I could get into position before they surfaced from the warrens and get loaded (I need that double mag PDQ). No special ammo for rats, just FTTs that I use for everything. A .20 cal pellet hitting a rat is like us being hit with a 500 Nitro expres
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