Jump to content

milegajo

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Content Count

    2,143

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    1

 Content Type 

Everything posted by milegajo

  1. milegajo
    In the peeing rain. Real hunters showing it how it is. Great stuff. All the best chaps.
  2. milegajo
    Paypal offers no protection! Face to face is your best safeguard. Price seems about right.
  3. milegajo
    A legendary rifle that, as I understand it, set the bar and forced other manufacturers to really up their game and offerings. I've yet to acquire one so am only going by what I've read. Price wise, £100 odd for a 21 year old gun is not to be sniffed at and speaks volumes. There are only a few guns today that I believe will still attract that sort of money in the future.
  4. milegajo
    My first 'proper' rifle was a 55 (a .177 60) Excellent experience with it. For £99 brand new I was over the moon with the quality and accuracy. I'd buy another with no reservations.
  5. milegajo
    Haha ain't that the truth! I started on a small cheap Beeman (SMK), followed by a Hatsan 55s. When the masterpiece that is a TX200 entered my world I ended up writing a bloody book!
  6. milegajo
    A hawke sport hd 4x32 is cheap, good to learn on....
  7. milegajo
    Good luck to yooz tooz! Hehe You'll be wining and dining with Terry Doe and his chums, rubbing shoulders with Beezas CEO, signing deals with realtree... fine cubleycat ladies throwing themselves at you!
  8. milegajo
    Can't really add much to the great advice given so; Welcome to the forum!
  9. milegajo
    Agreed with Neil82, The problem is remembering if its loaded and cocked. Sounds silly, but a safety catch helps with this. That and the at44/hw100 anti double load feature. Otherwise, I thought it a great little gun.
  10. milegajo
    Great stuff, I'm intrigued how the footage ended up with that vertical 'letterboxing'. Have fun with the new toys, I have a lot of respect for those who can both film and shoot, my experience has shown it to be harder than many may appreciate.
  11. milegajo
    I had an XS79 I converted to PCP/HPA. Polish, deburr etc, superb piece of kit!
  12. milegajo
    What a superb post Acuspell
  13. milegajo
    Ahhhh, squizzers, my favourite adversary.... Experimentation, observation and dumb luck all help. Over time you'll learn where and when to find them, we're entering probably the very best time of year for hitting them too. So much fun it is truly addictive. Take a walk with the rifle where your focus is your senses. Your ears are often your greatest asset against squirrels, they are noisy buggers. Pay close attention to scuffling of leaves as well as their 'chuffing' and 'barking'. If you're still and trying to detect movement, try not to focus your sight too hard on anywhere, let you
  14. milegajo
    I believe a spring compressor is a must due to the design of the Lightning. Don't know where you got the idea that 9.6ft/lbs was "no good to nobody", I detuned an SMK TH208 to 7.5ft/lbs for predominantly short range (15-20 yards) squirrels and it was not only a delight to cock and shoot, it was deadly accurate and never failed to kill humanely.
  15. milegajo
    Been there, done that. For a lower cost pcp, the latest Webley Raider 10XS is certainly a great bit of kit, but for the independence, simplicity and durability a quality spring rifle (such as the Air Arms and HW's mentioned) offers, the Raider and other PCP's fall way short in my experience. Unfortunately for PCP, springers have had a sizeable head start, and very much doubt we will hear of PCP's being handed down father (even grand father!) to son and still doing the job like we so often hear regarding HW's and proper old British BSA's and Webleys. That fact alone speaks volumes to me
  16. milegajo
    Christ Davy! Was that footage collated from just one shoot? I never get tired of seeing those pesky rats get nailed. Great shooting.
  17. milegajo
    'Chrono Connect mobile lite' has good reviews. One said it was only 5fps off from a $200 chrono!
  18. milegajo
    Great post as usual hutch6!
  19. milegajo
    I make a habit of NOT reading the tripe published (though i cant seem to help myself when using it to start a fire!). This was pointed out to me and what you said were pretty much my exact words!
  20. milegajo
    That practice is bourne of experience. .22 or .177 I do it regardless. I've shot enough animals to witness and be amazed by the power of life and its stubbornness to endure. Looks can be decieving, as we know from humans. Outwardly they may look, even feel dead and yet they are alive. I daresay even checking the heart may not 100%. It's a powerful force we're playing with. Can anyone identify the rifle? I'm guessing an old BSA/Webley.
  21. milegajo
    It also shows you don't have to be a hot headed youngster to bring airgunning into disrepute. A lesson for all of us in being beyond reproach.
  22. milegajo
    I read about that. From what I understand; He put 2x.22 rounds in its head then went shopping. Neighbour sees signs of life in the squirrel. calls rspca. Xray showed two more rounds in the shoulder. I can see both sides of the story. I can empathise with the accused, squirrels are tough, but his apparent failure to respect his quarry and make CERTAIN it was dead (I feel for a heartbeat in ALL I shoot) has landed him in trouble. Put it this way, if a doctor shut me in a morgue because he failed to check my pulse, I wouldn't be impressed. "Do unto others" is not limited to
  23. milegajo
    Of Course! Let me know via PM etc and I'll buy it, sign it, post it on.
  24. milegajo
    For some, hunting is a hobby, a past time, even a 'sport'. Within the pages of this book are a collection of accounts and essays written by a man who wished to reinstate hunting to its passed glory as his and his family's only means to provide food for the body and nourishment for the soul. A medium through which he could, observe, connect with and explore his environment, not solely to exploit it. Written over the course of a year, Miles Johannesburg charts the changes in the seasons, the habits of his prey with humour, prose and vivid description. He tests equipment, experiments with age old
  25. milegajo
×
×
  • Create New...