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  1. Coypu Hunter
    Nice. My 97's in .177 and running at 13fpe with 4.52mm JSB Exact Heavies, after fitting a FAC V-Mach kit. Only had maybe a couple of hundred pellets through it since the kit went in, followed by a Rowan Engineering extra setback trigger, and extreme spreads are already down to 9 fps for a 10-shot string. Should get even better as it beds in, all I need to do now is up my game to keep up with the rifle! I have a 4-16X40 AO scope on my Stoeger gas-rammer, which produces groups like a shotgun -- the best I've managed so far is a 30mm group at 33 yards. If it doesn't settle down, and/or
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    Looks like it's been shot, mate! No but seriously folks, was there a similar mark on the other side of it's head? Just wondering if it might have survived a .22 rimfire round through the sinuses...
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    No mate, though I know people who moved here partly to escape the handgun ban in the UK. One guy I know lives in Normandy, has an arsenal that includes everything up to an AK47, seriously! If you're an established sporting shooter with no criminal record, and have the dosh, you can get pretty much anything you want. I moved for work, originally to Holland, then worked in Geneva (but lived just over the border in France). Moved to Brittany when the last job went tîts up, went freelance, and bought a house on a hectare of land so we could grow our own food to supplement the freelance income,
  4. Coypu Hunter
    Cheers guys! I wouldn't be surprised by anything the 97 can do, bigmac. The main limitations on its performance are the magnification of the scope I'm using (max 9X) and the idiot behind the trigger! My biggest problem at long range is timing the shot between heartbeats. If I rest the forestock on my left hand, then my pulse makes the crosshairs move from side to side slightly, so I shoot between heartbeats. If I time it wrong though, and the rifle's moving when I pull the trigger, then you can see what happens on the targets above -- the shot can land a couple of inches away from poin
  5. Coypu Hunter
    Yup, the most accurate pellet in your rifle is the one that will do the job best. If that's AA Fields, stick with 'em. Hollowpoints, pointed pellets, wadcutters etc. tend in my experience to be unstable in flight at range, so inaccurate. You need penetration to hit the vitals, but pointed pellets won't give you more penetration, because they'll miss the target. Ignore all the claims about hollowpoints etc. To get a hollowpoint to expand, rather than just flatten as pellets do when they hit bone or metal, you need serious velocity, which you won't get from an air rifle.
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    Just move to France, mate!
  7. Coypu Hunter
    Just had to try it... My extreme spreads are running around the 9fps mark with the V-Mach kit settling down nicely, so since there was very little breeze today, just a whisper left to right, I had a go. The first one is unsupported at the front, i.e. the rifle just resting on the beanbag on the bench. The second was with my hand underneath the forestock. I was shooting for groups, so just gave it 2 mildots of holdover, rather than the 2.5 mildots required -- because my Nikko Stirling scope only has full mildot markings, and at 9X magnification the 42mm bullseye is a tad on the small side...
  8. Coypu Hunter
    Yep, though getting the rear sight adjusted correctly would help! It's a dovetailed drift sight, so you have to tap it to left or right to adjust the windage -- and a millimetre at this end makes a huge difference at that end. I'll get there eventually!
  9. Coypu Hunter
    And the results are in... Red dots: 50X Winchester SuperX subsonics .22LR through my Walther P22 (looks like this): White dots: 24X .38 Special handloads, 2.2 grains of Vectan BA10 powder behind a 148-grain LRN bullet, through my Smith & Wesson Model 19 .357 Magnum, which looks like this: And finally the black dots are 25X Winchester White Box 125-grain FMJ rounds through the Hi Power. The rear sight was way over to the right, which is where I started off shooting: I drifted it (a bit too far) to the left, then back towards the centre. Getting there, but I'm not convi
  10. Coypu Hunter
    Are they steel or lead pellets? You can get both over here. I've read that the steel ones are a bad idea, but the lead ones are OK. Mind you, that's just internet chat, so take it with a bucket of salt! I doubt if occasional use would do much damage, but that's just my opinion. Check out this video. You'll see that they're fine for shooting rats... so long as you're very, very good at creeping up close to 'em! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh0jCg8Ymuo
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    I wondered what that damp patch on your right shoulder was...!
  12. Coypu Hunter
    I'll shrink the pic before I post it... The targets are 55 cm (22") square, so I'm in with a chance. Mind you, the central black circle is only 8" in diameter, and I'll be shooting at 25 metres freestanding...
  13. Coypu Hunter
    Cheers! If I manage to hit a barn door at the range tomorrow, I'll post me target card for you...
  14. Coypu Hunter
    ...but some of you might be interested! Said goodbye to my Browning Pro9 today. A bit of a wrench, since it was my first ever 9mm semi-automatic pistol. Couldn't get on with the polymer frame though, which generated so much muzzle flip it was more like a backwards somersault! The trigger was pretty long too... So I swapped it for a Browning Hi Power, plus five mags, a spare barrel and an original British Army issue holster for it. The steel frame has more weight, and it even had a halfway decent trigger. After removing the magazine disconnect safety mechanism, it now has an excell
  15. Coypu Hunter
    You still at school, moxy? I would've guessed you were older... Also, I wouldn't lean my pride and joy butt-first in a puddle of cow-shite like that...! Good shooting though, 56 in a couple of hours is giving it some serious wellie.
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    Can't get Eleys over here normally, Lapuas do the job just as well.
  17. Coypu Hunter
    The trigger works via an elastic band. Why am I not surprised?
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    Darn... there goes its rakish good looks... On second thoughts, I think it's actually an improvement.. But seriously, crap packaging like that simply won't do. If the seller won't admit responsibility for poor packaging, try the post office -- looks like the thing's been chucked around in the back of a van. Shouldn't do that with anything made of balsa wood...
  19. Coypu Hunter
    Well, you've already listed the mutt's nuts of the widely available PCPs, so that's a good start! They will all perform well in the field, and on the HFT course, so your choice -- in the most basic terms -- comes down to two elements. Firstly, make sure you're happy with the technical side of all the rifles you're looking at (shot count per fill, magazine capacity, ease of reloading and reinserting magazines, location and ease of use of the safety catch, which style of cocking mechanism you prefer, etc.). That may refine your target list of rifles. The rest comes down to one simple
  20. Coypu Hunter
    Cheers! I'm going for species extinction over here, only problem is that might send the smarter ones your way, so get ready!
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    And it's a smackdown for number 9 this year. I'll soon have cleared out the bunch that learned to steal eggs from inside our chicken house...
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    Moorhens nesting on your pond means you're pond's healthy, i.e. the water quality's good. Having them there will also help bring the ducks in, since the ducks will be confident that there's not too much danger if there are moorhens nesting. Moorhens and ducks get on just fine, they don't see each other as threats. We have both on our lake, and they both eat the duck food! Is that algae on the pond, or duckweed, or blanket weed? Can't see from the pic.
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    Coypu Hunter 8, Magpies 0. This one was at the top of a tall pine tree in our back garden. Up angle about 30°, distance to tree trunk around 41 yards, line of sight to target 45 yards. Centered the crosshairs on its wing shoulder, where the heart is, rather than holding over by 1 mildot as I would for a 45-yard shot on the level. Heard a loud thwack at the receiving end, and the magpie flapped twice before nose-diving towards the ground, where it was pronounced DOA.
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    Yes, I always find it amusing when I see .22 rifles being sold at car boot sales (vide-greniers). Discreetly, of course...
  25. Coypu Hunter
    It definitely is out here in the Breton countryside! I have rats in my chicken shed at the moment. They're too clever to get caught in the traps I've put down. According to the law of the land, I'm supposed to stand inside a shed which has corrugated iron walls and ceiling, and a beaten earth floor, and blast away at them with either my .410 shotgun or my .22LR. Some of the laws made in Paris just don't seem to reflect life in the real world... and tend to be ignored as soon as you travel outside the suburbs!
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