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  1. Coypu Hunter
    Hi Craig. Thanks for the generous offer! I managed to get some AA Fields and H&N FTT pellets in .22 when I was over in the UK, but couldn't find either of them in .177. They seem pretty accurate in my .22, although I haven't had too much chance to really field-test them, since I've been concentrating on finding the best pellet for my Weihrauch .177. Do you have a supplier who ships AA Fields or H&N FTT pellets to Europe? I'd be happy to order some for myself, just haven't been able to find anyone who'll ship outside of the UK, or anyone in France who stocks them.
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    The results are finally in... Bisley Magnums (10.65 grains) are the most accurate pellet I've found so far. Due to lousy weather, I've been shooting groups at 15 yards (I can hide in the barn out of the rain, and hang my pellet trap on a handily-placed tree). The Bisleys make a ragged hole, the only pellet to do this consistently. Haven't been able to get hold of any RWS or AA pellets in .177, so the story will no doubt continue. I'll also be trying the Bisleys out to 50 yards when the weather improves. Thanks again for all the input.
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    Well, it didn't take long for the first coypu of the New Year to turn up. Take a look at Coypu Caper #5 on my YouTube channel to see the result of a meeting between a seven-pound coypu and a 40-grain Lapua .22 round: http://www.youtube.c...GOWFawnxZuf4cwQ
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    Try again -- you must have logged on just as the video finished processing. You can either go to the channel page above, pausing only to subscribe , then go to Coypu Caper #4. The direct link is here: http://youtu.be/H7RD83HBm0Y
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    Another one in the trap today, dispatched with the Weihrauch. This one's a full-grown adult, I'd guess around 2.5 years old, and has (had) a major dental hygiene problem. You should see the teeth on this one... Check out Coypu Caper #4 on my YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?=dRUCYjNGOWFawnxZuf4cwQ Tally so far: 2011 -- 5 coypus; 2012 -- 5 coypus.
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    Big buggers. What do you shoot it with, a .22rf or an air pistol, it looks like the latter. That's a little 'un -- take a look at Coypu Caper #1 for a 5kg one, about 18 months old. Still waiting for an adult to drop by -- they reach 9kg/20lbs! At range, I use my .22 LR. In the trap, I use my Weihrauch HW97K, since the banks of the lake are made of soil on top of granite -- so too much risk of a ricochet with the .22. I use the cheap n nasty Chinese pistol to finish 'em off if they're still twitching -- they have a nasty bite, so I like to make sure before I bag 'em and tag 'em.
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    Finally caught up with a rather elusive coypu that's been hanging around our lake for a few days. You'll see why it's never a good idea to corner one, after it tries to get at me through the cage! Quite a few people and dogs have been bitten by coypus in France when wandering close to ditches and streams -- a cornered coypu tends to attack. This one won't be attacking anyone again. Check out Coypu Caper #3 on my YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdRUCYjNGOWFawnxZuf4cwQ
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    I'm in France, Brittany to be precise. Yep, the Norfolk Broads were overrun with coypus a while back, for the same reason that France is overrun with them now -- some idiots decided to farm them for their fur back in the 1930s, then realised that it wasn't a commercial proposition, so released them into the wild. Since coypus come from South America, and have no natural predators in Europe, they can spread like wildfire if they're released. They were all trapped or shot in the Broads some years ago, because they were destroying all the plant life. They have the same problem now in Loui
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    As a stop-gap with the Gamo, the trigger is pretty easy to modify. If you take off the trigger guard and lift out the action, you will probably find that the Gamo "first stage" is actually an L-shaped spring that the trigger compresses against the trigger housing. You can safely remove this spring completely -- it's just a false first stage to make the trigger travel longer, thus avoiding accidental firing. What you now have is a trigger that is held forward by the sear. As you pull the trigger, the trigger rotates around a pin, and another pin that runs through the back of the trigger put
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    I'll be popping back to Blighty later this month and have been thinking about dragging my 16 fpe Weihrauch HW97K over with me to get it tuned. It was a bit twangy out of the box, and has a healthy kick to it, which I think might be calmed down by a good tune, or the fitting of a V-Mach kit or similar. I've looked at fitting a V-Mach kit myself, but I don't have a spring compressor, and I'm not sure just how much of a problem I'd have getting the spring out (without flying across the room!). Does anyone know of a gunsmith who offers tuning services in either the Chard (Somerset) or Read
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    The video's up and working now, Coypu Caper #2 at http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdRUCYjNGOWFawnxZuf4cwQ
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    So a couple of days ago, my coypu trap (unbaited) caught a cock pheasant, which I released... then yesterday, it caught a young coypu, which I didn't release... then yesterday afternoon, while rebaiting the trap, I noticed three older coypus in the stream which feeds our lake. They were queuing up to dive through the fence that runs across the stream, to get into our lake... so of course I had to take the .22 for a walk. Unfortunately, my brain threw a gear and applied holdover instead of holdunder... duh..... but I saw two of them today frolicking in the stream just outside our boundary fence
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    There are still plenty of hunters around here -- it's a farming area (like most of France) and all the farmers like to take a 12-bore out for a spin on Sundays. They have organised shoots too "à la battue" -- i.e. beating the bushes and using dogs to flush the game. The season is (theoretically) restricted though -- because there is so little game left. Around here, for example, there's only one or two days a year when hares can be shot. I actually saw one this spring in the field next to our property, and it was the first I'd seen for a few years. Deer still roam the countryside around he
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    Yes, but only because hunting with air rifles is illegal in France. Don't get me started on that...! My Weihrauch is quite capable of taking them down, since it's the 21 joule/15.5 fpe version. Let's just say that if a Gamo Hunter 440 DX in 23 joules/17 fpe can drop them, then the Weihrauch could too -- but don't ask me how I know... France has a lot of hunters, and more relaxed laws in terms of gun ownership (e.g. I got my first licence from a gunsmith, who also sold me a .22 rimfire on the spot -- all I needed was proof of ID, proof of address, and a recent medical certificate). Yet they
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    Weather's fine and sunny over here at the moment, but rained this morning while I was at the pistol club. In fact, it's rained heavily for the past few days -- so the lake is now full, all the local streams are running, and I'm expecting to see the next adventurous coypu arriving to check out our lake as a potential home any time now...
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    Ni sa bula, mate (assuming you speak Fijian, of course)
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    Forgot to answer lapin 2008's question -- is there any way to edit posts on this forum? Anyway lapin, The bigguns are about twice the size of the critter in the video -- so probably weigh not far off 20lbs/9kg, and measure 24-30" in the body with an 18" rat's tail. Ugly things, and they also carry Weil's disease apart from anything else. They bring their young along in the spring, shepherd them around for a few weeks, then leave them to their own devices. The young then start tunnelling into the banks of our lake when the water level drops in the summer (the lake is fed by a seasonal s
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    Hi lapin2008. I'm halfway between St Malo on the coast and Rennes -- about 40 mins from each, in a small hamlet in the countryside near a village called Sens de Bretagne. _________________ Zastava CZ99 Precision .22 LR, Hawke AirMax EV 4-12X50 AO scope, Harris bipod, SAK silencer Weihrauch HW97K .177 16 fpe, Walther 3-9X50 AO scope
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    Bullmastiff, I don't know why the link comes up like that -- the channel appears as http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdRUCYjNGOWFawnxZuf4cwQ or http://www.youtube.com/watch?=dRUCYjNGOWFawnxZuf4cwQ, but all the videos appear as youtu.be something. Maybe because I'm in Europe? When you go to the youtu.be link, it appears in the address bar as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS3hFqdcEHY&feature=youtu.be, whatever that means!
  20. Coypu Hunter
    Great forum! I live in Brittany, on a hectare of land (2.5 acres) which includes a half-acre lake and some woodland. Aside from target shooting, at 65 yards with the .22 and 47 yards with the air rifle, I also do my bit to control the enormous coypu population around here, when they manage to burrow under my perimeter fence and try to take up residence on my lake. I also shoot muskrats (another common water-dwelling pest in France) and rats, which like trying to overwinter our chicken & duck sheds. No squirrels to shoot here, since they're red squirrels, so the ones that live in the ga
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