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    That'll be the front of your eyes, the corneas, not the back and UV light which burns. You need to get extra protection if that's the case. I'd be seeing an optician if your eyes are deteriorating as you reported recently and are getting sore at work and telling them of your exposure. Burning your eyes could be causing the formation of scars affecting your vision. http://www.bioline.org.br/request?np07009
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    I have to laugh at magpies. Have you ever seen them underneath? They're the size of a sparrow with enough feathers to make the body resemble a crow! I remember shooting one once with a BB fox load I happened to have in the gun at the time and looking for the wound as I shot it up the rear! It was like one of those Russian dolls. Everytime you peeled a layer off, there was another one underneath! Mrs. Magpie must find it very frustrating! I also imagine that one was pretty glad to see you if it had been couped up for a couple of weeks.
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    Nothing wrong with releasing. Shooting is all about balance. I used to cringe when a certain person said it was his aim to shoot every fox on a piece of land. OK it's different as a professional pest controller as farmers want to see results and foxes eventually re-populate from other areas, but imagine if everyone did it, there'd be none left, no repopulation and no balance. Sometimes it's about judging when something's a pest in an area and when it's simply wildlife. It's like removing every bunny. Farmers aside, who doesn't like to go out on a warm summer's evening and see some rabbits play
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    My Dearest Sausage, your muscles will be well done but not over as you can feel them cooking. Unfortunately, your retinas having no pain receptors can be over cooked, so I suggest sticking to the instructions that come with the cooker. Retinas are best left like Sushi, raw. Kudos to David for supplying the cooker.
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    Again you'd be fighting the animal brigade, because they can be trained to eat out of your hand, they must be good right? The grey squirrel is a rare exmaple of an invasive species that needs to be totally exterminated because of it's effect on the rare and endangered native red. Conrol will never suffice because of the way the species compete one sidedly and because of the spread of disease by the immune version. I personally almost never would advocate the exterminatioon of any species, invasive or otherwise. However, the grey squirrel is one that's totally justified as there are no na
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    There are flashlight forums where people replace the standard LED's in housing with uprated ones. I'm sure IR is no different other than it's IR. Watch the eyes though as IR can damage them. I wouldn't trust anything claiming IR as safe. I used to have a lot to do with lasers and IR definately isn't safe. There's a reason they use it in muscle lamps to warm those muscles... For long range, you're never going to beat a laser diode based flashlight.
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    Mybe but I don't think you can justify the total extermination of a species just because it causes damage. Otherwise you might as well extinct all the pigeons, crows, rooks, deer, rabbits, hares etc from the UK in which case you'd unbalance the coutryside and have nthing left to control. There's a justification for exterminating badgers in some areas local to dairy or chicken farms. However, I don't think you can or should be trying to justify a total extermination.
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    Maybe: https://www.scottcountry.co.uk/lighting/infrared-illuminators/wicked-lights-a67ir-infrared-illuminator-and-red-n/ Note non of them seem to be pushing much beyond 400yds. This one claims 500yds but 400yds identifiable. Other than that, maybe you need to make one!
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    There's probably some justification for protection away from dairy farms, as it's always a balance between one species and another. However, it's quite clear in dairy farm areas, that badgers are a big problem. It's the denial Phil that's always the problem. One overlooked fact is the biggest killers of birds in this country are domestic cats, something that gets constantly overlooked by the anti's who probably go home at night to houses stuffed full of cuddly little felines. Estimates put cat related deaths at over several billion birds and small mammals a year in the USA and over 100 mi
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    That needs passing to police complaints and information commissioners office, as it's surely got to be someone within the Firearms Licensing System for Devon and Cornwall Police, that's leaking the information as there's no other way they'd have the FAC numbers. It could be a hack, but presumably that would be detected and you'd like to think the police national computer was more secure than that. So my money's on a leak straight from the Police database which is an offence in itself.
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    Love the face visor in the 1st photo. Hope you're socially distancing from those foxes. Clever buggers, just like them to engage in germ warfare. As for .357 magmum, no experience of it in rifles but it is an excellent handgun round and despite being one of the oldest, still one of the most powerful today in terminal effect. I imagine through a rifle length barrel, you're not far behind .223. I've heard energies in the region of 1,000 ft lbs (500ft lbs usually through a pistol) and velocities in the high 2,000's from a rifle. For comparison .223 is @ 1,000 ft lbs and 3,200 fps depending o
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    Could be embarassing if the mixing fails in front of all those hens...
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    Shooting stand (zimmer frame), shooting stick (walking stick), equipment carrier (wheel chair), bird scarer (fall alarm), all present and checked.
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    I don't doubt that for a minute Phil. I'm just saying it probably isn't legally a copy although it is similar. There's copy and "copy". AirArmsSA is an excellent channel on Youtube btw where the shooter often uses his 75ft lbs FX Impact along side a .22-250 and another large rifle .260 I think. Well worth a look if you're into FX shooting. The impact gets some superb kills with both pellets and slugs. I'm not aprticularly into air guns although FAC air such as that could interest me, hence why I watch some of his hunts.
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    We don't know what's patented here. A bullpup probably can't be. Plenum chamber, I wouldn't know. The design looks similar but it's different, compare them side by side, the parts are not the same. They're very similar in style but not exactly the same. One may or may not have inspired the look of the other. Many cars look similar. You can't patent a car, as an item, only unqiue features to it if they haven't been done before.
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    No . It's long been said it's the reason it's the world's most popular calibre because most buy one as their child's 1st rifle. Outside of the UK, many learn to shoot from a young age, and along with Cadet Corps, Scouts etc, use them. Although the UK's never been big on firearms, a lot of the posher shcools back in the 50's used to teach shooting and have rifle ranges on site. .22lr was always the go to starter calibe. Then there were fairs. Even though I'm not that old, I shot a .22 rf on the seafront at Blackpool as a kid in what could only be described as a burger van sized rifle stall. The
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    For me .22LR has 2 functions - 1 if you want to sell rabbits, the other if you need almost total silence. Once you depart from either criteria, I see little use as per Sausage. Yes it's the world's most popular calibre, but that's largely because being the bottom of the stack of the mainstream calibres for performance, meaning it's the ideal 1st rifle for kids, so everyone starts off with and owns a .22lr. For adults, certainly it has the 2 roles I mentioned, but for me the downsides of limited range, limited species and a high risk of ricochet all outweigh it for any other use scenario. .17 h
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    There are visual differences and no doubt engineering as well eg. I haven't noticed mention of a plenum chamber on the Daystate. As for the similarities, there are somethings you can't restrict. eg. Bullpup rifles have been a round for a long time. The wiki suggests it was patented in 1866 in which case the patent expired after 17 yrs, making the bullpup design free to use. Whether the modern bullpup has anything patented after I'm unsure, but current US patents run for 15-20 yrs depending on the type, making it highly unlikely the bullpup as a prinicple is under patent. You'd have to check bu
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    That's what Sausage Dog did, and he bought a HMR...... The writings on the wall Ian......and it's not a Banksy.
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    Ian's middle initials are HMR, he just doesn't know it yet. Ian HMR M (Ian "Hmr's My Rifle" M) Them there mice are going to be quaking pinching them Lancashire Muffins.
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    God the mice are big round your way. Seriously though, shows how good the hmr really is when poor quality ammo is no longer an issue. Nice shooting.
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    They already tried that in Iraq. It allegedly made people sick and not just the ones they shot with it! (at least according to some reports from around the time). Now if you could use that reactor to manufacturer some adamantium or unobtanium, we'd all be sitting dandy. You could be our own personal pusher, for cheap of course to get us hooked on the lead free alternative.
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    Personally, I've never found fibre wads an issue. I used to shoot at a clay shoot and I never found my peformance limited by fibre wads. They also patterned well against a plate at least from 3-4 metres. The bighgest environmental issue is the cartidge itself. We need to return to the waxed paper outers insetad of plactic and as Stavros says, take the thigns home. Even with plastic ones you'vre still got brass plated steel heads. Best recycled. There are some plastic wads now that disolve within 24 hours of contact with water after being shot. However, they're not widely available and the
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    Have to wonder why hasn't the medical professsion looked at dietary copper supplements and whether copper is low in the blood or older people need more copper (within toxicity levels). Unless I'm crazy, the only way a copper bracelet can help, is if copper ions pass through the skin into the blood, in which case surely a slightly higher than normal (for younger people) dietary source of copper is the answer (again within toxicity levels).
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    The issue here is whether the Government will still implement it anyway. BASC has a lot to do in preventing this. I'm all for a lead ban as soon as something with lead performance is available at the same price as lead. Until then, lead has to stay,
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