Alsone
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Yep but if you get no expansion in soft tissue then the bullet isn't expanding properly and eventually that may result in a wounding. I appreciate the expansion above is textbook. It also occurred after the bullet passed through the rabbit and into the hillside. 6 inch of soil is more than enough to cause it to expand. I would be happier to see a great example of Winchester expansion after the bullet is pulled from soft tissue. That way we know it's the bullet performing as intended and not a helping hand from a hill side. Either way, it's a textbook photo of what a RF bullet should look like
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Good expansion although personally I'd rather it was recovered from a body shot than the earth or skull simply because the real test of expansion is on soft tissue. Everyone knows to expect expansion if you hit something hard. If I drive a car into a wall I'll flatten the nose. That's not where you need the expansion! It's in the soft tissue. Yes I know you can still hit ribs and bias the result. However, it's the best test this side of something like a dedicated Paul Harrell flesh test.
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I got a lot of assistance from the BASC with my application a few years ago despite not being a member until after the issue started. I got hundreds of hours of advice, faxes, letter and telephone calls on my behalf over about a 6 month period from several people there including an ex Police FEO. Although I was in the right and they knew I'd win any case, they did make it quite clear there would be no assistance with any Court action I brought as I wasn't a member at the time, which was fair enough. I can't complain about that. As for cc3, if they cover licensing issues then go for it. It's no
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They gave me good advice and backed me with letters and phone calls. However, you'd have to check the terms and conditions of the insurance policy now as I'm not sure it covers licensing appeals.
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The big problem is funding. Apart from your own costs, lose and you could be liable for the Police's and they will almost certainly employ a Barrister. Often costs come in around £10K if you lose. If you're not rich or unemployed with no assets, it's a big risk. You will need a specialist firearms Solicitor. You're average Solicitor isn't going to have a clue as it's a very specialist area. They do exist. Apart from the organisations that will know some, you can go to the Law Societies web site and search for a Solicitor by speciality. It should then list all the Solicitors with that expe
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If it's 16lbs of lead you'd better have a standing order for toilet bowls with your local plumbing shop. You'd have thought they'd have banned lead years ago with all those toilets going to waste. PS They haven't banned housebricks yet and don't builders have a problem with Sh*tting Bricks?
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I'm guessing no-one but Baldcoot has heard of the Scout's Guide. Here you go Gav. Probably won't save your life, but at least you'll die laughing: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Scouts-Guide-Zombie-Apocalypse-DVD/dp/B017RCMP0Q/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1FLLHZ03W6GGP&keywords=scouts+guide+to+the+zombie+apocalypse+dvd&qid=1583138659&sprefix=scouts+guide%2Caps%2C141&sr=8-1 PS avoid the trailer it's crap.
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He's prepping for the Zombie Apocalypse. Suggest he gets a copy of the Scouts Guide.
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I'm fully aware there wasn't an explosion on the Hindenburg, that was someones sensationalist title to the video. You've seen in the other video what only a small amount of H and O2 do together, several hundred millions of gallons mixed with air would have devastated buildings, trees and killed people for tens of miles. Hydrogen only explodes if mixed with oxygen. The cause of the Hindenburg disaster is actually unknown but speculation includes sabotage, someone smoking inside an area where a cell was leaking triggering a smaller explosion and fire that ignited the other cells of pure Hydrogen
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I disagree. The performance of electric vehicles leaves petrol in it's wake. It's biggest Achilles heel is range but in the long term it looks as if supercapacitors will eventually be able to replace batteries, and these never wear out, charge in seconds and have the potential for huge range. There's a lot of research in this area atm. Hydrogen, yup, lets all drive a bomb / steel shell full of colourless, odourless and tasteless highly flammable gas. That worked out well for the Hindenburg. 3 major issues with Hydrogen: 1. It takes a lot of energy to produce it - you have to
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It was a joke, sorry if you took it seriously. ?
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Could be worse it could be the face of a bulldog chewing a bulldog's arse. Still might get better when those antique guns of your explode under those steel balls. Why pay BUPA when you can steel shoota? (I ought to write adverts )
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That is cheap. I've seen them around that for Hevi steel. Even at £25 though, that's still around 3 times the price of lead. Apologies for the anti-tag, looking at your post count you've been around a long time, guess we've not really posted together before. Thought you'd just joined. Should have looked for your posts. ?
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Sgc and required gp letter/merseyside police
Alsone replied to McKay's topic in Rimfire, Centrefire & Shotguns
I believe you have a legal right to request copies of your medical records under Data Protection and maybe now the GDPR (?) and I believe from this web page that they now they cannot charge you as a patient even if they ask your for the whole record: https://www.firstpracticemanagement.co.uk/blog/gdpr-and-accessing-medical-records-a-practice-managers-guide/ Note also: The Police have NO right to see your records, so you are under NO duty to supply them. Medical records remain confidential. My understanding is what the GP is permitted to do -
Saw this posted elsewhere, maybe the answer is a nationwide strike of everyone involved in pest control. Imagine famine and food shortages in the UK. That would wake a few people up.
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Really, are you actually a shooter or anti who's joined to put your point across? Have you seen the prices? In the US, 12 gauge no:6 pheasant rounds - $42.95 for 10 rounds and that's at a discount store! https://www.cheaperthandirt.com/brands/h/hevi-shot/ For a 25 round UK equivalent box, ignoring any slight variation as UK / US prices are usually pretty much on par these days, that's £107.38 per 25 round box. Or £4,295.20 per 1,000. Are you going to pay nearly £5,000 for a day on the pigeon at your local farm? That would buy you a small 2nd hand car. For comparis
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They'll ban them because of the plastic in the environment. The only answer is going to be a non toxic metal with a Specific Gravity. Unfortunately that points squarely at Tungsten. Lead free shot have been around for years now and despite all the research, only tungsten comes close to lead. However, without government subsidies, it's not viable due to cost.
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Death of shooting for many. How many people are going to fork out £40 a box for tungsten? Won't bother the Range Rover club. Screwed are the rest of us. Maybe we should stop shooting. Imagine the outcry when there's 10,000,000 bunnies in the field and a box of cereal or 1kg of carrots costs £100 because crops are being devastated to the point of being in short supply. Imagine a modern day potato famine. That would shake a few up.
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Keep peppering them with those balls Sausage. You know 2 balls are better than 1.
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Yeah it must have been that cheeky smile that fooled it. This gives me an idea, maybe you should purchase and wear this when out hunting: https://www.funkybunky.co.uk/Item/Chris-Packham-Mask Imagine the headlines.......
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Oh well, another Chav!
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I'm not going to argue physics with you because I'm not a physic professor. But run the ballistics through Gundata and you'll find that .17 remington and .30-06 tail off very similarly when shot horizontally. At 1,000yds, both have around 500 inches of drop. This suggests a very similar total distance of travel through air as both are towards the end of their travel horizontally. If the .17 has more air resistance then gravity is proportional to mass and the .30-06 is heavier, so one is cancelling out the other. I still don't believe a .17 remington bullet will travel 1/3 rd less than a 9
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Sausage, check out this: https://www.wired.com/2009/09/how-high-does-a-bullet-go/ If you don't trust Wired, then if you google it, there's the same discussion of the Mythbusters tests on a science forum that reach pretty much the same conclusion. Mythbusters checked this out with a .30-06 and found it went to 10,000 feet when fired vertically. Some have since challenged this and found they may have made a mistake and it potentially goes even higher. You have to remember here the differences with .17, but having a smaller surface area means less drag (hence why it flies flat
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I missed the Remington bit. I would still consider the bullet on the small side though. As for shooting a bullet with between 900-1200 ft lbs into the air and it only travelling 1,000yds, I'd call bullshit. .22LR comes with a 1.5 mile warning on the box (@ 2,000yds ?) and the energy from that is around 300ft lbs or 1/4 that of the .17 rem. There's a big difference between usable range and potentially dangerous range.
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If the pots cooking, you have to stir it.....
