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  1. Alsone
    I don't think I ever suggested anything other than that. I just said I wasn't a fan.
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    Deker any calibre can ricochet but some are more to prone to others and that includes ones that don't have sufficient energy to fragment the bullet (.22LR) and all calibres firing FMJ or solid bullets. I don't need to take lectures from you. I've had over 40yrs shooting experience. I might not be a range officer or shoot at Bisley, but I know about shooting safety and I've 1st hand experience of .22LR. I've had plenty of experience with .22LR and there are plenty of experts who are more highly regarded within shooting than you, not to take anything away from your experience of course, who hol
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    I can't make a case for an FAC because I have no land over which to shoot which means no good reason. Nor can I afford the equipment to shoot atm. One your second point, it's not based on reading, although maybe you should read as on practically every forum other than this, ricochet from .22LR is discussed at length as it is with many experts.That's hundreds of experienced shooters who disagree with you. Sometimes it seems Deker than no-one can hold a view different to yours. I have plenty of experience with .22LR. I don't like it from a ricochet pov period. Your welcome to your view, b
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    Deker, I've spent plenty of time in the field with .22LR and military range safety procedures are exactly transferable to the field. They're far more stringent than most shooters practice as I'm sure you know. Basic principles such as being aware of where a gun is pointing at all times even when believed to be unloaded and safe, including with rifles elevation (because of the 1.5 mile safety range of .22LR), (which is something every field shooter should be aware of anyway), and clearing a gun properly and safely using the magazine removal, 3 cycle rule and a visual check are just 2 examples o
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    Thanks for your opinion Walshie, but I have plenty of experience with .22LR. I'm also not the only one in this thread who's experienced ricochets more with .22LR than other calibres. DaveT, I couldn't agree more. You're far safer on your own (unless you shoot yourself of course in which case there's no-one to give 1st aid!). There were a whole lot of circumstances leading up to how this came about and I'm not about to clog the forum up with a long tale. Suffice to say, he thought I was several fields away. The simple safety mistake though is you never take a shot when you know someone may
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    Deker, I've shot plenty of .22LR and it's my own experience that says it's more prone to ricochet than other calibres. Like everything, it has it's place though. As for my friend being a muppet, he's far from it. However, he did make a serious error of judgement in shooting without knowing where on the land I was. I was out of the line of sight behind a low hedge row in an adjacent field to the one where he took the shot, probably 30 yards or more out to the side. What it shows, is just how dangerous ricochets can be because they don't necessarily occur at anticipated angles which means
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    That's true but even a tumbling bullet will make a proper mess of you. A tumbling .22LR @ 40 grains is 3-4 times the weight of an average air rifle pellet, sharp, and with many many times the energy even in a tumbling state. In my case, even after being slowed by penetrating and passing through a rabbit and then hitting a stone to cause the ricochet, I couldn't even see the bullet only hear it approach and pass because of the air displaced by the misshapen head, so believe me when I say it still had enough velocity to embed itself into some wood (or a person). Yes some very firm words we
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    As some question has arisen about the prey itself being a backstop, just for the record, the ricochet that almost hit me was a .22 Winchester sub that passed through a rabbit shot at approx 40yds, hit a stone on a path and then flew past my head within a metre or two and onwards by I'd say another 40-50 yds by the sound of it. Obviously, the person taking the shot shouldn't have been doing so because they knew I was somewhere forwards of their position, although I was hidden by a low hedge and also out to the side. There's a good safety lesson there. However, despite being a sub, it still mana
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    Shooting downwards will help as it gives you the field as a backstop but still don't shoot towards houses, roads or footpaths just in case, as a flat field is far from an ideal way to backstop a bullet. It also pays not to take targets close to the edge of your permission as the closer they are to the edge, the greater the risk of a ricochet leaving the land. Wherever possible shoot from the edge of the permission back towards the centre. So far as ricochets go, the 2 main dangers apart from stones are shallow angles and wet grass, especially combined. Shallow angles come from the taking
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    You could try either smear a bit of de-icer over the lens (may cause blur but at least you'll have a chance of a pic), or better get a leafy small piece of the same tree and fasten it over the top of the camera as a lens shade. You may be able to bend the branch at 90 degress, depending on how flexible it is, and simply jam it down between the camera and tree. Stop the dew falling onto the lens and you won't get the ice. I rather suspect, bait aside, the fox will have been out. Large animal to go without eating simply because it's cold.
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    Safety has to come 1st. When out foxing on your own it's a different matter pointing down to when there are people out in front beating. I once got shouted out for taking a pheasant a good 15 feet up in the air and yet then got criticised for not taking lower birds! Sometimes you can't win. However, some rules are there to ensure safety and when it comes to fully grounded game, it's all too easy for something to bolt across the front of a beater or worse still a beater behind cover.
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    It's habits or yours? ? As foxes themselves tend to be creatures of habit, somehow I think you might need to set your alarm. It probably has a large range and just gets to your farm around 5-6am before calling it a night. Not saying you won't see it an evening but the fact the cameras only caught it at 5-6am is a very good sign that's it's regular time.
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    This especially on the suggestion point. I have 2 friends who have done exactly this. One bought a Sako in .30-06. The other bought a Remington 700 in .308. Both love their rifles. As for brand, it comes down to personal preference but if you already love the Tikka, as said above, why change. Neither of my friends would swap their respective rifles for anything else, either brand or calibre wise.
  14. Alsone
    Is this your NV company Daz? If so, take a look at camera solutions using the Sony IMX291 sensor. It's pretty much the go to sensor in CCTV for night vision. They're about the best you can get for low light. Vid is nice but very noisy in places.
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    Gazon, thanks for your input. Always good to have input from someone who shoots the species concerned. You mention black bear but so far as I'm aware, black bears are native to North America and European bears are the tougher brown ones which are more genetically related to grisly. I stand to be corrected though. To that end, I've not seen many people recommend .308 but then again I wouldn't claim to be expert. I'm also unsure of the sizing of EU vs US browns. However, more broadly, the way I look at calibres is that anything will kill anything. You can find videos online of people shooti
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    Ditto as a .308 bear hunter. There's a long thread over on gun and game about the suitability of using .308 for bears, consisting mostly of US and Canadian / Alaskan bear hunters. The general consensus is .308 is NOT suitable against even black bears and the min calibre should be .300 win mag or .45-70 : https://www.gunandgame.com/threads/308-big-enough-for-say-grizzly.116197/ There's even a story of a guy who shot a bear with a .270 WSM @ 100yds only to have it get up on him as he approached it's dead body. Luckily he also had a .338 Mag in his hand as he approached it and put it st
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    Have you shot bears with .308? Even if so, was it wise is a better question. Lets agree to disagree. There's always going to be a compromise with such a spread of species. 300wm would have been a good consideration as a compromise calibre if the deer were being shot at long range. .308 is not always the answer to everything. In the UK we tend to use a very limited range of set calibres and a lot of this is down to the comparatively few species we shoot compared to other continents. Deker is right. The best answer for deer + boar + dangerous game is always going to be 2 rifles. Anything th
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    Without wanting to divert the OP too much, it's not just based on Wikipedia, 300WM is a step up from either of the other two. I didn't know the OP was going to be shooting at relatively close range, which makes the other 2 more suitable choices. 300 win mag is a step up from the other two. Good analysis here: https://www.snipercountry.com/300-win-mag-vs-308/
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    300 wm is a very well respected and heavily used calibre against larger prey. It's also used for bear hunting one of the OP's possible uses, although some prefer larger calibres against large bears such as Grizzly. It's ranked the number 1 most heavily used 30 calibre magnum cartridge in the US. It's known for being flat shooting and it's long range accuracy. It's been used by both military, police and competition shooters. It's regularly used in the US to take everything from boar to deer, to Elk, to Bear to African Game, and some the smaller species of the forgoing and Coyotes at range
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    Not in any way saying you can't shoot and kill boar with .308. Just suggested 300 win mag as it has a little bit more. If the OP's going to be at close range in the woods with boar, then the choice of calibres becomes easier and .308 is certainly a good, if not THE good all round deer capable round, so it might be a better all round choice for boar as well. Equally he's correct not to right off .30-06. Both capable and the choice is personal. .300 win mag is more suited for longer range and recoils heavier. As for .338 Lapua vs deer, you could shoot dinosaurs with .338 Lapua! It's just a
  21. Alsone
    There's nothing wrong with using a sight, but I've never used a sight on a shotgun. Properly swung, a shot gun shoots where you look. Personally, I wouldn't worry too much about a sight. I can break clays all day without and whilst I'm no George Digweed, I have come 2nd in a couple of club competitions in the past. The main thing with a shotgun is to get your swing right and get used to using your eyes as the sight. As I said, properly aligned, the gun will shoot where you look. So look down the barrel, swing though and pull the trigger at the correct lead. Never shot a hushpower, but ca
  22. Alsone
    Here's a vid of .300 win mag vs a boar. Bit American, but shows the point:
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    Duplicate for some reason. See post below.
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    Just going to throw a curved ball in here as I often like to do and that is .300 Winchester Magnum. It's probably overkill for the smaller species of deer, but it's certainly capable of taking large deer, moose, elk etc and dangerous game such as wild boar. Whether it's permitted under your laws, I'm not sure as in the UK at least, it's regarded as more of a dangerous game cartridge than a deer cartridge so getting it granted on a UK cert might prove difficult. However, the laws could be different where you live. 300 Win Mag is a proven long range cartridge and packs approx 200f
  25. Alsone
    Kids these days have become snowflakes.
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