Alsone
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Very little to reason to use HV's tbh. They have uses, but most find subs better simply because they're good enough for most jobs at close range and near silent with a moderator. HV's make a lot of noise for little usable range gain over subs. If you need more range for crows, (they are wary and can stay several hundred yards away), then keep the .22 with subs for bunnys and use a small CF for the crows. Also, when you talk crows and pigeons, I'm assuming we're talking grounded here. You're new to non air rifles by the sound of it and I don't know what your background is, but even .2
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Don't know if this helps, but a pattern comparison .410 vs 20g hushpower at 2 distances: Richard Utting 8.7K subscribers SharpshootingUK pattern tes
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Lovely guns, but how did you get 30 for fox? I'm guessing these are deer authorised and AOLQ?
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Merry Christmas.
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You can always add a Neoprene sleave to attempt to get additional noise reduction. I don't know how much they help as never shot a gun with and without, but they seem popular so I guess they must add something and logic says if you put something sound absorbent on the outside of the mod tube, then it's going to reduce sound radiated from the sides of the tube. Won't do anything for the noise from out the business end though!
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3 points were mentioning here: 1. Those are gunshops so retail prices with warranty not private sale. 2. The lower most prices are new. It's the uppers that are 2nd hand but bear in mind point 1. 3. The red receiver version is most likely worth more as it's the performance version (personally I doubt there's any discernible difference to anybody not trying to break world records with the gun!), but having said that, from memory, the "performance" SX3 costs a few hundred more new. From a user, not valuation perspective, I'd be very happy to own either. BTW, John, by all mean
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Why you selling it mate? Got to be one of the best semi-autos out there. I'm not a fan of synthetic stocks, but other than that, it's a cracking gun for anyone to buy.. World's fastest firing shotgun.
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There's actually quite a few photos of Giant Rats if you search. Reportedly London is having an issue with super giant mice. Maybe it's time to break out the CF's: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/giant-rat-found-in-london-gas-engineer-finds-rodent-bigger-than-a-small-child-a6925591.html
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If all he got was a verbal dressing down, he probably got off lucky. Pretty sure that trespassing on someone else's land and removing game stock amounts to poaching. Pretty sure unless they're tagged, he would be unable to prove the birds were his.
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Guy with the .22.......I think we're going to need a bigger gun.... (and yep it's real if you believe the Daily Mail..)
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Yeah I have used them without and I don't disagree. Maybe a little quieter. Thing is without a mod, you have to take all the reductions you can get. Canada really needs to catch up with the rest of the civilised world whom realised some time ago that there's no such thing as a silencer.
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Subsonics will kill rabbits all day at 50yds so without a moderator, I'd use those. Will help reduce the noise a little.
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Yeah that black powder is some good shit man...
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I guess I over estimated the Terminators rifle. Still, I'm sure he'd be pleased with a 50W.
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Nah. He's just using a gauss gun. It's what the terminator favours when the plasma rifle in the 50w range is unavailable.
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Keep the knives in school. ? or prevent the 3pm snowstorm. ? Only in Britain could it snow @ 9am and 3pm every school day even in summer!
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Hand gun crime actually climbed after the ban for I believe around 10 years. It did then fall back a bit but more due to more effective policing than any ban from the preceding figures. Not sure what the statistics are now, but London especially and it's gangs appear to be flush with handguns, machine pistols and other banned weapons.
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Unfortunately this is snowflake Britain. All schools in my city now have these high fences and locked gates - paranoia about paedophiles and abductions more than anything else. When was the last time you heard of a paedophile kidnapping? Last one I remember was in Wales a few years ago and it was the kids relative (uncle?). Honestly, we have something like 10 million children in this country, go probably 5-10 yrs between these abductions / murders, and parents won't let children walk to school and schools are as you say like prison camps. Only real surprise here is that some do-gooder di
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Unless the extra thickness was mostly on the inside except at the neck. Possible if the case isn't full of powder to the neck. Ultimately, I wouldn't know. All I do know is a lot of shooters are reporting they aren't seeing any bad rounds anymore. Obviously this points to either the case or forming process having changed. Interestingly, at the same time, several new hotter hmr rounds are being announced. Again pointing to the issue being solved - I gather this was featured at Shot Show 2018: http://www.varminter.com/new-cci-17hmr-vnt-rimfire-ammunition/
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With woodpigeon I've only heard it said about birds on the roost, in which case the head is probably tucked in above. It may be guff, or maybe not. However, most things have some origin in fact, and woodpigeon are a very tough bird to start with. It's not inconceivable that on the roost, they could pack the feathers tight enough. In flight though is another matter. I've never failed to drop one in flight except when I've missed. As an aside, one other piece of Guff you often here is how they can see the shot in flight at 1,500fps! Guff it is until you actually see it. I've seen several woodpig
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I read some suggestions on another forum that the HMR rounds now are slightly heavier and slightly larger suggesting an increase in case thickness. I have no way of verifying this. Only way to know is if someone has old vs new to compare on the scales or even disassemble with a micrometer. Either way, the dialogue I read over there, seemed also to point to users no longer having issues.
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Someone else suggested .17 originally not me. I just seconded it that it was a possible option for very long range low volume rabbiting, not something that most would do. For closer in, there are better and cheaper to run rabbit guns such as .22 for close range, and wmr / hmr for more moderate ranges.
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It's feasible. Drop is 20 inches. In fairness though 400 is over the top. I just went for the extreme limit. ? However, 300 is a very realistic 6 inches of drop and 350 therefore, probably quite possible. I very much doubt though many would want to shoot at those ranges. Point is though, .17 hornet is very flat shooting and at 300yds still has 200ftlbs of energy.
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Aww c'mon my recommendations are never that extreme Walshie. You know you need a nice mainstream .50 cal to turn them inside out. None of that EU rubbish - we're leaving that behind, it's Brexit you know. ??? Inches not millimetres as the wife would say! Underdog, seriously, can't see why not on the HMR if the brass is getting better and it's your choice. I'd also suggest .17 hornet, but only really for fox. Far too powerful and expensive for rabbits unless taking them at extreme long range ie 250-400yds in small numbers. Even if you reload, large bags are going to keep you up all night r
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reloading .22 lr - is it worth it?
Alsone replied to Fredcoolbreeze's topic in Reloading and Gun Maintenance
I agree with others, I really can't see the point. Any savings will be minimal and hassle maximal. At around £7 for a block 50 new, it's not worth it. Stick to CF reloading. Far better savings to be had along with accuracy gains.
