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  1. Alsone
    Gamebore Clear Pigeon (32g no:6) - very hard hitting cartridge 42g no: 1 for fox
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    http://www.winchesterint.com/winchester/products/mresult.php?group1=1&group2=2&group3=&submod=A-WSX3RT
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    Any number of possibilities, the guy could have been dishonest and bought the genuine article, then bought a cheap copy, kept the genuine one and sold the copy in the genuine box on ebay as genuine to recover some of his purchase price from the genuine, Or someone could have done it to him and he simply sold it on, Or he could have bought it honestly from a dealer and the dealer got stung with a batch of fakes, Or it could just be a bad batch of genuine from the factory. However, whatever the cause, poor glass on a Nikon is rarely heard of.
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    Or maybe it was fake....I rarely if ever, come and read here, never mind post, but thought I'd back up Charlie here. Nikon's are usually optically far superior to the budget end of the market. Think you don't have a fake because it had the box, booklet, spares etc? Take a look at this video - on the left, genuine Beats Headphones, on the right fakes. OK headphones, but the principles and often level of faking these days is the same: If you buy from an unknown source, you simply don't know what you're getting, and unless an expert, will probably never know the difference. Maybe t
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    I pushed it as a calibre people might want to try instead of HMR / or .22 Hornet against a background of a whole lot of prejudice against .17 calibres caused by the HMR issues, and the whole having to reload issue with .22 Hornet if Hornady isn't available locally in .22 Hornet. Note the words "might want to try". Why the interest? Because a lot of people write off new calibres without giving them a fair hearing because of prejudices caused by other failed calibres such as HMR. Ultimately beyond encouraging a few people to give it a go, I don't care what other people shoot. At the end
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    I pushed it on here for such a long time with no takers, and you could simply tell from all the reports that it was a cracking little round, fixing many of the issues with other .17's whilst providing a hornet with good factory ammo from the box. Know there's a lot of nostalgia for the .22 Hornet, but the unfortunately it's heritage with older guns holds it back. I've long thought that if manufacturers want to keep the calibre alive, the best way would be to hot up the main rounds and instead produce special "heritage" rounds for use in the older guns. That would inject some life back into the
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    £3 per box difference. That's 15p per shot, and even then it depends on the brand as Federal are cheaper in .22-250 than .223! Personally, I would think if you can afford to use a .223 on crows, you can afford to use .22-250. If you want to hit crows, personally I'd see if your rifle likes Privi as then you can knock £10 a box off the price of either and a bird isn't going to care if it's a soft point or a nosler. The real question is whether you want the expense of changing the gun as that's the real cost. Other alternative on either calibre is to reload. My real reservation w
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    There was just something I wanted to add. I know Elliot is safety conscious and not everyone might agree with me on this, but there are a couple of things in the video which I felt could be improved as "minor safety observations". Firstly to be very positive, Elliot shoots on a farm with a lot of land which makes it infinitely safer and I know he's one of the most safety conscious people I know . However, a couple of suggested "bewares": 1. Shooting at targets against walls and metal frames poses the risk of ricochet. Although the distance to public land may be sufficient, the cattle a
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    Nice shooting. Really took the head of that pigeon 2nd from the end. Thinks it was in the next field looking at the slow mo reverse.
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    I'm sure you are aware, but just for clarity and in case, it pays to be aware of what you can and can't shoot with S1 (BASC Document link): https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&ved=0ahUKEwjX5s3uqsTNAhVlDsAKHXIyCz8QFghAMAU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbasc.org.uk%2Fwp-content%2Fplugins%2Fdownload-monitor%2Fdownload.php%3Fid%3D52&usg=AFQjCNGXnfgtr-xCfzUBQPiw0nyCvD31aQ&sig2=5lyq3ORESdUmfkAVheXegg&cad=rja
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    I can see some issue with overlap of the calibres eg. how can you justify .243 for fox if you have applied for .223? Surely that says .223 would do, otherwise why would you apply for it? If you intend .243 for deer, equally how do you justify .308 if you're applying for .243 which is deer legal for all species? The only real justification could be range, but even then, I think it would be difficult to justify all you've applied for as an initial block application due to the overlaps and it might just looks as if you're fishing for calibres. Personally, I'd have chosen the ones you really w
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    If you have a S1 licence, and shoot practical, then this is possible provided you have a Uk legalised version ie fixed stock and UK compliant barrel length: Not sure of the price but based on the US figures it looks as if it could be approaching £2.5-3K. There's a Russian Alternative though called the VEPR 12 that some already use on Bisely from what I found. Very similar gun outiftted with a UK legal fixed stock and 26.5" barrel. Comes in at a more reasonable £1,800: http://www.rusmilitary.com/html/firearms_vepr12.htm BTW forget the rotary magazine unless well healed, c
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    Not saying it didn't happen, but it makes you wonder if the guy got it approved first or simply installed a cabinet in a van as a place away from home to store his weapons. I fail to see how the police could successfully prosecute you or revoke your licence for failed security arrangements if they had approved them.
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    Provided you comply with the safekeeping requirements and they pass inspection to the satisfaction of the local plod, you can keep them anywhere. There are people who keep / have kept them in caravans before. Taken from the Firearms Security Handbook 2005 (Home Office): I do have some doubts though if the plod would be happy about you keeping them in a static caravan if it was one in which you weren't normally resident (and you wanted to leave the guns in your absence), or if it was very isolated. For general considerations, see the guide under general principles.
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    Strikes me he just wants the permission all to himself and that he's worried that you shooting next door will mean less prey coming off your fields onto his permission.
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    Not the best back stop on that 150 meter target shot I would have to agree with that. How do you know there is no-one there at the church? How do you know there is no one in the bushes? Someone could have wandered up to look at the old abandoned church. Someone could be out for a walk. Even if you own all of the land, you still can't know if someone is trespassing. Children especially will trespass and lurk in old buildings or bushes. Adults are not beyond exploring land that doesn't belong to them. You should always shoot with a clear backstop. Best way to mount your balloons
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    That's a very good point Walshie, but maybe he's had a bad experience.
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    Not that I'm aware of, but the list of "accidents" is quite long. eg: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1294974/Bungling-armed-police-fired-guns-accidentally-110-TIMES-3-years.html 6 civilians killed and several police officers. When they're hyped up on adrenaline and you're held at gunpoint, it only takes one misinterpreted move to lead to a shooting. I'm not saying here you should have to report where you're going, just that it's often in your own interests to do so. The unfortunate fact is we live in a society when gun owners are persecuted for following a legitimate and l
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    Whereas I agree in principle with this, in practice you have to ask yourself is it better to stand on your right to privacy or risk your life because you didn't want to make a phone call and some idiot thinks it's funny to report you potentially as some rampaging gun toting lunatic? At least if the police know where you are, who you are and roughly what hours you'll be there, any general complaints of "I've just seen a man brandishing a gun walking around in fields in XXX" can be met with, "yes we know all about it sir, he's authorised to be there and shooting legally on behalf of the land
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    All too common. I know a lot of people don't like informing the police of where they're going / what they're doing, but this shows the value of informing the police ahead of the trip. This could all too easily have led to an ARU being sent and you possibly being shot by mistake. It's far better to establish you're not a poacher ahead of any complaint and for the police to have a mobile number to contact you on. The whole he's shooting people allegation (if that police woman is correct in reporting that as said), of course is a whole other level / issue. I agree entirely with your attitude
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    Just wanted to add, nothing wrong with a blank night or making non dangerous school boy errors. We all do it. I remember the 1st time I went out with a pre-charged air rifle I'd bought, only I never considered the scope zero. In a barn I had some wood pigeons trapped and couldn't understand why from 10 feet, I kept missing them despite having them right in the cross hairs. As the pellets were so fast over such a short distance, I couldn't actually see where I was missing. Eventually the pigeons flew out of the hole in the tiles from which they'd gained access and it was only in the post analys
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    Giant rats you say?! I think I may need to upgrade my sub-12ft-lb then FAC here i come Yeah. Air rifles all round. Giant rats are all we'll have to eat after we've paid our medical bills once the NHS is abolished if we stay in. Plus do you really think we're not going to be an Islamic State if we stay in with uncontrolled borders? If the Unite Union who are pro Labour and Pro Remain publish a warning that TTIP likely will result in privatisation of the NHS and their legal opinion says it's probably irreversible, then you know it's not propaganda......
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    Very nice gun. Nice to see a bit of nostalgia.
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    Stay in and potentially lose the NHS. After the referendum, the EU intends to enter into the TTIP Trade Agreement with the USA. Under the Agreement, USA businesses reported to be given the right to sue EU Governments for any State owned service that competes with the private sector and thus distorts the market. The claim is reportedly backed by 4 former Government Health Ministers including Sir David Owen (ex SDP Leader and previously Health Minister), and had the Unite Union so worried they commission a legal opinion from a leading QC: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/
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    https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/117636/firearms-security-handbook.pdf Part 7. If you have a van vault, I'd personally try and disguise it if it's visible from outside. Just dump a green plastic tarpaulin on top of it just scrumpled up, thrown in to one side and leaving it looking roughly folded as if there's nothing stored underneath. More usual precautions would be trigger locks on the shotguns (as there's no bolts to remove), keeping ammo and guns separate and attached to the vehicle with cables - with a van vault you could possibly use a
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