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  1. Alsone
    Mathew, for in your car, get one of these with the wide angle lens: http://www.techmoan.com/blog/2013/7/8/the-mobius-camera-the-do-it-all-mount-anywhere-1080p-micro-c.html Will cost around £100 including all the accessories ie in car charger, mounts etc (battery only does mins so charger required - can be powered from charger and video loops so charger enables infinite footage). Very good picture day and night. Out of the vehicle, you really need a normal video camera as the fish eye lens and limited range render the Mobius useless. The quality on the Mobius both day and n
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    Just thouight I'd add, if you're interesting in the .22, there's an excellent book called "The book of the .22", although the copy I saw was old and is probably out of print. I don't know if it's been updated as it covered older calibres such as .22LR, Hornet etc but was full of not only ballistic details and commentary but also slow motion pics of each bullet entering ballistic gel and showing the amount of shock damage and expansion from each round side by side for comparison. Best book I've ever seen, but it could well be out of print or never have been updated. Shame if it isn't st
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    Or as SS said elsewhere, be prepared to stand on your principles if you have good reason and the land. However, you need to be prepared to take it as far as necessary if the FEO doesn't concede and if a Shooting Organisation confirms you are in the right (I've added the latter as self diagnosis can sometimes be dangerous!).
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    Walking around if rough shooting, I'd leave the spent case in and safety on. Simply to prevent debris getting in the chamber from eg bushes. In open ground from eg one position, bolt open. In a vehicle or if putting the rifle on the ground for a second or two, I'd leave the bolt open. When transporting, to or from shoots, it makes good sense to remove the bolt and store it separately eg on your person. That way the gun is always safe and if in any way should become "lost" eg you nip in a shop and someone steals the car with the gun hidden in the boot, it isn't fireable. I also
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    You can gain some rough guidance from the table in the Firearms Licensing Guidance Manual as this sets out suitability for "Good Reason". It's only a rough guide though, but does list quite a few calibres and their energies and suggested prey for good reason purposes (note this doesn't always mean they aren't suitable for purposes outside of those purposes, it just means if applying for a grant for a given calibre, that's the prey you need to be applying for to get granted that calibre with MOST forces (it is guidance not a bible). For more information, the Wikipedia is a good source e
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    Depends where you live. Some friends of mine with no previous shooting experience (but I think DSC1), got .22-250 and .243 for Deer in Scotland completely open at 1st grant (and not restricted to Scotland although that's only where they shoot deer). Then again their force won't grant RF for fox. So maybe a more sensible approach happens there now. (It used to be one of the worst for granting). I guess you have to try. However it is force dependant and many won't grant CF at 1st grant (unless you're prepared to fight them over their refusal and are prepared to take it as far as necessar
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    Congrats. Tikka are good guns. However, if you'd wanted Stainless Fluted I'd have had a look at the Browning X Bolt as well: http://www.sportsmanguncentre.co.uk/product/275346d6e1cb065282276659/Browning+X-Bolt+Stainless+Stalker+Fluted+-a-8-f-3223+Rem+20+Inch/ Noye sure if you can get it in .222.
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    Not on rimfire!
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    Not sure I'd smoke either if you can avoid it. Lighting up highlights you and if they smell the smoke, it may well be a smell they associate with humans / danger.
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    Sorry Ruster, misread the question. No hands on experience with the A5 or Benelli.
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    More to the point what are you going to use it for? Personally I'd pick the Browning ultra xs prestige as I only want a double barrelled gun. That appearance in yourt list suggests you want a gun for clays. If that's the case, then that's the one as most shoots frown on semi-auto from a safety pov. There's also some argument to say that semi-auto can distract if it ejects the cartridge against the stand. If on the other hand you're rough shooting, I'd still go double barreled but something like a B525 / 725. A high end gun like the XS demands a bit too much care for walking thr
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    Whereas I don't disagree with anything said above, unfortunately what is the law and what FEO's do, can be two different things. In my own case, there were no grounds for refusing what the FEO refused on a licensing application. The BASC said so. The BASC made long representations. Everything was ignored with a formal refusal being issued. In the end it finished up in Crown Court with barristers and although I won, it took about a year from the application to the case, and involved a lot of hassle in gathering evidence / speaking to the BASC / faxing the police. Both the Court expert a
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    That would have been my suggestion too.
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    Browning + Boyds = very good brand new gun for less than the others.
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    Decision seems strange. You can use .223 on all your shoots but you can't use hornet where it's safe to use .223???? Strange! Anyway, I would agree .17 Hornet obvious choice unless you want to reload.
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    One thing you could do is hinge the target. The advantage of hinging is that some of the energy is absorbed moving the plate and thus less is transferred to the steel. If you work with steel, it shouldn't be that difficult to get someone to weld something up - I would suggest you want a tube welded to the top of the plate and then a slightly smaller diameter tube as the apex of the frame with something welded either side of the tube when hung to stop horizontal movement, maybe a couple of scraps of steel. I would have thought that a simple frame with the target hung from it should
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    Thick! Here's .22-250 vs 3/8" steel. Described as armour plate but I seriously doubt that. You also need to balance hardness as if you go to hard, the steel will be more brittle and could shatter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrUwgIiZuFU Personally, I'd buy a few small squares of different thickness steels, say 3" square and run some tests. I'm geussing though you're going to need something between 1/2" and 3/4" unless you hinge the target.
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    This is what it should look like: http://www.uttings.co.uk/p114769-nikon-monarch-3-4-16x50-sf-rifle-scope/?gclid=CMSm5_HHosACFUXLtAodclEAWQ#.U_T06WMfKnE http://www.nikonsportoptics.com/Nikon-Products/Riflescopes/MONARCH-3-2.5-10x50-Matte-BDC.html If it doesn't then I'd complain and say you want your money back using your correspondence or order print out as evidence of the fact that it was advertised as a Monarch 3. They can't legally refuse as it doesn't match it's description. (Sale of Goods Act 1979 as Amended). If you have any issues, contact Trading Standards in your area.
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    The simple answer is you're trying to shoot 2 very different sizes of quarry. I'd perhaps consider the .17 Hornet as I'm presuming you're not ready to homeload and unlike .22 hornet, the ammo is all good out of the box as it's a new calibre. 120yd with the HMR is a tough shot for a novice as fox ideally requires a headshot at that distance and HMR is prone to windage effects, and a miss will cause severe injury and suffering as although it has the power to kill, it doesn't have huge reserves of power to cause fatal shock and damage if off the vital target point. The downside, is if
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    Check out his other vid's especially the stalking ones....there is a purpose to what he is doing...plus its his job, long range tuition. although I agree checking apps can be a pain ITA. If you want long range tuition, check out Tiborasaurus Rex on Youtube. Ex Special Forces sniper who's making shots at 1,800 metres + with 1st time hits even in cross winds! He has a whole range of tutorial videos as well as demo videos and that guy can shoot! Here's .243 Winchester at 1,553 Yards shot by his pal under his guidance!!!
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    Apps just replace tables and remove the maths. When you're shooting at long range it's not as simple as point as shoot with a bit of guessed (eye estimated) holdover if you want to be truly accurate. You need to start using the turrets and that means calculating MOA for bullet drop and wind drift accurately and identifying the corrsponding number of "clicks" to be dialled in..... and at very long range, spin drift, coreolis and even ammo temp variation, although for live shooting the latter point lies beyond any responsible distance.
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    Don't know if this helps: http://www.ukpsa.co.uk/index.html
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    Well that's exactly the reasoning behind the whole problem, people don't want to upset a person on the other end of a phone for a service you're paying for, There is no getting away from the fact that Dead means Dead, not even the most anti-shooting judge could argue that a centrefire would kill a fox less effectively with a greater margin for error than a rimfire, As you say, a rimfire is perfectly capable but in the interests of being humane a centrefire would be a better option in less experienced hands, safety grounds aside. This is what we all pay shooting organisations for,
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    This is always the problem though Deker isn't it. Some forces appear to have a policy of not granting CF at 1st grant, and although it might be legally incorrect, unless the shooter wants to risk upsetting them or in the extreme case, battle them in Court, then he has to accept the condition. He probably shouldn't do, but many do rather than upset people they'll be dealing with for a long time. There's also the issue that unless you can show you need it because of range considerations, then arguably rimfire is sufficient as its capable of downing foxes at close range. So it makes it a
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    Pressure either through the size of the powder load or the effects of the inertia of the weight of the lead pellets. Either sends the pressure up.
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