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  1. Alsone
    Yeah I tend to agree. Even though no violence was used they're going to tend to think of what if...so what if you had access to a gun, would you have refused by holding the person trying to make you leave at gun point? That will be their line of thought. I really think you are your own worst enemy here and no offence when I say this but there are obviously some issues in your life and you really need to sort these out and learn to walk away and stay clam and deal with people in a more amicable way, if you ever want to get to a position of holding a licence. Can't see it for maybe 10 ye
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    Ha ha. Foxed me. I'm guessing you're either visiting the UK or don't live in Aus anymore.
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    Yeah you got a lot of replies. If you were to try anything, I'd say mount it on the rib behind the moderator. That might not make sense, but your brain is probably capable of imagining the position of the target through the moderator. It will still involve some guess work but its better than mounting it high. Try not to look directly at the bead just have it in your peripheral vision and I think it could work. No scientific basis for this though other than common sense and the knowledge that the brain is very good for compensating for missing information.
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    Beautiful fox and that wood looks almost English.
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    You'll find some latitude, like I say don't get too hung up on it. The only thing to remember is not to overdo the distance as shotguns rely on multiple hits to kill. eg a rabbit might require eg 5ft lbs energy to dispatch it. A single pellet may only contain eg 1ft lbs. So to guarantee enough shock to kill you need to hit it with at least 5 pellets. OK not quite as simple as that but I'm sure you get the point - its not like a rifle, one pellet won't do it. You nee multiple hits and the number and the energy of the hits depends on the size of the prey - hence the reason to shoot tight
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    A choke controls the spread of the shot. In turn this controls the effective range - as the shot spread out at range you reach a point where either you do not hit the target with enough shot to kill it, or in the case of smaller prey, the shot spread so much that there are holes in the pattern which mean the aim can be spot on but the shot just pass around the target without hitting it if its in the posiition of one of the holes. The idea of chokes therefore is to match the choke and thus ideal spread of the shot to the range you're commonly shooting at so as to avoid too dense a pattern (
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    12 guage, double barrelled, over and under unless you want a traditional gun. No need to go any smaller unless you're of very small build in which case 20 bore. .410 for children. Any larger and you'll be reloading and paying a fortune in cartridges not to mention the recoil. chokes - matter of opinion but 1/4 and 1/2 for rabbits and pigeon with 32 grams no 6 1/2 and 3/4, or 3/4 and full (lead) for fox although sometimes depends on what you have in if you walk up on one (!) with 42 grams of No 1 or BB (always carry a heavy load or two in an easy to find pocket as unlike the chokes,
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    Sako are top quality and usually tack drivers. My friend had a Finnfire which is one of their cheaper models but the quality was superb. If had an FAC and money, I'd be out to buy a Sako 85, no question. Although the 85 improves on the 75, reading the 85 review should give you a feel for the quality: http://www.shootingtimes.co.uk/guns/152560/Sako_85_Hunter_rifle_review.html Also a 75 owners opinion here: http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=315524
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    I used to love Blackgold for clay shooting. One of the fastest and sweetest cartridges out there. Never tried diamond shot though.
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    Well I don't hold an FAC so I don't know what the rules are now, they may have changed and they may be different between forces, or I may have been wrong, but I understood there used to be a limit with some forces on the amount you could buy yearly as well as in one go.
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    Iv just had a .22 CZ, and frankly I'm massively disappointed. It's not as silent as I was lead to believe. The accuracy is shit really. My FAC Daystate has much much tighter groups at the same range and dispatches rabbits at the same range and up to yards. And it is whisper silent. Not impressed by it but I will persevere Wrong or bad ammo or poor silencer. My friend had a Sako Finfire with silencer (not sure which one) and with subs it was quieter than my silenced precharged air rifle! Literally all you heard was the noise if you blow air quickly through your mouth. I d
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    I think I'd wait on for something nearly new - perhaps hunt around gun dealers as most will deliver it to a ddealer near you for a small fee from each end. My concern with a 5 year old rifle (as opposed to a shotgun) is the claim that its only had a few hundred down the barrel seems ulikely due to the ammo allowance - most people have permission for 500 or 1,000 rounds on their certificate per year. Usually if you don't use your allowance, the police reduce the size of the allocation so assuming the seller didn't have his allowance reduced, and most shooters don't allow this to happen as t
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    That sounds more like gypsies. They can allegedly be a real problem in some areas with poaching and allegedly no-one will approach them for fear of getting shot not gamekeepers or police.
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    Buy in bulk from an oline retailer for good discounts. I used to travel 20 miles to get mine and bought 1,000 at a time.
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    Simply it restricts the spread of the shot and the tighter the choke the longer the shot holds together in a tight pattern after exiting the gun. The idea is to match your choke to your typical shooting distance so as to ensure your pattern is dense enough not to be full of holes that allow the prey to escape - as it expands beyond a certain point you get gaps big enough for prey to go unhit even though the point of aim was spot on. The aim in using the right choke is to prevent this. Conversely, too tight a choke and you can hit your prey with so many shot it either becomes inedible or lt
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    Yeah it looks fake to me as there's no blood loss, with major arteries torn, he should be bleeding out dangerously in the absence of a pressure point being used to stem the flow. Take one, one armed boy, a friendly pig, some ketchup, add screaming and shouting, a video camera...
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    Yeah you need to be careful of falling fowl of the landowner rule on shooting without a licence. There appears to be room for interpretation on what constitutes a landowners "agent" but at least some interpretation says that you cannot shoot under another persons certificate eg your dad unless he also owns the land you're shooting over. Having permission isn't enough. There is another interpretation out there that says you can but I wouldn't like to gamble my freedom on which wins over. There's a small line on the law here: http://www.cambs.police.uk/firearms/faq.asp?ID=12 Much
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    .17HMR is safer than .22LR from a ricochet pov but no round is immune to ricochet. The ballistic tip is only 1/2 the story, it's also down to the velocity - the hmr is a much faster round. There is no .22 round on the market that shares the abilities of the .17 to fragment simply because .22 doesn't have enough velocity to cause the heavier bullet to break apart. That said, there's no guarantee that a .17 HMR will fragment correctly and not richoet. As Deker / Paulis say, always assume ricochets will happen and always use a safe backstop. Its the only way to shoot safely. All round
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    Difficult call. If lamping then if near houses .22 is the better bet. Other than that I'd take the HMR.
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    As well as carrying it unloaded I'd also remove the bolt. Many shooters do this as then it renders the guns status beyond doubt.
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    A new video which includes a 264 yard shot: Also were a few ricochets at close range - unusual for Hornady Tips.
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    Yeah but it probably cost them less than they charged you for the proofing or threading (if they built the cost in) = extra profit for them. I personally don't see any need to cover you're own back as you've already done that if you had the work carried out by a qualified and reputable gun smith.
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    I agree with Deker, there's absolutely no reason why reducing and threading a barrel should reduce its strength. A shorter barrel alone has no difference in strength as the wall thickness is the same and unless the barrel has been heated in such a way as to alter the metal's characterises, there's no reason why it will not be exactly the same as a longer barrel. The threading process removes some material but again the thread is short and shallow to match the moderator and its at the end of the barrel - pressure will always try to exit from the muzzle rather than through the sides ther
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    Oh well at least you have a cause. It seemed very unlikely to me that a bullet would be left in the barrel but obviously this is some seriously bad ammunition. If it only got a few inches I would have though that was almost primer alone. Are you sure these cartridges have actually been filled properly? Either way, I'd do what others have suggested and return the batch as they are of seriously poor quality.
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    I laugh at like / dislike feature on their website - you can like a post as a guest but it seems you have to join and sign in to dislike a post. So I would imagine the number of negative votes on comments is thus kept artificially low to those who are willing to join 1st.
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