Alsone
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There are cool animals like that in the UK. You just have to know where to look. You also won't see them below 8 degrees C. Just an FYI, all snakes in the UK are protected by Law as they're rare and endangered. They're also really beautifully marked although adders can be black depending on the sex and time of year.
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I knoiw someone who has a rem 700 for target shooting at club level. They love it after a trigger change.
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According to the table here, the Hauksen has the best sound reduction level (of the popular ones tested): Stalon X 108 moderator - tried & tested WWW.RIFLESHOOTERMAGAZINE.CO.UK Paul Austin takes sound reduction to the next level with the latest moderator from Stalon... the Stalon X 108 gets a field test
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She might be more disappointed still when she finds out you can only afford 1 horse power. ?
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Someone trying for a manslaughter charge....
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I just love stainless and laminates. More type of rifle than brand, but all for the wood look and low maintenance / worries on both barrel and stock. I also like fluted and twists on the bolt but they're largely for show really. On the scopes, on the high end with the Smidt and Bender already mentioned you can add Nightforce.
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Look great, juts be careful with the H&S melting lead. Best done outside with a respirator.
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He's hoping by putting a bullet up, his bowels will sh* themselves and he'll scare it out. ?
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I suspect it's down to the weather and condensation. You have very moist air and a hot barrel which warms the air inside. Warm air holds more moisture so probably collects some additional moisture. I'm guessing as the barrel cools you reach the dew point and the moisture drops out as condensation. Probably likely with any barrel but as you say, less likely with those that get coated with wax or copper fowling. Good reason to have some form of dessicant or oil patch in the cabinet as well.
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My friends Tika used to like Eley. As you mention some other brands seem to have very inconsistent powder loads. I say that, it could be the primers don't initiate an even or completely burn the powders, I wouldn't know. Either way, there seems to be little care in some rimfire rounds. Personally, I believe even centrefire could be more consistent. In a world of robot and machine assembly and tolerances in many industries to thousands of a millimetre, we can't manufacture bullets with consistent powder loads. It all seems a bit archaic. Only reason I could think as to why it wouldn't be done i
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I'm not target shooter but I've always thought the play in the trigger introduces a bit of wobble as it alters the angle of your grip very slightly as you take up the slack and reduces accuracy. Same with increased pressure. The heavier the pull the more presure you put through your thumb and fingers espcially the thumb. It might be slight, only fractions of a millimeter but over distance it adds up to several whole mm or cm if there's a slightly larger movement. Having a hair trigger break is the ultimate for accuracy. Unfortunately it's not safe in the field that light. However, having no cr
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They very often are. You're right about engineering quality Sausage. One of the best triggers I ever shot with was on an old cadet rifle at a range. The adjustment was hair light and the break had no creap. Literally if your finger touched the trigger the gun went off. Unsafe for general shooting at that break weight maybe, but fantastic for target.
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New general license from Jan 1st
Alsone replied to philpot's topic in Rimfire, Centrefire & Shotguns
I still love the "protect the nests of wild endagered birds with nest cages" bit. So are we expected to walk around every farm and estate we shoot over with binocs, be general bird experts so we can identify the endagered lesser spooted sparrow and it's friends, spend weeks watching it until we can identify which tree in a forest it flies to and wherein that tree the nest is. Then we are going to climb the tree containing every endangered bird on every single estate with one hand with a cage in the other, and crawl to the end of branches 100ft+ above the ground on branches so thin they wo -
Merry Christmas.
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Did a bit of googling. If your original pic is correct it looks like they may be Roman Geese: https://www.waterfowl.org.uk/domestic-waterfowl/domestic-geese/light-geese/roman-goose/ Cannot find anything on the legality of shooting these. As it's a doemstic species they may be regarded as pets so you may be on shaky ground in shooting them. Probably safer to sell them or if you can't sell them give them away. I'd imagine someone would buy them as they make good guard dogs.
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Who's taking bets that it will be the geese chasing David? Can be nasty things. If they like your mate, better to let him catch them. They're going to see you as a predator if they are already hostile and see you as an enemy when you drive up now.
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That's Christmas sorted. You can take the turkey back to Tesco!
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If interested now, if you know the tailgate width the towing ball is in the centre and the tail not quite stretched out. Should be possible to make a reasonably guess from that.
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I just thought he was giving me info on ammo. It would explain why I missed all those headshots if they bent over the top. Thought I'd bought the wrong type of ammo, the curved instead of the straight. Guess I got that wrong. ?
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Yeah I did. His point was if they ban everything the only option would be to hide in the woods camouflaged and illegally shoot the prey with a bow and arrow because it's silent. Back to the future as they say.
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Nah I got yor point. Just thought I'd point out the ridiculousness of the general legal situation in a fun way.
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Already banned. Englishmen for thousands of years hunted with bows and arrows yet apparently it was cruel. Funny that because most smaller animals die instantly with hunting tips due to severed arteries and instant drop in blood pressure and larger animals such as deer suffer a similar rapid death from an arrow from a high power bow to that from a rifle round. It's only if you miss the vital areas you need worry more than with a rifle and on something as big as a deer that's a very bad shot from the usully very close bow shooting ranges. Still legal in the US an other countries though. You cou
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Very true.
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Not saying they don't but it would be a very bad shot to be the length of a fox out. The fact there are cuts on the other leg suggest it got hung up to me. Who knows though. At least this way the farm is safe and it can RIP.
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I doubt it was a wounding. That would have to be a really bad shot to aim for the chest and hit it in the knee on it's back leg! I rather suspect it got trapped in something and chewed it's leg off given it's not a clean wound. It may have got itself hung up on a barbed wire fence or similar at some point in it's life.
