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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
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Paul Austin takes sound reduction to the next level with the latest moderator from Stalon... the Stalon X 108 gets a field test -
On 24/01/2021 at 18:57, Meece said:
It must be down to Brexit,! Or the low temperatures. Beretta, over and under, black powder percussion. The world is turning backwards. I don't rate my chances very high in telling the Mrs that I'm thinking of trading her car in for a horse and cart for her.
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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20 hours ago, Wolfdog91 said:
I thought the same thing
I might have arthritis but I can drop a load just fine
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 is maybe it would take longer for a machine to exactly balance a powder load out compared to one that measures by volume by weight and so suffers slight inconsistencies. There maybe a cost factor to bulk manufacturing therefore. Is the problem with powder manufacture and achieving perfectly uniform sized grains? Who knows. I'm sure better is possible though. A reduction in line speed could be compensated for by an additional filling line. Surely a more accurate brand for the same price would win extra sales volume and help pay for the extra machinery. At least you'd think so.
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14 hours ago, Meece said:
Years ago there used to be a trigger pressure gauge at the rifle club. Back then the trigger pull for competition rifles was 3.5lb. But I think that was for some sort of service rifle competition shooting. My Anschutz target rifle has a trigger that is sooo light that you just think ...fire. when i first went to the club I used an old club gun with a really heavy trigger. When I bought my Anschutz the trigger was lignt and my scores jumped up 10 points overnight which is a phenomenal difference.
Ps. If this rifle was set up for target type shooting ( with those sort of Lyman target sights) it may well have a trigger pressure like that.
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 creep and a clean break will aid a lot in my opinion when it comes to target. That Cadet rifle I shot literally you didn't pull the trigger you touched it. Not sure what the break weight was but I'm guessing ounces.
8 hours ago, Wolfdog91 said:Brought it out to the range with me in my weekly brass clean up today and did some testing with some ammo I have . Distance was 25.5 yards. 10 rounds each group. Just shooting off a sand sock. The sight is actually bottomed out on the evevation so can't zero it the way I'd prefer. Usually I like the to have the center of the target in the very top of my front sight but with this I'm more aiming towards the bottom. Not the hardest thing to do but not the most precise. Good enough to plink shot she'll hulls at 35 and smack a 5" going at 50-75 so can't complain to much lol.
Seems to prefer the federals followed by the thunder bolts.
Might try again with a rear and front bag . Regardless it's more than accurate for anything I'd want to do with it lol
It seems to like federal out of the cheep stuff you've got.
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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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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 wouldn't hold an acorn to reach and cover some birds nest with a cage?
Wheres the H&S Risk Assessment for that? I know what mine would say - a survey of the site has revealed a substancial risk of falling from a great height. There's no way to reasonably alleviate the risk as ladders are considered high risk in oridinary circumstances and this activity requires extra long ladders, the top of which is to be placed against a round, uneven and potential slippery surface in the form of a tree trunk and this poses a substancial risk of the ladder top slipping and the employee falling. The uneven and soft ground found at the base of the tree poses a similar risk of ladder movement. The use of a board to allevaite this initself poses a risk of the base of the ladder slipping or even the whole board on the muddy mossy surface. Further the risk increases with height and this activity would require the use of the very longest ladders with many of these ladders still unable to reach the nests in any event. There's no way to attach a safety line and harness before the ascent begins. Scaffolding is disproprtionately expensive, and again subject to the dangers of uneven and soft ground at the base with the sinkage of feet or slippage of boards the scaffold is placed on. Even where that could be alleviated, the branches of the tree will prevent the building of the scaffold up to the height required. Climbing of the tree would be unsafe unless carried out by a tree climbing professional. Even so, such an activity would still carry considerable risk to the climber and the risk and most importantly cost would be disproportionate to the activity. Conclusion : This is an unsafe activity and engaging in it should be prohibited for all workers. The cost of bringing in outside specialist contractors is disporpotionately expensive and cannot be justified. Accordingly it is recommended that the activity be avoided to avoid injury and risk to workers and protection by other more reasonable, cost effective and safer means be employed.
BTW, I don't write H&S Assessments, never have done. That's just something I made up off the top. I don't recommend using it. It proves the point though when you work the risks through. -
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. -
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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16 hours ago, socks said:
I didn’t as I’m not into all that malarkey to be fair I kill them and as far as I’m concerned that’s it. But I did give this fox to a deer stalker that’s into his gold Medals etc so I will ask him what the weight length was etc.
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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20 hours ago, walshie said:
No you didn't.
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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12 hours ago, Sausagedog said:
I think you missed my point captain obvious
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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On 14/12/2020 at 18:40, Sausagedog said:
Buy a bow and camo paint.
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 could always go round Aldi covered in cammo paint (minus the bow of course) That's not banned yet. Just tell them your trying to blend in with the lettuces. They'll probably still section you, but at least it will be funny and they can't ban you for wearing the paint.
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On 14/12/2020 at 09:14, walshie said:
Not hard to do at all if you're shooting it head on.
Very true.
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19 hours ago, Sausagedog said:
Bad shots do indeed happen. Live targets move too.
The other leg displayed some cuts healing also.
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.
Snakes are out
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Posted · Edited by Alsone
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.