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  1. Muntjac Man
    If you can get enough of them, squirrels are definitley nice eating. Fine grained meat, very tasty, and very tender. The downside is skinning them is a nightmare - it's mega-hard work for the amount of meat you get compared to a wabbit or a deer! But if you really fancy a different meat, they're worht a try. Having not had any for a while, maybe I'll take the Air Arms out and see if I can get a few..... MM
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    On the objective on my S&B on my Tikka .243, we had to try several sizes in my local gunshop until we found a 'best fit' and even with that, the flip down cover is slightly difficult to get it to latch properly in the closed position, seemingly because the ring that goes over the objective ring is a tight fit. Rgds MM
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    I had my Hills pump serviced by them - sent it off to them, they sent it back. Was like new when it came back. I seem to recal they're somewhere up Sheffield way?
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    I had a similar one with a Roe buck a couple of weeks ago, with a .243 RWS 100gr. Roe was absolutely square on to me, range about 60 yds - a perfect shot opportinity!!. Entry point almost spot on (just above the heart so the heart was still in one piece, much to my delight, as I love roast venison heart!!). When I got there, the stench immediately indicated 'gut shot', and it certainly was a mess inside. I too put it down to having been deflected by hitting bone, but am interested to learn from others views... MM
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    FP, I know that feeling - it's truly fabtastic when you're out there very early morning and feel there's no one else in the world except you and the wildlife / quarry! Must admit, as next Friday is my Birthday, I'm planning to have the day off work, and be up at the crack of sparrow-fart to be out there with the .243 looking for yearling Roe as the dawn breaks. On the subject of wives I think I must be truly blessed. My wife is 100% happy with me shooting food, and almost always helps out with skinning / paunching rabbits, or gralloching, skinning and butchering deer, and even on
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    Last year I bought an Allen Hoist and Gambrel from the BDS shop. Works a treat on Roe, and should easily be man enough for fallow. Can't see it on BDS website now or Bushwear, but if you google Allen Gambrel and Hoist I'm sure it will come up somewhere. Good luck MM
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    Well done for good fieldcraft to get so close! I've had several instances of deer being spooked, running off a short distance, then stopping and looking back. Fallow seem particularly prone to doing it. So if they do spook, be ready for a second shot if they stop! Best wishes MM
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    Hope they haven't stopped producing them - they gave the smallest groups by far in my AA410 - better than Air Arms own brand!!! As usual, every rifle has its own favourite ammo.....
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    Using the Brrokes kit on my Ceaser 452 made an awesome difference to the accuracy of the rifle! Now it breaks almost as perfectly as my beloved Tikka T3 deer rifle, and that was set up for me by a very very good gunsmith!!
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    Agree with all above. Take the binoculars, go to where there are signs of activity, find a place to sit quietly and unobtrusively, and watch - for a few hours not just 10 mins. If possibly try both dawn and dusk (dawn does mean getting up very ealry at this time of year but you really do have the countryside all to yourself at tthat time....) Trust me, it pays off in the long term if you get to really understand your quarry. Other things to look out for on your reccy to give you the best chances in the future: Where rabbits go to when they come out of the warren - do they just
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    I would agree with the notion of considering a .243 and a .308 if you want to shoot both smaller deer species and larger species. I have a .243, which is superb for Roe and Muntjac - drops them on the spot with minimal damage to the meat. But for Red deer, it's just not powerful enough - shot one a couple of years ago and it walked off for probably 150yds before dropping and dying slowly. Conversely, a friend of mine has a .308, which whilst great for Reds etc, on Roe and Muntjac, to use his words 'just completely blows away the front half of the animal every time'. Rgds MM
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    Another way to supplement asking people, if you can see sufficiently well from the raodside, is to look at where the gate into the field leads to, and try to visually follow the line of gates between fields back to the farm buildings. Most farms are ring-fenced around the perimeter. Doesn't always work, but can sometimes give you some idea of which direction to look in. Another idea is to find the field on one of the internet map sites (e.g. multimap or MSN Maps) with areial photos on it, and see if that shows any obvious farm buildings in the near vicinity. At least the fact that
  13. Muntjac Man
    If you want a slightly different revenge on the dreaded grey tree rats, they are actually nice to eat. Believe me, when I tried them I was surprised. If you do want to eat them, preferable to head shoot 'em with air rifle. Trouble is, obviously there isn't a huge amount of meat on them, and they do not like giving up their jackets, but if you can be bothered, the meat is very fine grained, very tender (doesn't need long slow cooking), and tasty (much more flavour than rabbit, but not as much as hare..). Rgds MM
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    15 acres should be ok. Do you know if the land has already been cleared for .22RF. If it has, then I would hope that you would be ok, given that .22RF is more powerful than FAC Air rifle, and also very prone to ricochets. However, attitudes do vary from one Police force to another...... A few years ago, before I got my open ticket for my .22RF, a FAL, whilst not willing to clear a particualr patch of land for .22RF did say that he would be happy to clear it for overrated Air Rifle, and that land was well less than 15 acres - probably about 4 acres. But do remember it depends on whe
  15. Muntjac Man
    Bob Don't give up. With regard to getting land, like you, I found sending out letters and just knocking on farmers doors didn't get much response, frequently only 'we've already got someone' or the like. So I changed the approach to finding shoots for, in my case, rabbits, as follows: 1. Find somewhere that there are loads of rabbits (or woodies or whatever you want to shoot). Get an OS map of your area if you haven't got one, and over a period of weeks, walk every public footpath and bridleway (preferably at dawn or dusk) looking for rabbits or signs of warrens, or adapt this to s
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    In Richard Prior's CD on Roe calling, he talks about tuning the Buttolo to the right frequency. Does anyone know how to do this? Can't find any screws or anything that seems to affect the frequency on mine! M
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    I thought Tularemia whilst being widespread in the USA and some parts of continental Europe, had not yet penetrated the good old UK? Interested to hear if anyone knows any different!
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    One point I would add - when you open up your bunny's belly, make sure the cutting edge of the knife is pointing outwards. What I do is with the bunny laid on its back, take a pinch of the skin and fur, pull it well away from the belly, and gently cut into that with the knife, to make a small hole big enough to get my fingers in between the skin and the belly. Enlarge the holw with my fingers till I can see the belly underneath. In a similar way. grab a pinch of the belly, making sure you haven't got any guts in the pinch (you can see the green colour of them through the belly).
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    I converted to PCP about 5 years ago, and it was the single best thing I did for my air rifle shooting (I also shoot .22 rimfire and .243) With regard to getting land, like you, I found sending out letters and just knocking on farmers doors didn't get much response. So I changed the approach to finding shoots for in my case, rabbits, as follows: 1. Find somewhere that there are loads of rabbits. Get an OS map of your area, and over a period of weeks, walk every public footpath and bridleway (preferably at dawn or dusk) looking for rabbits or signs of warrens. 2. When you find somew
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    Thanks to all for your contributions. It is obviously a puzzling situation with many possibilities! Next time I go shooting there, will open up the livers to see if I can see any flukes in them. HAS thanks for the thoughts on coccidiosis. The rabbits concerned all looked very healthy - no weight loss, no tapeworm cysts vivible, no signs at all of myxi in any of the rabbits from the area, and the ground concerned is very well drained - superb soil and it's the highest point on the whole of the 150 acre shoot! What puzzles me also, is that every one of them had the spots. Have
  21. Muntjac Man
    Oh Dear - as I am also partial to the odd pint or two of that particualr brew, and also to eating rabbit, I guess the chances for my liver aren't looking good!
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    Thanks all for your contributions, and apologies for my grammatical failings. MM
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    Agree with perlin. IMHO and personally, I don't take risks with Plod - it's not worth losing my beloved guns! In some counties Plod is resonably understanding, but in other areas he's just looking for any excuse to take your gun off you. Look at some of the other posts about the Police approach to guns... I find a pellet that does what I want (i.e small groups), and set the gun up to that one
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    Can't say about the S200, but I use an Air Arms S410 for rabbiting, and compared to a springer it's absolutely awesome. No recoil, and repeatability to die for (apologies for the pun!). I made up an improvised tripod to rest the fore-end on, from one of those 3 legged folding stools. Provided you know the trajectory characteristic, with a scope, it drops rabbits with head shots every time at 35 yards. Buying a pre-charge was the best thing I ever did for hunting rabbits with an air rifle. And that comes from someone who also uses .22rimfire for rabbits! I charge mine with a sti
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    Oops - just found the section on the dcs website - can't get to it any other way than belwo for some strange reason. Go to: www.dcs.gov.uk Select Best Practice Select Reference Select Reference Section Select Butchering from dropdown Hope this is of help. MM
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