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Great so you are an adult! It would definitely be worth a few more lessons with an instructor you get on with. I'm not sure where you are in Cheshire, but the North Wales Shooting school (CH5 2SB) may be worth a try. I used to know the owners back in the 80's and I see it is still the same family, although they won't remember me now! Otherwise is there anywhere else you can go for lessons? Another thing worth considering is to have a go at skeet (normal not FITASC) and if you like it, try to master it as it will stand you in good stead for sporting. It is very satifsying once you start hit
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A 20 bore will be fine. You can always look at 12 bores again later. If you don't mind me asking how old are you? The key to improving will be good and consistent instruction, at least for a while. Who is or has been teaching you? What clay disciplines are you trying out currently, eg sporting, skeet, trap?
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Tight lines mate!
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but the point is that some risky shots with a .22 lr are not be risky at all with .22 FAC air.
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if that was the case there would be hundreds a day dropping dead in most middle eastern countries Not necessarily - most will miss and as you say they can’t be falling that fast, so only a very small percentage will result in death or injury. Of course we know the upward journey is also hazardous - I found a report on a helicopter pilot who had a bullet that was unintentionally fired upwards through his foot. When I used to shoot on ranges (303, bren, 7.62, etc) we always stopped when aircraft flew near in case of ricochets upwards. Have google – there’s lots of plausible ex
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No-one usually shoots a weapon vertically as the norm and there are plenty of examples of deaths from higher calibre weapons discharged into the air, including on mythbusters itself, where they also discuss this experiment. In fact that particular mythbuster investigation has all 3 possible results from them, ie busted, plausible, and confirmed.
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If you mean a .22 AR pellet, then I don't believe so. I am sure it will have much less energy than a .22lr bullet due to the affect of air resistance on the much lighter pellet.
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Not currently as our farm became the motorway in the early 90's. I used to have fac years ago though. I also do still have some permissions, so I'm thinking about it again and in fact I have been asked to help some-one's son on a friend's farm get started. To be honest at the moment I still prefer the gun. Back on topic, I stopped shooting .22 lr in the air after I read the offending story in the book I mentioned, despite others saying it doesn't matter. So in my opinion an fac air rifle has a very useful function to shoot vermin out of trees,
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How about another question that may be simpler to answer. Should we shoot pigeons, crows etc out of trees with a .22 lr rimfire if there is habitation or the chance of people where the bullets may land? If it's OK, should we be cautious about the angle we fire at? I was taught meticulous gun and rifle safety by my grandfather, to the extent I had to think about ricochets with my first air rifle. However he was always happy for us to shoot the .22 lr upwards without any concerns!
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....... but what happens when fired in an arc? This is what most of our shots into the air will be as you raely shoot vertically. We need a physiscist methinks.
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Really? I've heard that said plenty and imo it's complete bollocks. A 40gr lead slug falling at it's terminal velocity... I find it hard to believe it would leave much more than a bloody bruise at most. Don't you lot ever watch Mythbusters? A bullet still on it's original trajectory can kill many times further than intended, A bullet fired straight up in the air and tumbling back down at terminal velocity would hardly break the skin. We didn't have mythbusters in the 70's. I am determined to find this book now, even if it is just so we can dis it. Also I am sure that larger bull
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Great stuff!
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When you have resized and done any other edits to your picture, you can still save the new image in *.jpg format to a folder on your pc or laptop. Then you can upload this new version to your chosen photo hosting site such s photobucket or flickr, etc. I found I couldn't upload the photos I want onto the gallery site here because it has too low a size limit set on it which most photos easily exceed, even when resized.
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Maybe it's because yours is a trap gun and with presumably fixed chokes. I sold a Beretta 682 Gold E sporter to a dealer for £1000 a few years back, plus another dealer offered me the same. (I had paid £1250 about 6 months before).
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Yes I was surprised when I came across this case and we often shot crows, roosting pigeons, etc with .22 lr in trees! Now that I have thought about it, the author may not have been Churchill (and Christie is a mistake). At the time, around 1976, I had taken out two books on shooting from the Oxford City library - one was a Churchill book, but I don't remember what the other was and it may have been in this second book. I am still sure the incident described involved a .22 lr - a young lad of about 11 was watching a football match sitting on a fence or a gate in village and he sudde
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Really? I've heard that said plenty and imo it's complete bollocks. A 40gr lead slug falling at it's terminal velocity... I find it hard to believe it would leave much more than a bloody bruise at most. This is documented in a shooting book written in the 40's or 50's (or even the 60's). I think the author was called Churchill or Christie. I am busy for the next few weeks, but I will try to find it after that and then corroborate or disprove it with other evidence. I apologise in advance if this is an incorrect fact, or if I have misremebered the calibre.
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A dealer should give you a grand for that, surely?
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That's a geat looking fish.are you going to put the vid on youtube then?
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Some game loads have plastic wads, so best to check if you are allowed to use them where you shoot. Imo 28 - 32 g makes little difference unless shooting at the edge of your range or you're are on goose or fox. Some would argue that if you shoot goose well in front, then you don't need heavy loads for them and charlie tends to get whatever is in the gun at the time, unless specifically after him only.
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Thanks for the info folks!
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I remember reading years before his death that his brother would not speak to him. He was always weird, never had a wife or girlfriend (I think).. Perhaps we should have guessed even with hindsight. Disgusting doesn't begin to describe it.
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If you have the proof and they don't pay after your letter, which should include a deadline, then use the government's Money Claim Online system. The link to it is on the web page given in an earlier post. If you win and they still don't pay, there's a number of ways to enforce, but costs do keep adding up if you don't succeed. If they are working somewhere and on PAYE, you can get an attachment to earnings to recover the debt, but obviously only after you've won the case and then they've not paid.
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I've done a little googling and I can find those Hawke HD 3-9 zoom scopes with adjustable objectives, so I guess that is what I want. However should I get 40 or 50 mm? Thanks.
