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    Ignore me... duplicate post
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    Don't bother on a rimfire. There won't be any copper to shift so a normal powder residue solvent and patches should cure the cleanliness issue. If it's the wax build up that's causing issues try sending a couple of kettles of boiling water down the chamber and give it a quick scrub with a bronze brush then dry it with patches / bore snake before refitting in the stock
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    When I get extraction issues with the eley it tends to be when it's cold and the round has been chambered a while. Repeat shots usually extract without a problem. One solution to try for a field remedy is to drop your boresnake in your pocket and if it starts playing up 'floss' just the chamber with the wire brush section then take it back out again rather than pulling through. It might dislodge enough residue to stop repeat jams.
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    CB longs have the potential to be handy but in reality arent worth the lead. Still got a few in a box here that only ever get used for rats or squirrels in the live traps. Absolute garbage through the 6 rifles I've tried them in. Low muzzle energy Crap trajectory Shotgun esque grouping even at 25 / 30 yards
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    CCI also do velociters or something like that, rws also have a high velocity lr round too but can't remember the name. A lot of the hv stuff out there isn't hp so they bounce very frequently as they are target orientated rather than for field use and can just pass straight through (I experimented with lapua standard plus in an old rifle on the bunnies but they resulted in runners from passing straight through) If your barrel likes them, I found that high velocity rounds tend to group to your poi at 100 yards off a 50yd subsonic zero. Obviously this is going to differ from rifle to rif
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    And if your really lucky you might get a group of 5 on a dinner plate at yards! Rws may be worth a try, they were extremely accurate in a couple of rifles I've had. Winchester always used to perform well too but not quite as good as eley in any of mine.
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    How far are you taking it on the targets though? My old semi auto was every bit as accurate at 25yds at the club off the bench and out in the field it was fine to 50 or 60 ish but after that it started opening up too much. In comparison my bolt action was still putting in acceptable groups at 100 yards.
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    Personally I think 1.75 for a bunny is a fair price. I sell mine for a quid ferreted or headshot and 50p for bodyshot ones. Still got a 6ft and 3ft chest freezer full at the moment nd haven't been out with the ferrets or the gun in nearly a month.
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    if the scope & mounts haven't changed and your now 3ft out i'd suggest you need to check your mounts are on the rail properly as there is no logical reason why shifting the scope back or forward an inch would give you such a big change. I'd advise against shimming personally - it might work but you should never need to do it in normal circumstances if the scope and mounts are good. all shimming does is hide the problem, not cure it. its a hack. nothing more. something somewhere isn't sitting properly. a mount, or as a real long shot, have you knocked the mod and its now clippi
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    Honestly, the best buy for a 22lr is a good used one. Everything has chance to bed in & smooth out so the trigger will be nicer, bolt throw slicker and someone else will have paid for trigger kits, barrel chips and retreading. 452, finfire, savage mk2, quad, or an old brno are all well worth picking up if the price is right. They won't get shot out or damaged through use (only mistreatment) and should never need repairing (maybe just a bolt service kit or new extractor claw after many thousand rounds) so why pay extra for a new one that won't feel as nice as one someone has r
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    I can almost guarantee the next delivery won't be in 6 weeks. There's a couple of new 17 hornets on guntrader though. cheers mate, why is it you have to wait a life time or put up with second best in this country then get charged over the odds Because the UK firearms market is probably smaller with regards to turnover of rifles than a couple of mid sized independents in the states. Whether we want to believe it or not, we have less buying power than a small rural county in a southern state in the US.
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    Pets at home usually do their own brand ferret food at 2 bags for 11 quid. I tend to keep mine on this through the summer to keep the flies down then feed a bit of rabbit overnight every few days. Through the winter they are usually on 100% rabbit with the odd pigeon, pheasant, chicken, duck or partridge carcass chucked in for good measure as and when I get them. If you really want to feed raw but don't have dead stuff in the freezer, either get a permission and use the air rifle through the summer or again, pets at home do bags of frozen minced raw food pellets for about the pr
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    I'm bracketing all the 17cf's together though, hornet, rem, fireball... They just don't seem as a 'family' to have consistent industry support - is it because they all seem to have their own inherent drawbacks? Who knows. There just seems to be a trend that they haven't really been adopted by the manufacturers en masse. (I realise 22 hornet is in the same camp in this case with only 3 or 4 people offering it but it's been around long enough to have proven itself useful and seems to be where most magnum rimfire users are now ending up.)
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    I fully appreciate the reasoning behind the 17 hornet Ian, and I'm sure they are good tools in the right hands, however the small range of manufacturers offering factory 17 centrefire rifles coupled with the small range / limited availability of ammo for them screams to me that the industry as a whole doesn't see them as a viable alternative to the more mainstream calibres that do the same job. .223 for example (while admittedly slightly bigger and more expensive to run) will happily be a point and click 200 yd nv rifle and accurate enough far further for long range daytime work. Our long
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    Ah, one of those situations. Good to know he's not been removed from the list on the sticky then! All I know is about 2 years ago I read the thread and saw a few net makers listed on there so assumed it would be a safe place to point someone on a net hunt.
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    What have I missed!?
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    I wouldn't get hung up on 17 hornet over 22. 22 is still going to be doing the business at 200 yards with twice the weight of vmax to tickle things with. I'd also be weary of going down the 17 route personally as none of the 17 centrefire calibres seem to have become mainstream despite good reports from use. This suggests to me that despite their performance on ballistic tables, there must be something about them that has stopped them reaching the popularity of all the 22 cal cf's
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    http://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/topic/223308-where-to-buy-purse-nets-net-guide-read-here/
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    Exactly how much range without holdover do you want? My 22 is pretty much point and click (a missing head is a missing head regardless of where the bullet actually strikes) on bunnies out to 150 and very little lift is given out to 175. Not really stretched it further as under nv you really don't need the extra range, even poor field craft can get you into point and click range. On fox it drops them just as efficiently as a 223 out to 150.
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    Might be worth treating the ferret hutch as well as the chicken shed just for peace of mind.
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    Put simply... They fall over.
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    I never make a point of removing bullet, pellet or shot from anything mine get fed but, if you can find it easily enough then taking it out just seems sensible.
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    I've taken them off now! And it was the loop on the collar rather than the bell anyway!
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    My investigating into this a few years back uncovered some interesting feedback. It was council land with occupied shooting rights leased to a 3rd party and the land itself leased to a local farm. Rabbits were causing a lot of damage, farmer was told by the council he couldn't have a shooter on there because the shooting rights were separate to his farm lease. A bit of back and forth between the farmer and council and they tried to say he could control bunnies any way he saw fit so long as they weren't shot. A bit more digging revealed rabbit or vermin wasn't mentioned anyw
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    There are a one really cheap sheds out there but these are not bad at all, certainly better quality than B&q's ridiculously over priced tat
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