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    Great thread and discussion chaps. Every hunter has experienced this. It is entirely possible to shoot an animal in the brain and the animal still be 'active' for a few seconds, possible tens of seconds afterwards. The trick is, shoot the brain, but also take out the brain stem. I'd suspect, for whatever reason, your pellet was just outside of that zone. If the animal is spooked before being shot you will get more kicking and twitching because their arousal is higher in the first place. However, the animal is probably still 'dead' from the point of impact and not aware of anything.
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    Like Rex, Simon and others here, its .22 all the way. Rats don't get out of the way in time, and very handy in the woods. If the branches are too dense to properly see the animal, I don't shoot at it - irrespective of calibre. Most of my perms are woodland. On the whole, not a problem. Good field craft, shot placement, and knowing your set up makes differences in calibres almost non-existent.
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    Hi CH No I haven't. I must be studck in my ways, but I've always done it this way. The hold under at its maximal point is very marginal in terms of scope line.
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    Hi John I did a full report in .22 with Chairgun the other day and posted on here in the Gen Disc section as a PDF. Have a read. Zero at 28yds, 40yds, x7 mag, for my setup, one mil dot. At 50, 2 mil dots. Its not a problem if you understand your set up. You can have the thwack AND accuracy, but you will have to work for it in .22. I've not experienced too many problems in woodland either because calibre is coupled to field craft - a deadly combination. ATB4
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    Hi Neil I've owned S410s for over a decade now and never had this experience. I know you can bang and knock the silencer (true for any gun), but I've never been aware of the actual barrel being easy to knock out of line. If it were, I doubt they'd be such a successful gun as most hunters will put them through their paces on a daily basis. I'll watch out for it in the future though, I've had a new s400 in .22 and an s410 in .177 in the last year and both have been extremely prone to the barrel going out of alignment at the slightest provocation! It's been bad enough for me to chop the
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    Hi Neil I've owned S410s for over a decade now and never had this experience. I know you can bang and knock the silencer (true for any gun), but I've never been aware of the actual barrel being easy to knock out of line. If it were, I doubt they'd be such a successful gun as most hunters will put them through their paces on a daily basis. I'll watch out for it in the future though,
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    OK, one perhaps for the newbies. I've been playing with Chairgun. I did post something similar on this, on another forum some weeks ago, but have extended it and tweaked it for here - so it is very different now. I've put together a Chairgun report for a basic .22 set up, for those that often come here and ask questions about, power, trajectory, hold-over, and so on. I provide it purely for information and as a resource. If you're an experienced shooter, It wont tell any of you stuff you don't already know, but its nice to have it confirmed. I'm just learning this software at the
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    If there were awards for the best posts in this Forum I think Simon would need to make more room in his trophy cabinet! Great post Simon (and Rez). As I have said in this thread earlier, both calibres do the job, but we may, as shooters, be better with different ones. So the question, "Which is the best" is a nonsensical question. Pardon the pun, but its what's known as a 'loaded question' - as it forces a particular answer in a situation when there may not be one. For me, purely personally, I prefer .22. They hit hard (even more so with the best pellets) and that extra thwack i
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    Yip, I have a 4x12 x 50 Hawke Panorama with IR and A/O. Great scope for the price. The Nikons probably have better glass, but I don't like their reticles.
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    Great post, and points all well made. Of course, others have similar experience and come to the opposite conclusion which is why such debates are interesting. I tend to find that pigeons drop with a .22 at the ranges I shoot (out to 35-40yds max), as long as the shot placement is spot on. At these distances the pellet is still carrying over 70% - % of its energy, and so the animal should drop if the pellet is in the right place. For me its not "what calibre is better?" - but what calibre works best for you.
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    I actually like debates on .22 and .177 even though we have all been here 1000s of times before. However, I'm not interested in the 'what's better' question - as that question is loaded and flawed (it assumes one is better). I'm more interested in the reasons people use for their personal preference and how they make their choices work for them. I will certainly be getting a .177 in future years to go with my .22s, a lot of you guys here use them, and are very effective with them, so they are clearly a very useful weapon. One small point, if I may. The harder whack of a .22 cert
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    Hey Bigmac What took you so long to see the light??? S410s all the way my friend.
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    sure do....
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    Thanks Charlie, advice greatly appreciated. Will be back up there in a week or so, so will report back though at the moment its a fact-finding mission. I will definitely be following your suggestion as part of our approach and will let you know how things are going.
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    Good luck my friend Before tackling live quarry, have you had the guns serviced recently? Its best to be sure they are pumping out a minimum of around 11ft-lbs for quarry and that they are consistent at this. Also, a good RFD may well be able to recommend some simple tweaks to things like trigger set up etc, which all helps in the field. No need to go mad when setting off in the sport, but its a good thing to ensure your kit is capable of doing the job. A chrono test in a gun shop costs me about a quid. I'm sure its the same where you are.
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    Thanks Ciaran I had not thought of corn, but will give it a whirl at some of the feeders and report back. Nice tip and I love to experiment. Cheers man.
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    A Nice Jaunt

    Dr B replied to Dr B's topic in Airgun Hunting

    Thanks Man. Yeah, its a great perm, lots to do and requires a lot of pre-thought and preparation due to its size and the nature of what needs to be done. Its been a while since I've been out in such truly awful weather. Living and being from the lakes, trust me, I'm used to rain and wind, but last week was borderline gale force and for 2 or 3 days in a row, and it must have put down a fair few inches of water in a short time. Horrible. I'll keep you updated. Sorry, don't do pics. I don't own a mobile phone and I don't like taking pics of dead quarry. Just not my thing and never h
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    Sure thing re the feeders I'll certainly keep you posted on the situation, though may struggle with pics as I don't have a mobile phone....! However, will certainly keep you up to date. I'm going to try to write a computer programme that will cycle through the webcam footage to periods when it was triggered and just highlight those periods for viewing. Then we can map the activity of both species, the locations, times, etc, then I'll be ready to move in. I'm really chuffed to be involved with this as there are only a few areas in the country where we now have reds, so this is an i
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    Hi Graham The gun you have chosen is certainly not a mistake. The S410 and S400 are, I think I'm right in saying, the biggest selling PCPs of all time. Not only that, most on here have one, have had one, or know someone who has. I've never heard a truly bad report. Of course you can buy the odd lemon, but I rarely hear it for the best makes. For my money the AAs and HWs are the two top makes, better made than the rest, but I am sure people here have different views. The thing is, the 400 / 410 series has been with us for a long time now and other newer models are getting all t
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    Well, the drive up the M6 was 'OK' and I landed in the lake district for around 11:00am. A quick trip to see my elderly father, and to show him my new gun. This was followed by stories of shooting rabbits with 'chalked-up' open sights on his old Webley Vulcan - the implication being, I've got it easy with a PCP and a 4-12x50mm Hawke scope and thus should come back with hoards of quarry. Nice one Dad, no pressure there then. Then I was on my way to my perms to set up for a week of solid shooting. I arrived at my rented room in accommodation right in the woodland where I'd gone to sho
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    its a lefty....weird!!!
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    OK, I've been chatting with a friend of a friend about a new perm (cant say where). This perm involves massive woodland and its a big job. I've been told that the issue is both red and grey squirrels are now present in the same woodland and the owner wants the greys gone. During the chat I was told that the reds are actually 'fighting back'. Their numbers are doing well, and some attacks have been witnessed where the reds held their ground (though I've yet to chat to the source of this info). However, the problem now is the greys are increasing more than the reds (apparently). So it
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    Hey Rez, have you been out with that rather special Venom Longbow yet?
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    I've been shooting on a permission up north this week with some assistance from the estates groundsman. I used a .22 S410, he used a .177 HW100. The smiles on our faces in the pub afterwards were of equal measure....and the stories of the distance we shot at grew in exaggeration just the same.
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