David Aiken
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I've never tried laying on my side and shooting, but it seems to work quite well!
Yo don't gangster shoot! They all seam to hold their guns sideways!
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Yep! Just viewed my post on iPhone 6. All good, it's all sideways on the laptop!
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The pics are fine on my phone, its time this site had a picture loading update! ie. 500MB Realy? I have to reduce the size of an iphone pic so much this sort of thing keeps happening!
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36292580
After admitting they are to political, the 'R' should be removed!
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This is the target from the hood of the Jeep Grand Cherokee. The target is hard to see @ 135 yards! Very pleased with the performance of the .17 HMR. Took my first rabbit with this calibre today @ 125 yards, perfect head shots. Amazing the size and depth of the dent in the 1/4" steel plate @ 100 yards!
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I hear you on the more practice. In fact it was my friend that suggested I bring it, even if I just zero it to 30 ish and see what I'm like before taking a shot at anything living. At least then I'll get some longer range practice. I can't shoot any further at the moment as that's what I'm limited to. I tend to be a quick learner, so here's hoping I'm on the money with the practice shots. If I feel like I'm capable and my practice shots are good, I'll pick my opportunity very carefully. I'm not there to just shoot at everything that moves. I'm not even sure I could pull the trigger with live quarry in my sights anyway. The experience of being there, watching them through the sight and even just spectating my friend taking the shots will be invaluable I feel. I want to learn, gather experience and knowledge and I have this opportunity to do so. We're going to be in a "hide" of sorts, low slung tarp with camo netting. We have plenty of fields and stables to utilise. So maybe I'll get lucky and have an opportunity of something inside my current experience limit. If not, it's no biggy. I have a lifetime to learn. I just want to get out and be a part of it.
The Remington was a bargain I couldn't pass over. I'm aware its at the lower end of the spectrum but I'm in love with it. It will be a long, long time, if at all, I get the chance to upgrade. So I best get to making this thing an extension of myself. The guy I bought it from is a comp shooter and supposedly a good one. I've known him a while and he's told me it's shooting at about 11.5 and should be good to 35-40 with practice. So I can't see myself needing anything else for the near future at least.
If you've never shot targets further than 15 yards and rifle isn't even zeroed at the distance you expect to shoot quarry, I'd take the rifle, zero in then practice getting within that distance of your quarry. You'll still have a great day and be prepared for the next `live` trip.
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Its a pity we cant use one of these! http://www.ruger.com/products/sr22Pistol/models.html The obvious choice for humain dispatch, and cheep! No chance of suffering as with a single shot low powered air pistol! The red model could be the only one allowed and just for humane dispatch.
I have a Browning Buckmark semi-auto 22LR, but you wouldn't catch me using it inside a structure!
That's why I have the CO2 pistols -- for rats in me chicken shed, for example. No ricochets, and no holes in the corrugated iron!
Why? How do you think an injured horse/cow etcetera is dispatched if there's no vet immediately available? Usually shot at close range? Snared or cage trapped, yes outside if possible, but we are talking humane dispatch of a trapped/injured animal, not a regular occurrence as with dispatching for food or shooting vermin. With a light .22 ammunition load the power would be greatly reduced!
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Its a pity we cant use one of these! http://www.ruger.com/products/sr22Pistol/models.html The obvious choice for humain dispatch, and cheep! No chance of suffering as with a single shot low powered air pistol! The red model could be the only one allowed and just for humane dispatch.
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A HW45 will do the job but expect to pay handy money for one as good examples fetch good brass as collectors pieces.
The Webley tempest or Hurricane are just as good and recommend by a certain conservation trust for dispatching trapped mink in cages.
I would steer clear of the co2 or gas ram types. There's more poke in a wind up frog IMO.
I would also look for a .177 otherwise you may end up with a ricochet in your face.
Personally I would forget the whole humane dispatch with an air pistol and opt for a good set of welding gauntlets and nice cosh.
I've used my Tempest .177, I didn't find it had the power to dispatch. Now I use a HW45.
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I had a 3 gun.........5 gun.........7 gun...........now I have the one I should have purchased in the first place.......a 15 gun plus a separate ammunition safe. What ever else happens in life, the number of guns you own will only increase!
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Great wood, lovely to hold, 14 shot magazine, not bolt action, way more accurate than my 1417 Anschutz, shoots pellet-on-pellet @ 35 yards! Looks the part, does the job (extremely well!)
Should have got a CZ452!
Can't remember for sure now if it was 50 or 60 yards...think it may have been 50!
3, I say 3 rounds? Is that a test?
My Anschutz can consistently hit the bull at my shooting club and that's smaller than a 5p! I was talking about a mm or so out whereas the HW100 is pellet on pellet . 
Were you just grouping or trying for the `cross`? 
Let's see 50 rounds as a test! 
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Great wood, lovely to hold, 14 shot magazine, not bolt action, way more accurate than my 1417 Anschutz, shoots pellet-on-pellet @ 35 yards! Looks the part, does the job (extremely well!)
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Just spent a half hour on a post and touched the wrong thing on the mouse. Back a page, forward a page, all gone. Livid. Have another go when I calm down.
If it's a long piece, I always write it in word first then copy and paste!
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Where about in Kent are you ? We have loads of quality Air gun / Shotgun / Rifle shops
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All these figures are produced in ideal conditions - i.e indoors with no wind resistance and no braking, accelerating or hills to contend with. Once the first manufacturer got away with it, they all did it. You can take at least 10% off quoted figures, and more in most cases.
Minus 10% = 57.6 mpg, I could live with that! I was getting 46 mpg so that`s minus 27% on their official figures, that's taking the micky!
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Are people really so gullible as to believe anything anyone who's in business to make a profit for themselves and their share holders says? Our Fiesta, leased from new quoted up-to 64 mpg. Now, I'm someone who can obtain 18.6 mpg out of a 1998 4.0lt 6 cylinder Jeep Grand Cherokee yet I never bettered 46.5 mpg from our 'new' Fiesta!
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/apr/20/mitsubishi-motors-mishandled-fuel-economy-tests
What engine is that fiesta? Is that local or motorway?
46.5mpg is piss poor. I can get that driving round town in my Vectra. Much more on long distance runs.
That's why we got shot of it! All that monthly expense and poor fuel figures. Now we have a 2000 Peugeot 106 and get the same mpg!
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Are people really so gullible as to believe anything anyone who's in business to make a profit for themselves and their share holders says? Our Fiesta, leased from new quoted up-to 64 mpg. Now, I'm someone who can obtain 18.6 mpg out of a 1998 4.0lt 6 cylinder Jeep Grand Cherokee yet I never bettered 46.5 mpg from our 'new' Fiesta!
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/apr/20/mitsubishi-motors-mishandled-fuel-economy-tests
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My boss from 1985 said "one day you realise I'm the best boss you'll ever have" Being young and naive I didn't take much notice. Years later I realised he'd sold the company and the shares were put into our private pensions, I received £22000! It's now worth around £81000. Basically a 'free' pension!
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I was on my vermin shoot so went back and forth between vermin with the .22lr Anshutz 1417 and zeroing the Browning T-Bolt. I didn't notice either the trigger or thumbhole when changing between the too.
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Took the new Browning T-Bolt 17 HMR out for the first time today. After just 20 or so shots the group was tight @ 120 yards. The rain came down before I set up the 150 yard targets, but i'm well pleased with the results so far. The triggers sweet and the T-Bolt ultra fast! Just need the cantilever scope mount to turn up for the correct eye relief. Today quick test came out at about 1 1/8" groups, this was without a decent rest for the gun and my first time using the HMR. All-in-all a pleasing day!
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.243! Cover most UK requirement and as you have 600 acres..........
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A customer had a red Ferrari, not sure what model. Registration number:
RED 666
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For the sake of a 300 mile trip I would pack a flask and sandwiches. Park up on the services and stop in the van for an hour or so and then continue on your way.
Funnily enough I would imagine that a van on a motorway services car park would be more of an attraction to scum than a car, and your guns would be out of sight in the boot.
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1000rds of .22rf and 500rds of 17Hmr ...............bloody hell ya must be going somewhere infested with vermin
I'll be doing some zeroing as well, no problem using 200 rounds per day :-)
300 mile from Kent that puts you around the Yorkshire area, with all that lead flying around may be a good idea for me to stop in doors for a week
Ha Ha! Going right to left! Ending up in Exmore!
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I've always wondered how they get on with the.17 HMR in the good old US. I mean, if they generally can't moderate their rifles, there're dealing with 155 dB or there abouts!