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  1. Airborne3
    Cheers Mac, thanks for the persistence. Looks like it's a t20 with scope mount then. Cheers bud.
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    Very busy weekend I'm afraid mate, sounds like fun though.
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    So, now I have an A&M moderator/silencer on order and a primos trigger stick tripod, going in on pay day, I looking for a torch to complete the rifle. I've been flicking through different threads and a CREE (not sure what this is) T20 seems to come up, quite often. Do any of you have any opinion? I'd rather keep it small and light, rather than a big lamp. This will then be me fully set up and ready to get to grips with some hunting. Is it too much to pull out the old Ghillie suit?
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    Thanks Davy I will definitely take you up on your offer. Work is hectic at the moment! I'm on the Red Devils Freefall Team and we take advantage of blue skies, 7days a week. I'm lucky if I get a day off every 2 weeks. If you don't mind, I'll send you a PM once I've settled down. Thanks very much for the offer, I'm looking forward to it.
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    I found this link the other day. It may help.... http://www.excalibursac.co.uk/index.php/regional-air-fills
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    I've eaten worse. Looking forward to getting out once this terrible wind and rain has disappeared.
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    There's trees and a bank (earth, not HSBC) on the other side, I'm happy it wasn't going anywhere.
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    Cheers fellas. The rifle is definitely zeroed for the back garden first shot in anger fired through it and I bagged this little fat fella with a head shot, right below the ear, exactly where I was aiming. Thanks for the shimming advice, it worked a treat. I set myself up in the garden, with a 15m firing lane down to the fence to where the rats have been coming through to nibble at the rabbit hutch. He popped his head through the gap at the bottom and lights out. Pellet hole in the image... I'd put out some peanut butter (thanks for the tip Copyu Hunter ) and ha
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    I have and will likely get some set up. I have some from work, home made, we use them a fair bit, rarely standing mostly seated in hides/ OP's in rural areas. In built up areas they're great for standing, while setting up back from windows in buildings etc. I would still like a bipod, removable would be better, to allow me to get into prone and fire from a more stable position. I understand the rifle isn't heavy and it's not difficult to hold it for extended periods of time, but if laid up in a hide/ ambush on a rabbit run, the more relaxed the better, I think. One of the reasons I'm th
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    So, now that the rifle is up and running and hitting where I aim, I've made an order with A&M for a marksman silencer and am looking at Harris bipods. Do any of you have any preference in bipod size? I was gonna go for the 9-13 in. I measured the distance from the bottom of the rifle stock and the ground (on a flat surface) when in the prone position and its around 11in, so I'm guessing this would be about right. Also, the area at the front of the S410 isn't very flat, to mount a bipod. Did anyone have trouble fitting one to theirs? I was considering putting it on a pica tinny rail via a
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    She's back in the centre with room to spare on the elevation turret. Cheers fellas. 30 cm of aluminium foil consertinered to about 10mm wide and a mm thick, cut to fit the mountings and it worked like a charm. Thanks again!
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    Cheers guys, I'll give the packing/ "shims" ago and have a read of the article before returning the scope.
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    Talked to the guy in Essex where I bought the rifle and he thinks it may be a scope problem. Gotta take it back when I'm down in Colchester next week. Not a great start!
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    Could be a number of things but start with making sure the rifles power is where you want it, is it in the "sweet spot?"Check the scope mounts and clamps aren't moving. Does the POI change if you adjust downwards? You may need to shim the rear of the scope to bring the POI within the adjustment of the scope. However, if you've had it spot on and now it's gone off the boil it suggests either a power drop or scope fault. If you're testing in the garden I suggest bringing the range down to 15 or 16 yards to zero the scope, that way you will already be close to your ideal secondary zero at abou
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    Nipped it up with a Gerber, worked a treat, cheers mate.
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    Yeah, it was still dropping short from 200 to around 150. I'll have another play tomorrow.
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    Sounds like a plan, cheers Fox. I've been having a play around with the rifle, in the back garden. It's probably around 20 yards from firing point to the target, so I thought I'd site the weapon. To start with it was great! Small grouping of around 7-10mm and corrected the sight to get it in the center of the target. I reset the turrets, refilled the air to around 200bar and now the shots are dropping short by around 15-20 mm of my aiming point. No matter how many times I turn the elevation turret it won't go up, even to the point of the elevation turret at its maximum and won't allow
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    I had a little problem filling the rifle today. It got to around 150bar and then it started leaking air between the hose thread and AA adaptor. I only screwed the adaptor on hand tight, does it need to be put on with a spanner or should thumb tight be enough? The airs not leaking out of the adaptor or the rifle, just where the hose attaches to the adaptor.
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    Yeah mate, I'm based at Netheravon Airfield and the camp doesn't have anyone in it now, I'm in the process of getting permission from the CO to do a little rat and rabbit shooting around it, out of ours. Hopefully shouldn't be a problem. One of the guys I work with and myself, have permission, from a couple of farmers round here, to shoot pigeon with his shotguns, so I'm also gonna speak to him about hitting Rats and Rabits around his barns. Should be some good hunting around a very large area.
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    It all worked it's self out! There's a new dive shop opened this week in Salisbury. I went for the middle ground and bought a 7L bottle with all the gubbins for £200. On my way to the dive shop to fill it up.
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    Thanks for the tips bud, seems a friendly helpful forum. The decision between bottle and pump may have been made for me. The nearest dive store is in near Portsmouth, over an hour away. I would like a tank that I can throw in a day sack and carry around with me whilst hunting, maybe a 4L. As I will be putting a lot of pellets through it to start off, zeroing, marking corrections at different ranges and making a wind chart for the different ranges, I think it's going to be more practical to get the pump to start with. Having just spent £1k+ on the rifle and accessories, I also can't really
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    Not me I'm afraid bud. Just a noob looking for advice.
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    I'll see how that flys. Yes that went straight over my head. Not a clue mate! I also can't find an A&M Marksman on any sites I've looked at. Any idea where to buy one or are the no longer on sale? Second hand only?
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    Jairon? No mate, Mike French
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    Cheers fellas, I'll look into the bottle. Probably not the 12L the wife wouldn't be happy with that rolling around the house, with the kids chewing on the regulator. I'm also trying to keep the cost and weight down. As I will be mostly hunting rather than on the ranges, I want something I can throw in a day sack and top up as I'm tabbing around salisbury plain training area. A 4L will probably do. I've read (and heard) conflicting reviews on pumps, some people say they would never go back to bottles and have never had problems with moisture and debrit, others are exactly the oposite. As f
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