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huh? that's a load of crap, legal barrel length is 12" with an overall length of 24" Anschutz sell 14" barreled rifles here in the UK

 

still, that rifle's gonna be the bees knees for bunny bashing.... especially from a truck methinks..

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myself and a few others who i shoot with have there barrel cut down to 12" and have no prob at all and as said before coes in really handy when shooting from truck, i did a few tests before i got barrel cut down to see if it would change accuracy jus tby putting targets out at 50 and 100 yads shooting 5 group shot at each then again when barrel was cut down to 12 and on 50 yards actually got tighter group (could of just been good day) and at 100 yards almost identical so that cleared my doubts of weather i was sacrificing accuracy etc

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kev

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ok guys in uk 12 inches is the legal length but in Ireland it is 16 a pain in the asss i think....

FAC over hear is a farce if i got a air gun below 12 flb i have to get a fac and the same rules apply for a gun up to 223 big difference in guns but they are basically the same fac.

as in uk u can go in to a gun shop and buy a sub 12flb air gun and take it home but not hear :(

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huh? that's a load of crap, legal barrel length is 12" with an overall length of 24" Anschutz sell 14" barreled rifles here in the UK

 

still, that rifle's gonna be the bees knees for bunny bashing.... especially from a truck methinks..

 

the finished gun now she ready for Mr bunny :)post-57306-0-69389300-1295645904_thumb.jpg

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darn, I was gonna say Boyds as well.... oh well Ireland sure is a great place, but obviously not for shooting... alas....

 

 

it,s not that bad realy lol when u are used to it .

it,s normal lol

as for shooting it is perfect out the back of my house their is a lot of deer mink and other vermon lol

one mile from me their is a big worren with hundreds of bunnys :)

so i have got a lot of choices of wild life to shoot lol

if i only had a 270 and a deer permit lol i would have many many deer in freezer ..

 

 

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There's a further point about accuracy. It's only comparatively recently that 'scopes have come into nigh on universal use. When I started shooting paper in the '60s glass sights were NOT THE DONE THING OLD CHAP. A longer barrel gave a longer sight-line, so that a given movement of the gun changed the POA by less. The idea grew that the accuracy of the gun improved when it was in fact the accuracy of the shooter. Some real fanatics used a barrel extension tube.

 

That said, UKBR22 recommend ~20"/50cm. I suspect that makes it easier to hold your POA, important when you need to put 50 successive rounds in a 3/4" circle at 50 yards. The opposite applies in the field. A shorter barrel is easier to swing if you're potting bunnies.

 

Ric

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true, a longer sight radius makes the rifle easier to shoot, is it because that, being at the end of a long tube instead of being a few inches apart on a handgun slide, that the smallest errors are much easier to spot and so correct on? I have shot with iron sights compartitvely few times, and those have been 25m smallbore with the target peep and front "aperture"type sight, I don't know if that's the proper mane for it, anyway I digress

 

I take it back then! looks like Ireland is a great place to shoot! just a little more challenging to get a hoothold perhaps...

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Yup. If you are using iron sights you put your foresight on your POA. Then you move the rearsight left or right and move the gun around the foresight. The longer the sightline the better. It's hard to describe, but imagine the foresight locked onto the POA. If you have a 20" sight line then moving the rearsight say 1/8th inch will have little effect. If you have a 4" sightline with a pistol you are gonna miss!

 

Always hold the foresight on aim and shift the gun around it.

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I use the Anschutz .17HMR with a 14" barrel and SAK moderator. Really easy to handle and as accurate as anything else. Short barrel is a good choice. Group sizes always less than a 2p coin at 100 yards (my zero) and not that much bigger at 180 yards despite the 6" drop. Widens at 200 yards at which it is a 10" drop. Hornady V-max 17g comes out of the barrel at 2419 fps. Slightly slower than manufacturers spec. (Measured with Chrony 12" from end of moderator).

Les

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