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    Natural England scrapped the requirement for landowners to control rabbits when they renewed the OGLs early in the year. More excellent decision making from this government James
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    Yup! James
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    The way I understand it is this. A case almost full of powder is a column of powder, into which the primer fires, burning up the column in a controlled, progressive way. With a half filled (for argument's sake) case, the powder lies in the bottom of the case (like a half full bottle of water led on it's side). When the primer fires, it fires over the top of the powder, lighting the whole lot in one go, leading to the high pressures. Might be wrong but I don't fancy risking it much! James
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    Yep, it was a 7mm-08 and the cartridge (or the brass at least) was made by Federal (F C as in Federal cartridge). Nice ammo but expensive (their premium .243 is £30 for 20 ) HTH, James
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    As long as you have the owner's permission, you don't need to pass acourse to shoot deer, however it is a good way to learn the basics if you have no-one experienced to learn from. It may also help you to get a slot on your FAC for a deer calibre. For me, .22lr is the best rabbit calibre, cheap to run, quiet, minimal meat damage and humane subject to good chot placement. It will kill foxes, but placement has to be perfect and some police forces are funny about passing .22's for fox control. It is certainly not a dedicated foxing calibre. .17Hmr is very popular for rabbits, but person
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    I've found lighter bullets best on charlie, 40grain nosler ballistic tips over 10.5 grain of H110, deadly on them, longest so far 166 yards, dropped on the spot. I did have some 45gn softpoints but found they didn't expand much at all and foxes ran on 45gn HP were better but not a patch on BT's James
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    Bog roll!
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    Foxes tend to blink, or look away and look back, deer tend to stare solidly. Fallow should be easy enough due to distance between the eyes and height above the ground. Though obviously they do bend down to feed and some are smaller than others. I always have binoculars in the truck which I use if I'm not sure, but 90% of the time I can ID the eyes by behaviour and size. Foxes seem to me to have brighter eyes than deer, but so do cats and badgers!! It sounds as if you're erring on the side of caution, which is absolutely the right thing to do. It will get easier with practice. Do you know anyon
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    I've got one as my work gun and can't fault it. Mines had hundreds of thousands of cartridges through it, and never bats an eyelid. I've got a slip on ammo holder on the butt with 6 50gm bb's in in case I encounder charlie. As has been said, they're not the prettiest of guns, but pretty doesn't kill things! all the best, James
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    Certainly wouldn't advocate shooting things up the a*se as a matter of course, but saying that, I was out with a mate of mine a few weeks ago. Shot at a fox broadside on, thought I'd hit him, but he ran. we followed him and he went flat in some young rape. Got out of the truck and walked up the side of the beam, charlie got up and ran straight away from us, as I thought he was wounded, up with the rifle and fired. He went down instantly, dead when we got to him. There was no exit wound, I can only assume that the bullet did sufficient damage as it went in to stop him. Makes sense, a fox is
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    Hello, I'm very interested in this position. Is it the same one as advertised in Shooting Times 2 weeks ago? If so, I've already applied, if not, I will apply by email! Thanks in advance, James
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