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Has anyone tried on of these? Is is as silent and deadly as they say? Just got the FAC and am looking for something like a CZ with an excellent moderator. http://www.jmsarms.com/mae_article.php

Thanks Toni - nice gun tip. I hear the longer barrels aren't necessary if going subsonic as the powder burn up way before - even at 16". But I'm not an expert. Nice to hear from NZ - and trust you're not near the Christchurch disaster!

Thanks - great advice.

Haha! Opinions are divided for sure: LR though was a lot quieter, and with a moderator, it can be very quiet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ow_YqRICT4 (Of course, all this depends on the rounds and the rifle I guess.) Anyone got a view on the usefulness of NV Gen2 or digital?

Yep - got to be able to eat them - assuming an upper body hit. So Rimfire is sounding the way to go... Is the CZ .17 HMR? I've heard it's a very flat trajectory, but with a smaller impact, so an alternative to the power of a centrefire.

If you got that mutch money to spend why not by 2 rifles go for a 22 rimfire for the rabbits cz 452 you'll get an whole set up fot 500 quid bran new and look around for a second and rifle for foxs I put some spare in for a possible NV scope: you reckon new cz and moderator and scope for 500? Have to look into that...!

Hi, My neighbour has agreed to let me shoot on his land so I'm going for an FAC. I'd be shooting rabbits and the occasional fox. I'm thinking Tikka T3. Centrefire over Rimfire because of the occasional fox. However, I want to cook the rabbits, so don't want to make too much mess there. I'd be shooting at night and there are neighbours around, so I'd need the quietest rig possible. All the options are somewhat doing my head in - so my question is, for £2000, what would be your choice for a silent, night shooting rifle for rabbits/foxes. i.e. which rifle, which moderator, which scop

Nice one!

Searching for a stoat trap, I came across this old ebook: http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/keacam/keacamcontents.html Look under the Gamekeeper chapter for the trap - lots of other interesting stuff. Even how to deter neighbours from stealing your traps is in there somewhere... Bird netting in Sussex was interesting too - I've never seen a bullfinch. This old guy must have caught them all 100 years ago.

Yes, I'd heard that they'd clear out a chicken house one by one, but so far none of the big birds have been attacked. I've got an old wildlife book from near the beginning of the 20th century which has a black and white photo of a weasel chewing on a rabbit, which the author said he saw chased down in a field and killed. The author also says he'd seen weasels kill rats easily. Not many people though will use a ferret to get rid of rats, but the author reckons the one good thing about having weasels move in was that all the rats and mice disappeared. Not many of them about these days I guess,

Looks like I better get me a stoat trap. I'm gutting some pheasants in the next few days, so a liver or two might be good bait. Thanks guys.

Something smalll killed four of my 2 month old guinea fowl one night last week. The cage was, I thought, well protected with small guage chicken wire (1cm) in a converted stable. All had the back of their neck bitten into, to suck out the blood, no body parts removed. I assumed a weasel, but none of my other full grown chickens or ducks has been struck. Looking down the sides of the wall with a torch, I spotted a rat with a hole leading outside, and a further body at the entrance of its hole. So, either it was the rat - or it was weasel using the rat hole. Any views on the back of neck killing

My son's friend brought over his birthday present, an SMK 19 springer. I didn't have the heart to tell him the gun should have banned under the Trade Practices Act for not doing what it sez on the tin - shoot targets: I couldn't zero it within 3 inches even at 10 metres. The plasticsights are fixed on out of line - it's a mess. The question is, for those of you who've done a bit of gun-smithing, is there any hope? Will a new crown or anything at all make this gun shoot straight?