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  1. SportingShooter
    Should have used a centrefire Ye just dont seem to be able to get the steel bullets any more got some silver ones, but I am saving them for a full moon. I prefer stakes myself. Or is that steaks? Either way, deadly at close range against both foxes and wolves. And Vampires
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    Should have used a centrefire
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    You'll need a .22 Centrefire with a muzzle energy of over 1000 ft/lbs for CWD and Muntjac
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    The gas system in the Winchester is very simple, it's just two small holes halfway along the barrel which can be cleaned with some gun cleaner and then brushed out, then a large piston which sits on the tubular magazine which just slides off when the gun is broken down. Easy to clean with ordinary gun cleaner. Semi-autos should never be heavily oiled or greased when in use, all that will do is attract residue and clog the gun. A tiny dab of grease, not oil, on the rail that the bolt moves on and that's it.
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    +1 A .22LR and a .22 Centrefire.
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    I can't say I find mine heavy to carry around, it has a synthetic stock and forend which helps bring the weight down, Something like my Browning O/U which is a thoroughbred game gun weighs 1lb more than the SX3 according to Browning's website.
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    I bought a Winchester SX3 about two months back, can't say I can fault it for the money, Very quick cycling and soft on the shoulder, handy when shooting a lot of pigeons.
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    Like any gun, it needs to be used in the right circumstances, I remember someone telling me once that you can shoot Deer with an Elephant gun but unless you hit them in the right place, they're going to carry on. Always think of that when I'm deciding whether to take a shot or not.
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    Indeed, the .22 is a slow old round
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    Was the SAK cleaned in between each rifle? The two different types of moderator will alter the zero and personally I'd be careful using a SAK on a Hornet, it's a rimfire moderator and even though the Hornet isn't particularly powerful, it has about 6-8 times the muzzle energy of a .22LR, I'd also be careful using your centrefire moderator on a .22LR because the rimfire produces a lot of unburnt powder, which if you then put it back on a centrefire, the much increased heat/pressure in the moderator could ignite it all in one go and bang goes the mod.
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    What has the SAK been on other than the Hornet?
  12. SportingShooter
    If you can't get shooting permission but the owner owns the rented land, you can; Ask him for permission to cross his land with your guns, If he agrees, then ask that either he speak to the tenants to let them know or even better you offer yourself so you're introduced, Ultimately, the owner could give you permission to cross his land avoiding any armed trespass issues but it's always best to be courteous.
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    On my shoot we have an 89 year old gent that uses a Beretta AL391, he couldn't handle the thump of a SS or OU anymore, I'm more than happy he's still shooting (better than some 70 years his junior), doesn't matter to me what with, I guess we're a close bunch of syndicate guns so it's not so formal anyway.
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    As long as they're supervised by someone over 21 as far as I'm aware
  15. SportingShooter
    +1 for Benelli.
  16. SportingShooter
    If that grit has been causing the moderator to seat slightly differently each time then it could easily have an effect on it holding a zero, The hornet can be a dirty round, especially with powders like Lil' Gun which are designed to have a higher volume to fill the case but not necessarily a quick burn rate, so there could easily be unburnt powder there.
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    Strictly speaking, without your lad holding a firearms certificate, he couldn't shoot your rifle until he was 17 under the "Estate Condition", If he did have a firearms certificate, that would lower to 14 which is the youngest you can be granted one, It is possible to apply for a firearm certificate on his behalf before he reaches 14 but the only time I've known that used is for up and coming target shooters.
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    Common sense indeed, That subtle difference of "whether loaded or not" makes a big difference, along with the possession of ammunition regardless of whether it's in the rifle or not. I dare say whilst traveling in your vehicle from one piece of land to another with a loaded magazine in your pocket and a rifle also in the vehicle would be a "reasonable exuse", can't say I'd like to explain that to a Magistrate though. Well if you read the Act as written then I don't think you'd need a defence of reasonable excuse - clearly on purely the wording in the Act as reproduced above, ha
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    Just had a read through that one Dan, It seems that they will honour them until renewal and will then refuse if they are still prohibited, If someone is receiving that length of suspended sentence, you would have to consider whether they are still fit to hold firearms, but again, they can't impose it on those who already have certificates, so their hands are tied until the applicant applies for a renewal. Can't see there being too many people in that boat.
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    Common sense indeed, That subtle difference of "whether loaded or not" makes a big difference, along with the possession of ammunition regardless of whether it's in the rifle or not. I dare say whilst traveling in your vehicle from one piece of land to another with a loaded magazine in your pocket and a rifle also in the vehicle would be a "reasonable exuse", can't say I'd like to explain that to a Magistrate though.
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    There is a long standing legal principle, enshrined in various laws, that you cannot be convicted if the act was not illegal at the time, even if a subsequent law makes it so, So if a new law has been passed that some spent convictions now count, which I don't believe there has been, it would have no effect on existing certificate holders, Besides, no conviction is ever "spent" for licensing processes, every recorded encounter with the police is retained and can/will be used to base the grounds for grant or refusal. I would suggest there is more to it with these chaps
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    Interesting if they're removing guns/revoking certificates when they've already been granted, Unless there's new information, then it sounds like dodgy ground to me.
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    Topper, I've no idea where you are pulling these so called "facts" from about police forces being owned and operated by private companies from, For starters, all officers are sworn in to a legal office of a constable, regardless of their subsequent rank. They are servants of the Crown. A police force (not authority) is a statutory body which does not have shareholders, you can not buy shares in it or own any part of it, it has a budget given to it from the Treasury and through council tax precepts, how they spend it and who they contract to undertake certain functions is up to the Chi
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    I'm curious as to where all the talk of terrorism came from as a justification for this new guideline...I can't find anything in the information I've had that mentions terrorism. The text of the guideline actually says that the unannounced visit will only be undertaken when there is specific intelligence of a risk of harm or threat to public safety, therefore it would be exactly as said above, where somehow, the police are aware that Mr Jones leaves all his guns on full view when he's not at home leaving the 7 year old in charge and the guns wide open to falling into the wrong hands.
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    I honestly can't see the firearms licensing departments having any spare time to put towards this initiative. It will probably only be used where there is a specific bit of information which says someone is dangerously compromising their firearm security, i.e. leaving a dozen guns on the kitchen table all day long and postie has seen them there, In any case, the powers of entry haven't changed, they're the same. Useful link http://basc.org.uk/firearms/police-involvement-with-shooting/
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