harry mac
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Everything posted by harry mac
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On your first point I couldn't disagree more. Although these courses do have an element of safety instruction included in them just doing the course does not make safer shots. Apparently there are more people taking up stalking now than ever before, we are not spending all our time in the country side dodging stray bullets. France and Germany both have mandatory hunting tests and licenses, even with our obviously dangerous approach to shooting sports they have many more hunting accidents than we do here. I can't remember where I read or saw it, but apparently last year 60 people were killed i
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If you want a truly double duty rifle then go for 243. If your main use will be deer, with foxes only as an opotunity target I'd go (and have got) 308, it really is a do it all calibre.
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Amen on that one, good idea on the loo rolls, but I've found that milk bottle bottoms have better light gathering. With optics you definately get what you pay for, and $55 won't get you much other than poor quality lenses with no twilight performance. Save up your sheckles and go for a pair of Leupold or burris binos. You won't regret spending the extra few bucks.
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Buy new brass, and if you've already loaded the batch with ones you thought were dodgy, pull the bullets on the whole batch and reload in your shiny new cases. In a modern rifle a blown primer probably isn't a major safety concern, but it could lead to a missed or wounded animal due to inaccuracy. Brass is cheap.
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Just make sure you check out a site called smartreloader.com As far as kit goes you could do a lot worse than one of the RCBS kits, either the Partner (the kit I started with) or the Rockchucker. Lee kit is perfectly servicable and I have quite a few of thier items on my loading bench. The only problem with Lee is that as you gain experience you will almost certainly want to replace it with summat "better". Usually what you buy is more expensive and better looking, but not necessarilly better (e.g. their Little Dandy powder measure looks like it was made by Mattel, but it easilly throws charg
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i think that before anyone can teach and charge for it they should serve a recognised 4 year teacher training course as should accradited witnesses who should also complete a recognised course on examination and both must be a fully qualified game keepers with a minimum 5 years stalking expierience ..then the certifacates might be worth the paper they are written on, i will be recommending this in a letter that i am sending to the scottish parlement regarding these certifacates and i urge everyone to write in because if we dont it will get passed on the word of the people who stand to gain fro
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You're preaching to the choir mate. Me and the wife can only eat so much venison, even muntjack. I would have no problem giving quite a bit away as well, but no body wants the hassle of skinning and butchering it for themselves, yet still people expect you to give it away. Aparently the deer commit suicide and then skin and butcher themselves and it takes no effort on my part whatsoever. Once my freezer's full and I've exchanged a few cuts with the chap next door for fresh trout, the only option I'm left with is the game dealer (or "game stealer"), after all, the cull still needs to be carried
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£25-£35 for a munty!!!!!???? In this neck of the woods a muntjack would have to be the size of a f***ing Tiger Tank to fetch much more than a fiver at the game dealer's. I can't speak for the current roe deer price as the last 2 I've shot went into either my or the keeper's stew pot, but munties bring 50p a kilo. That's skin on, head and feet off, guts out.
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Hello to all on the forums. I found this site yesterday and decided to join. I'm ex regular army and live in Norfolk, but am a Yorkshireman by birth. I'm interested in shooting of all kinds from air pistol at 10m to 7.62 at 1000. I collect and shoot classic military rifles and my main hunting interests are deer stalking (mainly muntjack) and pigeon shooting.
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A trap gun is quite a specialised tool and they don't do double duty at all well unless you have had one for years and really know how it shoots. You would be far better served with a standard sporting or game model. I wonder if the gunsmith recommending the trap gun has one in the shop he's having trouble selling?
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If you didn't know if you could eat it and you don't know what to do with it now you've shot it, why did you shoot it?
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I used to have a Ruger Red Label 20 bore with straight hand stock and like a fool, sold it. I shot like a god with that gun and loved it. I then bought a Beretta Silver Pigeon 12 bore to be more competitive at clays while still having a gun that would give sterling service on game and pigeons. To cut a long story short, I don't much care for the Beretta. Don't get me wrong they are good guns, best sellers in fact, but I don't get on with it. Does anyone out there have a Red label 20 bore with straight hand stock they'd be willing to part with in a straight swap for a Silver Pigeon S?My Berett
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On one of the areas I used to hunt in Germany (Sennelager. Probably the worst lager in the world) the fallow ran in herds numbering more than a hundred at times. When you startled them it was like watching the start of the great wildebeest migration!
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Always bear in mind that the very first people to start calling for these tests were, themselves, unqualified, because the qualifications didn't exist, and it's always the same. The only reason these tests are called for is so that old stuffed shirts who have opinions like, "young uns today don't learn stalking like we did, they get it all too easy" get to keep us minions at the bottom of the food chain out. In the begining there was the rich man. He looked out upon the country and sayeth unto the land agent, "find me an estate with deer so that I may stalk and slay them, and feasteth upon
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Hi, I'm new to this forum, only found it today, so imagine my surprise when the first post I read is about summat I've been droning on about for years. The absolute futility of these courses. I have hunted deer and wild boar in Germany where not only do you have to have a license for a gun (waffenbesitzkarte), but also a separate hunting license (jagdschein). In order to get a jagdschein a German citizen must undertake a course of study that would make some degree students sweat. The hunter then has to pass various exams and practical tests. None of this comes cheap and as a consequence Germa
