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  1. Colster
    OK, I'll take it, Paypal as gift or bank transfer. PM me with your preference Cheers
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    Would you be prepared to post this?
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    In the summer, you can stroll around in the late evenings and usually get quite a few of this years births - because they don't know to run away from thing that goes bang yet. For lamping I'd say it was too loud but a shotgun is well worth having. I only got one initially because it was only going to cost me a tenner more to get my SGC and FAC together. Then managed to pick up a nice old SxS Baikal for £60. It doesn't get lots of use but very handy for ferreting and has taken a few pigeons in the garden too.
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    Open to offers guys, for a high quality, unmarked, as new scope!
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    For my birthday last June, the other half bought me a springer. Unfortunately I got rather hooked, so for Xmas it's a CZ452 .22LR Silhouette. I've also been buying bits and bobs to keep it happy too: Harris Bipod, SAK Moderator, Simmons WTC, a Sling with Swivels, 2 10Shot Magazines and a new slip. ...I'll probably end up getting some socks too.
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    Gaz has it right imo, Hatstands are fine but don't put small loads through them, they really don't like it.
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    Selling up my mint condition Chinese Simmons Aetec 2.8-10x44 (Gloss Black version) - too many scopes/not enough guns or money so she has to go. Box is a little battered but that happened while the scope wasn't in it. Scope is absolutely mint, not a mark on it not even from mounting. Nice low turrets, great lamping scope. - Price drop, now £75 posted
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    No it isn't, that only applies to Mountain Hares (should be white by this time of year)...most shooters will however only shoot what they can eat. One farm I shoot on has a particular problem with hares so we shoot them there but tend to leave them everywhere else.
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    As you don't mention game shooting (pheasant, grouse) maybe look at an auto - should be able to pick up a second hand Beretta Urika and leave you some change. That will do everything you ask.
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    I reckon this would work too, on mine I originally put in for .22 AND .177 FAC Air, I said that because I would buy second hand I wanted the flexibility to be able to buy a bargain if it came up. The FEO was quite happy with this but his bosses weren't. In the end I had to choose because I couldn't justify having (thereby being able to own) both. This wasn't really a problem for me as I don't think I would have got a .177 anyway as I would want a multishot and the shot count would be too low in FAC .177 unless it weighed a ton.
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    .223 is centrefire or am I missing the point. In answer to your other question it depends on your local firearms dept but mine took 5 weeks start to finish with the visit happening after 3 weeks. My feo said people are unlikely to get centrefire on their first FAC but I guess if you can prove a use and experience enough to satisfy them, who knows.
  12. Colster
    Hmm depends really. I'm guessing your looking at rim rather than centrefire so 2 choices really. .17HMR - Flies very flat so easier to shoot, ammo is more expensive, noisier and a frangible round so makes more of a mess of the quarry. .22LR - Loopier trajectory so need to learn your aim points and range finding, ammo is cheaper, harder bullet (so richochets can be a problem), super quiet. I'd go .22LR as neither are really intended as a foxing rifle but will do the job if your shot is spot on. .22LR is better for bunnies overall due to it being much more able to be silenced. Do
  13. Colster
    Nope, apparently you could take it down to 12inches and it would still shoot as straight (the powders burned out by then). Mate of mine is wary of short barrels though as someone once put a hole in his landrovers bonnet with one. Leaning over to shoot a bunny that looked clear through the scope. 16" barrel is easier when you're lamping and jumping in and out of a 4x4 but generally cost more. I've been quoted as little as £20 difference and as much as £70
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    Not really, although mine asked why .22LR and I said that I wanted it mainly for rabbits for the pot, so I needed something quiet with little meat damage.
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    I'm not based in leicester but mine went really smoothly. He asked a bit about why I had applied for what I had applied for (.22LR, .22 FAC Air and .177 FAC Air). A little about my shooting experience to date and then he went upstairs and gave the cabinet a good tug. One trick question I had been warned about didn't get asked, not sure if it was an urban myth/windup. The one where he asks where you keep the keys... the correct answer is you can't tell him.
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    I'd advise against shooting it: if you don't know what it is, don't pull the trigger. It's a rule that's served me well. It could be something that escaped from a zoo and they would probably take a dim view of having it shot...good bye licence.
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    Only what I've heard from others, supposedly one of the flattest shooting CF rifles you can get but you'd need to check you have a ready source of ammo at a nearby gunshop (or handload)
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    Managed to get my WTC yesterday. Very good scope if keeping it low to the gun is important to you. A lot of the cheaper end scopes will use a 25mm tube and compensate with a large objective lenses but you can get just as good (if not better) light gathering with a 40mm objective lense if it has a 30mm body. That being said, they are more expensive (although mine was £65 second hand and there is one here for that sort of money)
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    £60 would probably also buy you a Bushnell Banner or a 2nd hand White Tail Classic. I have a Hawke Varmint II 3-10x44 which works well in the dark but planning to get a WTC when one comes along. Personally a fixed mag would do me as I only ever shoot at 6x anyway. A mate has an S&B 6x42 but I get paranoid about knocking it cos they're so expensive.
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    Can't beat a shotty in the summer, all them young daft bunnies who'll venture out in the afternoon. You get to have a nice stroll in the countryside on a sunny afternoon and get some young bunnies for the pot too, also with young bunnies you can often skip the overnight salt water soak too. As said above still need to pick your shot and use a nice tight choke otherwise you'll only have meat for burgers... advantage being it's already minced.
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    If I'm stalking I gut each one straight away, if I'm lamping we'll typically stop half way through and gut what we have then do the rest at the end of the night. After that they can sit in the fridge with the skins on for a couple of days before skinning, soaking and then sticking in the freezer.
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    Damn you... I'm at work and that pic has made me drool all over me keyboard. Will try and find you a receipe my OH did for a Water Deer we got given off a pheasant shoot last year (one of the dogs got hold of it and mangled it's leg). She roasted the loin for no more than about 15mins in the oven and that was smegging delicious.
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    I tend to keep the young ones for the freezer, ferrets can have the rest. I usually soak them overnight in salted water but you can get away without it with young rabbits...tbh I don't usually pay much notice as to whether they're does or bucks.
  24. Colster
    Ooo the suspense and there's me looking for a "nowt special" gun too... well not exactly but paying £100 is right up my street.
  25. Colster
    I'd put in for a FAC air too, that would be ideal for stuff in trees but no never use HMR or LR for stuff where you can't tell where the bullet is going to end up (if you miss or the bullet goes through - not a big risk with HMR but def could happen with LR).
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