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    Try and put yourself with your back to the sun with gloves on and your face covered, stay as much as you can in shadow and move slowly. Won't always be possible, but may help. Also, either raise the gun as they land or leave them to settle a couple of minutes before aiming. After a pigeon lands jn a tree it looks around to check for threats, then relaxes.
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    This one was given to me about 10 years ago and reignited my passion in airguns. I love it. It' stamped 'made in West Germany' so that puts it at 23 years old, plus and has been carefully neglected and abused ever since.
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    Weihrauch, without a doubt.
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    Awesome gun! I'm a lefty and mine's a still got the right hand biased stock but even with that it will blow the shlong off a gnat at air gun ranges in the right hands... or left.
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    If you want to give them a go, you could try RWS HP's, but for negligible gain on impact, you do sacrifice a shed load on accuracy.
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    Think it was the case of see 5, count 1000, on the part of the farmer. He did the same about rabbits on his garden last year, after practically camping there for four nights, I'd seen two and bagged one. There are pigeons about, but nothing like the numbers he fears, that I can see. He has done a fantastic job of continuous daily harassment of their feeding spots, whilst it's seen so wet, that have moved the feathered casserole fillers on, in the main. That said, the rabbit population seems to be very buoyant for the time of year, after the wet summer stopped the hay being cut until Octob
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    Hi Mate Keep it simple when starting and simply put 7 - 12 decoys (mixture of shells at the back with full bodied at the front, preferably flocked) in a rough U pattern 3 ish yards apart, facing roughly in to the wind but not uniformly, with the middle of the pattern being at your zero point from your hide. Set up near the trees they sit in on your flight line and give yourself an arc of fire that covers both the pattern and the trees. Then just wait for the flapping! Bare in mind that pigeons are easily spooked and using air guns, they need to feel confident enough to land in the pat
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    I've had both and to be honest, would have stuck with the HW100 until I got the R-10 tuned by XTX. I now have the R-10 and no HW100. Both awesome guns.
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    I think it’s always a strong sign of mutual respect, to be called on by a land owner to help out and give something back to the person who has given me access to almost free reign of their farm. It’s a kind of ‘Stand up and be counted’ moment, when you have the opportunity to demonstrate the skills and experience you've developed by wondering for literally days at a time, learning to hunt among some of the most beautiful countryside I know... Or at least this is what I was telling myself Friday morning at about 06.30 as I sat in a Spinney, waiting for day light. I had had a request fro
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    The first time I went to my In Law's, my Father in Law demostrated how he could shoot a crow from a fence post about 70 meters from the kitchen window with his rimfire. Next time it was the shotgun's turn with some excellent pigeon shooting as they came over the garden from the Rape. Lastly it was he could drive well by beating me on a course set out on the stubble for his landy...... The message sunk in, we married and I got a permission!
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    Great shooting!
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    Simply can't beat a weihrauch for reliability and years of service. I was given an HW 77, last tuned in 1988 by venom, it's still doing 11.3 consistently over the chrono and I leave it cocked for sometimes hours when hunting.
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    For a £5:00 a month you can't fault BASC in my opinion and it's recognised and trusted by many a potential land owner.
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    For a £5:00 a month you can't fault BASC in my opinion and it's recognised and trusted by many a potential lens owner.
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    Watch the Camo bit on this episode of Field Sports Britain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiiQGCjNfdw Pretty much proves what we all know!!
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    Darrin at XTX is great to deal with, I got a standard tune on my R-10 mk 1. For the £100 + Postage it was more than worth it.
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    I have a Richter 3 - 9 X 40 on my HW 77 and have to say I'm pretty impressed with it. Only bought it as a back up but the glass at low light levels is impressive for the price. I was also given a Richter 3 - 9 X 50 ao and the quality isn't as strong to be honest, but for the money at air rifle range, you can't go far wrong.
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    Another with the Longridge Pinpoint and I have to say, it has now taken up permanent residence in my jacket. Invaluable as a range finder and spotting scope!
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    It happens to us all and all you can do in that situation is make sure that the follow up is swift and effective, then learn from it. Not ideal but a taste of reality.
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    Well that would explain why I didn't see a single pigeon yesterday, they'ed all gone to the rememberence service for their northern brethren!
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    Good choices!! There was a rapid in the for sale section that looked awesome and I've got an S410 TDR which is again, a fantastic gun.
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    I wanted new gun this time last year but have always had the opinion that like cars, you are better off buying an honest, well looked after, second hand gun than new. As I will damage anything I buy within a week, it makes sense to me! I ended up buying a used R-10 mk.1 in .22 from a guy on here and a few months later when some common problems arose, sent it away for a tune up with Darren at XTX air. I haven't looked back since. The gun is fantastic and only hindered in accuracy by my ability, I can't fault it and that's with just a standard tune, not with a new regulator. All in, inc
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    There goes my wife's Christmas handbag! From Mulberry to Aldi in one camo dipped photo... May have to sell her wedding ring as well, but why hang on to such material possessions!
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    I have a 1988 venom tuned HW 77 .177 and still use the Kassnar 3 - 9 X Wide Angle scope it came with. Don't know if you can still get them but a great combo!
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    Had this very same dilemma the other week. I was looking at the Jack Pyke woodland and oak patterns. My wife got sick of my procrastinating about which and went and bought me a set of Percussion jacket and trousers in Realtree APG. Things I've noticed... Apart from the APG camo pattern, in construction, they look identical to comparable Jack Pyke, including pocket cartridge holders etc, but cost a shed load more, some factory in china is doing a roaring trade!! I used to use DPM and have to say that I had reservations about APG as felt the colours would not blend, but no such expe
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