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  1. Alan Clark
    I'd soon demand that my local MP (or MSP if I were in Scotland) buy the gun off me for being such a plank and allowing the legislation in. Who'd want to throw a few hundred out of the window. Just read paragraph 29. They want plinking to go away entirely and only allow target shooting at "licensed target shooting clubs", so that a couple of hundred quid per year just to shoot at paper and what about people who live in rural areas who might have a very long drive to a club (or some who might live on islands where it can be a 3 day round trip). Fortunately para 30 seems to stick up for the o
  2. Alan Clark
    Reading the core principle (Page 7), they've already made their minds up how this is going to work and the consultation is just an attempt to make it look democratic and accountable.
  3. Alan Clark
    It is at consultation stage, takes a little while to wage through various pages after the link on the BBC site to get to the actual consultation document, http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0041/00410460.pdf I've only read the ministerial forward as I write this, reads very much like the dear minister wants everything to licensed as per SGC & FAC, but doesn't want to ban air guns, yeah right, make something hard enough to own and use and you have banned it in all but name. What would happen if the owners of the estimated 1/2 million air guns (so ~10% of the Scottish population) tu
  4. Alan Clark
    Here's how it's proofed. Factory makes said moderator or more likely a whole crate full. Sends them to Birmingham Returned from Birmingham to the Factory Put into box Sold. That is how you would get factory fresh proofed, or is that too stupidly simple to be true in this world of red tape.
  5. Alan Clark
    I use a galvanised steel box and tape the paper target over the front of it.
  6. Alan Clark
    I can think of a good candidate for the cheapest 4x4 to run........ Fiat Panda 4x4 in diesel form .
  7. Alan Clark
    In short, yes. What are the rough dimensions of the land, I know how big 30 acres is but it is long and thin or closer to a square. Just to clarify that, if the land was prefectly square it would be 381x381 yards
  8. Alan Clark
    Yes, they directed us to Aqua Logistics.
  9. Alan Clark
    There is one in Stockport near the pyramid, in the industrial estate just over the river towards the fire station. Off the top of my head the name is Aqua Logistics, they fill most bottles for <£4 (or at least did last year).
  10. Alan Clark
    Up until recently, RWS Super H Point in .22 flavour, just bought some AA Diablo Field so I'll be seeing what the rabbits make of them.
  11. Alan Clark
    Beyond there not being much point using them with PCP, is a lot of PCPs can't take single piece mounts because of things like the pellet mag that sits in the middle of the rail. I briefly looked at a single piece but it was 10cm long and even the front portion of the rail on mine is only 7.5cm long.
  12. Alan Clark
    I use a Defender 90 with 200 tdi, 20 years old but still good for offing bunnies. I turn the spot lights on the front to the off side so I can see the bunnies out of the driver's window, stop, get air rifle, put rifle through open window and shoot rabbit, all before it decides it doesn't like the sound of diesel engine and bright light and buggers off into its hole.
  13. Alan Clark
    That sounds like one fun project, and expensive. The galvanising sounds good, a lot of people say doing the bulkhead is a pain because the steel is quite thin in a lot of places and in fairly large unsupported sheets which tend to wrinkle. Not that is stops people getting them dipped. If you are going down that route I'd get them both dipped in de-ruster so any areas of tin worm can be sorted before they go for galving. One thing to be aware of is which type of vehicle to donor engine is coming from. The 200 & 300 tdi when originally fitted to the Defender have the turbo mounted high o
  14. Alan Clark
    I had thought of that and once pulled it apart and measured it, the air cylinder is a bit too long to fit in a hold-all. It runs the full length of the barrel and then deep into the stock. It makes it a bit of a fiddle to get the two sections apart. I'll give it a try anyway. Edit: I've pulled it apart and dismantled it is 85cm long, I am sure there is a hold-all round here that is bigger than that.
  15. Alan Clark
    Put me down, I'll be turning up with Matt Hooks. Might not bring my own air rifle, may have to make a couple of phone calls first about carting one half way across England on public transport.
  16. Alan Clark
    Fully adjustables sound just the ticket, and I see what you mean about them being at the pricier end of the scale, I can only go for 2 piece mounts as the rotary mag sits right in the middle. I might take a trip to the gun shop tomorrow, I need to buy some pellets any way, might get expensive as there are a few other bits I'm after. The book says there should be ~400 clicks stop to stop so I'd taken them both to fully in and counted back 200 before mounting the scope. I didn't feel like counting to 1200 last night.
  17. Alan Clark
    Its a Logun Eagle with a Hawke Nite Eye 3-9x50, I forgot to say I was in the barn with the target at 20 yards. It was far too windy to attempt zeroing outside. I'll try swoping the mounts round and see if it makes a difference. I can get it in zero on the adjusters and had it consistantly hitting the same point, it's that I am after the zero to be more towards the centre point of the adjuster travel, rather to 50 or so clicks from one extreme.
  18. Alan Clark
    Firstly, I'd say it's probably better in the FAC / SGC section, but never mind, most people browse around the forums. As you're under 18 (from a post a couple of weeks back you said you were 16?) you can apply for a SGC but you cannot buy either a shot gun or ammunition, however you said it would be for both you and your Dad. I'm guessing he would have access to the safe, so he'll need to have his own SGC, which will be useful as he could buy the gun and the ammunition. Somewhere on here is a link to the Home Office guidelines for firearms / shot gun licensing, I'd suggest trying to tr
  19. Alan Clark
    I've got a new scope for my rifle, mounted it yesterday and went to zero it this afternoon. I expected it to be pointing in completely the wrong direction, and it didn't disappoint, about 1' low and left. I easily got rid of the elevation issue with old photographic film (with all the chemical cleaned off) acting as shims underneath the front of the scope to raise it. The problem I had was with the lateral movement as there isn't the space to put shims round the side of the scope. Can I use the film shims on the actual mounting points on the rifle, i.e. in the groove to force the rear
  20. Alan Clark
    Technically it should be from the muzzle as that is where gravity takes over and you have trajectory rather than a lump of lead being squeezed down a metal pipe. I guess if we took it to n'th degree we could come up with a very long equation to correct for the scope being nearly 1m away.
  21. Alan Clark
    They should test it, yes it was maufactuered a while back but so long as its condition is good (ie not covered in rust, and you said that externally it is good) it will be taken, the whole point of testing is to ensure that it is safe. The test is carried out in a test cell (I believe normally in water with the bottle filled with water under pressure) so if it does fail there isn't a huge bang and bits of metal flying too far. I have a 3 ltr bottle and had it filled to 232 bar in April and still haven't had to have it re-filled, it still puts 200 bar into the rifle via a micro-bore pipe.
  22. Alan Clark
    I think I'll start off with one of the military 'lists' of 5 S's Shape - disruptive camouflage patterns help break up you shape / outline, even a pair of green trousers and an old DPM jacket is better than nothing, anything to make you a little harder to distinguish from the trees / bushes. Shine - avoid carrying anything that will reflect too well, a rapid flash of light can / will spook most prey. Shadow - If the sun or moon is strong and casting good shadows try to stay in those shadows so you don't cast any new moving ones which show the bunnies something isn't right. Silhouette - C
  23. Alan Clark
    So is that you filling the 4 pint tea container then?
  24. Alan Clark
    Matt did that to his axsor a couple of years back, the only problem is you get quite a lot of rattle from the key ring and the hook, and metallic sounds in the field tend to give you away. I found the only way to prevent it was to keep the strap really tight.
  25. Alan Clark
    What he said in the house doesn't sound like the sort of thing an MP who was against shooting would say. He was talking about the embarassment of having to send the British Olympic shooting team overseas for practice. The Home Affairs Committee report is at the following link http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmselect/cmhaff/447/44702.htm I think I'll be reading it later today, it's a little late now for dreary political waffle.
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