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Thanks for that, yes the NRCOC are just those, not byelaws. But it is the contract under which passengers purchase tickets and are granted travel so by travelling with a 'banned' item would mean you were not complying with said contract and so a ticket would not be valid but I guess you have to encounter a real jobsworth who has had a really bad day to have any kind of problem. The worst they could do is ask you to leave, which clearly no-one is interested in doing. I have checked the Railway Bye-Laws and cannot find any reference to air guns (or any other type being barred), the only bye-
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Phantom, You said you have taken you rifle(s) on various forms of public transport, including trains. Did you have to get permission from the train operating company? I only ask as it is a condition in the National Conditions of Carriage that firearms (or guns as they call them) of any type are not permited on any rail services in the UK without special dispensation. It is in appendix b, page 25 (27) http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/system/galleries/download/misc/NRCOC.pdf That said I know that our neighbour takes his musket on the train to civil war re-enactments.
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No reason why not, once cocked there is no need to have part of the exterior of the rifle move so it can rest on a set of sticks just like any other rifle.
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There are quite a few to look at, here are three of them. British Airgun Shooter's Association - £17.95 for direct debit. http://www.airgunshooting.co.uk/basa.aspx https://www.subscription.co.uk/secureonline/quicksubs_tpl.asp?m=1221&src=BORG Countryside Alliance - £28 http://www.countryside-alliance.org.uk/ https://www.countryside-alliance.org.uk/join/ BASC - £46 for Airgun only membership. http://www.basc.org.uk/ http://www.basc.org.uk/en/join/
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I was reading a thread on an aviation forum a while back about different solutions for getting things unstuck. Apparently the best solution (tested to give an average force required to crack seized nut free) was a homemade one of 50:50 Automatic Transmission Fluid and Acetone. You can buy both pretty cheap and make up a batch & see what happens. Though I've always used plusgas, but only because I have some that needs using up. How did we get the mod unstuck on your springer Matt, was it just brute force in the end or heating? I know just about all the lubricants in the house were teste
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There are the three questions on the BASA site, one of which is are you under 18, along with have you been convicted of a criminal offence and I think have you ever been refused insurance cover. You had to answer No to all before you could sign up, but there was a phone number should you answer yes to one of them. I'd call that number and tell them your under 18.
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I don't know how old the rifle is, probably a few year old given that most of the online stuff about it is 05/06 sort of time, got it second hand in March without any real history. At a few years old it could be natural failure of a seal, I've known them go much sooner on other mechanical items. What got me was the way it stopped leaking suddenly when the pressure increased. That either says a sticky valve or a knackered seal which bulged under pressure.
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A few minutes ago I went to re-fill the air tank on my Logun Eagle, it was 10 days ago that I last re-filled it. Connected up the air line to my bottle and opened the tap, air was rushing out of the barrel, ie going into the tank, through the valve and straight up the spout. All I can assume is that when I uncocked the rifle on Wednesday once I'd finished with the bunnies the valve hadn't quite shut and over the next few days happily emptied the rifle. I got the valve to shut by opening up the tap from the bottle and at about 100bar on the gauge the valve snapped shut and the rifle fi
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After a couple of weeks without going after the rabbits I finally got out again on Wednesday. Spent the weekend helping Matt Hooks & my sister move and also use his chrono to check my rifle. It averaged 11.1 ft lb, 595 to 600 fps with 14.2 grn RWS Super H Point. My cousin spent the night with us on Tuesday and taking her back home was an opportunity to bag a few more bunnies. With the changable weather I decided to drive round the farm. And this time I remembered to take my camera with me..... A quick drive round showed plenty of evidence of rabbits but few stayed put for long, I g
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You'd think ratty would know to stay still when he's missing his brain, wouldn't you. That last one was a bit thick, has a near miss so comes straight back to the same place and wham.
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Nice shooting, and well done not being arrested / shot. I know plod can be a bit twitchy, just like the bunnies when suffering DLI (Direct Lead Injection), but two cars and an egg whisk. I wish they would call the person who reported it back and tell them it was a person carrying out pest control and they just cost £xx,xxx, afterall a whisk is a good couple of grand per hour. I think the ordinary person in the street should get a bit of education about just how much offing of bunnies, pigeons etc there is and not everyone with a gun is a crazed psychopath. So far it hasn't happen
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You have a few different options depending on how permanent you want the covering to be. 1 - Make a cover from camouflaged material, it will need to be in at least 2 pieces and designed not to get in the way of the breach etc. You'll probably need a sewing machine for this. 2 - Buy a cover, usually only for things such as the moderator and made of neoprene. 3 - Buy camouflage tape and put that all over, but if this gets wet and stays wet then you can have corrosion problems. 4 - Paint the rifle with various stencils to get the desired effect. Think 'Shooter' where he spray pain
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When I gathered a load last year I used a bowl of water and floated the leaves away from the berries, that and spiders etc.
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Yeah, I'll have to remember the camera, I got nearly half way there (about 2 miles from home) when I realised. If you don't want all of that kit then yes I'll pick some up when I am down, and I was intending to bring the rifle as I'll be in the car. The fields are still very dry, I expected them to be quite wet after the recent rain but they are fine and the horses have been moved out of the best field for bunnies
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So I got bored this afternoon and at 5 went out to the farm, but like an idiot left the camera at home. As I was getting ready there were a couple of feral pigeons hanging around but a horse wandered over towards them and was too close so lucky pigeons, same for the woody that was just behind them. So I went out along the lane and down the hill where I spied numerous bunnies sitting in the lane (which is just grass at the bottom) and in the field to the right. I slowly moved towards them and quickly got the closest one. It rolled over and kicked a bit. I went for a second rabbit a
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What should my velocity be? (HW80K .22)
Alan Clark replied to mooster's topic in Rifle Reviews, Technical Help and Tips
I decided I'd make up this graph, just make life a little easier to quickly check on the velocity / energy range for a given mass. -
Search engine bots show up on forums as guests, i sometimes get several on my site at once.
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Ooh, lunch. I found out that Saturday's feathers was a fatal encounter for the pigeon.
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I use RWS Super H Point, not had a problem with them going straight through unless it is a pigeon then they sometimes do.
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And when I said pick it up and put it in a tree so it'll be a few feet from the cat there was a look of what do you mean, pick up that pigeon? Yes, i meant pick the bird up and stick it in the tree. Oh, and we got home tonight and there were more feathers in the garden from a pigeon, but no victim.
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Pub, expensive. Normally I'd be in total agreement but we had a stack of 50p off vouchers for Wetherspoons which meant Titantic Nautical Mild and Salopian Oracle for £1.30 a pint. That is better than half the price of the local pub.
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There I was cleaning demi johns after transfering some elderflower wine so it could settle and our next door neighbour shouted to come and help catch the cat. She (the fluffy terror) had a woody (again) but had let it go in next door's garden. I immediately offered to shoot the obviously distressed and possibly wounded bird , that didn't go down too well . Then followed a hilarous period of the cat following this dazed woody around the garden being followed by neighbour and being watched intently by her terriers from the kitchen window. Once the cat had grounded it she just followed the
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I've got a 3lt bottle, you could get them new for less than £100 from a dive shop in north manchester (and they do free postage on orders over £50) when I was looking around. Mine came with the rifle so saved a wedge. And as poacherkev said, go for a steel bottle rather than alloy. Also if you can find the place that dive shops get their compressed gas from then you may be able to save a bit on re-fills. I get mine for about £3.50-4 from the local diving logistics place, the last time was in March. As for filling tube, go for a microbore pipe, you lose less with each fill of the rif
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A few pop up on the web, I did a search for gunsmith Berkshire and then Oxfordshire. There's one in Reading that advertises repairs to air guns, beyond that most seem to be into SG & FA. Have you been up the road and asked who in the area does work?
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Confused on what to buy .22 or 177
Alan Clark replied to huddies's topic in Rifle Reviews, Technical Help and Tips
To get back on track, when I bought mine I had been using .22 for nearly a year and had just about got used to where the pellets go once they leave the barrel. But i was looking at both .177 and .22. I went in with a budget of around the £450 mark and got a complete PCP set up with air bottle and slip, ok I was probably fairly lucky. In the end I bought a Logun Eagle .22 which already had a Walther scope fitted, a 3lt air bottle and ex army slip for £445. (Thanks to Matt Hooks for spotting it for sale in his local gun shop, all of 180 miles from home). So far I have not been out that
