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  1. Skull Hooker
    2006 to 2014 with XMP trigger. That's got to be a lot of rifles
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    You'll be on the front cover of the Countryfile calendar yet mate
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    Probably a roe. They go into standing crops sometimes
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    That's a good value lot. Wish I was left handed..only joking
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    I started a similar thread on this a couple of weeks ago. HMR - too loud, too expensive and now too dangerous. Get rid.
  6. Skull Hooker
    How much you wanna spend bud?
  7. Skull Hooker
    .204 Ruger all the way, but you should reload to get the best from it. .223 is a great calibre though, and deer legal for smaller species. Loads of choice in factory ammo. .22-250 I heard was a bit of a barrel burner, but I have never owned one
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    I recently got a negative result on a handgun application........10 months after I put it in. My current variation for another rifle has been with them 10 weeks. Still no sign
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    Thanks for the advice. Think i'll try them as they are then and if they don't work, price the paint.
  10. Skull Hooker
    Problem is with baiting up this time of year, that there's so much food about naturally, its not a cert he'll come in. If it was, say, January, that's a stone bonker, especially during cold snaps
  11. Skull Hooker
    Try putting some beer in a plastic containers buried to ground level. They love beer, go in to drink it, get pissed and drown. Bit of a waste of beer but it depends on how much you want rid of the slugs
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    Same as that. I've gone to get em the next morning and I found one that another fox had tried to cache it by burying it. They're not shy of a bit of cannibalism.
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    Deep
  14. Skull Hooker
    We used to go ratting down on the river bank with an older lads dads 12 bore. No one batted an eyelid Remember weed killer and sugar?. Mix em up half and half. Fill a set of handlebars with the mixture. Hammer one end shut and leave enough of a hole at the other end for a sparkler. Light it and leg it. Top times
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    Sporting Gun just ran an article on crow decoying with an owl, showing the decoy layout. Works particularly well, apparently, when its on a fence post. Put something furry under its 'talons' so it looks like it just made a kill, bloke in the mag used sheeps wool.
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    Can be done on a normal FAC but every bullet head you buy counts as a round, assembled or not. I don't know how many you're allowed but it may be worth a variation asking for an increase in numbers. I was only allowed 150 before I started reloading, but my variation is in for 300 now, as it would appear that that's all my Licensing mafia will allow
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    What make is it and how much did it cost? If its a cheapie, might be worth just buying a new one
  18. Skull Hooker
    Use the right shampoo.. because they're worth it
  19. Skull Hooker
    Roebuck 243 Thanks for that. I do fallow as well and I was looking for a heavier round really. The 75gr would probably be the lightest I'd go, and Ideally, 100 Charlie caller Sorry ..typo..should have read H4895. I'm going to PM you later regarding the success or not I have had and see if you can get to the bottom of it. Thanks Skully
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    Afternoon lads. My mates given me a load of Canada decoys and a few duck. They're in double shabby order and could do with a lick of paint. The duck decoys are hard plastic full shells, but the Canada decoys are made of a flexible sort of plastic/rubber. Any ideas on what sort of paint is required for both? Ta! Skully
  21. Skull Hooker
    My cleaning routine is generally the same with all copper jacketed bullets every time I use it, generally the same day or maybe the day after: 1. Run a p/b brush through three or four times to get rid of heavy fouling 2. Soak a patch in Tetra ammonia copper solvent and run through, then leave it for 15 mins to do its work. 3. Run patches through until they come out absolutely clean, can be anything up to 15 patches with this gun, as the 17 round I've often found quite dirty IMO. 4. Outside of gun cleaned with gun oil as is the bolt. 5. Mod removed and screw thread cleaned and oiled
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    Cost exactly £1 from (guess where)..Poundland! Don't know what I'd do without that place. A positive cornucopia of cheap tat to assist the financially strapped shooter.
  23. Skull Hooker
    Wouldn't have to worry about aiming it particularly well. Bullet that size got it's own gravity field and would drag the fox in front of it.
  24. Skull Hooker
    Thanks for all your comments. The report from the rifle was not noticeably different, and the ammo is always stored correctly in my safe in a warm dry room. I was thinking about selling this rifle anyway and this has made up my mind. I can't have that amount of risk. Night shooting with it brings an extra element of danger as its more difficult to check whether or not its stuck in the barrel. I wouldn't expect any ammo at todays prices to be split or undercharged. Outrageous really. Skully
  25. Skull Hooker
    Went out to zero my Anschutz 17 HMR yesterday with a different scope. It was perfectly clean. Put a few down and was checking each one on the paper target. On the seventh shot, no hole appeared in the paper. I racked the bolt and the empty cartridge flew out. Pushed it forward to put another in and the bolt wouldn't close. There was clearly a blockage preventing the bullet entering the chamber by about 0.25". Blew the smoke away and couldn't see daylight down the barrel. Took it home a put a cleaning rod down the barrel from the dangerous end and out popped the bullet. "F*@! me" thinks
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