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  1. Alsone
    Some of the biggest idiots I've ever met have been the ones with on paper the most experience. Pure time or number of rounds shot counts, for nothing. The fact you've not injured anyone can come down to luck not good practice. Safety comes from knowledge and safe procedure. eg how many people know or bother to cycle the bolt 3 times after removing a magazine and then visually check the chamber? I'm guessing practically no-one except those who've had military range training. By far the best way in my opinion for an FEO to assess someone for an open ticket would be simply to say they wan
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    Although it doesn't generally work like that, I am 100% in agreement.
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    Thought it might help to suggest the .17 Hornet, as you had the .22, but if you're shooting large quantities of ammo, then yep you're stuck with rimfire which leaves LR, WMR and HMR (or the elusive WSM, although on the latter so far as I'm aware, it still hasn't been launched in the UK). That said, WSM rifles are still rolling out. Ruger have just launched a 77/17 in .17WSM - it's the 77 chambered for .17 Hornet - altered to fit .17 WSM. Franklin Armoury, have also launched an AR15 in it (probably not of relevence to UK buyers but shows that it appears to be growing in the number of manufa
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    I'll use both mate, the hornet is more versatile, but theres no way I'm reloading like crazy for the rabbits, its easier to just pick a box of ammo up if your shooting 100 rounds a night off. .17 hornet Ian. Flatter shooing than .22 hornet and ready to go off the shelf. Only possible issue is ammo cost - 25 rounds cost around £23 or the same as 20 rounds of .223.
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    Well, I suppose if I was a real yokel I could just kneel on the bottom of my smock !! Howard+in+smock.jpg Looking at the bulge at the front, it would help if you let the vicar out first!
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    I've been within 10 feet of a rabbit in a 4x4, shot was so close could practically put the end of the barrel on it. I think it's younger rabbits mainly that exhibit this behaviour as they associate people with danger but not vehicles. It also helps if you're not driving straight at them as it's the headlights that spook them more than the vehicle. Drive up the side of them and as the vehicle gets close, they tend to hunker down into crouching mode rather than bolting. I was using a bright red RAV4 btw. Not sure if the colour had any bearing. I suppose there's also a chance with rabbits
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    Avoid the rigid ones as they tend to split over time. My friend who's a tiler uses some flexible ones. Don't know the brand off the top though.
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    It's not easy, crows are very wary. Bold as brass in the garden, wary as hell in the countryside.
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    Bit late now, but always keep a photocopy. I photocopy every single application / renewal. That way I know what I've put. It also makes filling out the renewal easier as provided nothing has changed, you can copy your answers from the previous renewal. If the wording was accepted once, you shouldn't have any trouble with the same force using the same wording again.
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    So the Whisper did fit then? Good news and it looks great!
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    I have to agree with Deker here. :icon_eek: However, as you've already purchased, take a look at Boyds if you want a stock change. $99 can get you a replacement stock with a finish that you'd only see on a gun normally at many times the price of the Anshultz: http://www.boydsgunstocks.com/. That said, as most are made to fit the guns they're destined for, you'll probably find the overall length the same. I'm unsure if there are custom length / design options within the export limit ($99). In any case, personally, I wouldn't shorten the stock. You may have difficulty getting the finis
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    Purely for entertainment purposes.... You say I'm clueless, but Deker, you don't even know what a FMJ is, argued to the hilt it was the same as an electroplated bullet, and then when I linked you an article on how they were made showing that one was a thick copper jacket formed from a copper cup and the other was a micro thick coating, turned round and said it proved you were right! Above where I suggested that with solid bullets you should be using a precise headshot because of the lack of shocking effects, you said I didn't have a clue, yet it's widely known and reported from the fie
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    No assumptions on ballistics Deker. Find yourself "The Book of the .22" published in the 1950's and you'll find a book of detailed ballistic gel testings running to 100's of pages on every single .22 round in existence at that time shot with high speed cameras at millisecond intervals, and then you can see for yourself the differences between terminal performance of different rounds from .22 short right up through .22 Hornet. These are not like many of the amateur high speed gel photos you see on the web where the frame doesn't necessarily refelct the pinnacle of the rounds performance, bu
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    I wasn't aware Dan that game birds were farmed for the table, , but that just vindicates the point that the big players in the market prefer to supply lead free birds for human consumption, even if occassional consumption of non lead free birds by humans is considered safe. If I was Dadioles or the OP though, I too would be cautious about supplying animals with probable lead contamination to be fed regularly to either smaller animals with low body mass or animals such as lions that may consume a lot on a regular basis. Deker, everyone knows a solid bullet has the potential to kill. A s
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    Deker your posts get more extreme as time goes on. Rather than re-quote and mess up the board I'll just bullet point: 1. Never said Dadioles was the OP. He just widened the q. to include his situation with the local wildlife park 2. A snake is a small animal with a small body mass so it takes less lead to poison. As for a lion, how many rabbits can a lion eat in a week? Quite a few I expect! 3. I didn't confirm anything you said about FMJ. Electroplating is not the same as jacketed. For someone who claims to be the resident expert, I'd expect you to at least know that! Here
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    In my personal opinion Born, I think that's what it really is. I don't think it's impossible to solve on the face of it based on what we think we know the problem is. I think it more comes down to economics. Potentially, when you look at those xray machines, at least one of which claims it can spot defects in single links of chain on the fly, I can't see in principle why such a machine could not detect cracks in case heads in the same manner before they reached the filling station and simply divert affected cases into a recycling bin for smelting and reprocessing. I think the likely is
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    I'm not sure even then Deker with solid ammo you guarantee no contamination. Ok the bullet is less likely to lose fragments as it won't mushroom, but equally if it scrapes bone on the way through, or merely through the action of a round with lead dust on the head passing through a liquid (blood) which washes some off, you're still going to get some low level lead contamination and lead is an accumulative poison. Best practice would seem to dictate therefore that the head should be removed. I imagine big cats, get through quite a lot of rabbits! If that's unacceptable to the park - mayb
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    From all accounts it's the ammo not the rifles at fault. Appears to be poor quality control. It is the "manufacturing process", with perhaps a sprinkling of QC on top. If it was simply QC this problem would have been resolved 10 years+ ago. Yeah it's a combination of factors no doubt but to my mind it's still a quality control issue. There are allegedly issues with production, but if the quality control was better, then surely these damaged cases would never make it to production. So far as we appear to know, the issue appears to be ammo with cracked cases making it to
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    From all accounts it's the ammo not the rifles at fault. Appears to be poor quality control.
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    Plenty of threads on the subject, but I'm sure if you post your usual range and other details, then people will chip with additional advice. Generally speaking deciding factors when choosing a rifle are quarry type, typical range, noise considerations ie any nearby housing, ammo cost considerations, land size / clearance / backstopping. Other considerations might include ballistics (specifically how flat a round shoots) and ammo availability. That's probably not an exhaustive list, but the more information you post the easier it is for someone to point you in the right direction.
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    I agree, it was loosely worded.
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    That's a bit of a generalisation since only the CF varmint calibres tend to explosively fragment. I've shot plenty of .22 RF and I've said previosuly in numerous threads I don't like it from a safety POV because of it's tendancy to richochet. The reason why it ricochets is because of it's expansion rather than fragmentation as seen in most varmint calibres. Most larger game rounds are jacketed / semi-jacketed to control expansion and don't fragment either. Any round that expands not fragments is going to be more prone to ricochet than one that disintegrates on impact, quite simply beca
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    In theory yes. But the greater the velocity and the more energy, the greater the potential for a ricochet off something hard in the backstop and the further it will travel if it does. If it made no difference, the police wouldn't issue guidelines and we'd all be shooting 50 BMG against foxes and rabbits.......well those of us that could afford the ammo would!
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    From the little I know about big game, (about everything I've written here!), .308 is on the light side. .338 lapua or .375 mag much more suited to bear. Problem with these is both are severe overkill on deer and likely to pass through and then some, so only answer might be to get the .308 and borrow a rifle for bear shooting when over there. (Cross posted with SS) From reading this it's clear you know little about shooting deer as well The vast majority of deer legal rounds i.e. .243 .308 etc will pass "right through and some" Fair comment Dan, I've never shot deer. We all
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