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Ah ok. If its car or vans then CCTV is ideal provided you ahve the right lens to catch the number plate. Well I would presume that if he already has it fenced by chicken wire, it would be feasable to add barbed wire. A ditch would also prevent vehicles ramming the fence (could be a dry ditch if your worried about drowning kiddies) or even a raised mound. It juts depends on how far he wants to take it and how much loss vs cost is involved.
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@ Danw, Nope on the neighbour point. 1. Torts are civil actions. Tort and criminal are entirely separate so something that can be a tort is not necessarily a crime. eg. a claim for an injury resulting from an accident. An injury resulting from a pure accident is not a usually a crime but you can be sued on it if you were to blame. Equally but rarely, it can happen the other way around (I'm trying to think of an example here of the other way around but the only one I can only think of is the example Paulas has given above where it would appear from that quote that killing a cat may not in s
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Both would be better still then you could capture those who are damaging the fence on video. You could save on video installation costs though with just a camcorder and an investment of some time if you know roughly when the dogs are appearing. You'll also get a better result than with a fixed CCTV camera where the dogs will probably be distant. A camcorder on a tripod will allow you to zoom and pan and get good shots of the dogs both on the property and returning to the owners gardens - an advantage if one continuos shot. As for damaged fencing, why not put an outer fence of barbed wi
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If you want to know about the law, the last person to ask is a copper I have to agree! I ran a pedestrian down a few years ago, or rather he ran off the pavement without looking and ran into the SIDE of my car. He suffered minor cuts but was otherwise OK. Any accident involving injury has to be reported to the police within 24 hours or you as the driver commit a criminal offence. I went to my local police station and the police originally refused to take a statement (read they didn't want the paperwork). I had to go back later and literally insist that I make a statement to get
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You should listen to Matt. Just because someone else's property is on your property doesn't mean that it ceases to be their property. You are under an obligation to return it in good condition be it a football or an pet animal such as a cat. If you fail to return it you commit a criminal act of theft (a dishonest appropriation of property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it) and the civil tort of conversion (where you treat someone else's property as your own - which opens up the way for you to be liable in damages. Conversion does not requi
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There's an answer to trapping dogs in another BASC document: http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=8&ved=0CGUQFjAH&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.basc.org.uk%2Fdownload.cfm%2Fdocid%2FE996C35D-4DDE-4D8B-89D348796FCBCE9A&ei=_jLjUYbqArKm0wXvtYFA&usg=AFQjCNGEMT--_lWb3rZhsE8xVdutsVtogw&sig2=ggcMj_Q9-8A4_UHOvUS_wA It does say "could" implying their may be exceptions but I still wouldn't trap any domestic animal without 1st seeking proper legal advice from the BASC or a shooting solicitor.
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I think its harder to get a grant than a renewel as you have to go through the whole vetting process again and any issues you might have ahd the 1st time around will get thrown up again. I'd agree with those who say keep it. One good thing about a SGC is no need to prove good reason so you can just keep it in a drawer for whenever you might resume shooting.
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Not sure about the legality of trapping dogs as they are someone elses property and entirely different therefore to trapping a wild animal even if non lethal traps are used. What you could do is video the dogs and any damage they cause then call the police. There is sufficient evidence then. If you're a BASC / SASC's member, I suggest getting advice from them also.
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I'd advise against seizing anyone's property including dogs until they've paid you compensation as that could be seen as theft, conversion (where you treat some else's property effectively as your own) or blackmail. You risk putting yourself the wrong side of the law as you cannot legally confiscate anything or hold property to ransom in connection with an unrelated compensation claim. If you're having trouble with dogs, I suggest contacting your FAO officer for advice on what you can and cannot do and what steps you need to take to warn dog owners eg signage that dogs should be kept on a
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Just been looking at the BASC website and their shooting rights permission form also gives away the rights to pest control in its standard un altered format including rabbits, fox everything!: http://www.basc.org.uk/en/utilities/document-summary.cfm/docid/EA202D35-826B-477F-93D7CB0E17E75A28 It looks like you really need to see a copy of the agreement. That's 2 BASC documents I don't agree with - the other is the land check permission form here: http://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/topic/292151-land-check-permission-form/ Which seems to miss out permission to bring anyone else a
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Would he be poaching though? He'd have permission of the land owner. Surely the position here would be most likely that the landowner would be in breach of contract to the shoot captain for exclusivety but that would be a civil matter between the landowner and the shoot captain. However, I'm not sure he'd be poaching as its the landowner who can grant permission to shoot over his land surely. Surely what he's done is not transfer the legal right to the shooting interests but merely granted a permission to shoot (most likely with exclusivety) unless the contract says otherwise but I wou
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Oh I'm sure they'll make up and there will be a group hug at the end of it: Might even be some shooting by the looks of it! (Lets just hope its the right type. )
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I hope you're going to note down for his future reference how many mildots of hold over you use with the shotgun. You never know you might just convert him, then he'll need the data! (PS To make him feel at home, just tell him its an airgun that shoots 40 pellets at once).
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In a word no! .17 HMR is based on a .22 Magnum Cartridge. .17 WSM is based on a .27 Nail Gun Cartridge. You can see the difference side by side here (HMR on left, WSM on right): It's different in both diameter and chamber length. Also, wsm pressures are such that it requires an action with locking lugs etc - essentially a centrefire action. So no conversion is possible. It generates pressures never before seen from a rimfire cartridge which is why the bullet is so fast but that also requires a specially strengthened action.
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I guess only way to find out would be to email Savage and ask when it will hit the Uk / Ireland. An import UK to Ireland should be possible as they're both European Union, if it hits the UK 1st. Only way to find out is ask. Otherwise I guess its a HMR as an interim or a hornet as an alternative,
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I know you're a big Hornet fan Charlie and trying to preserve the popularity of what is a slightly obscure cartridge but according to the Hornady Factory site for the .22 Hornet V-Max 35 gr: - The .22 Hornet 35gr V-Max has 197 ft.lbs energy at 200 yards compared to 185 ft.lbs for the .17 WSM - so at 200 yards they're level pegging on energy. - The .17 WSM has 2042 ft/s of velocity at 200 yards compared to 1,590 ft/s of the Vmax 35gr Hornet - so at 200 yards the .17WSM has approximately 500 ft/s more velocity. It's only at muzzle to 100 yards that the Hornet outperforms the .17WSM o
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Depends how many you're buying and how many you're shooting but for bulk try: http://www.justcartridges.com/ When I looked Eley are around £9 per box. Considering most people don't shoot hundreds of foxes, a box of 25 should last between a few sessions to even a dozen or more depending on how many foxes you encounter at shootable range. Also, remember the AAA's aren't really suitable for fox unless used at very close range as you won't get enough hits at range to kill the animal, you'll probably just wound it and have a runner. This isn't a bird you're shooting at but a sizeable an
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Not wanting to be argumentative, but imagine there are a lot of rights of way not on maps. eg Our local church was advised to lock its driveway gates once a year as the footpath to the church is used as a local footpath by local people and encompasses the church's private footpath at one side and the driveway at the other. Its an accepted "right of way" by local people as they use it throughout the year, and although it isn't technically a right of way because the church does lock the gate one day a year to prevent access and maintain it as private rather than a true right of way, if they
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No problem. Always best to keep your options open but if you're going the rimfire route, I reckon its worth waiting to see what transpires as .17hmr could be very much yesterdays calibre if these live up to the hype. It potentially looks like an ideal low cost fox calibre or long range small vermin calibre. Only issue I can see is if using these for rabbits for the table its going to be headshots all the way as its very clearly far more destructive than HMR looking at those bottles.
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that might be the way i'll go, can you tell me how much the .17wsm rounds are and is there much of a difference between the .17wsm and the .17hornet or are they basically the same round? Performance of the .17 WSM is reported to be almost identical to .22 Hornet not .17 Hornet downrange! Some ballistic tables in the 1st video below. Round cost, not sure, but its rimfire and they're talking around 1/3rd the cost of the Hornet. In the US they're saying $15-20 per box of 50 so probably something similar in cost here! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=U
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Ahh, I understand, but equally maps don't reveal everything though. If you allow people to cross your land for a period exceeding 20 years without challenge, then it becomes a legal Right of Way and you lose the right to close it off or deny access. Without challenge is probably open to interpretation (I havn't seen any case law in this area so wouldn' t know if or how the definition has evolved), but I would imagine to challenge the passage of people you'd have to erect fences, lock gates and erect notices as a mere verbal warning may not suffice especially as some people may never g
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Wait on a month or two and see what .17 WSM (Winchester Super Magum) has to offer as you may find its better than .17 HMR. Its supposed to be quieter yet ahs performance near that of .22 Hornet centre fire. Still waiting on a release though. Believed to be in the next month or so. Plenty of vids on Youtube.
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Again if you read the doc I posted above Cookie, all will be revealed: I'm not going to copy any more as its not fair on the BASC and the full doc is in the link above. I would suggest you read the full doc anyway as its dangerous to take quotes in isolation.
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A Few Pictures, Zeroing My .22Lr
Alsone replied to DeerhoundLurcherMan's topic in Rimfire, Centrefire & Shotguns
Just to add to what Deker said, bullets that don't expand or fragment well are generally to be avoided against live quarry as the tendancy is for them to simply pass through in a narrow channel and wound the animal rather than kill. A pass through also increase the chance of a ricochet or you hitting someting unintentional beyond the target (hence why backstops are so important). Solid points or poorly expanding ammunition is best suited to target practice. Killing is generally done via shock and the larger the bullet or in the case of HV ammunition the hydrostatic shocking effect (whe
