mikee

After a few blank outings I finally managed to christen the new .308 this morning, a munty doe from a high seat overlooking a large block of cover crop maize at about 75yds and then I had a stalk through a small wood where about 80 reds have been making a right mess and managed to get a spiker stag at about 150yds as he walked between two trees. after reading a couple of threads on here lately about calibers and bullets and deer running on, both were shot with 168gn A-max which put them both down where they stood with heart/lung shots, good exit wounds on both and both hearts and lungs turned to soup but no real damage to any meat, I will be sticking to these I think, if either animal has run off there was enough blood to follow. mikee

varget would be suitable for all the calibers you mention mikee http://www.reloadersnest.com/query_pw.asp?CaliberID=21&Powder=Hodgdon Varget http://www.reloadersnest.com/query_pw.asp?CaliberID=5&Powder=Hodgdon Varget http://www.reloadersnest.com/query_pw.asp?CaliberID=57&Powder=Hodgdon Varget

where and what time is this gathering taking place, I might be up for smashing a few clays mikee

Finally got my FAC back so I heve collected my new stalking rifle, mikee

cheers guys, in the end we chose the bunbury arms at great barton, not a bad pub but dead for a saturday night, there's no chance i was going to tell anyone on here where or when i was meeting her, too many blokes on here just like me and i know what i'd have done if i'd known, as it turned out we had a fantastic evening and got on well for a blind date, and get my luck, she's right into country sports, shooting, fox hunting, and even stag hunting and to top it off she was a stunner and wants to meet up again mikee

Hi Guys, any of you PW members know a nice pub between diss and bury st eds, preferably the bury end, I have to meet a nice lady for a drink and dont really know the area mikee

ive just re-joined this year after a couple of years out, Ive been a member previously for about 15 years, 1st yaer costs £165 inc £10 joining fee, got about 4000 acres of marsh and about 4 miles of river front with no really silly rules, 6 days a week shooting on most marshes and some with 3-4 days mikee

Hi Guys I found a tick on my dogs neck in the folds behind his ear, what is the best way to get rid of it mikee

anyone still on their diet? hows it going last night at fat fighters i recieved my 3 stone award mikee

a keeper friend of mine asked if i would help him lamp some cubs he had spotted, we met up at 10.00pm and headed off out, by 2,30 we pulled back into his drive with 5 of the little creatures in the back of the truck, the .243 with 95gn hollow points certainly doesnt take any prisoners and the pics are a bit to graphic to be posted on here, but a good job well done the evening was soured a bit when i found two spiker red stags laying dead in the road on the way home, i assume and hope it was a wagon that hit them because by the amount of bits of plastic and glass in the road if a car had hit them someone would be dead mikee

I caught them on home made fishmeal boilies, I do get peed of with catching them when i'm carp fishing but I reel them in and unhook and release just like any other fish, the carp swim with the bream in this lake so the best way to catch the carp is to attract some bream and just keep hoping the next run isnt a bream mikee

adi, paddy isnt my feo, mine phoned the other day wanting some maps, which i must get done this week mikee

its a private syndicate lake matt mikee

if i was fishing for them i would be over the moon, but when I spend ages trying to get a bait in the right spot for mr carp and one of them things eats it, it becomesa pain in the end, there a very few but very large carp in the lake and the bream never give them time to find the bait mikee

I also had 24 ***** bream which passed the time even though i would have prefered to not catch them, there are thousands of the things, most of them were about 8lbs though mikee

Had a couple of wind swept days carp fishing on a new lake, I didnt see any carp but did manage to sneak this out, mikee

I like the idea of zeroing as described in the link and will be giving it a test run next time i check zero, it seems to give a far better mpbr which appeals to me, if i can point and squirt from zero to about 225yds that would do me fine mikee

Hare shaped targets by any chance mikee

it sounds like a plan, i'm in mikee

Many happy returne frenchie mikee

I had a superb day out, meeting some old faces again from last year, cheers to adi for driving and the other norfolk boys for putting up with my snoring. well done teal for organizing the day, well done sporting targets for putting on such a fantastic event and well done cat for putting together such a good score and an extra special well done to black gun aka joe for just being a top bloke and having me in stitches all day, cheers mate mikee

its great to see young ladies taking an interest in shooting sports, my mates 16 year old daughter won the ladies trophy at the NGO golden pheasant shoot a couple of weeks ago mikee

You had me worried so I have revisited my range book and now realise I gave some incorrect information in my original post, 100yd zero gives just over 3" drop at 200yds the almost 13 inches at 300yds is still right though, the 2950fps velocity is taken from the powder bottle, i ahve checked the manufacturers data and some reloading test data and these were tested with a longer barrel than I have so I would guess mine are doing a bit over 2800, they certainly kill everything I shoot them at mikee