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First thing would be a light weight mod. Go for an over barrel. You need light to keep the weight off you carrying shoulder. But light isn't as good as heavy to cut the recoil as much as possible. If you have the funding then a titanium but reading between the lines I would suggest something like the DPT and add an extra baffle just to cut the recoil down as much as you can. Not that the 223 does recoil to much. Rifle I would go with the Tikka as their a little lighter than the rem, second hand in 12 twist will deal with the 40 grain bullet very well. You could also use a 222 f needs be. You don't need 50 grain bullets. Lighten the recoil by dropping to a 40 grain. Limb saver do a straight swap recoil pad that will cut the felt recoil as well. Stick wise, try quad sticks as you then take no weight when shooting and its very accurate shooting, plus acts as walking stick. It's taken me many years to find a light weight set up, I have spent to much money trying to find the best I can.

i have a set of 600mm gauges on the shelf. use to bolt down pipeline flanges evenly.

Giant hogweed is the bad one. the sap on your skin is not good and then add sunlight to that area and its a whole world of hurt, however. common hogweed is very nice. not the mature leaf but the new shoots. tastes very nice indeed. roast beef, hogweed, mash and gravy. there is a few here that have eaten that one.

Don't worry Colin, we will allow the minimum legal deer calibre if you wish you go for a few as a 243 will meet all legal requirements. Lmao

Make a call, ask them. If not, at lease they know someone is doing the rounds pretending to be an Officer.

If you go with the .243 Colin then let me know ow and I'll bring over you the brass I have. I bought a load of mixed for John and took 200 for his 243 and load for him. The rest your more then welcome to. If not then I'll bang it up for resale. Between Redgun, John and I we have found that the 100gn pro-hunter to be the best of the bunch. Acceptable shoulder damage for the speed and weight. Fine on foxes. The last batch worked out to 51p a click. Brass was free. But this will change as we have to load develop again as h414 powder will discontinue soon. We use to run 55gn varmageddon in Neil's and mine but it's a trade off. Very very explosive round and as good as point and shoot on fox to 350 yards but wind was the pain in the butt on the lighter bullets, as was the barrle life. Shoot the light, fast bullet and barrel life will half. If your going second hand then that would concern me a little as you don't know ow the history of the bore. The swede, I use to run 95 gn V-Max for fox but again barrle life was the concern as its my every day bread and butter rifle so I'm sticking with the 140gn interlocks and deer with the odd fox. My triple is my fox gun really. This looks a very long thread, I stopped reading most of the comments but dekers is just about on the money from what I did read, lots of" I shoot this calibre and I'm dam well going to defend my reason too". Which we are all untitled to, but it dosent really help you in you quest. We can only really give you what we know on what we have used for for a while in the field. As you know ow, between Neil and i, there isn't really much out there we haven't put a beating on. Both have settled on the swede, both have used the .243, only reason for the 6.5 is the .243 is splatty and dealers are wanting clean shot carcuss, for you I don't think it's a problem as you 100% Neal with your own shot game and know how to work a knife around the shot site. Bit of a topsy turvy post but laid up again and just rambling on.

6.5 Is a nice shooting rifle as you have felt Colin but the cost to feed it will be more, Charlie just had a heart attack when Neil dropped him 2 boxes of ready rolled, close to £80. Charlie is still keeping his .243 but like the 6.5 as he has shot a few of ours and thinks he could put one to good use. John shoots the .243, he has gone through a lot of different guns over the 50 years of shooting and now all he uses is a 22lr and a .243 and shoots everything from muntjac's to reds, and the odd boar when needs must. Bullet choice being the key. As you rightly said, plenty of .243's out there. A lot are shot out or close to being shot out so just be very careful when buying. Don't so much have this problem with the swede as it lobs the bullet out and pushes through the body, unlike the .243 that smashes it's way though. If it was an every day stalker then I would say 6.5, I have 3 of them at the moment. It as the occasional stalker then the .243 will be more the adequate for need. Wth the lay of the land as well it might be wise to use the faster 243 to cut out the ricochets, you can also run a 55g bullet if your staying on for foxes after, but they will kill the barrle off quicker. .243 Colin lol

for the odd roe Colin, go .243 and just buy a box of ammo, this would be the cheapest option. the 6.5 tends to hold their rifle price and ammo is 1/3rd more John shoots the .243 and mines the 6.5 which you shot last time. little less drop on the .243, all his cull animals are head shot and the round he uses is fast and explosive. mine is more of an estate rifle and a few people use in so i want a bullet that causes the least damage but puts the beast on the floor quickly. the 6.5 does this nicely for me. i had the .243 for a fair while and it worked, 100gr prohunters were about the cleanest kill, they are what john now uses, but they still cause major head damage and the chest exit can be twice that of the swede.

I is one of then questions that cant be answered im afraid. you already said in the first post about the way the bullet reacts in the body. Was not to long a go someone in Poland was a back stop, and dead, for someone that shot a deer, bullet went through, as is should, and the poor cyclist took the bullet. some times i think we all look for an answer that we really know isnt there. is it really worth the risk, last light, cant see very well, someone behind the bush so you cant even get a thermal ping of them. i have one place i shoot, on side of hill but houses are on the slope so cant, will not shoot that way. even though i have open ticket i still asked for the land to be checked, not for me, but for anyone else that take the land on. it is cleared for high set only and the high seats are only to be in 3 places. why? because some are deer or bust and need a step back to see problems. i shoot plenty of deer of there but the game cameras helped me to build a pattern as to when the deer will be in these ares. sugar-beet, carrots and apples help as does the salt licks

SWAROVSKI 3-12x50 Habicht Bought it, secondhand, as a package with a rifle 4 years ago, been my daily stalking scope. only selling as i have changed to a illuminated one. £513 is insured postage, i will not go any lower on the price, its priced to sell already. Why so cheap? It has had a Cerakote coating on the main body of graphite black. still looks good and behaves as should, no crimping on the tube and the lens are perfect. I have no box, caps, lens cloth, instructions. Its just the scope, as i bought it on the rifle. but will be well packed for postage. Can email photos if needed All the best Phil Gloucestershire.

Yes I use one. Very easy when you know how. If you can use a Shepard's whistle then all's good. I have been using Shepard's whistle for many many years so it's natural. Dry mouth, don't try to hard. If you can find the old plastic Shepard whistle then use that to start with as it has the side blocks in already.

Wasnt me. lol

Sorry Sold earlier. only just found the time to put sold.

Out side is fine. Just the inside the bore isn't coated

The bore will still rust lol.

Pull the pistons and springs out and replace with 10mm dowel, this way you can put it back to factory if need be.

Still here

Selling the photon due to upgrading. £300

I thought this would have gone by now at this price, maybe its moving down the list to quick. £600 and ill sort the postage.

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Sightron SIII 8-32×56 LRMD Enclosed turret caps. Not sure how to upload photos now with photobucket. Just come back from sightron with a clean bill of health. £615 with insured post