Vince Green

double post

No sorry, I meant among the different importers of the various brands of ammunition. I like to look on the various websites around the world and see large price differences. Why for example can my mate in America buy Lapua (for example) or Norma so much cheaper than we can off the shelf in his local dealers. Its still very expensive by American standards but its a lot less than here. Also he can get that German MEN stuff for about 10p a round and we are paying nearly four times that.

You are very vunerable because the whole thing rests on the opinion (and the mood) of which ever officer happens to stop you. Personally, I wouldn't risk it. Just having a knife in your car is enough to get you arrested these days, once you get arrested then a process gets started thats hard to stop. You might be able to argue that you use them for shooting when you get to court but do you really want all that stress?

PPU also do 168grn and 175grn FMJ in .308. The 168grn is called thier match ammo but it is dearer, about £60 per hundred. The problem is finding a supply of it. The only place that might do it is Fultons.

Yes but the NRA are selling RUAG match ammo for £70 per hundred and thats made by Lapua. They have just dropped the price from £76 per hundred. There seems to be no logic in some of the ammo prices at the moment. Many deer shooters are only going to buy a single box of 20 per year so the prices don't hurt them that much but I shoot targets and can get through 60 rounds in a day easily. All my worries stopped when I discovered PPU ammunition. Its great ammo and I don't even bother reloading any more. However, I would like some explaination from the various importers as to why there are such huge differences in price. I doubt if we will get it though.

Any dealer can get you some if you ask him to. The only reason he may be reluctant is if he has a load of dearer stuff on his shelf that he wants to sell you instead. Some dealers seem unwilling to stock it because they see it as eating into their profits but really they have to wise up. Privi ammo is soon going to be the only ammo that the majority of shooters will want to buy given its price and the fact that its good ammo. To not stock it will harm their business in the long run.

When you look into it you will probably find its not worth reloading, you might as well go and buy some more for the price it is but keep your old cases just to be on the safe side. I gave up reloading when I discovered privi. My reloads were more expensive.

Go direct to Dillon in the States. They are very helpful or at least used to be years ago. We dealt direct with them all the time.

No they are not worth anything from a collectors point of view.

I think the correct expression is it COULD mean bullets and air pellets. All too early to say at the moment.

The Rem 700 should be a good rifle out of the box but stock bedding can always be improved. You should not need a new stock though.

4.8 to 5.3 grains is OK with Unique. Its a very forgiving powder and if you load too much it just gets blown out of the end of the barrel. I know one shooter who swears by 5.8 grns but that is so far off the published load that I would hesitated to recommend it. The percieved wisdom is that groups tighen as you go up in the charges. where you decide to draw the line is up to you. Loading tables are all for pistols not rifles. so they become self limiting because of the short barrel length.. If you can get hold of some Blue Dot try that. 6-7grns for 38 spec up to over 10 grns for .357 mag, lovely powder

I haven't got any plans to post but traps are not that difficult to make. In the simplest form a wooden cage covered with mesh and a device to cause the door to shut fast when a plate is stood on or the bait is pulled. Commercial traps are a bit on the small side usually because they have to be. Foxes are a lot less wary of them if they are a bit more spacious. Have a look at a couple of commercial traps on various websites and you will soon get an idea for a mechanism.

I'm very interested in muzzle loading, although not shotguns personally, but I know a lot of people who do shoot shotguns well over 100 years old. Muzzle loaders and BP proof cartridge guns. How will they get on?.

I would be interested to hear what thoughts the CPSA have on the matter. If they ban lead for game a ban on lead for clays would inevetably follow. Eventually. Steel shot is just not as good, it loses its velocity more quickly. OK maybe for skeet but not DTL.

A cheap scope is better than no scope, you can always upgrade later.

Why?

Years ago I used to work for H&H at their shooting ground. I saw some beautiful guns but they were just unreal. Nothing filled me with more joy than my first o/u a Baikal NE. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Oh how I loved that gun. to go out on a Sunday morning with that gun under my arm and a cartridge bag full of S&B paper cartridges was just heaven. Forget the exotica, if I could turn the clock back to those days I would.

There was a case in britain about 1928 of a boy that was killed by a .22 fired in the air by some men shooting rooks. There was another case in America of a boy sitting in Church this Christmas who was killed by a heavier calibre bullet which came down through the roof and entered his head. A bullet fired directly up (90 degrees) will come back almost on the same line as it went up and will be falling rather than still being propelled. The real danger lies in shots fired at an angle of 30-45 degrees to the ground. Shots like shooting at a squirrel or a pigeon on a branch. Thats where the bullet can still be lethal if it hits somebody or more likely breaks a window on a house beyond your permission. Either way its goodbye FAC.

Reloaded cartridges can be better. The point is you can make them how you want them. I reload because I like 32g fibre wads and no 7 shot. Bought cartridges often contain 28g of the cheapest shot , the cheapest wads and the cheapest powder just to be competitive on price. If you want cheap forget reloading. I don't think my reloads aren't any cheaper than eqivilent quality cartridges like three crowns or eley grand prix. The trouble is everybody is obsessed with price. I've been reloading for so long that I don't think I could stop now if I wanted to

As said above. No cartridge shotgun is classed as an antique unless its a pinfire with a few few oddball exceptions. Irrespective of age. Some cartridge rifles can be antique if they are an exempt calibre. Usually exempt calibres sell for disproportionally higher prices. collectors can buy them.

A lot of guns that are deactivated are damaged by the heat from the angle grinder. When the handgun ban came it a friend of mine had a couple of his pistols deactivated. They totally ruined the bluing and had colour rings round all the bits that had been sliced.

The best rifle in the world , but not the most exotic is the Remington 700 IMO. However, I'm told the newest ones aren't quite as good.

When I was a lad I used to go fishing on a piece of the canal near my home. An old boy who fished there showed us how to get rid of the swans on that secton of the canal. He took a piece of lead shot and wrapped it in a piece of bread and fed it to the swans. He said it gave the swans a belly ache and they would go elsewhere. I realise now that he was poisioning the swans. Later a ban on lead shot for fishing was put in place. I have often wondered since how many ducks and swans were intentionally poisioned by anglers in order to get them off their reach of water. was this practice widespread? The same goes for raptors in areas where they compete with gamekeepers for chicks and game birds. Lead from shooting is not the problem. I believe that a lot of birds that are killed by lead poisioning are intentionally fed the lead rather than ingesting it in the normal course of their lives. I have always believed that no animal or bird will intentionally pick up lead shot and eat it. The exception may be some wading birds who forage for seeds on the bottom but the numbers and the species are limited. Lead shot for clay shooting and most game/vermin shooting is not a problem but the antis and the environmentalists are on a crusade and only a total ban will satisfy them. Meanwhile, serious studies should be undertaken. I'm given to understand that the original ban on lead shot on wetlands in the US came about because of autopsies on three birds. How many were tested and found to be clear has never been told. The reaction lead = toxic = ban it is a knee jerk reaction and should be resisted at all costs. Otherwise it is just playing into the hands of people whose intentions are far from unbiased. Many houses still have lead water mains coming into the house. Mine does! Does this constitute a health risk to the public ? If so it is many times more serious but that doesn't get mentioned. The percieved wisdom is that lead pipes soon get lined with a layer of calcium and ceases to be toxic. Lead shot that falls to ground soon gets covered with a protective layer of oxide and similarly becomes inert. Musket balls from old battlefields lie in the soil and don't degrade even after centuries. Look at the old WW1 battlefields of Northern France and Belgium. Literally millions of lead cored bullets and lead scrapnel balls in the ground there. Crops are grown and cattle are grazed with no hint of contamination. The cattle drink the water from the streams and becks ( as they are called) and don't get poisioned. They don't even have raised lead levels. Its all hype.

Lead shot when fired falls to the ground. Very soon it migrates into the ground where it becomes covered with a protective coating of oxide and becomes effectively inert. Many fields in britain have had clay shoots held on them for decades but the milk from cattle grazed on those fields shows no significantly higher levels of lead. It has been tested many times. Lead salts are toxic to humans and animals but so are the salts of most other metals including steel. Lead from normal shooting activities will not alter the toxicity in the soil. Lead shot ingested by humans or cattle will pass through the gut without causing any real problem. Its not desirable but the levels are low and the body will clear it out so as long as it it not constant day in day out at a high level it should not cause problems. Probably many many times more toxic on most fields are the levels of pesticides and herbicides used in everyday farming. You should fear an environmentalist on a mission. As has been shown recently with global warming, they are willing to corrupt the data to support their case