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If one is concerned about the legality and, OK, I know they're not pigeon, but on the grounds that if you shoot pigeon then in all probability you also shoot rabbit. If ever push comes to shove you're more likely to come to grief shooting the latter than the former and particularly if you consider when the majority are shot.

Yep, some folk are just plain loud. However, if anyone, it is more likely that the chap doing the shouting is the one who could be deaf and is shouting to hear himself. A terrible affliction is deafness and with no obvious outward sign of the condition people can easily get the wrong idea.

Sagalout First of all, a warm welcome to PW and secondly, many thanks indeed for all of the info. I'm pretty sure that I will not be the only one to benefit. I got a couple of Picatinny riser mounts from Optics Warehouse which measure 19mm and I have some Warne Maxima Tikka QR ring/mounts (have you seen how much these are now ) at 5mm so I think I have that sussed. From the off I've been looking at the 25.39 JSBs which Sod's Law means they are the only ones I can't find a sample quantity for. No matter, I'll pick some up with the rifle as it seems that these are the ones that The Sportsman use to check out anything done on FX rifles. There's nothing more that I can do now until I can get the rifle so will see how the possible need for the heavy liner looks then.

Talking of security, my internet security wouldn't allow access to this as apparently it's 'infected'.

Do the same as the armed forces except with a choice. Either pay the full cost of the training as you get it and be free to do whatever on completion (the choice) or pay nowt but agree to work for the NHS for a given period after qualifying.

Many thanks and as you're so kind would you care to answer another one for me. Have another look at VARIATION and you'll realise that I've got more time compliments of D&CC, Not into fiddling any more and just want to shoot it so if I could start on the right foot that would be handy. I have the STD Plus in .25 (hopefully) and am looking at not too heavy pellets or slugs - preferably the latter but one can't be sure of what will be best with regards accuracy. I'm figuring that as it probably wouldn't do any harm, would the Superior Heavy liner be advantageous just in case things turn out that a tad heavier choice is necessary?

Heaven knows. My applicaton for a .25 air rifle variation arrived today after 18 weeks for a.22 air rifle.

Absolutely brilliant. and if you speak to SA again would you also thank them for me. I have more mounts/rings than the Sportsman Gun Centre but Sod's Law says that all of the Picatinny ones have very little 'height'. Yep, it seems they're popular and are like hens' teeth. Mine, bought and paid for, is sitting in the above emporium. When I can get my sticky little fingers on it, I won't need to shoot it for a while as just looking at it is good enough. If you're wondering why I've not got it, my last post in VARIATION in General Shooting Matters - NB the two dates - explains. Won't say any more for now.

Excluding the central 'lump' on the scope and just using the bottom edge of the tube, could anyone kindly tell me how high that has to be above the Picatinny rail on a FX Crown Mk 2 with a standard sporting type wood or laminate stock (just in case this is different from the 'tactical' versions) so that the scope clears the magazine? MTIA

Many thanks for taking the time to reply. If we exclude the counties that have been shown on here to be doing a half decent job, it's quite conceivable that those businesses in the areas which do not perform will start making a fuss sooner rather than later.

Won't happen now as the fields in question are covered in solar panels, but the Exmouth Mac's is on the edge of the farm where I shoot. We had a vixen that was running us ragged until one late summer evening Oppo spotted some colour at the bottom of a banked hedgerow. Closer inspection - but not too close - revealed a load of Mac' wrappers/boxes. Sorted within a few evenings.

No, that had all been taken care of during the Hon REDO (original HEO title) selection. It was just that we hadn't actually sat the exam which could have caused an embarrassment if anyone had asked.

We'd gone to The Mill for a meeting of HEO's as they were later called when Gerry Turner realised that we hadn't "qualified" so we had to do the exam there and then which explains "at Marford Mill" instead of somewhere like yourself.

I wonder how long it'll be before the, by then, more mature shooters, are searching the bottom of the wardrobe to make sure they still have theirs:-

I make no comment one way or the other but simply ask, please, what made you mention that now?

I said that this would be fun. As I'd had no response from the P&CC, I asked the Firearms Dep't that if this was going to drag on would they return my original cert' so I could at least buy some ammo. They didn't respond as quickly as they'd hoped but they were far quicker than the P&CC and in their reply asked me to confirm that If I hadn't received the certificate that had been done and dusted and posted on 10/11/2023 they would initiate lost or stolen action. I was able to confirm that I had not received it. I was also able to point out that following my query as to whether or not they had actually received my application as unusually my cheque had not been cashed, they replied on 20/11/2023 telling me that they had received it and it was awaiting processing. Oops!

If we're going to base this decision on what is in fact two historically minority activities, then there's a good case to be made for any activity which is far more representative of the population as a whole. I'll start us off and toss in pigeon racing and hare coursing. Not forgetting Morris Dancing.

Yep, but not always so little. Between 15 and 200 yards mine has a one MoA PBR and 2770 ft/sec, 852 ftlbs at the muzzle with a 50 gr bullet over 12.6 gr of L'ilGun. It must be said that the chamber length is good, there's no magazine to consider, the barrel is 26" and the twist rate is not the usual 16 but is 14". This is enough for me in the dark.

Unless you've already been there and for various reasons the 35gr V Max comes out on top for you, you could have a look at the Hodgdon Reloading Centre and H110 in particular. Alternatively, keep the L'ilGun and have a look at Hornady 40gr V max. Just a thought unless, as said, you've already done so.

Or anyone else whose business necessitates contact with your county police firearms department. If you were to assess the performance rating for this unit as somewhere between abysmal and not fit for purpose, would you expect this to have an adverse effect on your business?

Agreed. I would have thought that the cow would have been readily identified and was thinking that a partially hidden human could have been mistaken for a fox after the afterbirth or whatever.

Yep, a lot of it going on and hence the old safety poster - "Don't Assume CHECK". I would imagine that perhaps if the cow was down and the farmer down with it, there may well have been insufficient 'human' showing for a positive ID whatever illumination was in use.

This was one of the 10 points detailed on a propaganda poster issued as a warning during the cold war and which detailed the requirements to render a country ripe for rebellion and thus a takeover by a communist regime. Devon and Cornwall Constabulary aided and abetted by the Police Crime Commissioner have a different system. They just take so long to process applications that you just quietly give up and go away.

Yes, it does.

Cheers. That's the sort of reason I'm asking - outside internet fibre optic going down too often for my liking.