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Good to meet you all on Friday night! Apologies for not getting to speak to everyone, time seemed to fly by. Cheers James

Mick Finn Mr Potter Dead eyes Duck wearing PW badge webber wearing PW badge. Echo21......Phil mcw65 chuck...Paul Unclemicky & Nick 76. (mick and Nick) J Mc........James To the guys who are travelling from Widnes, how are you planning on getting there?

I get between 20 and 25 mpg in the 1.3i Jimny Average tank range of 150 miles

Right that's it. At the weekend all the bits are coming off and i'm going to try and get the graphics off. Then the matt black paint is on order. Maybe then people will stop laughing at my car

Yeah I met him yesterday, nice guy. Went to collect a shotgun off him with a mate who's waiting on his ticket (put it on mine for now).

So you chopped the Freelander in then. Looks good Mick

I've only had my Jimny a few months but from the moment I picked it up i've wanted it resprayed. Matt green was always the one, after seeing the Offroad Armoury Jimny, but now yours is like that I may have to go matt black! (don't want to be a copycat :look: ) I'm not bothered about having a go myself, but I don't know how to get the damned graphics off mine? Your Jimny looks AWESOME now.

Here's mine

Cracking shooting lads

Thanks for the replies guys. Field is around 60 yards wide at that point and house is a good 100, maybe further. The scale on my picture is way off Incidentally I was shooting TOWARDS the road with the air rifle last saturday (70 yards from road), trying to get into this sort of area and the Police turned up. Someone had seen me from the road and called them. He was ok, just concerned that I was shooting towards the road, I explained that there's a bank etc, I was shooting an air rifle and at birds that had landed in the middle of the distance between me and the road and he was happy enough. I'd rather be by the hedge and hidden than facing towards the road in full view. Can't think of any other way to shoot the area? There are only two houses on the private road, my parent's and the one i've shown in the picture. They'd be alright with me shooting air rifle in the field.

Hi guys, I know this topic has been covered more than a few times but I need some advice on shooting near to a road. Basically on one of the fields that I shoot on, the pigeons all congregate at one end which is quite narrow and refuse to come down to the other end where it's more open and I can use a shotgun. They fly to and from their roost all evening to one patch on the field. Now, I was thinking, how dodgy would it be to set up a hide as shown in the picture, some decoys in the feeding area and use a 12FTLB AIR RIFLE from the hide? I can position the hide so it can't be seen from the road (road is higher than field as there is a small bank maybe 3ft high) and the hedge is quite thick. I've attached a very bad picture of the area i'm trying to describe. Thought please guys

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Mick, I spoke to Cheshire a couple of days ago regarding conditions. As a force, they said they chose not to adopt the new wording of "any other lawful quarry" as I was trying to get them added to my deer rifles.

I bought some Eley SG the other day and it has "8.4mm SG" on each cartridge.

Here's my collection, sorry about the phone quality pic

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Hi guys, I've got an Air Arms S200 and haven't really shot it that much. Took it down the range to zero it last night and I was getting air in the face each time I fired it. Not much, but noticeable. I'm assuming it is losing efficiency but not sure where it's coming from? Any ideas?

It certainly does

It's not expensive at all in the grand scheme of things, if you use the facilities. My club charges £2 a time for members (£4 at the MOD ranges) and it's £16 per month direct debit. I get access to MOD ranges twice a month and 6 days a week in the indoor range.

It's expensive if you have no intention of target shooting. Depends what you want to do. I'm usually there every week and it gets me on the long range outdoor shoots too, but if you just want the FAC for vermin control then it probably isn't worth it. My probationary period was 3 months ATB

Thanks very much for the info I'll see if I can arrange for the police to do a survey of the land

Hi Ben, I applied for my FAC citing target shooting (club member) as the main reason for all the rifles in my signature (got 2 more slots still to fill too). I also got .260 and .270 approved for deer. I'm sending a letter to my local force to get the conditions changed for vermin and fox as soon as I get the land issue sorted.

Hi guys, I've just managed to get my first permission at a local farm. I have a couple of questions though and was wondering if anyone would be able to advise: Some of the fields are adjacent to the road, and some have public footpaths cutting through them. One of the fields adjacent to the road is quite narrow and is constantly hammered by pigeons. I know there are rules regarding the discharge of a firearm within 50ft of the road if in doing so this causes a disturbance/danger to road users etc. What constitutes "a firearm" in this regard? Also, with regard to footpaths, are there any rules that i've missed or is it just a case of common sense and good practice? One of the main issues on the farm is foxes (mnay lambs have been taken recently). The farmer has an open FAC and deals with them as and when he can. I have spoken to my firearms department and they say the land is only graded for .22LR (I had planned on getting the .223 on there). Now the land in question is not in my force's area, would it be worth contacting the force in question to see if they have a different opinion or just accept that I can't help with the foxes? The farm already has two guys who who control vermin there, and by all accounts they have been doing a proper job, setting up hides around the land etc. Now I think that as I am so close the farmer didn't mind me going on, as long as it was ok with them (he asked and they said it was ok unless they wanted to shoot and i'd obviously move on) but i'd like to speak to them to make it clear that I don't want to be treading on people's toes. If you were in the same situation how would you approach going about shooting so as to not upset the other shooters? Any help on these points would be greatly appreciated James

Nice Jimny It's got a 3" spring lift. Managed to get some of the stuff out of it over the weekend, just need to remove the roof tent and stickers and it should look a bit more subtle