Dave-G

Chill out bud - most people are still at work.

My trim costs £3.50 but I give em a fiver.

Err foot mouth big etc, thought it would have been in the airgun section if you meant an air rifle. Herumpf - suitably embarrased now, sorry Scott.

If you select full screen mode, and pause it where the officer tilts the container you get a brief but better look at it. It seems a bit too long for a regular pellet and the end is rounded to a concave rather than the skirt you'd see on most pellets. Cant say I've seen any pellets like that.

My BASC renewal is almost due and recent threads have caused me concern about legal representation. More and more these days we hear about, or personally experience someone taking a dislike to what we do. This seems to occur nearer built up area's where perhaps someone has moved to the edge of town to get nearer to the country but then try and change things they don't like. I understand someone on this forum is getting legal representation from SACS, so I've had a looksee at their website. I have also seen several endorsements in their diresction. My "thing" is rabbiting with the occasional corvid or close fox, all with rimfire. I just can't find a section in SACS that seems to offer any support for vermin control shooting in England. Can someone point me in the right direction - if there is one please?

Do keep up Taz... read post number 10 mate

Apply for both stating quietness for the .22lr and longer range and safety for the 17. Get the 17HMR first as this is the one you will probably use almost exclusively unless you shoot in a really noise sensitive area. As you have already noted the round is safer and more effective. As for ammo price, it probably wont matter unless you are shooting umpteen rounds an outing. The .22LR has been around for years, and though a capable round, it's frowned on by many old timers as it has a reputation for shoot throughs and ricochets. An improved option was well overdue. If noise IS an issue consider spending more than usual on a really good sound moderator - some are better than others but the better ones cost much more. Try someone else's LR for the odd time if you ever feel one would do anything for you.

I got two custom length extension ones made for me by Deben - about a fiver each.

And what catiber?

I've not experienced anything like that John. I'd suspect the stock had swelled somehow if you have a wooden one, or that the receiver is moving in relation to the barrel if you nip it up. I found the bolt and mag have to be out when replacing the barrels.

Just go when the others aren't there Seb, particularly since you have no other permision. If you're worried about any tyre markings on the grass then do it on foot, but any damage the rabbits do to the grass is probably more important to the club than a few wheel marks that grow over unless they have torn the turf or sunk into soggy bits. If the others have "jeeped" it frequently the bunnies won't stick around if you drive it too. You could score where the jeep hasn't so fill your boots mate and do it other ways.

There is a maximum size allowed - if thats what's stopping it

Good result about a dog shooting - that could have turned oh so bad in some places and if some sensationalist people had got involved with it. Unusual looking breed of sheep - somehow looks to have bit of cow/calf in it?

Not to my knowledge, been on here several times.

I doubt rule 45 will protect either of them from ALL other prisoners as some of the screws will probably be looking somewhere else at the right time for these.

While I was waiting for my fish to be fried in the chippy this evening I watched how brisk business seemed in a new supermarket called PAK MARKET or something like that. It's just waiting for someone with my sense of humour to put a figure "I" in there somewhere by the way. This being a very culturaally colterualy, coultin ell, well one of them multi race cities - I couldn't help but feel it was very ironic that they had a white guy sweeping up in there.

Bit like Gordon (trough mouth) Brown then - what he giveth he taketh away later

Welcome back mate and thanks for being there for us.

I clean out the ones I intend to take home for friends before I leave the field, leaving something for other wildlife to gain by - it's usually gone in a few hours. I slit the belly open between the rear legs and up to the chest cavity and drop/flick most of the innards out then grab and gather the fur at it's back to open up the chest cavity, place the bunny on the ground and use the knife to trap the entrails on the grass and lift bunny away. Nothing gets on my hands that way. I generally leave the kidney beans in place in case the recipient wants them. I got a call from one of my brothers who was at a curry house last night. Seems the gaffer will do us a Tandoori Bunny or whatever - and it might even lead to ongoing demand for them. A question for the more experienced guys - do any of you cook or eat the offal?

Does it taste like chicken? I'd bet the younger ones taste best.

I stopped selling on Ebay when they required me to declare business or private. I still have some R/C helicopter upgrades I made years ago in my loft and was clearing them out as a personal seller. You can't keep relisting the same things time and time again so I packed it in. So many people claimed unarrived in my first few sales that I upped the postage to cover recorded delivery. I "sold" less but never had any more unarrivals.

I'm afraid you're wrong. canting the rifle does send the pellet left or right depending on the cant. Nice having a chat with you earlier Dodge! - Not disagreeing with you really here, just don't think I've made myself clear on the above point though - canting the rifle may make the pellet appear to hit to the left or right of the vertical reticle but the actual pellet is still going downwards with gravity. It's your scope reticle at a different angle which causes the illusion. Unless you're shooting in a high wind which would have a similar effect. Canting the rifle WILL make the pellet go to the left or right of the target you are pointing your crosshair at because the crosshair takes account of the initial rise of the pellet through the secondary zero till it falls to the primary zero. Since the rifle has been tilted the pellet will not fall to the desired zero line that it would if used upright. It is not an illusion. The pellet falls to the left of the target by an amount comensurate to the distance from the target. Assuming the rifle is tilted 90 degrees to the left, with the scope 1.5 inches "above" the barrel the pellet leaves the barrel at 1.5 inches to the right of the target, passes the vertical centre line of the target at approximately the secondary zero distance and keeps going to the left... while falling.

We have three small equine permisions and a forth waiting for my certificate to be opened as it's a tad small even for FAC air because there's limited backstops. We've had knockbacks from some too. It's well worth asking because if they have bunnies digging holes where horsey trots it might get a broken ankle.

So - what happened to this quote mate?