Dave-G

Yer - called the landowner today, he'd lost my number. We've arranged I call him first in future. It was a real calm night so I guess the noise sounded louder than I thought. A sheep bolted and hurt itself so bad it's been destroyed so that's £30 I owe the guy, they're a rare breed apparently. It'll give me a good reason to chat with him again, drop off a couple of cards and ask him to try and sort me out with his neighbours too. Plod were good as gold - jokingly suggesting we might like to clear some bunnies behind Leicester force HQ.

Blimey - enough there for a fat womans coat

Make yer bleeedin mind up, perhaps your spotty too

You mean the pigeon?

I agree entirely with Axe. With this being out in the sticks and surrounded by other land it MAY get cleared... but it would be a very brave FEO that sticks his neck out for a NEW FAC holder to shoot rimmie there when we consider the bullet should not leave the boundary of the permission. That would be quite difficult to ensure on flat land, though it's more likely to be passed for HMR than LR, and marsh land usually has some soft ground to minimise rickies. It's helpfull to note that any land cleared for the partially experienced applicant will automatically also be then deemed suitable for Mr. First Day Shooter to use a rifle on. But ask the feo to see what he say's on an advisory basis. The fact that you have a shotgun certifcate will act in your favour. Just be prepared to accept the knockback without protesting too strongly. All the best with it.

I don't want to wet your chips but forty acres of FLAT or near flat land will almost certainly be rejected as suitable for rimfire use. The best you are likely to get is FAC air. You might do better looking towards a shotty to accompany it.

Fixed the link now Webbers - thanks.

click I sussed out the best way for a passenger in my shooting wagon to exploit the sunroof is to stand behind the front passenger seat and rest his rifle on something about 6 inches high at the very front of the roof. This looks like it could be just the ting I need Anyone tried one? It's available in either spot or flood format.

I need a 30mm OD mod to clamp my Deben lamp underneath - as my laserscope does,nt have a lamp mounting option. The mod is quite thick walled alloy and certainly feels up to the job, thanks for the opinion though BB.

Thanks guys - I'll hopefully get some time on a lathe again soon to make some steel baffles. I guess part of the problem stems from my decision to use a 15 inch barrel so it's usefull for using from vehicles.

FM - Are you suggesting we offer up our hard won permissions to anyone who makes their first post on a forum asking for some company? If he wants company on his own permission I'm sure he'd be able to sort out whether he does it with someone who could exchange days out if he wanted to. Few of us would be naive enough to show a one post member around our shoots mate.

Depends on what you shoot really Martin. If pigeon is your main thing I'd be inclined to agree with you to an extent - but thats something I have no experience of. Don't forget that pigeon have the option to feed where they darn well please so shift around to the preffered crop as it's available. Otherwise it's a matter of moderate quarry conservation for some of us - or ruthless extermination for others. Minimal rabbit control shoots for example would soon get cleared up - then you're left with nothing to shoot, and no reason for the farmer to take another shooter on anyway. So you secure several permissions and shoot them all occasionally as needs and circumstances dictate. If we leave it too long we risk losing it to someone who may come across as keener. Crop fields for example are best controlled after the crop has been harvested - or is small and lush enough to be a sought after food source. Once the crop gets about 6 inches high rabbit control more or less ceases till the harvest again. Thats when you hammer some other permissions such as grazing land - or other crop fields with a different crop - or stage of growth or set aside. This also gives the rabbit time to have young ones that have no reason to suspect they're about to be shot. Most farmers expect to see a few bunnies - some even like to see the odd one or two about. Sorry if you feel left out, looks like you may have to look further afield - or find a reason why a landowner would rather have you than his other shooter(s)

Don't shoot deer with an air rifle mate.

My 17HMR shooting results got a bit erratic lately, with quite a few fliers. This seemed to coincide with switching back to Hornadies from Remmies, but I also used a bronze brush in the barrel for the first time recently when I shot much more than I'd anticipated when down at fleabags place recently. With this in mind I figured it just needed fouling up a bit again. I was out with it this morning and got mixed success, some of the misses were way off - but I twice failes to see ANY indication of a bullet strike and on those occasions the crack sounded unusual. I took a look at the exit hole in my silencer and found that it had elongated and spread partially outwards and something was loose inside it. Subsequent dismantling of the silencer showed that the baffles had badly corroded. The baffles are made of brass or bronze - and I bought the silencer second hand for my 12ftlb air rifle. Have I had a lucky escape here?

Glad you two hooked up at last. Yea - that truck kinda spoils ya hey? Did you have a try at left hooking out the front passenger side?

£28 per 100? Perhaps the gunshop you use don't like old peeps with grey hair! Most around here are 50p either side of a tenner a pack, but fleabag gets his remmies for £8 a pack at Helston.

Strewth John - yer gettin uglier mate.

Butcher

I have no experience with the 'others but BASC seems to have the loudest voice so I guess they (if any) are more likely to be heard than all the smaller voices.

Engine de-coke? Older members on here will remember this toil on pre fuel injection cars with 'pinking being the main signal of the pending stripdown. Unleaded fuel - and fuel injection technology was a near joint step forward in terms of fuel efficiency in bigger engines but air/fuel vapour no longer has a washing effect on butterfly and inlet valves or idle bypass airways amongst other things. More recent (requirements?) of recycling at least some of the exhaust gasses through an EGR device means 'man's car now suffers some of the ill effects of polluted air by bunging up oxygen, volume, timing and temperature measuring devices with carbon as it makes it's way into the combustion chamber. It seems the GDI (Gas Direct Injection) engines fleabag and I have in our mitsubishi's (yes I bought a smaller 1.8 Shogun pinin, the wife seems to have realised it's not only for her ) get coked up with use of the lower quality unleaded we generally use in the UK - as opposed to the lower sulphur petrol used in Japan. This first shows up as poor idle characteristics due to carbon deposits being burnt on to idle control components rendering them inoperable. I think this also applies to almost any other fuel injected car which means just about every car made since EGR became a requirement. Happy days lie ahead

Bah - there's always someone to doubt the authenticity of whats been shown like some great conspiracy, just look at how many disbelieve those who have seen big cats and produced prints from where they saw it. Having said that there's also an occasional berk that likes to pull a stunt and pass it off as the real thing - so maybe we should'nt be too trusting in this age of digital tomfoolery NewbieShotgunowner - I could be reading that sequence wrong as I'm not a pigeon shooter - but was that pigeon taking off when it got shot? - that would help explain how you were so well positioned for it.

Tyreweld used to work very well for me, but I'm thinking the formula was revised a few years ago due to some ozone depletive - or more likely some EU diktat and it's now selling on past reputation... the stuff is useless

I can't see what the fuss is all about here. Landowners have a duty to clear rabbit and as it's in or near a public place they are doing it without shooting, ferreting or poisoning them while the easily horrified public looks on. It would seem someone has been engaged to do the job in the wee small hours when no-one will see the despatching take place. Now tell us all about the police wellicoppers chasing the air rifle desperado's, Dusty - that should make a good read

Nice out today innit?

SOLD Dunno why it was in this section though - I'm sure I put it in sales?