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I have just received a recoil pad that is meant to fit a browning 525 stock without any alterations, it does not fit and is a bit short, maybe for a later 525. I bought my browning 525 about 12 years ago, any ideas on any pads that will fit this model or will it be a gunsmith job ? Ps the company that supplied the pad will take it back no problem.

All live quarry should be respected in the same way, why single out deer? Well we tend to eat rather more deer than foxes and the DSC1 covers a fair bit on food hygiene, with a hunter number you can sell the venison back into the food chain so maybe this is the main reason but you could say why don't we need a food hygiene license for rabbits, pigeons and pheasants or maybe legally you do ?

I think there are two lines of thought on the DMQ qualifications, if you were brought up around shooting/country sports from a young age and had munched through a couple of tonnes of venison before you were ten and spent many days on the hill with the old man with hundreds of contacts/opportunities to stalk, then these qualifications seem like an unnecessary pain. But we have to remember that there are a lot of people taking this up as a hobby with little or no previous experience ( we are in a time of record firearm ownership after all). For the mid 30's chap who has a bit of spare time/cash and would like to take up stalking as a recreational hobby then the DMQ is a start but still not enough. Why is this just relevant to deer ( it shouldn't be) well it seems that this is the growing trend as a recreational hobby.

Of all the posts of yours I have read over the years Dekers I think you are the least qualified to start a forum qualification course.

Ha Ha, in an ideal world

Viht 160 works well for me with 100gr sp's in 243, easy to source and a good price.

As said by many on this post there is no legal calibre or muzzle energy for boar as yet, Gloucestershire force ( Glos probably having the biggest boar population in UK) have fought to have named species on ticket rather than Any other legal quarry but this now seems to be changing. Just remember if you shoot a boar with a .22lr and injury it causing unnecessary suffering you could still be hauled in on a animal cruelty crime.

I just did the assessment, though a few years back now, all the answers to the questions are in the book that goes with the course, BDS training manual I think. Hardest of the idents was sika and red females but just look for the white scent glands on the hocks of the sika, a dead give away. Safety course straight forward, look out for a shot with a wire fence in front of it, if your unsure just say you wouldn't take the shot, you can't fail for being over cautious. As said before, England and Scottish deer seasons if you don't know them. Some shake a bit on the shooting but failure is usually nerves rather than capability as its not hard. Good luck with it, its worth it, after I did mine I continued to DSC2 which opened up many stalking opportunities, I'm now an accredited witness for the DSC2.

I have Varget but it does come and go supply wise, changed both 308 and 223 to viht 140 with excellent results.

A local shoot to me gets a lot of problems with boar, the woodland is only separated from the main Forest of Dean by a few meadows and as soon as high protein crumb is put down then in come the piggies, they must be able to smell it miles off. It started with the odd male a few years back, these were shot but slowly sows have made it into the 200 acres of woodland and apparently it has its own population. Must be quite a surprise to have a boar rushing at you on a drive. You would think there would be loads of boar hunting on the cards round here but its a different story on the ground. The Forestry commission continue blundering on trying to bring the ever expanding numbers down and will not except any outside help, and there are plenty of offers of course. The local farmers surrounding the forest have latched on to the money and who can blame them, I've heard prices of £450 a night to shoot them, I have a few permissions in the area, you can spend a nights In the highseat and not see a thing, then you have a parents evening or other family can't get out of and the very next day the whole field around the highseat has been rolled up.

You could pick one of twenty small towns in the forest of Dean were boar roam the streets, its safer than the forestry commission blunders in the actual forest. They are in the bins, turfing up lawns, cricket pitches,even the odd graveyard. Often see a sow and piglets walking a long the verges during peak traffic times, in matter of fact you will find them anywhere were its impossible to shoot, clever beasts they are.

They are taking over the world Natural England think animals are being cage trapped and transported around the country as everyone wants to shoot em, but you really wouldn't want them in your garden, or street for that matter.

See Kranks have up graded their website and expanding no longer comes under licensed ammo.

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Is it 30mm tube ?

I wonder how Gloucestershire firearms will digest this, from reading the info you can stock up on how many of whatever calibre you want, as long as you don't put them in a case. Does this mean that Aldi will now be selling bullets. Worth stocking up with enough bullets to see me through my shooting days and not having to count every darn bullet in case of an inspection, may even start importing em and selling em from my shed, you could make a killing when ammo is in short supply.

You would have to have the right wording to hold expanding I would have thought as once you have loaded them you would be breaking the law.

Gloucestershire have never had to visit for a variation of any sort, well not yet

So Kent automatically give you a 12 month extension period, or do they just tell you that on the phone as the eight week thing has just been passed through government, I would be a bit worried about my force telling me I am automatically covered for 12 months without receiving my license.

Just read in my BASC magazine that the 8 week extension for late license renewals has been put on hold once again. Its all been passed apparently but the police have put it on hold as they need to update their national computer system so this becomes automatic otherwise it will just mean more paper work for an already stretch system. National computer system is a bit of a joke when there are so many variations in how the different authorities interpret conditions etc. At least the expanding ammo change is happening, well so far.

Does this also mean that expanding bullets can be sent via post now.

Totally agree, if I had a choice of a new Remmy or a second hand Sako I know which I would go for but of course it does help if you have some experience in rifles, if not take a mate that does.

BASC will give you the email addresses to complain, as said earlier, I did and the license was with me in hours.

Most dealers will give some warrantee on a second hand rifle, there will always be a rifle that has seen to many very hot rnds but there are many that have not and are excellent deals. Thought is was women that go through the 'change'. So it doesn't matter how it shoots as long as its new eh, a mate bore scoped his 25 06 ( just because our local chap has one in this civilised county) and the throat is crazed and the barrel a little pitted in places but it still shoots thumbnail groups after probably 10,000 rnds.

I would not be to put off buying a second hand rifle from a dealer, my tikka 243 hunter and 223 lite were both secondhand and shoot very well. There general appearance says a lot about its history and most dealers have the facility to bore scope. Even buying new you can get a rifle that has problems.