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Ok what you need to do as well as pushing the police is to get your insurers on the case. Now they have a database of vehicles and whether they are insured or not it means assuming they are that you can persue a claim through them and they will just send it direct to the other parties insurer. The fact you know a policy ran out on the other vehicle doesn't necessarily mean they didn't take out another policy.
The MIB will probably be no help as I believe they only pay out if you've been injured by an uninsured driver. If your insurers come back with he's uninsured get back in touch with the police and push and push to get the other party a visit.
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Road tax has still gone up and to add insult to Injury the DVLA has just sent my reminder with a nice request to pay £175 and I have just read they're wrong and they should have updated them with the new rates
For ex army stuff try www.witham-sv.com they auction off all the old stuff. I'm not sure how cheap they go but its worth a look just for some of the good toys they sell off
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If you have done everything online I think you'll be fine. To do so you need to have the computerised MOT and obviously the system knew you were insured as well.
Do a vehicle check here and see if it shows you as taxed
http://www.vehiclelicence.gov.uk/EvlPortalApp/
if so I'd drive it. The police use the same database so should you be pulled over will be able to verify it there and then.
But if you're worried just phone them and ask
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My supply of game is dwindling at the moment so just finishing up the bits of slightly unknown origin in the bottom of the freezer :(
We have an old guy shoots on the same farm as I do that lives entirely on what he shoots pretty much. He's not in the best of health and has been undergoing cancer treatment but during the course of this he's had plenty of scans and Xrays he was telling me the other day how a startled nurse had come running into the room to ask him if he'd ever been shot he replied no, she then said thats odd you seem to have loads of shot inside you :o
turns out since his teeth haven't been great he's not been chewing food much
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the people I know that still have them are mostly farmers and its been their fathers or a relatives gun and usually quite a good one. But they can't get them on a ticket as the police want to know where they've come from etc and they will destroy them rather than register them to a ticket. The same applies to guns from wartime that turn up in lofts etc from ex servicemen that only get found when they die, you'd be surprised I think just how often they turn up.
But I agree they shouldn't be lying arround, and I guess thats where a lot of the weapons that are handed in during one of the police amnestys come from.
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its surprising how many are about in peoples lofts and cupboards unused. I know of 4 different people who have un licensed ones and keep them for sentimental reasons. There is also the minor thing that when they haven't been on a ticket its very difficult to get them registered so its either dispose of them or face a load of agro with the police.
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I was meaning its a tad unnecessary calling grimescar-keeper thick just for pointing out the difference between vermin and sport shooting.
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peck,
I was under the impression that what you gain in trajectory from a .17hmr you lose in terminal ballistics and wind allowance?
Not a calibre I have ever fired or know much about so please correct me if I am wrong.
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think this should show a little of the balistics differences. The wind issue isn't much if compared on a level playing field with the .22LR ie if you shot them side by side at targets at the same range you would find the .17 just as good even in wind. But you are restricted range wise with the .22 to probably @80 yards on rabbits whereas with the .17 you can head shoot rabbits at 150 yards and that can be every shot. But they do make more noise and if you take the long shots in wind you do need to account for it.
For lamping bunnies from a vehicle the .17 is fantastic pretty much everything you can just point and shoot assuming a 100 yard zero its pretty much flat to 125 yards
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Tommy thats a tad unnecessary. The post was totally justified. If you are shooting foxes for Vermin control rather than sport and its part of your job any fox is better off dead than alive. Ok it may cause suffering to young but its no worse than the fox being run over. Nature is harsh but if you're a keeper trying to keep their wild bird stock going and trying to stop ground nesting birds being eaten then you can't afford to give foxes a second thought. I've been on plenty of fox drives at this time of year and never hesitated on shooting them. If I had I'd not have been asked back because to our keeper the only good fox is a dead one!
I'd agree its better to sort out the cubs with terriers if possible but its not always possible.
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Bet he sells the gun to an enquirer.
Its how I bought my HMR from Fister before I was on here, so much for ebay firearms rules
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nice bags but I'm not sure about shooting hares with legal power air guns yes you can do it and it works but how often does it only wound
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the significance of grouping depends a lot on what you're shooting, and how you're shooting. If you look at the yanks they clamp the gun down on a proper table etc then try for minute groups. If you're getting an inch lying prone off a bipod or rest etc then it'll do the job on most vermin. Its about what I get with mine though I must confess to have not spent much time punching paper just to check zero occasionally.
Just out of interest what gun have you got and have you done anything to it yet.
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apparently it can do which can be a problem with the bigger moderators, I have to say it does surprise me occasionally the smell of burnt powder you get after firing a round if the wind is in the right direction
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Welcome to the forum.
The T4 & T8 are very good mods, but your SAK is doing the job, it's just because you are closer to the rifle it seems louder. If you were down range (I AM NOT SUGGESTING YOU DO THIS FOR SAFETY REASONS) You wouldn't hear that much, the bullet strike would be louder than the rifle going off.
Yes the T4 & T8 are the dogs danglies, i have a T8, and when i get a .17 i will be using it on there as well as my other rifle's
I'd second this if you can do it safely try standing down range you won't have any idea where the noise came from. Its the supersonic crack you can't get rid of. If you fire a round at very short distance it is no louder than a .22lr which surprised me but shows how good a job the sak is doing. But over distance you do get the crack but like you I've had plenty of occasions I've shot rabbits sitting next to each other.
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they sound like big ticks, best left well alone but pretty harmless once they are on a target animal. Limes is rarely caught mostly by Deer stalkers as deer carry loads of them and when stalking in long grass etc they are easy to pick up. Unlike fleas they are not very mobile but I still have a policy of not hanging round dead foxes much due to the chances of fleas and mange! usually they get placed in the nearest hedge!
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good going one more for the HMR. I must confess to prefering boiler room shots on foxes rather than head shots just gives you that bit of leeway!
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it was a great night made all the better as they have been thin on the ground. Sadly the small ones have to get it as well as its pure pest control the farmer just wants them shot and actually doesn't want them picked up even as he prefers to leave food down for the buzzards rather than them eating partridges etc. We pick up a few but mostly when they are in the horse fields so the girls don't get upset!
The one I had at 140 paces was just over 6 inches long which I was rather proud of as its a pretty small target with a red filter on. Its looking like now is the time to be out before we're back to a full moon. The crops are growing so fast that in another week it'll be hard to see them
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we've only had one company other than BT and we did give them the number.
We made the mistake of dropping into a Moben Kitchens showroom and getting a free quote. Well it was free but we ended up with a high pressure salesman trying to make us sign up for an 8 grand kitchen on the spot and refusing to go as we were obviously wasting his time! Our kitchen then was 10ft by 6foot so the quote was more than a bit ridiculous. We ended up threatening to forcibly throw him out it was that bad. But then we ended up with months of their telesales team phoning up trying to convince us to buy :<
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funnily enough we had this a while back, and believe it or not it was BT trying to sell stuff but the salespeople were in India. I only found out by keeping the phone off the hook till someone eventually answered!
Pretty disgusting considering we're TPS registered
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Is anyone else finding crop conditions are excellent for rabbiting at the moment. I had 18 last night from 19 shots with the HMR. We drive round the field tramlines on this farm and the rabbits have been skittish as hell and we usually struggle to get 10 but last night the crops were just long enough for them to think they had enough cover so they sat tight. We have a few horse fields that we lamp on the way round one I had 3 one after the other all at 100 - 140 paces. Conditions were great nice and still not much moon so all up a good night with the added result of the farmer who drove me round was very happy to get rid of some,
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the above was .17 VS .22LR
with the 22 mag I'd agree its a different ballgame
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Apparently, I am a College in Bedforshire.
along the same lines if so i went to you, and you used to have some cracking shooting students were allowed to do on the college farm
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Maggot were the rabbit and the fox in the same cage
Ive seen foxes in larson traps before. As well as partridges in them, pheasants too.
so far this year our Larsens have caught a fox and a buzzard
one of course was released the other wasn't
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this is a yank playing shooting Ice, presumably un moderated so you get an idea of the noise down range!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-vJcdz_k5Q