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one of the guys i shoot clays with bought a sako in .270 win. i had heard about it being loud and kicky but shooting it with a mod on was a pleasure

i have always had trouble getting boots especially work/safety boots as i have big calfs but the hunter balmorals i had was fine even tucking in a couple of layers too and the new seeland boots from john norris i got are pretty good but not as wide as the hunters.

my .223 a-bolt likes, winchester brass, winchester primers, 24gr of H4895 and 52gr hornady a-max. i know that is a grain under the starting load and i cant remember how ended up with that but it seems to work well in my rifle .

my pal bought one in 223 a few months ago with a nikon prostaff 3-9x50 and its is a very accurate gun. with ppu 55gr soft points it can shoot just under an inch and with the reloads i use in my a-bolt it can make one ragged hole, 3/8-1/2 inch. good gun for the money .

cant wait buddy

we have no foreshore shooting here in shetland, its just used for flights over fields between the roost and the feeding grounds.

i went out to walk the dog tonight and since it was blowing 35-40mph wind with showers i didnt bother taking the rifle. 100 yards out the road i looked over the wall and here is two rabbits sitting in the yard so i nipped back to the house and grabbed my old air rifle. the reason for the air rifle and not the usual .22lr was because the other day i had been cleaning it up and setting the sights thinking that before too long my oldest son will be big enough to be having a shot. its a .22 webly excel, the air rifle i shot my first rabbit with 16-17 years ago. i havnt shot it for a long long time. it made me smile thinking back on all the excitement and effort that went in to getting close enough for a shot compaired to using the .22lr or the .223 now.

hull high pheasant 32gr no5 for rabbit, plover, snipe etc blackgold 32gr no4 for duck inland sometimes 36gr buffalo hevishot 32gr no4 for duck over water mammoth 50gr no3 for geese sometimes RC50 50gr 0 clever 24gr no9 for OSK blackgold 28gr no8 for sporting and trap winchester subs for .22lr 52gr a-max homeloads for .223 PPU 180gr soft point for 30-06

i bought the target master and think its the best bit of kit i have for reloading. while it is measuring out the charge perfectly every time, i seat the bullet, its brilliant :good:

the hardest dunt i have had from a gun was my single baikal cut down to 24" with an inch off the stock and a 53gram AAA, i thought my brains were going to run out my nose.

20 tonight with the .22lr total 3045

the first stuff i tried was express 32gr 4s about 5-6 years ago and it couldnt seem to kill at all. i tied it on ducks and was horrified at the results so i thought i would use whats left on bolting rabbits at close quarters , i cant recall any clean kills with the first shot.

a few seasons ago i was beside my RFD and noticed hevi-shot 32gr no4s at £9 for 10 (which seemed cheap for hevishot) so i tried them and i got on great with them through the pump i had at the time which was true cylinder. i ended up buying what he had left. i also tried a box of the winchester xtended range hi-density stuff, i think it was 1 3/8 oz no2, i got on good with these too, but at £3 a pop it was too painful to pull the trigger. i think it was the pretty, shiny, embossed box i was drawn to . both the hevi-shot and the xtended range shells seemed to kill really well at good range, unlike the first steel i tried .

if it lead, i use black gold 32gr 4s, buffalo 36gr 4s and mammoth 50gr 3s or rc 50gr 0s.

it can be fixed to a punt but when i have used it its always been from the shoulder. it weighs 27lb.

As to the chokes, they aren't that important. Many SxS guns have 1/4 or 1/2 choke, and a full, but there are obviously many combinations around. Ideally I'd be looking for around 1/4 to 1/2 for pigeons, but it's not that critical. Tighter chokes are good on the long distance birds, but they don't help for close targets. They're also more annoying to clean. i would totaly agree with that, IMO i wouldnt buy a gun with really tight chokes unless you are going to have them opened up. with a really open choke you can, to a certain extent, fill up the pattern by using a hevier shell. there is a lot that will disagree with me but this is what i have found after using a couple of guns with no choke. the gun that sticks out in my mind is the solway magnum i had which was choked full and full, ok for flighting geese but for shoting ducks on a night flight it was a clean miss or total destruction.

i have never heard of it having to be fixed to brick/concrete, what about wooden houses! my cabinet has always been fixed to an internal wooden stud partition with wood screws. i always think that no matter how its fixed if i was going to steel guns all i would need is a battery grinder and some 1mm discs. could it be disguised some how if its going to be seen in a window?

if its dry lined, why cant you fix to the studding?

i said this in another topic the other day. my mate and i petterned 50 gram BBs at 50 yards for goose shooting with our SX3s. mine is a 28" field and his is the 30" synthetic. with half chokes in both our guns, we shot 5 shells each, my patterns were terrible where as his were perfect. i couldnt believe the difference.

if it was me personaly i would be looking for something with quarter and half chokes and a 28" barrel, probably with 3" chambers too, not needed in a pigeon hide but good to have none the less.

serious holdover on the second rabbit :o

this would be the rifle-My link this would be the shotgun-My link the rifle would be as it is and i would have the shotgun made new again and it would be 9 shot, i would stack the magazine so that the first 3 shots out were suitable for what i was hunting then it would be 2 BB, 2 AAA, 1 SSG then a slug, so i am covered for all occasions, even if the wolves have a go.

its very rare if a day goes by when i dont shoot something, when i walk the dog at night i always (unless when its chucking it down) have the .22lr with me and there is always rabbits to shoot, 7 last night down in front of the house. i get to the clays most thursday nights after work in the summer and usually shoot 3 rounds of OSK. in the widfowling season i am out just about every saturday, both for a morning flight and a night flight plus night flights through the week after work early in the season when its still light. its hard to say what i spend a month, i never really keep count, infact its probably best i dont know because i am sure my wife can read my mind and i cant have her finding out

my sister in laws father works a creel boat and in one lobster creel he hauled there was a live otter in it, it couldnt have been in long, very lucky otter :o