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  1. I've shot targets up to 200m without a problem, at 100m it was about 10" lower than my normal loads.

     

    I don't shoot live quarry (yet) but I've loaded subs for a friend who wanted to take a few foxes very quietly as they were fairly close to a large posh housing estate (I should say that he is a very experienced shooter and obviously only taking safe shots), I'm sure he said he shot between 80 and 100yds and had clean kills without over penetration.

    you can do that with a .22 or a 17hmr without a 10 inch drop to think about :hmm: centrefire subsonic rounds kind of defeat the original purpose, which is essentialy to have a bullet fly as fast and flat as possible, the hornet may be a useful tool for your friend, slow heavy bullets ricochet more and although quieter are not as safe as a light fast bullet which will break up rather than ricochet

  2. if thats the case seems relaoding is the thing to do,take a look around the forums sales section there is often bargain of quality relaoding items to buy,if your an engineer you will understand quaility so keep away for anything LEE,look towards RCBS and Redding

    used dies often come up for sale with people changing calibers,keep your eyes open

    whats the problems with lee stuff? i have been shooting .222 for 20 years off a lee press and dies, never had any accuracy problems so far, got some rcbs dies in .222 and the extra cost does ****** all for group size

  3. Good luck to all you guys that have time off for xmas, I have'nt had a xmas day off since I left school a long time ago, but I do manage a boxing day shoot, after I have finished the morning work.

    me too, i usually spend christmas day dogging in and feeding, its usually quite peaceful and dogging in operations can be extended further than usual ;)

  4. cheers andy, my mate is dropping off a multi meter, and i intend to do exactly that, if it was a chafing wire i would expect the problem to be intermitant...im hoping it isnt the barrel on the ignition, as that was new 2years ago,thye weird thing is when i switch off the enjine still runs and the charge light comes on which is what it should do, i dissconnet the white wire the enjine stops and reconnect and the white wire is no longer live........the vagories of landrover ugh....watch this space.....i think i will go and get ****** and all will become clear ... :blink:

    was it a britpart ignition switch? i would think the ignition is your problem, try blowing it out with an airline and then a little wd40

  5. Opinel do steak knives you can sharpen well enough to shave with.

    i found a guy in germany selling some old stock but new gustav emil ern carbon steel knives, i bought all i could afford at the time they will outlast me and maybe one day my daughter might look at them and think that her old man wasnt that daft after all :hmm:

  6. subsonics have thier uses for some people, i never found the need for them, i would rather have the accuracy and impact of the yellowjacket, people tend to think that an hv .22 makes more noise and disturbs the bunnies more and unless you try its an easy assumption to make, i was a single handed keeper when i was 20 and very often spent the whole of my monthly wage on a chainsaw or a rifle or a landrover or something else that the tight **** in the syndicate wouldnt buy, leaving me with nothing but rabbit money for the rest of the month, i once shot 49 bunnies all head shot for the butcher with a box of yellowjackets

    i couldnt have done it with any brand of subsonics and will be forever grateful to remington for keeping me from starving after i had spent my wages on a brno .222 :lol:

  7. :good: Bang on the money.

     

    We used to hit the rats round the feed bins in the laying pens for a month at a time. The rats fed mostly during the night and the ducks during the day so blanking off the feeders of an evening was no biggy. The poison dispensers were simple but very effective. They were made on the farm of four inch drain pipe, one bit of about a foot and the upright part was about three foot. These were mitered and plastic welded to form an L shape. This was lashed to a vertical spile and the opening was partially obscured with a brick on its side. The whole lot was cordoned off with weld mesh about two foot high to stop the ducks getting at the bait. The vertical pipe was topped right up and a bean can went on the top to keep the rain out. After a few days the rats found the bait and then it was a case of topping them up daily when the bins were opened up in the morning. When the poison stopped going down you start seeing flies around the rat holes and it was fair to say job done. We used slaymor (rakes of it!!).

    you can also move the pheasant feeders further away from the rat holes and put the poison close to the holes they are quite lazy

  8. yes second hand as well, i can get a new one for 100 quid less :yes:

    well i couldnt decide so after narrowing the selection to a cz,a ruger a savage or a cz i rang someone who gave me a few pointers, i now have a fine looking savage 12fv with warne mounts and an edgar bros 20x42 in the gun cupboard, should prove to be a serious combination

  9. I used Rem HP Yellow jackets in my CZ .22lr for a while and found them to be about the best HIGH VELOCITY round out there, 1500 ft sec and about 32/33g I seem to remember.

     

    But I thought this was about subs, do they do a Yellow Jacket sub?

    sorry if that post was a little bit lacking in detail, i found that friends were buying 22s and not useing them much after experiencing the trajectory of most subsonic ammo, i always steered them towards hvs especially the light and high impact remington yellow jacket, it shoots pretty flat and hits hard, it was the nearest thing to a 17hmr before the hmr was developed. subs are alright if you can be bothered estimateing range and drop every shot, i couldnt and didnt want to so used the quickest lightest bullet i could find and had more bunnies for it

  10. a mate turned up with a brno .22lr some years ago, he was new to rifle shooting and wanted me to mount the scope and help zero it, he had bought about 200 eley subsonics with him :lol:

    i threw them in the lake and gave him a box of yellow jackets, he looked like he was about to cry at the time but later realised it was for the best

  11. Have a look at them with a proper stock on then, the laminate stocks on the Howa's are superb and the trigers can be sorted on both the Howa and Remington whilst the Tikka triger, or should I say every one I have owned, are first class.

    i dont like tikkas, i have known 2 in .222 that would not group both new rifles, 2-3 out of 10 shots would be fliers maybe 4-9 inches from where they should have been, i aint going to be buying one :no:

  12. What sort of price range are you willing to pay?

     

    Alan :)

    what sort of money are you looking for? how many rounds has it had through it and has it been broken in gently? does it have a scope or mounts or moderator with it if so what? do you have somewhere i could try it out, variation already sorted, cheers, mark

  13. its gotta be said there is a lot of logic here :yes: takes a fair while to shoot a .222 out though ;)

    my old cz 527 in .222 had over 900 foxes to it and loads of other vermin, must have nearly 3000 rounds or so and 20 years old

    and it still shoots the same size groups it came with on the factory test target, you cant beat them even for a lot more money

  14. you should not forget the .222 just because its not the latest must have calibre, its a great round and not to much blast and bang like the 22-250 its cheap to reload and easy to shoot, i once shot 97 foxes straight with my old brno (no 98 turned as the trigger went) if i was looking for a first centrefire i would defintely consider the brno fox with the set trigger or an early cz 527 either in .222 you can always get them rebarreled to another calibre later on, you wont find a nicer action and trigger on a budget priced factory rifle

  15. I'd go with a Z6i 2.5-15x56 as well. I've got S&B's, Zeiss and Swarovski scopes and I definitely like the Swaros best.

    probably the best all rounder, s and b crosshairs are too thick for me, dont forget you will need decent mounts, probably apel if you can find them and after you have bought a good scope and mounts you might consider getting a decent rifle to stick them on

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