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What's the general feeling with these C-Lect chokes that make an appearance on Mossbergs etc. I can see the theory that it could come in handy but they look pretty big, is it an issue when actually shooting? Are they reliable or just a gimmick and liable to fall apart?
Your thoughts are more than welcome gents.
I have had two of these one a franchi sect1 semi and another on a mossy sect1 pump, when out pigeon shooting they are very useful in as much that you can tighten the pattern or go down to imp cyl in a split second as birds approach the hide, they have never "fallen apart" I dont know where that comes from?
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Just a quickie,
Our butcher just gave me a bucket load of marrow bones which i intend to freeze. Do i need to cook em or can i give to the beast raw. If cooked, i presume i boil them!!!!
Ta guys and gals
Uncooked everytime, not only good for their teeth and gums but also keeps them happy and out of mischief
Nothing quite like hearing your dog enjoying a good bone and well worth the effort of seeking out an obliging butcher.
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Very interesting read.
Two nights ago I spotted chewed wire going into our biggest pen, and the electric fence was down - tangled and earthed out. After 3 hours of messing about (back and fro to the yard for new industrial battery, shovels, tin snips, chicken wire etc) problem fixed, but not gone away if you know what I mean.
Cabelas digital trail cams are in their sale
http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/template...=0057184418547a
$99
If anyone is ordering these would they PM me please, I could do with one.
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a pair of hyper flap sillo sock plus 5 standing sillo socks ive lost the rods that hold the standing sillo socks into the ground, so make me an offer paypall excepted
Not sure if you have to state a price for sale items?
I have sent you a pm regarding an offer anyway.
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Hi all,
The club i am joining only allows .22lr, 0.17hmr and pistol calibers.
If I join another club that allows larger ones, what are my chances of getting variations for some larger calibers.
I have a thing for historic rifles, I would love something like an enfield in .303 or a Mosin Nagant is 7.62x54R. I know of a club that will allow me to shoot these calibers but what are my chances of actually getting them granted just for target shooting? Is it difficult or is it a case of you can have whatever as long as you are a member of a club that you are allowed to shoot it at.
Obviously they may have some misgivings if I was applying for .50BMG but there are guys out there shooting them so I guess there must be a way of getting them..
Thanks in advance.
Paul
You dont say where you are, here in Kent we have an excellent club with access to two Mil ranges and all sorts of weapons through membership.
Perhaps there are forum members near you who belong to clubs offering the same facilities?
Always a good idea to complete your profile.
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Had a quick sit up again tonight... saw nothing
Although both baits have been well and truly chewed in the last 24 hours...
So you could be hit again?
Fit travel clocks to some bait and get an idea of when to be there ............waiting
If you were not so far away I would do it for you, dusk2dawn
just for the sport and satisfaction.good luck and keep us posted.
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Well done chaps stay vigilant over the next few days
, as said it may possibly be one of a local litter. I shot a young fox last fri night and just a few minutes afterwards scanned the field and two more sets of eyes were watching me but they didnt hang around. I will have the rest of the litter in time.
Leave bait out on the approach paths, see if its touched and watch for fresh "latrines" imo the best indicator of charlies presence.
all the best
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End cap? are you sure its a SAK?
Mine has a single grubscrew holding the outer sleeve in place onto the cntral "hub" - which has a bullet hole through its length and large cavities milled through its sides. The central o/d of the hub was mostly milled off to leave an expansion space around the edge of it.
To clean I undo the screw and whack it end on - onto a bench to separate the parts. The first one I tried to separate (fleabags actually) had been left too long and had sort of corroded itself together.
Yes deffo a SAK even says so on the end, made of black coated ally 140mm long and has one end cap screwed at the breech end.
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No its supposed to be solid i think. I just got one and the info said not to ever bother cleaning it as it would have little effect. Also that the metal powder/gunk/residue is pretty harmful stuff so not to allow contact with skin etc...
Ok Poacher thanks for that, I was wondering if anyone was out there? lol
Ill put it back on now and stop fiddling with it :o
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Out last night and the .22 is seeming to sound louder these days sooo I took the SAK off and unscrewed the end cap, not like the PH which has a thousand washers to clean, this is solid, does it dismantle?
I have put various wire brushes through it and a very small amount of gunk has come out.
Any help appreciated.
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It's just such a waste..
SS has some pics and a video, I will try and get him to upload them here.
223 is already to go, just winding down the clock now - If I dont get him tonight, I will be out at dawn
Sorry to hear that you have suffered, if you cant stay out overnight maybe use the alarm clock setup with some of the dead poults as bait, at least you will have an idea when charlie came back?
Good luck I hope you get the bl**dy thing.
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Meindl, nothing else comes close to be honest.
Aha they cried the man wears gloves on his feet!!
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Meindl, nothing else comes close to be honest.
Have to agree I bought a new pair a few months ago with some sort of memory foam that moulded to my feet with the heat, they now fit like a glove, very comfortable fully waterproof, the bizz.
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OK yesterday my mate was telling me how a .22 rimmy was more harmful on the ears than a 12b shotty, Is this ture???
Try shooting from inside the truck cab without ear protection using .223 that will make your ears ring
imo ear protection is a good idea if you are zeroing or range firing, better safe than deaf?
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Good write up and pics... I was there lol,
but next time could you remain calm enough to provide pics of the fox actually being called up and approaching your position?
Only joking I couldnt do it and shoot, the old ticker goes into overdrive everytime.
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try farmers union insurance
NFU insure 1995 def 300tdi hardtop, fully comp with mrs D and myself driving for £160. 8000 miles/year.
It went up by a tenner this year
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I was asked last night if i would carry out slaughtering some pigs for one of my landowners i have told them i would if it is legal (which i belive it would be) i have had a debate with some friends on slaughtering your own livestock for your own consumption.
i said that you can kill and butcher your own pigs as long as they are not for retail, am i right or wrong. if i am correct what would be the best way to carry it out most humanely.
verminer
PM Gav he is a slaughterman and will tell it to you as it is.
IMO dont go there, as said Pigs get highly stressed at the smell of blood, even if it were legal you would be in deep trouble if they suffered in any way.
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I did think about it and he said i could pick it up in Wick, nr Bristol as I live just down the road but never bothered.
To be honest I could of had it for £80 but then he emailed me the day after saying that he had 1 left and i could have it for £90....ummmm i thought prices would go down not up
So as i could pick it up from his house (dont know the address) I would be surprised if he was going to try to rip me off.
To be honest i think that guy called Andy who sells these machines on Ebay would be a better purchase, as he had several good right ups from PW members and noticed he has a few items for sale at present
Cheers
If its of any help to anyone wanting a magnet I bought one from Andy on fleabay and its been very reliable, he is also on the end of the phone if you want him, I fitted a variable speed control following his advice, he,s a decent chap to trade with.
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How the other half live eh.... shooting, now out in his boat fishing, died and gone to heaven or what?
Where in Ireland does all this take place I,ll be over in my caravan touring next year
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Some years ago I managed to fire a muzzle loading punt gun in my living room. The bang was very loud and the burning wadding set fire to the curtains. The charge of shot ruined the carpet before punching a hole through the skirting board and the wall behind it.
The recoil sent the gun back about ten feet and smashed through the closed french windows. By the grace of god, no one was injured.
I pulled off a cap on a muzzle loader that I`d have sworn was empty. Evidently it was`nt. The bloke I was showing it to was impressed by its penetrative qualities and bought it there and then. When he had stopped shaking. Still makes my blood run cold when I think about what might have happened.
Nick.
ROFLMAO
That means - rolling on floor laughing my ar se off....... What did the insurance company have to say - or were you too embarrassed to tell them?
That one puts my rifle primer iidiiocy into the 'very minor' category for maniacal danerousness. I won't say I couldn't imagine doing such a thing
myself though, because I can. Anyone who thinks he couldn't make a mistake of ludicrous proportions, is setting himself up to do exactly that.
I have seen some terrible mistakes, some of which ended up with serious bodily injury, though only to those who caused them:
1976 I set off a .303 rifle primer in a duff cartridge with a punch and received a nasty reminder in my thumb about my stupidity.
1978. My mate let off a twelve bore right behind me and blew a great crater in the mud about twelve inches from my foot.
1979 I was standing about a yard away from a man who ran a gun club known to other more pucker rifle shooters in the Northumberland Rifle Club as, 'The Bad Reputation Gun Club.' They were right. He was firing solid slugs in rapid succession from a mosberg pump action repeater. he had about five loaded which in those days you were allowed and one failed to fire properly having no powder. it just went click. He fired again and the gun blew up right beside me. It had strips of metal barrel splayed out all over in a most dramatic way. The click was a primer pushing the .729 slug up the barrel about 18 inches, and the boom that followed was caused by the following round coming up into the obstructed barrel. no one was hurt - amazingly.
1980. I saw a man shoot himself in the hand at the same 'Bad Reputation Gun Club, when he was loading a muzzle loading flintlock pistol. he had it on full cock and the trigger caught in his clothing. He had a large ragged hole in his hand where the ramrod and ball went right through. He was also burned somewhat, but that was the least of his troubles. He was severely injured in a car crash about a year later while trying to retrieve a dropped packet of cigarettes from the floor of his van while driving at seventy miles an hour.
1981 At the same ragamuffin gun club, a man clearing up and burning the rubbish, was stuck in the ar se by a pistol round (9mm) which had inadvertently been put in the fire with rubbish such as smashed up targets.
1981 While shooting black powder pistol at the same shockingly bad club, the man next to me had his colt 1860 blow itself in half as the chambers flashed over and several rounds went off at once. He was severely shocked by this and never came back.
Since those days, I have mostly shot on my own and have probably increased my life expectancy more than a little.
The 1979 story reminded me of the only time, thanks be, that I came close to an accident, I was night shooting on my own with a semi auto .22 and using Remmington hyper velocity yellow jackets, I took a shot and it just sounded odd, a muted crack and looked as though I had missed an easy shot.
I had half an idea about what had happened, so I returned to the landy, dismantled the rifle and checked the bore, sure enough the bullet was lodged a third of the way up the barrel.... being a semi it would have been so easy to have just squeezed off another round at the rabbit I had "missed" resulting possibly with my good looks rearranged and not found for sometime.
Remember to be even more careful when you are out on your own, tell someone where you are going and always carry your mobile.
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ive just watched this video and found it to be the saddest and most sickening thing i have ever seen were is the humanity in shooting animals this way ,
i have been shooting many years using various rifles and shot guns and have never let any animal i have shot suffer.
i can not put into words how i feel now. as a shooting man i am ashamed to even think that people who do this type of so called hunting can call this sport or them selves hunters!!!!!!!#
This sums up my view exactly, sickening and cowardly, very very sad that mankind can stoop to these levels.
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Its good to be lucky.
Catching a call bird can be very difficult, we have sometimes spent weeks trying.
A Larsen in the right place can catch a fantastic amount of magpies, you may well be surprised at the results.
Maybe next season us Kent lads could get together and help each other out with call birds etc, nothing worse than having knocked one on the head then finding the call birds snuffed it as well overnight.
As a matter of interest I shall be making some Larsens over the coming winter, they will be good quality using treated batten, decent gauge chicken wire etc,
PM me if you are interested in having one.
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Mad as hatters the lot of you....
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Ive noticed the reduction in diesel prices locally, which of course is very welcome but the price of veg oil went up generally with fuel prices and hasnt come down yet, if it will at all.
Best deal I have come across is the 5p off a litre at Sainsburys and Tescos if you spend £50 in store, brought it down to £1.23/ltr derv.
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Another ploy,I know its after the horse...stable doors and all that, is everytime anyone needs to take a leak feel free to anoint as many posts as poss, I know of keepers who keep special "leaky" tins hung at strategic points around the pens.
Whether it works I dont know but logically you are playing him at his own game and scent marking.
Anything is worth a try to keep the bu**ers away.