Whitetail

Webley mk 3 , airsporter or a hw35 would all be more than capable, your eyes must be better than mine if your going back to open sights

I get where you coming from I've been using a fenman and a feinwerkbau sport to shoot through the summer as a change from the r10 that I would normally use,if your shooting over bait stations you know the range and as long as you can shoot kill size groups, much more satisfying to shoot. Just practice with whatever you choose and you'll be fine

Make sure you post up a review when you've had some range time with it. I think if I was buying a new fac I'd have made the same choice, what scope will you be using

Arch Early on he realised that there wasn't any money in selling birds in the feather and was processing them before sale, don't be to hard on him over his bluntness a lot of his hip problems in latter life were brought about by being tortured by the nazis after he was captured in ww2

The noise of the pellet hit the quarry, body shots on wood pigeon mainly, the rifle wasn't any more noisy than any precharge ive used or seen used. Last week over three evenings I shot 80 pigeon coming in to roost often getting more than one shot out of a group of birds With a 25 running at 45 ftp that wouldn't have happened , you would have one very dead pigeon from each flock. Like I said if your just having the occasional shot a 25 would be a excellent choice

Good to see things are being kept civil,.Bruno 22 if you get the chance to try a fac 25 they're very impressive , accurate and hard hitting. I had mk 2 rapid running at 45foot pounds and the only thing I didn't like was the impact noise , it would completely empty a small wood or spinney of pigeons where as a .22 or .20 running at 27-30 foot pounds I would get multiple chances . Just to much gun for me and what I needed

Would agree with that , you can make elevated shots with out the risk of shooting someone in the next village

It will take some airrifle regardless of cal, velocity etc to live with a high quality 22 rim fire shooting ammo it likes at extended ranges, you can't base how a 22 shoots on the majority you've seen shooting , just as you can't with Airrifles. I had a fin fire range that would shoot 3/4 groups at a hundred yds all day long , it will be interesting to see if you two would have a shoot off.

Saw the same thing happen in a tackle shop once, the shop assistant was real keen on showing us how easy they were to put up it took four of us half hour to get it back in the bag

Dai-sung 15.9gr from memory

I might be being thick but I see a tremendous in penetration with the same pellet at different velocities, .20 premiers shot at 900-940 fps shoot straight through 30mil soft wood at 50yds at 600 fps they are maybe a pellet length or so into the wood . I found very similar differences with jsb/air arms , bisley magnums in .22 with 200/300fps making a real difference . Years back I ran a .177 rapid fac upto 25ftbs it was probably the worst killing airrifle I've owned due to the little pellets zipping through the quarry , I know that terry doe found the same at the time.

Excellent read as always have you thought about a home reblue ?

You wouldn't mistake a peregrine for a goshawk, a peregrine for a hobby maybe or a goshawk with a female sparrowhawk . Falcon wings and hawk wings are different. There are peregrines around the Cambridge area though

Like you say there's to many buzzards around Cambs not to be familiar with them including the different colour phases. Your more likely to mistake a goshawk with a outsized sparrow hawk. This time of year anything could turn up ,I've seen a female goshawk in the last couple of weeks it might even be the same bird. Last autumn there was one in the cherry hinton area for a week or so . Last weekend there was a peregrine stirring the pigeons up on the field I was decoying

There must be a device that's available to find trackers because a friend had two caravans stolen and all they did was tow them on to a field and cut the trackers out. There's been a problem with car thieves putting trackers on to cars they want to steal

Is it a mk 1 or 2 ?

I'm surprised because we've always been told to use 22 or 25 around buildings to stop over penetration. On the vermin hunters YouTube channel they used a .25 weihrauch that killed very well but there was little leeway in regards to trajectory . Bc will obviously come in to play at range but it might not make a difference at the distances most of us shoot at, I wouldn't chose a bullet on its bc because it might only be noticeable over 250-300 yds In the past I've done a lot of testing on arrow shafts for bow hunting and weight for weight , small diameter shafts out penetrate larger diameter every time when shot from the same bow, the best compromise for me was medium weight ( slightly lower bc) with a reasonably flat trajectory. The .25 weihrauch has got me thinking though !

So by your argument a 12 Ftb .25 should out penetrate both .22 and .177 ?

The dryer climate in a lot of the states helps plus they were built to last in the first place, a friend of mine runs a 1960s Chevy with a Cummins diesel that's done 600,000 miles and still going

Excellent rifles the cheek piece is too low for a scope and keep one hand on the cocking level when loading it. I had a zephyr 77 back in the day it was pcp accurate

You might be able to move the hide to one side and take the birds as crossing shots before they reach the decoys rather than sit back to the flight line if that makes any sense

Try bisley magnums they normally shoot really well through bsa barrels

I'd play the long game these guides lose permission on a regular basis, it's all the bull**** and lies that wind me up at times. One of the local guides gained permission on one of local farms that I shoot , they shot rape on a bright dead still day in the middle of winter telling the farm that they shot I think it was 380 pigeons . I happened to be fencing for the farm that day and watched them shooting from where I was working I doubt they shot 50 and that's between 5-6 guys .

Most times when a bird or two decoy then nothing is when your shooting to close to the wood their flighting from , basically you've blown it up before it's started . As for adult birds pushing or frightening juvenile birds out of the decoys I've not seen that , if you've got juvenile pigeon or even blue rocks committed to coming in they tend to drag everything else in as well . Maybe there's a market for scout pigeon decoys I'm sure somebody somewhere would be daft enough to buy them , if you read books on pigeon shooting from 60-70 years back people like Richard Arnold wrote about this, Mottys right on this from my experience

When it's growing in the spring it's well worth keeping a eye on , pigeons will definitely feed on it if the fields in the right area. Unharvested linseed can be a big draw later in the year. As for linseed stubble I've never seen birds showing much interest