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Well, the thing about clay shooting is that you want to maximise your score. You basically do this by hitting all the **** easy ones. that usually means doing it when you hve to make little movement as this minimises any mistakes. I still shoot all the tower birds a, b, c as soon as i can. Try B and the batteau fom by the gate and beyond.

That high tower challenge, is very very good. I cant seem to get past 45 on it, keep on missing the last pair through nerves. They run two a year and are great fun. Those high towers are also great for getting your eye before tehseaon

Those rio 36's kick like a pig, i was shooting a FITASC on saturday, and when having a play on a long long teal, a friend slipped them in. Even in a heavy Krieghoff, they seriously rattle your teeth. Almost as bad as ZZ's.

Viri Super 32's in 4's and 5's for pigeons and pheasants Fob Chocs 34g in 4's for high pheasants

playing devils advocate, what is the difference between baiting a field for pigeons and feeding a duck pond or for that matter a drive? Digweed lives no where near Ely, he is in Kent. When ever i have met him he has always been a nice guy, and behaved as a great ambassador for the sport. The Simpson clan live nearish to Ely

I have one of the Steyr SSG's that was mentioned earlier, mine is the P11 version, and is in .22/250. They are also now available in .243win. It is currently having an LEI moderator fitted, and have not shot it yet. However i was seriously impressed with the design and layout of the rifle, and it should be very accurate for an out of the box rifle

hope this helps http://www.angelfire.com/sd/6mmackley/ http://beartoothbullets.com/tech_notes/arc...ch_notes.htm/43 This is the most relevant information i can find, but it basicaly allows you to put the bullet out quicker, therefore flatter, and thus allowing longer shooting. But downside is you burn your barrel out quicker. Friends have .22/250 ackleys and they need new barrels every 18 months or so. But they do shoot a hell of a lot of foxes with them

If you are not going to reload then i would go for one of the easily available calibres. Next thing is are you ever going to shoot foxes with it ? Then are you ever going to Lamp foxes? If the answer to both of these is yes, then i would go for a .243. Then if you ever want to improve the flatness of its shooting you can have it ackley improved and load your own for it. A .243 is sufficient for anything in this country, and is a very versatile calibre. Light fast rounds for long range foxes, and slower heavier rounds for the larger deer species. For eight hundred pounds i would look at one of the sako's, imho a better rifle than the tikka. Dealer wise i have always found westcountry guns to be the best for any rifles, and both haggis and sue there are always very honest, and very competitively priced. Personaly i have never liked ruger rifles and find the anatomics of the stock terrible. When i move to suffolk at the end of the year i will definately go for an ackley improved .243, probably the sako heavy barrel stainless laminated, and put a reflex mod on it.

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Squealing is definately ment to be a rabbit/leveret in distress. If it was ment to imitate another fox why would you get hares coming over for a look? Another good trick is taht if you have a fox that legs it when you put the lamp on it, whistle loudly or shout. it will often get the inquisitive ones to pause long enough to shoot.

I would be amazed if you could get a .22/250 on a licence for shooting rabbits. Cambs police specify foxes only, for .22/250. what about a .17hmr. seems to be what the .22rf magnum should have been

I have had a couple of the BRNO's and loved them, but even better was my Sako finnfire, unfortunatley had to trade it on my new foxing rifle. But when funds allow i will definately go for the heavy barrel finnfire, with a sound moderator. 150m with subs on rabbits is pushing it, i reckon that that is about 165yards, the rifles and loads are not inherently accurate to do that consistently. I had a hell of a rabbit set up (finnfire, mod, Schmidt and Bender scope, and bipod) and was pushing it to kill consistently with subs out past 130yards. Not saying it cant be done its just down to luck a bit to much for my liking.( I saw a stoat headshot at 150yards, when it poked its head out of a rabbit warren.) Subsonic rounds wont travel as far as high velocity, as they come out slower they slow at a shorter distance and as such start falling quicker, thus they are harder to shoot at distances as you have to take more drop into account. But if you are after a rabbiting round go for the subs. Using a .22rf, if you are specificaly after foxes seems to me to be a waste of time, and leads to more lampshy foxes. Personaly i never shot them at more than 75yards with the .22rf, although they are great for clearing up the cubs with. You also need to make sure that you put down for a sound moderator on your FAC application, to make the subs as quite as possible

Try squeaking on the back of your hand, dirt cheap and works a treat. Or a wet bit of polystyrene dragged down your wing mirror. Hand is my favourite though. Squeaked up five a treat the other night.