silver_fox

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Instead of buying two rifles for deer and boar what would you guys recomend as the ideal calibre for both species? .308 Winchester or .30-06 spring to mind from doing some internet research but your practical experience is the best recomendation. Thanks in advance.

Hi, I've got exactly the same rifle, the trigger will adjust easily - there's no need for an after market trigger but you will find that you need really high scope mounts and not many people make these (as I've found out) I have a Bushnell 3-9 x 50 scope and with the highest mounts I could find I can just slide a cigarette paper between front of scope and barrell. I had to cut a notch out of the front scope cover to fit it on. But it is a very accurate gun (bit front heavy with a T8 mod) I shoot off a bipod and can normally shoot the knackers of a gnat at 100 yds. I started off shooting Sako 50grain Gamehead which produced OK'ish results then I started reloading the Sako brass and the difference was amazing. If you're interested this is my best reload recipe so far: 40 Grain Nosler Ballistic Tip 26.5 Grains Varget seated to 5.79cm - fantastic for fox out to 200 yds I have just loaded some 53 grain Sierra Matchking heads with 25.5 grains of Varget for target shooting and will hopefully get out tomorrow to try them out. I bet you're going to have a lot of fun with this rifle - excellent choice!

My local FEO left me with a load of blank forms for land owners to sign their permission to shoot. It covers the calibres of weapons and what the quarry is. I then send these to him and if there's a problem with the land they let me know. Also, our county police force have a dedicated phone number to call to let them know when and where you're out shooting. It stops them sending out an armed response vehicle in case some local reports you. We're very lucky that the force is supportive of shooters.

I am thinking of doing this course later on in the year. Can anyone who has done it tell me what the course entails. I have just received some blurb from the BDS but it doesn't really cover the sylabus and practical part. Also - not having a deer calibre rifle on my ticket is it worth contacting my FEO to sort out a variation for one before the course?

Have you tried pushing the 'barrell opening lever' (Alzheimers has set in and i can't remember the correct terminology) fully to the right?

I've heard great things about these DM 80 mods but can't find any tech specs or photos of them. If any one here has one can they post a photo and an idea of weight and size as well as effectiveness. I'm thinking of one for a CZ American .17hmr Cheers guys.

Steve -b, If you get one can you write a quick review of it, as I also have a top heavy rifle and this could be just the job.

I bought my step-son a Baikal O/U 12g for a birthday pressie about £130.00. I shoot better with that gun than I do with my Lincoln 12g that I bought for £400.00

Thanks for the advice, works perfectly! Bunny at 150yds no problem.

I have put up with this for a while now but it's starting to **** me off. I have a CZ varmint in .223, a Bushnell 3-9x50 scope with a Cluson gun light mounted on top. I am getting a lot of reflected glare from the back of my T8 mod which makes it impossible to use the scope at max magnification. If I move my head by a fraction of a millimeter I can't see a thing. I've tried a neoprene cover on the mod but I still get the reflection. Does any one know of the best way of damping down the glare?

I have the Varmint model 527 in .223 and have a cheapo 3-9x50 Bushnell illuminated reticule that I bought new off Ebay for £50.00 Brilliant scope, great in low light. I use Sako Gamehead 50grain soft point, groups are good enough for foxes up to 200yds and at £15.00 per box not too expensive.

I also have the Brattonsound 5 rifle safe and have no problem fitting my guns with scopes and bipod, check that your's is actually a deep safe, mine measures 32.5cm deep & 27cm wide (external measurements)

Super Pedant: It's people like you that gives the internet a bad name. It's not his fault he's stupid so P****S O**F and leave him alone!

What do you think is the best .22LR rimfire moderator on the market? I bought a Sako mod just because a friend has one that sounds pretty quiet. I'm very pleased with it, but it's the only one I've seen working, Did I make the right choice?

GULP!

Dear BSA Shaun. (Professionally speaking; as a child psychologist) I think that you may be ever so slightly analy retentive! CHILL OUT DUDE P.S rob13 You can't go wrong with CZ. Well made, more accurate than you can shoot and you won't have to sell your mother to pay for it. Believe me. (Mum, you can come in now and get dressed)

Pedro - I hope that Mrs P is not so eagle eyed as Mrs Silver_Fox who can somehow spot anything new in the house no matter where I hide it.

Got the .22 zeroed perfectly at 60 yds yesterday so took it out this evening in search of some rabbits. I arrived in our field and started walking towards where I knew there were some rabbits, I had a 5 round mag loaded but the bolt was not cocked, when I almost fell over a large buck rabbit with a severe case of mixy. Cocked the gun and shot it from about 2yds - not really sporting but at least I put it out of its misery instantly. 10 yards further on and the same thing happened again, much to the interest of our horse who was standing next to me when I fired (says a lot about the effectiveness of the sako moderator when you can fire a yard away from him and he didn't even flinch). Eventually I got a 50 yd shot at one (rabbit not horse!) which hit him in the head - very quick clean kill. So one day on from buying the guns I am really pleased with my choice of a CZ Style .22 LR 16" with sako mod and hopefully the scope rings will arrive for the .223 soon so I can get the scope mounted and get it zeroed in.

This may be old hat to many of the regular forum members, but I thought that the following may be informative to newer members like myself. I had been thinking about getting an FAC for quite a long time, so one day I dropped into the local police station and picked up an application form (get 2 copies in case you mess up the first one like I did). I then approached 2 farmers who I had got to know casually over the last year or so and was suprised when they actually agreed to let me shoot on their land; one has 150 acres and will let me shoot rabbits and foxes, the other has 25 acres and loves little fluffy bunnies but hates foxes - no problem with that. Next I went to an old friend who agreed to countersign my application form and photos, I was trying to get the second referee when an old friend of ours who is a teacher rang up asking to stay the weekend so she was duly enrolled into the process. The form says that the recipient shouldn't see what comments the referees are writing about them so I gave them an envelope to seal up with the referee form. I applied for a .17hmr, .22 LR & a .223, and then sent the whole lot to my county firearms office on the 10th September '07. About a week later I received a letter from my local FEO introducing himself and attaching a landowners permission form which I photocopied and took to the two farmers to sign, accompanied by a bottle of Scotlands finest malt as a thank you present. After a week of trying to contact my FEO I eventually got hold of him (he had been on leave) and we set a date for the home visit two days later. There was a brief panic whilst I tried to locate a rifle safe (most shotgun safes aren't deep enough for a scoped rifle, I even took my air rifle to a local farm store to see if it would fit in one of their safes) luckily the Sportsman Gun Centre came up trumps and I spent the night before my visit drilling holes and bolting my new rifle safe to the wall. The next day the FEO arrived, the kettle was on, and the first thing he said was that there was no problem with getting .223 for foxes but they wouldn't grant both the .17 and the .22 so I decided on the .22 mainly because of the noise and also because of the cost of ammo - £11.00 PER 50 .17 : £5.00 PER 50 .22 After a long friendly chat he checked the security and looked over the permission forms which I had attached to enlarged photocopies of an OS map. As luck would have it the previous week we had bought 3 acres of land at auction which will make a perfect zeroing range, so it was great to sign my own permission form as the landowner. On leaving he said that it would be about two weeks till I got my ticket. One week later I called my local RFD and put a deposit on a .223 CZ Varmint laminated stock (sale or return, just in case). The next week when my ticket was due I called Firearms HQ and was told that it would be another two weeks - ******!!! This morning I went to have a look at the .223 I had ordered - (beautiful gun) and they also had a .22 in stock which I put a deposit on. When I got home the postie had been and there was my FAC with everything on it I had asked for!!!!! Wahey. Quick u-turn, back to the gun shop and returned home with the .22 LR and the .223. Took the .22 LR down to the field this evening and had a great time zeroing it in - very accurate & very quiet. In fact the farmer next door was watching me hitting the targets at 60 yds and asked what sort of air rifle it was, it was so quiet with the mod fitted to it. I know this may **** a few people off who have been waiting for months and months, (my whole application took just less than six weeks) but it is worth it in the end. By the way, the scopes I bought were a BSA sweet 22 3-9x40 and a Bushnell Banner 3-9x50 - not the best scopes in the world I know but I'm on a limited budget and there's always Christmas coming soon (reloading kit too I hope having seen the price of .223 ammo!) Hope this encourages anyone else thinking about taking the FAC plunge - remember; it is your right to hold a firearms cert.

How do you spell that sound when you gulp with suprise and apprehension? coz that's what I just felt looking at those two 'sporting' rifles.

Got a call from my local gun shop today, the new rifle has just arrived - brilliant!!! Called the police HQ "Ahem, 'scuse me, but any idea where my FAC might be?" "Sorry Sir, another two weeks" DAMN. Then this evening we went to look at the new field we've just bought and saw 3 magnificent Roe deer grazing at the far end with a couple of bunnies for company, then the dog flushed a brace of Pheasant - (I must have done something really nice to somebody in a previous life!) Can hardly wait another two weeks.

They're not threaded at the factory, but the importers (Edgar Bros) send off batches of them for threading in this country. This adds £60 - £70 to the price. It's worth calling Edgar Bros and seeing if they've got the model you want threaded. If they haven't, then it's a 4 - 6 week wait.

Unfortunately I put the pistols into storage with a gun dealer in London whilst I was away travelling. When the Government's pathetic knee jerk reaction from Dunblane happened, the dealer had gone bust and 'done a runner', my pistols had just disappeared, presumably cut up and dumped at sea like so many others. Real shame, my S&W Mod 686 in .357 mag was the most accurate gun I've ever owned and the 9mm Beretta semi auto was the most fun. Now, some years later I've decided to get back into shooting, and have got permissions for pest control on 150 acres and am hoping that my new FAC will be dropping through the door this week, then I'm straight off to pick up a CZ .22 LR & a CZ .223, both with moderators. (fingers crossed). When it arrives I'll post a more detailed message about my whole application process which may help others trying to get their FAC granted. I've always kept my Shotgun cert renewed and enjoy shooting the odd clay, but the best day of the year is the 'Beaters Shoot' when us paupers who spend all winter flushing pheasants for 'posh nobs' get to have a go at driven birds and at least pretend that we're 'posh nobs' for the day! I gladly give up a days paid work every week in the season to get wet, cold and tired to go beating. If you haven't tried it give it a go, you'll meet some great people.