Lets see your Guns.

[Johnsond]

12 minutes ago, GarethM said:

I did leave it for @Johnsond, those sorts of distances are a bit outside my acres.

 

I actually checked two of my longest fields together maxed at 600yards to the barbwire 🙂.

Gareth the best shooting I do by far is 22lr subsonic pest work, or messing around at 150-200m with the same calibre. Good fun zero noise issues and hones your skills just the same. Cheap too. 

[GarethM]

23 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

Gareth the best shooting I do by far is 22lr subsonic pest work, or messing around at 150-200m with the same calibre. Good fun zero noise issues and hones your skills just the same. Cheap too. 

I have HMR & LR with an empty slot for 556, but in all honesty 90% of the time I use the FAC 22 air rifle.

 

Dirt cheap, quiet, bloody accurate to 80m and almost identical to the standard air rifle if noticed by walkers.

 

I'd never say I don't need the bigger stuff, had wanted to get more into foxes but earning a living and farming doesn't leave much time for sleep or foxing.

[Stubby]

Something I didn't know ( but you guys probably did ) Is that the .303 Lee-Enfield No4 T . was sorted from different batches to pick the best performing ones strait out of the box . They were then sent to Holland and Holland to be made into top spec sniper rifles . The scope that was fitted  ( No 32 telescope ) shared the serial number of the rifle so that they always kept together . If you can find a genuine one they are worth a lot of dosh . A lot of fakes out there though .

[GarethM]

22 minutes ago, Stubby said:

Something I didn't know ( but you guys probably did ) Is that the .303 Lee-Enfield No4 T . was sorted from different batches to pick the best performing ones strait out of the box . They were then sent to Holland and Holland to be made into top spec sniper rifles . The scope that was fitted  ( No 32 telescope ) shared the serial number of the rifle so that they always kept together . If you can find a genuine one they are worth a lot of dosh . A lot of fakes out there though .

You been watching bloke on the range ?

[Stubby]

8 minutes ago, GarethM said:

You been watching bloke on the range ?

In a book by Steve Houghton . The British Sniper : A century of evolution .

[GarethM]

23 minutes ago, Stubby said:

In a book by Steve Houghton . The British Sniper : A century of evolution .

Ah yeah, think Ian McCollum talked about it a while back and Jonathan Ferguson.

 

Isn't that the book with a good section on the beginnings of Accuracy International?.

 

It started in a shed, is supposedly a great read.

Edited January 3 by GarethM

[Stubby]

The cost of a grant , renewal , co terminus variation etc etc is going up by a fair old chunk !

[GarethM]

Headlines say £400, that's before any lead banning etc.

 

Hopefully they'll extend the period but not holding my breath, hows the airgun thing work in Scotland as they're all fac aren't they ?.

[Stubby]

2 minutes ago, GarethM said:

Headlines say £400, that's before any lead banning etc.

 

Hopefully they'll extend the period but not holding my breath, hows the airgun thing work in Scotland as they're all fac aren't they ?.

Dunnow my self living in West Sussex .

[GarethM]

Just now, Stubby said:

Dunnow my self living in West Sussex .

Kinda why I was asked, as that's gotta add a huge amount of numbers & money across the whole of Scotland.

 

That and wanting to ban lead, they gave airguns a pass for now.

 

As those promethium pellets were a bloody liability, let's litter the fields with plastic in the name of the environment.