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emjaybee
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It's funny you say that. They reckon the reason people drive more considerately in the US is you don't know what they've got under the front seat.
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I get this a lot and use the same response! :naughty
On my last trip to the USA we were supposed to go the range in Las Vegas but just ran outta time!
I have a list similar to Brian's of weapon system that I've fired.... I think we might of been in the same line of work. :thumbs
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Worth every cent, did you not shoot anything in Arizona?
Didn't have time in Arizona, we went there to see the Titan 2 nuclear ICBM missile and silo (I showed them my firearms licence and they still wouldn't let me push the button) and to visit Tombstone and Boothill cemetery.
I keep the shootin' for Vegas.
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Maybe you have to be a billionaire with stupid hair and tiny hands or something...
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:lol
Is was an awesome experience. A nine storey missile that could hit anywhere in the world within 20yards, with the power to erase twenty square miles, that could be launched in 58seconds!. They used to have sixty of them.
It's also sobering to think that this is what North Korea is trying to build.
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My last Rabbit shoot (Warning not nice !)
I was raised with firearms in our house my Dad had a 0.22 rifle he mainly used short solid ammunition. He also had his Fathers old Service Revolver from the first world war as a souvenir for many years before surrendering it . I had a BSA Airsporter and a Webley Senior Air Pistol.
I would throw an empty beer can up in the air and my Dad would hit it 9 times out of 10 before it hit the ground. When I was old enough I applied for a Section 1 Firearms Certificate so I could legally use the 0.22 when we moved out into the countryside proper.
We had shooting rights on a Farm at Kirk Langley and in the grounds of Longford Hall Farm. I would go on the Rook Shoots in the woods and had a particularly good day when I shot 3 Woodcock that had landed in our back garden. I would shoot Rabbits and learnt how to skin them when they were still warm without popping the eyeballs.
Then one day when I was aged about 22 I shot a Rabbit on our back lawn at home and immediately set about skinning it. To my horror it was a Doe that was almost full term and I had three young ones among the giblets on the lawn.
All 3 little ones died within minutes and that was the last time I shot a living creature. It did not turn me into a vegetarian but if I had to kill my own meat then that would be the end of my meat eating.
After that it was targets and tin cans only. As I was a pretty good shot when I joined the Police Service I later became firearms trained for the Standard Revolver and the Snub nosed (5 round) Smith & Weson. I had to give up the Police Firearms Training when I was promoted due to the time abstraction for the rigorous training.
I was raised with firearms in our house my Dad had a 0.22 rifle he mainly used short solid ammunition. He also had his Fathers old Service Revolver from the first world war as a souvenir for many years before surrendering it . I had a BSA Airsporter and a Webley Senior Air Pistol.
I would throw an empty beer can up in the air and my Dad would hit it 9 times out of 10 before it hit the ground. When I was old enough I applied for a Section 1 Firearms Certificate so I could legally use the 0.22 when we moved out into the countryside proper.
We had shooting rights on a Farm at Kirk Langley and in the grounds of Longford Hall Farm. I would go on the Rook Shoots in the woods and had a particularly good day when I shot 3 Woodcock that had landed in our back garden. I would shoot Rabbits and learnt how to skin them when they were still warm without popping the eyeballs.
Then one day when I was aged about 22 I shot a Rabbit on our back lawn at home and immediately set about skinning it. To my horror it was a Doe that was almost full term and I had three young ones among the giblets on the lawn.
All 3 little ones died within minutes and that was the last time I shot a living creature. It did not turn me into a vegetarian but if I had to kill my own meat then that would be the end of my meat eating.
After that it was targets and tin cans only. As I was a pretty good shot when I joined the Police Service I later became firearms trained for the Standard Revolver and the Snub nosed (5 round) Smith & Weson. I had to give up the Police Firearms Training when I was promoted due to the time abstraction for the rigorous training.
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Nothing as glamorous as you lot but while in York over Easter I held a Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mark III, or SMLE Mk. III. It weighed 6kg bare. Loaded and equipped with a bayonet it would weigh 7.5 to 8kg and was almost 6 ft in length!
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Browning Xbolt Hunter Eclipse (laminate thumbhole stock) in .308 and a Winchester o/u 12ga here, mainly used for game shooting. Regular range practice as well.
Apart from foxes and flying vermin, everything I shoot is for the pot. No problems with feathers here
Differences between countries are nice to see: over here for example the .22 rimfire is prohibited (for game shooting), but you can have it for target shooting, on a different license. Hares can only be shot with a shotgun - although I don't shoot hares, there's not that many of them left here and they don't cause any damage. Woodcock is protected in my area (Flanders), 1 mile away (Wallonia) you can happily shoot them when the season is open.
Apart from foxes and flying vermin, everything I shoot is for the pot. No problems with feathers here
Differences between countries are nice to see: over here for example the .22 rimfire is prohibited (for game shooting), but you can have it for target shooting, on a different license. Hares can only be shot with a shotgun - although I don't shoot hares, there's not that many of them left here and they don't cause any damage. Woodcock is protected in my area (Flanders), 1 mile away (Wallonia) you can happily shoot them when the season is open.
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Been getting rid of some corvids round our place this weekend.
Our annual load of swallows has returned and I have to keep the corvids at sensible levels so the chicks don't get stolen from the nests.
While I had the .22 out I remembered this thread so thought I better get a pic of it.
It has a "Rimfire Magic" semi-auto action with a fairly light trigger pull with adjustable travel, a buffered receiver which is bedded into a Hogue rubber overmould stock with a floating "Green Mountain" match barrel. Moderated and with a Hawke scope. I only use Winchester subsonic rounds and it'll put bullet on bullet at 75yds.
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Our annual load of swallows has returned and I have to keep the corvids at sensible levels so the chicks don't get stolen from the nests.
While I had the .22 out I remembered this thread so thought I better get a pic of it.
It has a "Rimfire Magic" semi-auto action with a fairly light trigger pull with adjustable travel, a buffered receiver which is bedded into a Hogue rubber overmould stock with a floating "Green Mountain" match barrel. Moderated and with a Hawke scope. I only use Winchester subsonic rounds and it'll put bullet on bullet at 75yds.
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Wow, Rick
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That is a nice gun fella, I've actually been to Rimfire magic hq ages ago.
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Did no know you were into guns Tdoug, I could have shown you mine, not the normal I can assure you, Rick
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Guns, you're bad enough with that truck :lol, there's always next time though :thumb2
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Lol. Cracking videos at slindon though.
Can only imagine Ricks guns. Surely they've been modified in some way :lol
I do a fair bit of stalking and fox control. I used to shoot a lot of pheasant, but I've kind of lost the lust for it now and just mainly stick to stalking and pest control now. I have A-bolts in 22-250, .270 and a CZ452 in .22, as well as my White Diamond 12b :thumb2
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I like the cz's :thumb2
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I have the same stock on my 10/22... It feels great in the hand and I never feel like I'd let it slip on a wet day!
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Dirty Harry Magnum
This post has reminded me of an amusing little incident back in 1984/5.
At that time the Underground Range at Police HQ would let members of the public use the Range one evening a week if accompanied by a member. I sometimes took a mate with me. You could take your own gun provided you produced your Firearms Certificate or you could use one of the Gun Club Weapons - mainly S&W 0.38 6 inch revolvers.
I used to go just before my Police Test was due to keep my eye in as a score of less than 38 out of 40 would lead to suspension as an Authorised Firearms Carrier. (It's a much harder test now I think).
Anyway this particular evening there was a bloke on the range next to me and he had this fantastic looking handgun a Polished Chrome / Stainless Magnum and every time he fired the thing the noise would make me jump even wearing the ear defenders.
I fired my 6 rounds and he emptied his magazine at his target. When the target were wound up to us I found 8 holes in my target ! His was a neat zero not a round had hit his target.
This post has reminded me of an amusing little incident back in 1984/5.
At that time the Underground Range at Police HQ would let members of the public use the Range one evening a week if accompanied by a member. I sometimes took a mate with me. You could take your own gun provided you produced your Firearms Certificate or you could use one of the Gun Club Weapons - mainly S&W 0.38 6 inch revolvers.
I used to go just before my Police Test was due to keep my eye in as a score of less than 38 out of 40 would lead to suspension as an Authorised Firearms Carrier. (It's a much harder test now I think).
Anyway this particular evening there was a bloke on the range next to me and he had this fantastic looking handgun a Polished Chrome / Stainless Magnum and every time he fired the thing the noise would make me jump even wearing the ear defenders.
I fired my 6 rounds and he emptied his magazine at his target. When the target were wound up to us I found 8 holes in my target ! His was a neat zero not a round had hit his target.
