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AIR GUNS / Re: 5.52mm vs 5.51mm pellets -...
Last post by SmokeyJoe - May 09, 2024, 04:43:24 AMQuote from: Jamie.270 on May 03, 2024, 05:30:45 AMHa, I moan about this all the time, but yesterday I found out something new...Quote from: gitano on May 02, 2024, 08:43:16 AMToo bad you guys get intercoursed on firearms-related components.Just as egregious is the near minuscule FPE limit imposed on airguns over there.
Paul
I'd like to have a .25 cal PCP myself. something that will push a lead pellet to 700-900 FPS.
But I struggle with justifying the cost of the compressor.
In Germany (a nation in the Union of Soviet Socialist European Republics) - their air rifle limit is HALF the limit here in the UK, at just 6 FPE. I nearly fell off my chair when I read that. Europe has gone to the dogs, and they've all been put down.
PS I have seen some very fun looking .50 cal PCPs, only in the land of the free of course, but at least our government lets us watch (drool) over youtube videos from your neck of the woods. (For now anyway)
#12
AIR GUNS / Re: 5.52mm vs 5.51mm pellets -...
Last post by SmokeyJoe - May 09, 2024, 04:40:26 AMQuote from: gitano on May 02, 2024, 08:33:04 AMWhat I don't know about air rifles would fill volumes. Yet here I am commenting. All I can add is my experience with centerfire ammo.
Bullets for the .44 Rem Mag come in two diameters: 0.429", and 0.430". The 0.429" bullets shoot "patterns" from my revolvers, the .430s shoot groups.
Soviet-made rifles have bores that range in diameter from 0.306" to 0.314". The larger the bore, the crappier they shoot. Small-bored rifles get .308 bullets, large-bored rifles get .311 bullets. I had a brand new Soviet M44 that couldn't keep all of its shots on a 4-FOOT X 3-FOOT piece of sheetrock at 40 paces!
From what I've read, skirt diameter on pellets is critical to precision. That said, 0.01mm is 0.00039". While "stranger things have happened", it would certainly surprise me that that would make a SIGNIFICANT difference in precision. On the other hand, if it didn't, why would 'they' make the two sizes? Personally, I'd expect the bigger ones to shoot straighter, BUT, I'd shoot the ones that ACTUALLY shot the straightest. (Duh).
Paul
PS - Regarding pellet resizers: To make 'em bigger, seems like a cone one could push into the skirt to 'over' enlarge it, followed by pushing the pellet through the 'tube' of desired size, would be a method for "sizing up".
Paul
PPS - Kinda wish I had an excuse to get a nice Pre-charged pneumatic rifle like one of those.
Paul
Thanks. I'd happily send you a nice PCP air rifle, if only it didn't put me on a watch list!
Yeah I think Steve sussed it with the 'falling out' problem. Many of these air rifles have very different designs of magazines for the pellets, and I've seen some where pellets just drop straight through so they fall out in your pocket etc. nothing worse than lining up a buffalo, only to find your 13 grain pellet fell out of the hole and didn't get 'chambered'. Oh, what a joy to be a Brit.
That said, I've noticed a lot of Americans seem to like the Hammerli 850 Magnum (AKA Walther Rotex) for garden plinking, and of course you are allowed to have it at over 12 foot pounds
#13
Parker Hale/BSA Rifles / Re: Wanted BSA firearms histor...
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#14
BRITISH OUTDOORS / Re: The Hunter's Life View of ...
Last post by gitano - May 07, 2024, 07:11:29 AMThat should be better for you Gabe.
Paul
Paul
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BRITISH OUTDOORS / Re: The Hunter's Life View of ...
Last post by Gabe - May 07, 2024, 01:51:59 AMHow dou you make it looks dark?
#16
AIR GUNS / Re: 5.52mm vs 5.51mm pellets -...
Last post by gitano - May 03, 2024, 06:10:27 AMI have the exact same wish and hesitancy.
The FPE restriction, while stupid and egregious, at least "makes sense", in the context of the British authority's restricting firearms. To illustrate what I mean, our "shotgun only" hunting states are equally illogical. You can't use a "rifle" to hunt with, but you CAN use a shotgun, with a slug, from a shotgun WITH A FULLY RIFLED BARREL that will cast that projectile at least 300 yd. If people in GB were allowed to use UNLICENSED pneumatic firearms of ANY FPE, then they would make them powerful enough to kill people. GB citizens CAN possess pneumatic arms with FPEs greater than 12, BUT, they have to be included on the owner's LICENSE.
I have always thought a .25 caliber PCP would be a great gun to have 'around'.
Paul
The FPE restriction, while stupid and egregious, at least "makes sense", in the context of the British authority's restricting firearms. To illustrate what I mean, our "shotgun only" hunting states are equally illogical. You can't use a "rifle" to hunt with, but you CAN use a shotgun, with a slug, from a shotgun WITH A FULLY RIFLED BARREL that will cast that projectile at least 300 yd. If people in GB were allowed to use UNLICENSED pneumatic firearms of ANY FPE, then they would make them powerful enough to kill people. GB citizens CAN possess pneumatic arms with FPEs greater than 12, BUT, they have to be included on the owner's LICENSE.
I have always thought a .25 caliber PCP would be a great gun to have 'around'.
Paul
#17
AIR GUNS / Re: 5.52mm vs 5.51mm pellets -...
Last post by Jamie.270 - May 03, 2024, 05:30:45 AMQuote from: gitano on May 02, 2024, 08:43:16 AMToo bad you guys get intercoursed on firearms-related components.Just as egregious is the near minuscule FPE limit imposed on airguns over there.
Paul
I'd like to have a .25 cal PCP myself. something that will push a lead pellet to 700-900 FPS.
But I struggle with justifying the cost of the compressor.
#18
AIR GUNS / Re: 5.52mm vs 5.51mm pellets -...
Last post by gitano - May 02, 2024, 08:43:16 AMToo bad you guys get intercoursed on firearms-related components. 
Paul
Paul
#19
AIR GUNS / Re: 5.52mm vs 5.51mm pellets -...
Last post by gitano - May 02, 2024, 08:33:04 AMWhat I don't know about air rifles would fill volumes. Yet here I am commenting. All I can add is my experience with centerfire ammo.
Bullets for the .44 Rem Mag come in two diameters: 0.429", and 0.430". The 0.429" bullets shoot "patterns" from my revolvers, the .430s shoot groups.
Soviet-made rifles have bores that range in diameter from 0.306" to 0.314". The larger the bore, the crappier they shoot. Small-bored rifles get .308 bullets, large-bored rifles get .311 bullets. I had a brand new Soviet M44 that couldn't keep all of its shots on a 4-FOOT X 3-FOOT piece of sheetrock at 40 paces!
From what I've read, skirt diameter on pellets is critical to precision. That said, 0.01mm is 0.00039". While "stranger things have happened", it would certainly surprise me that that would make a SIGNIFICANT difference in precision. On the other hand, if it didn't, why would 'they' make the two sizes? Personally, I'd expect the bigger ones to shoot straighter, BUT, I'd shoot the ones that ACTUALLY shot the straightest. (Duh).
Paul
PS - Regarding pellet resizers: To make 'em bigger, seems like a cone one could push into the skirt to 'over' enlarge it, followed by pushing the pellet through the 'tube' of desired size, would be a method for "sizing up".
Paul
PPS - Kinda wish I had an excuse to get a nice Pre-charged pneumatic rifle like one of those.
Paul
Bullets for the .44 Rem Mag come in two diameters: 0.429", and 0.430". The 0.429" bullets shoot "patterns" from my revolvers, the .430s shoot groups.
Soviet-made rifles have bores that range in diameter from 0.306" to 0.314". The larger the bore, the crappier they shoot. Small-bored rifles get .308 bullets, large-bored rifles get .311 bullets. I had a brand new Soviet M44 that couldn't keep all of its shots on a 4-FOOT X 3-FOOT piece of sheetrock at 40 paces!
From what I've read, skirt diameter on pellets is critical to precision. That said, 0.01mm is 0.00039". While "stranger things have happened", it would certainly surprise me that that would make a SIGNIFICANT difference in precision. On the other hand, if it didn't, why would 'they' make the two sizes? Personally, I'd expect the bigger ones to shoot straighter, BUT, I'd shoot the ones that ACTUALLY shot the straightest. (Duh).
Paul
PS - Regarding pellet resizers: To make 'em bigger, seems like a cone one could push into the skirt to 'over' enlarge it, followed by pushing the pellet through the 'tube' of desired size, would be a method for "sizing up".
Paul
PPS - Kinda wish I had an excuse to get a nice Pre-charged pneumatic rifle like one of those.
Paul
#20
AUSTRALIAN OUTDOORS / Re: Teaming up on the foxes in...
Last post by branxhunter - April 30, 2024, 02:46:16 AMHello Gabe.
While I am sure the scope could be made to fit I'm not sure whether the cantilever mount would Sakos have a tapered dovetail on top of the receiver.
Marcus
While I am sure the scope could be made to fit I'm not sure whether the cantilever mount would Sakos have a tapered dovetail on top of the receiver.
Marcus