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Too bad you guys get intercoursed on firearms-related components.  

Paul

Just as egregious is the near minuscule FPE limit imposed on airguns over there.
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.

Ha, I moan about this all the time, but yesterday I found out something new...

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)

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What 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

OK, well don't forget to dial in temperature, wind, humidity, altitude & of course, Coriolis effect as well.

Unfortunately the pellet sizer's I have can only size down, not up. So that's not going to help you at all. Is this a problem with the S200 mags, TDR mags or both ?. Ive not had that problem with my S501 .177 Mags.

Basically, in their simplest form, pellet sizer's are just a tapered tube, with the exit hole of the desired diameter. You just push a pellet all the way through. You can get em from Amazon for an Ayrton Senna.(10 English dollars),  The better quality ones are made by T R Rob, & are adjustable.

Aaah, i see. I was under impression the resizer could flare the skirt out to a slightly bigger OAD. Ignore me, I'll put my dunce cap back on. 

I see, so I can see why the resizer would be nice for a bit more consistency, especially with some of the junk pellets I've seen!

Yes of course. I'll just have to factor in the 'curvature of the earth' then I'll let you know.

Did you say you use a pellet resizer? Sometimes the pellets drop out of the TDR's magazine, I am wondering if a pellet resizer may help prevent that

haha, why thank you Sir. 

No, I mean, why should I? 

Ok so now i know where the label is, wanna enlighten me on the different choices and whether 0.1mm extra tight skirt (steady) will give me lasers at 1000 yards with 10.7 fpe? 

Don't worry, you can give your real opinion, nobody will jump on you (unless I organise a seance for a second opinion)

PS - I THINK we are using 5.52, the tin only says 5.5mm for some stupid reason!

Been zeroing an Air Arms S200 and newly purchased S410 TDR (very nice bit of kit!)

The S200 has done nicely with Air Arms Diabolo pellets. Lovely groups. 

The TDR came with half a tin of BSA pellets, they struggled to make sub 2 inch groups at 40 yards. Threw some of the AA Diabolos in it and it was hole on hole. Phew, that confirms the barrel's not bent 

Now need to buy more of these AA Diabolos and i see two options: 5.51mm or 5.52mm. 

The ones we've been using are 5.52. Is there any reason to try the 5.51? I'd assume not due to possibility of falling out of the fiddly little magazines, but I'd be interested in thoughts on it and why the option is there. Here's a link, more to show our American cousins the sort of prices we Brits have to suffer on the wrong side of the pond.  
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/114130828645?var=414387472745

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PS that other fox thread you referenced - wow! 
What a great 'article' that would make. Anyone searching Google for "How to skin a fox" and "Fox taxidermy diy" should find that slap bang at number one! A nice ad underneath to a decent skinning knife you'd recommend, could help pay the board's hosting dues! 

Great thread, and GREAT skinning! I could only dream of doing a job like that, always being short of time and 'rushing' is only half the problem. The new forum has the option to tap/click an image to full screen them and scroll through all images in a thread. This is a perfect example of the benefit of that, I was drooling going through the entire collection of images. And I don't eat fox  
 

That's one beautiful fox! Almost too beautiful to shoot. 
(I said "almost")
A stuffed one of those would go nice on the wall.

Speaking of owls, better test this image upload feature...

Pic taken on my phone, of a PC screen, showing a CCTV cam near our chicken pen...




My 'good lady' barred me from shooting the "cute" fox cubs we had running around the fields recently. Thankfully, little Billy solved the problem (one of them at least). I can't say how, as I live in Stalinist Britain and I might end up in the Gulags. 

 

'Officially' it was shot with a .223 expanding bullet through the module oblongata. Good enough for you officer?




While I am at it (images upload nicely don't they!), a few days away, returning home taught me yet again why I hate pet cats...

I'd bet it's factory ammo. He doesn't know how to reload. 

That's a luvverly stock Sir!

Where did you shoot him? (That's your cue to say "by the henhouse, told ya that already" )

Chilling to read the OP above, all this time (and 'stuff') later. Chilling in it's accuracy and accidental foresight (as opposed to rear sight :D )

Anyone else notice the sudden (and somewhat welcome) silence of the 'abortion lobby' (you know, the crowd who scream 'my body, my choice') over the past few years? Curious huh.

As for the view from here (UK), just a taste of what so many 'trusting and obedient citizens' went through, and continue to go through (while being attacked and called names if they dare to mention their plight)...