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The_Dogge

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  1. I think there is some misunderstanding of the term "good reason", in the legal usage applying to firearms licensing it does not mean "you need firearm_x and nothing else will do the job", it means that you have a place where you can legally use firearm_x for the purpose for which you applied for it. The fact that a different gun would also do the job is not legally relevant to the argument. This is my reading of it, not a legal opinion, am I wrong? Of course that misunderstanding is shared by many FEOs and the argument is often had, but from what I have seen often won too, I have bumped into a few people at the range who had guns conditioned for uses which I thought was "impossible to get".
  2. I like that a lot, thanks for writing it up, I get acceptable results with the excel fiddle method, but they don't look as good as that. If I could make one suggestion, the range from the ballistic app is going to be a rounded approximation to the click value, as it is calculated for the range and rounded to the click. When I did it I changed my ballistic software to give an exact range to a click value. The clicks are the fixed discrete quantity you can't change, the range at which they are correct is continuously variable. It doesn't look as "neat" on the wrap as the ranges are not round numbers, but they are as accurate as they can be, and you can have one for every click. This is not easy to do using a ballistic app, I used my own spreadsheet based ballistic software. I think it is on this forum to download somewhere, but that version does have a known bug at transonic velocities, and doesn't have the extra feature to derive range from drop in MoA.
  3. How does this type of clamp compare to something like this http://www.bushwear.co.uk/primos-2-point-gun-rest.html ? I don't think the clamp would work so well if used on a wood stock which does not have slab sides, and if the stock was natural wood I'd think it could easily damage it. If I wanted to use a tripod with a tacticool style rifle I think I may just put a section of picatinny rail on the bottom of the stock and make a tripod to QD mount adapter. Wouldn't this be even more secure, and easier to dismount? As well as being much easier to DIY make from cheap components. What do people think of that idea? Are they available already? I made myself something like the Primos thing, in wood, and I think it works pretty well, though it's a lot bulkier to carry around than a hog saddle.
  4. Rabbit populations are "noisy", the ones I shoot have fluctuated pretty wildly in the last 10 years. In 2010 there were so many I was shooting everything from tiddlers up, and they were doing a lot of damage. This year I've seen so few I've completely left them alone so far. I've tried to understand the reasons for it, but pretty much drawn a blank, myxomatosis plays a part, but it was there in the good years too.
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