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Thanks this looks different from mine from the time when I did strip it on regular basis! I seem to rember 

Looking back to other posts Dave aka Baldi seems to have a hand in the development of the mod so could be of some help.

Well I put my hands up and come clean I haven't stripped my excellent one less Charly mod for a very long time! 

Now I can't even rember which end comes off, I have a set of 308 bafels to try on it I just found today ,so I gues its the plate on the end furthest from the barrel crown? Also every thing is slightly  seized up totally my fault lack of maintenance, I seem to remember Colin posting that he was no  longer making this superb moderator any advice would be greatly received.

I was advised to contact Kent police by a friend who is a serving officer who I shoot with I think it was good advice as it seems every county has its own policy ( we see this a lot don't we ) 

kent were really helpful and used the fraze common sense a lot I'm very impressed with the answers I got from both the main office and my local enquiry officer. 

Common sense dictates I'm more at risk riding a horse or using a chain saw both of which I do a lot of as part of my work.

 I spoke to Kent firearms straight away when the lockdown started and was told as long as I'm by myself and I had my permission slips with me I'm fine.

 I have been told in other counties that is not the case anybody heard different ?

I have a couple of Night masters 800   Surplus to  requirements  would be happy to sell one or both both are in excellent condition PM me if interested they work very well with digital night vision 

Vit550'works very well in my 243win Dolphin Neska using 95g heads shoots very flat and no pressure signs 

then what do I know !! 

Happy with the two Drones and The Ward digital plus the Ward Thermal mk2 Both the Drones have killed out too 300 yards although I consider this as far out as I ever want to shoot at night it's a proper  measured 300 yards not imagined at night that's more than enough  the Ward digi has killed at just short at 296yards all my long range kills I mark and measure the next day The thermal scope is very good at 240 that's as far as I've shot and killed it's still down to  The stability of the shooting platform all the longshots have been from a truck.

I have no  doubt that as things move on there are better NV platforms available 

Time to work up a load for two 223 a 204 and the 22-250 happy days I keep telling myself 

No I haven't looked through a Pard 008lrf / dark engine 

In my opinion the order of  Digital dedicated nightvision is this 

The Ward  Digital with rangefinder 

The mark two Drone with ten times mag ( Best day light scope performance) 

The mark one Drone with the doubler 

The mark three Drone with fifteen times mag ( just narrowed the field of view too much ) 

The Pulser 870 

The Ward sun ranger  illuminator greatly improves all the above  

 Or you can make a massive jump in money and buy a really good quality thermal scope. 

I'm still at it but not having the same experience as a few years ago when two or three of us would team up and drive round in one truck. I love my long barrelled dolphin  built 223 with a drone one then drone two on top. Then I had a 22-250 the same speck built for the bigger flat fields I never felt happy with the caliber but have just shot one fox with it last week with the ward  Digital nightvision set up on it,then  started to use my 243 RPA  shooting 95 grain Noslers very flat at 200 yards and hard hitting out to 300 yards and a hit on the fox was a dead fox.I sold the 243 on here and after replacing it with another Dolphin  creation yet to put nightvision on itjust looking forward to have the time to try it with the ward digital scope this week as that's fitted with a range finder.  But my main fox in rifle is a lightweight carbon barrel 223 yet again built by Dolphins I've had the Ward  thermal scope on it but after some unexplained missing caused by shooter error I've just fitted it with a mark two drone.Shot a barren vixen with that off sticks yesterday.

 I'm missing the long distance rabiting diseases has ravaged the rabbit population on our farm and neighbouring farms but I have just been asked to control a large field which is full of rabbits so looking forward to that with that in mind I've pulled out the 204 this week I bought a box of Foikey 40g some time ago it loves them so that gives me a great start to work up a load from. It won't see any use on foxs as it's another heavy rifle.

i find I've had enough by 1pm these days but being forced to take time off work means I mite have an all nighter this week.

 I too have not been posting much I got fed up of the negative response so have kept to the odd post on Fclass and reloading. Perhaps it's time for us varminters to take back our  section of the forum with tasteful posts of course!! 

I've seen you shoot your fare share of vbulls and bulls No i deer !!

persanally I don't see the value in trying to plot an inch as it were when you're trying to hit that vbul at 600 o 1200 yards just read the wind and take the shot don't hang around getting the shot fired and give the wind a chance to change make your mind up and shoot 

and no I'm not saying don't plot but plotting is a part of it plotting tells you if your load is working etc 

All the above plus  check Parallex adjustment on the scope Parallex isn't there just to make the target look clearer  

If your a BASC member you should have had an email with a link to the Defra web site asking you to support  option four basically leave well alone.

I'm not going to go over the arguments for or against just trying to inform any one who might want to make the case for keeping the stalking industry alive in the uk.

Correction 

it does for me 

Bob the  Fox  whisperer  😂😂😂

i know you shoot a lot of fox Bob so what load are you using in the 204 ? And what  velocity are you getting? Please if it's working for you then when I've got time I'll revisit the  204 with a 39g or 40g load and see what it does or me.

On second thoughts just get a 22-250 or 243 win job done it's what I also use for the longer range over 200 yards permissions.

I was using 32g rounds not 39g or 40g 

still wont convert me though !!

1 hour ago, BuckhurstBen said:

Dear Op

  Think Iv butted in on conversations regarding 204R before but I’ll mention my findings again. I had a lovely Sako 85 in 204R with a 20 inch barrel and shot hundreds of foxes over a couple of years but could never get the velocity I wanted and after failing to get it rebarreled to a sensible 26 inch sold it. ( I only say sensible as I can’t see the point in running a high velocity round out of a short barrel if your chasing “laser tragectories” ). I got a bit pissed off with the 204R because I missed the odd one due to the small bullets 32-39 gn not bucking the wind all that well at 2-350m. Also the only foxes I had run shot with it were ones shoulder shot, which happened a few times. I came to the conclusion it didn’t penetrate all that well on say a big dog fox. 

If you want to cleanly kill foxes every time I’d recommend a .223 caliber pushing a 50-55gn bullet as fast as you can get it. Or better still a 6mm. 

If your only going to shoot the occasional fox and not go out in all weather get the 204R. But if your serious about it maybe get something other than what a lot of other people recommend as good for “rabbits and crows”. 

Ill say it again you can never over gun a fox! 

Ben

I  totally agree Ben 

 Group shown for the 204 100 yards with 8  shots speaks for itself in my opinion for the size of the group that bad at a hundred yards I wouldn't think of trying to hit anything at 300 or 400 or 500  

 Both my 233  shoot a near-perfect group with factory Ammo  five shots one ragged whole 100 yards  both built  buy Mick at Dolphins 

 On my old bate site I was away shooting foxes 100 210 yards with a 204 and I had the same problem with the shoulder shot 

I had an interceptor in 243 it had one of the last boreder barel I sold it on on here and can honestly say I wish I hadn't as it was just so accurate. 

I sold it as I had a lighter custom dolphin rifle built but despite the dolphin rifle being really good and just as accurate and shooting exactly the same load using the 95g nosler tip with Vit550 and lap brass i some how mis that RPA !!

I thought these pards were ment to be as good as a drone Pro sure don't sound like it!!

No ideer your always welcome to come Foxing in Kent a long trip I know for you but I might convince you that NV is the way to go!! 

If there's a lamp there's got to be a shadow basic  Physics I gues light cant travel through a fox 🙃

No I deer 

 Please correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure you don't shoot using nightvision ?

 Casting my mind back to the days of lamping I do understand what you mean you do then get a shadow and that shadow appears different. On stubble  

 I've now come to the conclusion it's two different factors factor one factory ammo factor two the  new lightweight  walk and stalk 223 rifle sits on top of the yolk  of my bog pod sticks  i've just ordered a pig saddle set up from Scott country as the stock of the new rifle will sit well   Using this  set up I'm hoping .

I've got a custom 204 Howa action Roger barel and stock fitted by RPA 

I simply won't recommend it over my pair of 223 

the 233 has more off the shelf Ammo  available is dead easy to reload for and in my personal experience kills foxes a lot better than the 204 I know there's going to be people on here that's going to argue with this but I'm just putting forward my personal experience.

I really like the 204 as a go to for the long-range rabbit rifle 32 g bullets easy for 300 yards Bunnys.