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Old February 22nd, 2007
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Re: No Fish Stew

Do some air rifle hunting myself, with either my Air Arms Pro Sport or Weihrauch HW100.

Both are legal limit and I've no intention to go FAC.

The thing is Huw you may up the power of your rifle but the range you can effectively use it over is limited by your accuracy, not its power. Remember the target area for an airirfle on woodies or rabbits is about the size of a 50p, no more. If you can hit that you're not going to stop them, no matter how high crank it up.

Also, I'm not sure your AA S200, great rifle though it is, goes much higher than 20ftlbs, not without reducing the number of available shots to single figures anyway! The Rapid has a much bigger air cylinder and so many more shots at the higher power.

And similar to a previous story I was holded up once and shot a crow, seemingly stoned, left it under a bush and returned to my hiding place. Half an hour later out it walks and flies away!

I'm currently feeding up some woodies that are frequenting my new garden...they think they're onto a good source of free seed...little do they know whats going to be waiting for them one day! Might have to try one of them recipes
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