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You just need a good reason to acquire
Are you required to demonstrate how many deer/boar/foxes you wound each year to justify granting a Section 5 bit of kit?
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Not if you live under avon and somersets jurisdiction!
Had letters from 3 farmers saying i dispatch on a weekly basis, found a few photos on the web of idiots up ladders with rifles/shotguns to horses foreheads explaining this is the exact situation i want to avoid for my own saftey, not to mention use if needed when taking clients out over 3k acres, after 4months and then weekly calls and getting fobbed off i had a phone call from quite high up ( i wont put his name up here) saying not so subtly to stop wasting his time and basically dont apply again, my licence was sent out 2 days later minus any revolver added.
I only applied for 2 shot 38spl
When I applied for section 5 the Kent FAC officer initially put up a few barriers, however, as I could prove I regularly shoot large game and required a method of dispatch on the grounds of safety, the officer / Firearms Manager could not decline my application. Not sure if the same argument would work with fox.
Triggermortis
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You may find it possible to have a .410 shot pistol conditioned on your sec 1 FAC with or without solid slugs, some forces are more comfortable with granting a variation for one of these as opposed to a centre fire pistol.
Either way you will need to get your FEO to support your application 100% before they send the paperwork upstairs for approval.
Either way you will need to get your FEO to support your application 100% before they send the paperwork upstairs for approval.
nauman
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nauman
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Thanx
sikamalc
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I have had a dispatch revolver for a number of years. My FEO at the time offered to put it on my ticket, although I declined at first, I accepted it and have a 357. I have used it a number of times, and always carry it in Scotland when hunting Sika stags in thick forestry. With a tracking dog, I think its important to have one, most results in thick cover in failing light require a quick dispatch shot.
We take a lot of clients each year across all the species, and both of the two guides who work for me have now got a dispatch weapon each. This came to ahead last winter when we had 3 wounded Fallow in one weekend with clients. A simple letter with good reason was produced by myself and they both were granted one.
You must have good reason.
We take a lot of clients each year across all the species, and both of the two guides who work for me have now got a dispatch weapon each. This came to ahead last winter when we had 3 wounded Fallow in one weekend with clients. A simple letter with good reason was produced by myself and they both were granted one.
You must have good reason.
The above makes a lot of sense having stalked Scottish sika on the West Coast. Similarly I can see the justification if involved with a lot of Deer RTA’s as somewhat more ‘discreet’ than a tacticool 25 Creedmoor, topped with a telescope S&B PM2!
Of course the ideal peice of kit, that pretty much covers all eventualities, is a nice wee stutzen in a deer-legal calibre.
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Of course the ideal peice of kit, that pretty much covers all eventualities, is a nice wee stutzen in a deer-legal calibre.
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Norfolk Deer Search
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Having had a pistol for humane dispatch, I decided that it does nothing that a rifle/410 or knife cant do.
What’s the position with a suppressed pistol such as the following?
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Looks to me as just the ticket and ticks all boxes.
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POTD: The Very Hush B&T VP9 (Veterinary Pistol)
Today’s Photo is the B&T VP9 (Veterinary Pistol) – a firearm that many would like to own, but few can.(sorry, that’s was unintentional)The picture is from Vogt Waffen AG in Switzerland, used with kind permission.B&T veterinary pistol VP9 suppressed, cal.
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I doubt a subsonic 9mm will be considered man enough!What’s the position with a suppressed pistol such as the following?
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Looks to me as just the ticket and ticks all boxes.POTD: The Very Hush B&T VP9 (Veterinary Pistol)
Today’s Photo is the B&T VP9 (Veterinary Pistol) – a firearm that many would like to own, but few can.(sorry, that’s was unintentional)The picture is from Vogt Waffen AG in Switzerland, used with kind permission.B&T veterinary pistol VP9 suppressed, cal.
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"Now given all this excitement, you gotta be asking yourself, did he fire six shots or only five?"
"Considering this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, which would blow your head clean off, go ahead and ask yourself another question, 'Do I feel lucky?'"
'Well do ya feel lucky, punk?
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You are probably a softer target than a boar's head.
300 meters per second 147 grain bullet ?, not on your nelly!
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