Norfolk Deer Search
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I am sorry, but you don’t half run on some dribble!
Carrying magazines - best practice?
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Please enlighten us to what we have got wrong.
There, I said it nicely
shakey jake
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He wont tell you, load if noise then absolute silence.
Im still waiting for him to tell me law he thought protects hares at night
TringSaint
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Loaded mag in side pocket of rifle case.
Mag gets inserted into rifle when I am on the ground (ie over perimeter gate/fence) and then load as appropriate.
In this day and the age we live in surely the sensible thing to do is to load the magazine when you have parked up at the stalking ground I don't think that the equation muzzle velocity × 70mph ÷ by the m6 would cut much sympathy with the police, shooting across a road if you think its safe are you joking I didn't realise you could now print your own fac .
timbrayford
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If the highway is part of your permission you can shoot from it provided that you don't "annoy, interrupt or endanger people using it" applies also to footpaths, bridleways, byways and cycle tracks!
RescueMe0007
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I never load my magazine until I get to the area I intend to stalk in. Last thing I do before leaving the vehicle is load my magazine and insert into the rifle. I then carry five rounds in a stripper clip in the left breast pocket of my jacket. The chances of my firing eight rounds are negligible, the most I've ever fired at deer on any one outing has been three. While travelling the firearm is unloaded and the ammo in a separate locked box (as is required in this jurisdiction). I have been stopped once by the Gardai but they did not seek to review my security arrangements, only checked that the firearm was not visible from outside the car.
Witnessing more than one negligent discharge from Blaser I don’t think I would even stalk with a round chambered
Norfolk Deer Search
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Add that to the ‘Blaser Click’ one has to wonder why people spend the money
6 pages of so-called enlightened guidance to the Op and still no one has nailed it by stating the glaringly obvious and correct answer:
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timbrayford
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Accuracy
nf-fuse
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What's the moa guarantee on them?
Norfolk Deer Search
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I’ve seen very few accurate blasers
timbrayford
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Haven't got the foggiest idea
This has gone a bit 'off piste' form the Ops post and I may be a bit out of date here, but I'm sure someone will correct me.
Highways do not belong to the land owner/holder of the deer shooting rights.
You are correct in that you may shoot over a public right of way with the provisos you mentioned, but not from it.
Much as a deer that you shoot on your land which then dies on a highway is legally not yours to remove and keep. It belongs to the highway authority.
timbrayford
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It depends very much on whether it is a private or public road, a highway is merely a right to pass and repass, it's by no means unusual to shoot from a farm or estate road subject to the aforementioned caveats, regardless of public access to it.
That is undoubtedly true - but would the rifle's condition be any less 'legal' if the magazine were fitted to it?
Does the learnéd book you've quoted give any circumstances where a loaded S1 firearm has different status in law to an unloaded one, when the person in whose possession it is also has ammunition for it with him?
I'd agree that it's sensible not to have a rifle any more 'loaded' than it needs to be for the purpose in hand - and so there's a good argument for not having a fixed magazine charged, or not having a charged magazine fitted, if you're only on your way to some ground.
That is a different question to whether the chargedness or otherwise of the (fixed or fitted) magazine of a S1 firearm makes any difference to whether it is lawfully or unlawfully possessed in public.
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