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The above is off piste from the thread, sorry, but I felt worthwhile. Legal cover can only defend the defensible. Make your position watertight in the first place.

Can of worms, this problem of stopping somewhere with firearms on board. This year during my licence renewal, the inspecting Firearms Officer had a useful chat. In summary he said:- 1. Transporting guns should, ideally, be non stop between points of storage and use. Comfort breaks, refuelling...

Update: Having bought the appropriate Stalon lug I tried to remove the 14x1 unit. It wouldn’t budge and I don’t want to wreck the whole thing. What are GMK charging?

Faecal bacteria, yes. E. coli anyone? To put it in proportion, the longer the circulation persists, the greater the risk. If the carcass is then well hung, then the meat cooked rare we compound the problem. Cleary, that risk is must be small judging from the numbers of shot animals handled this...

Consumption of Roadkill: Yes, it’s a great tradition, but even if the animal is freshly injured and assuming the gut is intact, the beast is shocked. In shock, circulatory changes take place leading to the gut dumping unsavoury faecal bacteria into the bloodstream. This is delivered into the...

Two points. 1.Road kill is not supposed to enter the human food chain (someone will no doubt be able to quote the law verbatim, please). There are good hygiene reasons for this. 2. My Firearms Licensing department no longer put HAD on an FAC.You must tell the Police what you are about to do if a...

Hi Chill, If Griff has sold I can help with a 75 synthetic stock, either a 3 or 4, both in good condition. Early on I changed to fancy aftermarket units for both guns.

Try Zarimex in Bulgaria if you want to change the thread in an existing mod.

I did say that I think the basic thread is 18x1. When I get a reducing lug (currently on order) I’ll post the results.

A bit late for you but, for what it’s worth, there are suitable replacement lugs out there to enable you to match your muzzle thread to the moderator. Zarimex, in Bulgaria, have a vast range of brand specific lugs for every muzzle thread known. The postage doubles the 20 euro price tag. Dauntsey...

Thank you. Mea culpa. I’ve replied elsewhere re my MV mistake. I misread the columns. The heart was cleanly separated from the great vessels. There were two neat 3-4” slices through the lungs from the other two shots. No obvious shock damage.

My error, sorry, and thank you. At 250yds MV should be 2313fps using shooterscalculator.com. I read the adjacent muzzle energy column by mistake. The stag did not react to the shots. This brings me back to my concern that those three LRX bullets did not appear to expand, two leaving tiny exit...

Your input is much appreciated. Thank you! Hornady have replied to my query saying I need 2000fps terminal velocity for their ECX, but they didn’t specify which weight/calibre. That doesn’t seem like the rapidly expanding product implied in their advertising. Doesn’t real world deer stslking...

Thanks for that. LRXs expand down to 1600fps. I’ve looked up the ballistics on my round. It would be doing only 1525fps which explains the tiny exit wounds and no sign of shock on impact.

Re LRXs: I wrote on the Ammunition Reloading and Ballistics thread yesterday that I’d had problems with a stag which I was surprised didn’t tumble after three chest shots but walked off calmly with his group and dropped 25 metres away. Admittedly only my trusted 6.5x55 not 30-06, and at 245...