Recent content by Mr. Gain

A pleasure to relive a memorable outing through your excellent writeup.

The main thing with BBFs is only to load the barrel you plan to use. Mine is a .222/20 ga, so I will typically load a .222 cartridge and stalk the wood for muntjac, then unload and switch to a 20 ga cartridge in case I see any squirrels on the walk back. A pair of AC Contessa bases mounting...

You start from the premise that you need (a) to shoot straight and (b) not be greedy! In practice, reloads with the rifle are brisk enough (it's a kipplauf at heart).

Although at this time of year the woodland canopy is too thick to see through from above, finding adult deer in scrub or field margins isn't too hard. Because of this, I presumed it would be easy to find fawns in grass meadows. The thermal is a 640 X 512 and I'm flying at around 100 m AFL, so...

I've been looking for fawns with the thermal drone pre-mowing on a few occasions this last couple of weeks but, even with the drone, they are almost impossible to detect, as they tuck in under the grass - perhaps this is an historical precaution against large avian predators. It's the first year...

Our woods are full of roe deer racetracks right now. Bare earth churned by galloping cleaves. Deer oblivious to almost everything. Sit still within five metres of a track on a morning and it won't be long before they'll charge right past you. Wait another five to ten minutes and the chaser will...

Now, if you're old enough to be wise, you should be wise enough to know the folly of sharing wisdom on here. "Go to the range to learn", "Stalk into range", Keep things simple, Support argument with evidence and resources... In the internet age?! (Love the thread. BTW)

Where on earth did you get a new Silver's pad from? 🙏

I have a 131 on a 7x57R kipplauf and it keeps the rifle nimble. Suppression is entirely adequate.

Any use? https://ebay.io/m/Zjx7lj For the avoidance of confusion, I am not the seller and do not know the seller.

I have a nice Parker Hale "The Bisley" vice. It is designed to hold rifles, and even came with a pair of clamps to enable it to be fitted to an old-school tent pole. Perfect for Bisley Camp(ing). The original advertising even claimed that it was small enough that no housewife could object to its...

When you say "foreend assembly", what do you mean? The transfer bars and central tube, the locking ring, the magazine cap, or just the wood and polymer grip? If you need the whole lot, I suggest looking at firearm auctions and trying to find an 870 offered as a "stock action and forend", buying...

Extraordinary. His was my local gun shop as a boy. It's been a long time since I moved away from that part of the world, and had no idea he was still going. And if it's been 49 years, he can't have been open long before my first visit. Fancy that! I wish him all the very best.

Aperture sights are fine hunting tools: fast, precise, light and compact. Regular notched rear-sight leaves are a different matter, especially as eyes age. Errors of elevation are the most readily made. I used to level the top of the front post with the top of the rear leaf, but have since found...

Perhaps another difference is the attitude to ammunition. I want every round I shoot to be released as well as possible and to give me reliable information - and, where relevant, meat for the table or vermin for disposal. It's probably just YouTube exaggerating the contrast, but the UK/EU and...