30-06 Too powerful for UK

[260madman]

Use the excuse you‘re shooting copper bullets and need the extra case capacity to push the bullets fast enough for reliable expansion

 

[Foxyboy43]

Bunch of pussycats - pal has a WW1 live-firing 18 pounder, albeit limited to blackpowder blanks. Now that is a real gun!

 

[alled12]

Perhaps just advise the FEO to read a history book, 308 is the short action version of 30-06. Designed originally to create a standard NATO cartridge. so if he has 308 already then 30-06 should not be a problem, its certainly not significantly more powerful. There are some variations but these tend to be around heavier bullets and are not that significant well not to justify the feo comments.
Some of these guys can be really stupid some times.

 

[alled12]

Taken all the fun away is what they've done how am I supposed to rid my garden of flying ants without a bazooka?

Personally i like a couple of brimstone missiles for that species lol

 

[Franchi Matt]

Personally i like a couple of brimstone missiles for that species lol

Open ticket?

 

[Hunter300]

He is mistaken.

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[alled12]

Open ticket?

Yep, cabinet size is a bit of a problem though lol

 

[ofbiro]

I do not discuss the prejudice more and more police officer have about firearms.
However, it is rather dangerous to have, in the same place, a .308 and a .270. The first, having a shorter case can be chambered by mistake in the latter. The result is a tragedy.

 

[Morkai]

I do not discuss the prejudice more and more police officer have about firearms.
However, it is rather dangerous to have, in the same place, a .308 and a .270. The first, having a shorter case can be chambered by mistake in the latter. The result is a tragedy.

Maybe they could be mistaken if theyre identical setups but is that very likely?

One may be wood, one may have a synthetic stock, different scopes, no scopes, one blued, one stainless.

 

[ColinJ]

Threads like this always bring out the conspiracy theorists.
Am I the only one that reads the original post and thinks that the FEO has told the OP that they haven’t demonstrated ‘good reason’ for the .30’06, and then given him an option? Sounds to me like the FEO was trying to help.

 

[ofbiro]

It happened me to take a 7x64 rifle and 7 Rem Mag ammo. Luckily, the result was just a few five letter words, as the Magnum doesn't feed into the '64.
The .308 can, unfortunately, be fired in the .270 A gunsmith told me of the accident, luckily without casualties.

 

[chrisbird]

I got a 30-06 easily. I was told however I could only use a .243 for "occasional fox control". What is an occasional fox? One you only see on a Sunday?

 

[Jh1986]

I got a 30-06 easily. I was told however I could only use a .243 for "occasional fox control". What is an occasional fox? One you only see on a Sunday?

One wearing a 3 piece suit and a top hat

 

[chrisbird]

One wearing a 3 piece suit and a top hat

Its all a bit crazy. So what i did was apply for a 223 as well. Reason for needing it... you said so

 

[Heym SR20]

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[paul o']

These! Of which I have about one hundred. He may have a wish for ditto for fox control?

And the ability to use 200 grain bullets for heavy boar. And maybe the OP has access to large amounts of surplus .30-06 ammunition at dirt cheap prices. Although the large quatities of milsurp WWII US Gov't and UK ".30 Browning" that used to go through auction dried up mostly in the late 1980s.

Wish you could still get 308/224 sabots

 

[paul o']

Seems the FEO reads threads SD

Nahh he would have said you can only have a Creedmoor

 

[User00040]

Nahh he would have said you can only have a Creedmoor PRC

 

[paul o']

And i'v got AOLQ on it pmsl as have I on all my rifles.

 

[25 Sharps]

Personally I don't think I'd rule out the possibility that someone at firearms licensing is tasked with testing the applicant to assess whether "need" (as evidenced by the applicant setting out a clear statement of why he now needs calibre x in addition to calibres a, b, and c) or whether the application is based solely on "I fancy one of them 'cos I read about them/I haven't bought a new calibre in the last n months".

I've always imagined a scenario where admin staff are trained to process applications by checking for factual errors and possibly looking for clear statements of need before filtering applications up the food chain for consideration it always seemed to me that the best approach was to put forward a well-reasoned and demonstrably true case for wanting calibre X or additional gun Y. Factor in that the processing staff will almost certainly not have any interest in firearms but will develop a working knowledge of, ahem, how their force interprets the law.

‘Need’ does not come into it, ‘good reason’ is what they are looking for.

I do not need to shoot at 2 HO approved clubs but doing so gives me good reason for multiple rifles.