Do they do it in copper?
50BMG for Deer/Boar/AOLQ?
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alberta boy
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If it's a quad mount mounted on a deuce and a half , I'm in .
AB
AB
Sorry!, NO!, I want to see your booked Africa trip.
Len the dog
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Do they do it in Vmax for fox?
I thought your historic .222 covered everything...........Considering the amount of willy waving going on between 'Big' and 'Small' calibres (some think others are small compared to theirs, and vise versa...
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Any of you lot got a 50BMG for deer/boar/AOLQ?
Pic of your FAC to prove!
By the way, I don't need or want one as I have a .22RF which is better in every way
Pic of your FAC to prove!How is the application going btw?
Len the dog
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That’s after you’ve had your trousers pulled down buying the ammo.
Ranger22
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Think I saw him talking about it weeks later, very lucky to be alive.
kenbro
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Or, better still?..... .50 Creedmoor.
K.
tikkathreebarrels
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It probably depends on the whim of the firearms licensing team; just so long as you don't ask for personnel and materiel destruction when you slap the variation in. Better ask for moderator whilst you're at it and offer to withdraw your request for 30-06.Is that right that 50BMG is restricted to muntjac only in England and Wales, but is legal for roe if north of Hadrian's wall.
C h r i s
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This works a treat, actually makes shooting the round a pleasure.
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DUAL-Fifty - Ase Utra
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8x57
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Not exactly faulty ammo, he was using a type of ammo (SLAP) in his Serbu RN-50 that was specifically advised against by the gun's makers.
Bad rifle design if it’s the video I’m thinking of.
palmer_mike
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I can vouch for that!
That sounds like a good freedom of information request.
The .50BMG has never really interested me. That could be due to range restrictions I suppose, but also cartridge size. I'm not a fan of big heavy rifles, and I don't suppose it would be pleasant from a sporter weight rifle! Would I have one if I was allowed one for deer? I'd probably try it because that's what I do. Why not?
Is it really willy waving when someone gets a big calibre for deer? It's an achievement, yes, but more a reflection of effort put in and luck of the county draw. I like to post about what I've got sometimes but that's not because I want other people to be impressed, it's because I like to see people have what they ask for. Forums like this should be a supportive community - if I can be seen as an example of someone who has something unusual, others are less likely to give up trying to get one. The more people pick up something unusual, the easier it gets for everyone.
The .50BMG has never really interested me. That could be due to range restrictions I suppose, but also cartridge size. I'm not a fan of big heavy rifles, and I don't suppose it would be pleasant from a sporter weight rifle! Would I have one if I was allowed one for deer? I'd probably try it because that's what I do. Why not?
Is it really willy waving when someone gets a big calibre for deer? It's an achievement, yes, but more a reflection of effort put in and luck of the county draw. I like to post about what I've got sometimes but that's not because I want other people to be impressed, it's because I like to see people have what they ask for. Forums like this should be a supportive community - if I can be seen as an example of someone who has something unusual, others are less likely to give up trying to get one. The more people pick up something unusual, the easier it gets for everyone.
Andy seatrout
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That’s an interesting POV; so the preservation of the further outliers of calibre/ rifle and the fact people hold them means it’s easier to get a .475 or a 300 Win Mag… I suppose there’s logic to it….. I think I defend people’s right to have such calibres, but certainly in Britain we struggle to get authorisation on the grounds of ‘intended use’ - I mean you can shoot a deer with it, but really would you choose to?
My justification for using a big bore for deer was very much educational. If you go out to Africa to shoot something that might kill you, you don't want to do it with a rifle that's sat in the safe until your departure. There's no pressure when you shoot a paper target, it's very different to field use. In that situation you want to be using a rifle that's familiar, whether you're led behind a tree stump, propped against a post or twisted around 90 degrees and shooting off hand at that thing that just took you by surprise. Cape buffalo or woodland roe, there's little difference. The best way to become at one with your rifle is to use it. Besides, a rifle is a rifle. If we can be trusted with a .243 then we can be trusted with a .600 Nitro. If anything the Nitro is safer. Shoot at a crow in a tree with both and see which bullet carries killing energy the furthest. A high BC spitzer bullet from a deer calibre rifle will be whizzing along long after the .600 bullet has fallen back to earth. Shooting these big boomers is like throwing a brick - they hit really hard at close range but they're not designed for distance.
Having used them I've learned also that the big bores don't wreck a deer like many people assume that they will. I've said it over and over again for years - the most brutal cartridge I've ever shot a deer with is the .243. Big bore bullets go through the deer and barely notice they've hit it. The result is a clean wound with little trauma surrounding it. As long as the backstop is up to the task, which it should be no matter what you're using, all's well. My woodland roe rifle is chambered in .35 Whelen - a cartridge intended by its designer to be a poor man's .375H&H. I've shot deer with one of those too incidentally, and it does a fine job.
What the police guidelines seem to infer is that these big guns are more dangerous. They're not.
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