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Buckshot in Dublin area

  • 22-10-2010 6:59am
    #1
    insertclever
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70 ✭✭


    How we do folk?

    Just wondering does anyone know of a dealer in the Dublin area that has buckshot in stock at the moment? Can't seem to find anyone with it available.

    Cheers!


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  • #2
    Tackleberrywho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭Tackleberrywho


    insertclever wrote: »
    How we do folk?

    Just wondering does anyone know of a dealer in the Dublin area that has buckshot in stock at the moment? Can't seem to find anyone with it available.

    Cheers!

    Must be big foxes out your way, as it's not allowed for bucks in this state.


  • #3
    insertclever
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70 ✭✭insertclever


    Ah that's news to me... makes things clear as to why they don't have 'em then.

    Wasn't going to be used for for fox here ;) going back to the home country for some hunting and wanted to bring some with me.

    Thanks for clarifying though!


  • #4
    deeksofdoom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,027 ✭✭✭deeksofdoom


    May I suggest dripping some candle wax into the top of a cartridge.


  • #5
    Chopperdog 2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 218 ✭✭Chopperdog 2


    deeksofdoom wrote: »
    May I suggest dripping some candle wax into the top of a cartridge.


    And to recommend what after that???

    The possible exceedence of proof or barrel pressure?

    The belief that a shooter can 'wax up a 32g nr. 6' and turn it into a buckshot load?

    Please get real before posting undefinable propositions to realistic question by the OP...


  • #6
    johnner1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 245 ✭✭johnner1


    Tackleberrywho wrote: »
    as it's not allowed for bucks in this state.

    i have used them over the years and have hit a few long range 80+ yard buck wabbits with them:D

    i still have a box of 5 of them i must get out and use them;)

    im not sure if my dealer still sells them, i will ask next time i call to him.


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  • #7
    deeksofdoom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,027 ✭✭✭deeksofdoom


    Well I was only joking about it, but I know plenty of ould lads who used to shoot deer with them away back when they couldn't get rifles for deer shooting. Not that I'm recommending or condoning doing anything like shooting a deer with a wax slug.

    Not that i care or anything but what's your problem anyway?

    And what the hell does he want to shoot with buckshot anyway?

    and where is his home country?


  • #8
    It wasn't me!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    Buckshot would commonly be used for wild boar on most of the continent in driven scenarios.


  • #9
    Tackleberrywho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭Tackleberrywho


    It wasn't me! wrote: »
    Buckshot would commonly be used for wild boar on most of the continent in driven scenarios.

    I would not be a fan of it, Slugs maybe, but buckshot I'm not a fan of.

    However, as in this state Deer is not allowed to be shot with either not much point having either


  • #10
    It wasn't me!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    Tackleberrywho wrote: »
    I would not be a fan of it, Slugs maybe, but buckshot I'm not a fan of.

    However, as in this state Deer is not allowed to be shot with either not much point having either

    Works for the thousands of hunters using it on boar over there, so wouldn't question what they're doing, personally. Over here, they could be used for foxes, happily enough.


  • #11
    Tackleberrywho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭Tackleberrywho


    It wasn't me! wrote: »
    Works for the thousands of hunters using it on boar over there, so wouldn't question what they're doing, personally. Over here, they could be used for foxes, happily enough.

    Some guys may use them on foxes, i would not be a fan of them, as you can shoot a fox with a rifle if there are cattle or sheep in the field, not with buckshot, as the kill zone is too sporadic


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  • #12
    It wasn't me!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    Tackleberrywho wrote: »
    Some guys may use them on foxes, i would not be a fan of them, as you can shoot a fox with a rifle if there are cattle or sheep in the field, not with buckshot, as the kill zone is too sporadic

    It's not going to spread to thirty or forty feet in the distance foxes are shot at, and you wouldn't shoot a fox with a rifle within a few feet of stock either except in urgent circumstances. It's not as though it's going to decimate everything within forty yards. There are only maybe a half a dozen pellets in it.


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