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Nekarsulm

First fox of the landing season tonight. Great feeling. One fox could easily eat the value of the rifle and scope in lambs in ten days.
Hornady 40gr v-max in 223.

clivej

Mind the thread on your barrel, get a protector for it.

Nekarsulm

clivej wrote: »

Mind the thread on your barrel, get a protector for it.

I had one for it, courtesy of a very kind Boardsie here, but lost it somewhere out the land.....
Of course, if moderators weren't viewed with such suspicion by the local Super, I could just screw on the Predator 8 which I own, but cannot yet legally hold in my possession........

Cass

Nekarsulm wrote: »

I had one for it, courtesy of a very kind Boardsie here, but lost it somewhere out the land.....

Might have another one spare. Will check later on and get back to you if i do.

g00167015

Good man, my first loss this season to Mr Fox happened at dusk just now. One newborn fullbred pedigree male texel lamb torn to s##te. At least I have the spine and front quarters of him left to throw on the Super's desk lol.

Where I lamb mine (outdoors but brought in for a couple nights after birth ) the fields are too large and too exposed to wind to have any chance with the HMR for the most part. I've better things to waste my money on than building another couple of fox-boxes (enclosed high seats). Unfortunately trying to prevent the loss of purebred stock that would provide several hundred euros income EACH later in the summer does not count as a valid reason for requiring a foxing rifle in our district.

Nekarsulm

My gun licences are due renewal now, so will try for the Moderator again. Bought and paid for the last two years but not allowed possess it yet. Last time Super thought it might make the 223 "too quiet" and thus expose "people the other side of the hedge to danger, cause they mightn't realise how close they were to the shooter/danger area"

I mean, where do you go from there, when the man has so little comprehension of the realities of physics and sound waves?

Cass

This might be helpful (although i'd assume you already covered these):

Re: Section 3.2 - I request permission for the use of a moderator on my Rifle for the following reasons:

1. To aid in sound reduction of the firearm when used around livestock and bloodstock.
2. To aid in sound reduction so as to not alarm people in the vicinity.
3. Protection of personal hearing
4. Prevent the unsafe practice of wearing ear plugs while stalking / hunting
5. Reduction of recoil which Improves accuracy therefore aiding with the humane dispatch of prey
6. Reduced recoil which allows for quick follow up shot while maintaining target picture

Then explain how a suppressor, and don't call it a silencer, only reduces the heard report by a factor of 20 - 25%. That is does not silence the shot. This reduction reduces the, possibly damaging, crack of the fired shot into a safer level (decibel wise). That awareness of your surroundings is key to safe hunting practices and a suppressor has no bearing on a person's safety, "hiding behind a ditch" or not. That the bullet fired will do more damage that a bang at any level. That movies have grossly over exaggerated the ability of a suppressor to make a gun silent.

Hope you get it this time.

g00167015

Plus you will very quickly lose any permissions you hold if you keep driving the farmer's livestock stampeding and waking up half the village with an unmoderated rifle. You might end up being asked to explain how fencing was damaged by stampeding cows, how a horse got all cut up running into barb wire, or you might be asked to help the farmer clear up a few miscarried lambs for your troubles........, with their putrified carcasses stinking of ammonia...., yummy :-)

Your moderator might get the noise level down around the 125-130db mark.

If your Super puts it in writing that this is "silent" then he is long overdue a reality check. Physics are irrefutible even by the most imaginative of Garda fairytales.

Safe, yes

Silent? Heck no :-)

retro d

Even for the time being put a good few layers of ptfe and black insulating tape to protect the thread ,

Nekarsulm

Have a piece of milking machine silicon pulse line tubing screwed on now.