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dpack
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strange that a .50 cal long gun or a glock can be had at the equivalent of a car boot sale with no paperwork but to make the first bunny fall over with no bang from a .197 or even an air powered weapon so as to get it's chums is illegal.
spose it is a bit like the no bow hunting in the uk,somebody thought silent was a threat to their stock(or perhaps would make life too easy for person shooters if the rest of the community had no idea there was gunplay in the neighborhood). |
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Falstaff
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In the us - ferretting is illegal - even though it is efficient and generally the kindest way of despatching ground dwellers caught in nets.
Bow hunting _ sounds good but experience saw a hen pheasant fly for two fields transfixed on a crossbow bolt going in under one "armpit" and leaving under the other - dead eventually - undoubtedly - but I believe ther is something in the "Shock" of an explosive powered "Hot" bullet which kills far better than a cold "Arrow" or the like. |
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Slim
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| Falstaff wrote: |
| ... I believe ther is something in the "Shock" of an explosive powered "Hot" bullet which kills far better than a cold "Arrow" or the like. |
Do you mean beyond the literal shockwave that accompanies a bullet? |
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Jam Lady
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Treacodactyl
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| Jam Lady wrote: |
| Not your typical UK type of situation. |
You wait for re-wilding to kick in. We've already got beavers in the wild, bears are only a matter of time. |
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dpack
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| Posted: Sun Oct 04, 15 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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if im ever after a bear i recon it will get an ied(other lethal devices are available) covered in honey rather than up close n personal 
i suspect the pheasant had a target arrow(or toy crossbow bolt) in it(grrrr scumbags) rather than a 3 sided broadhead ,target arrow=pencil sized hole and no space to bleed .a modern 3 blade broadhead =3 cuts ,inch +tube shaped wound and lots of space to bleed(about the same wound track as a 9mm pistol round and a similar delivered energy)
ps i would not go after a bear with a pistol or bow
.497nitro up closeish or .50cal barrett from a decently long distance makes lots of sense for big dangeroos critters |
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Falstaff
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| dpack wrote: |
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i suspect the pheasant had a target arrow(or toy crossbow bolt) in it(grrrr scumbags) rather than a 3 sided broadhead ,target arrow=pencil sized hole and no space to bleed .a modern 3 blade broadhead =3 cuts ,inch +tube shaped wound and lots of space to bleed(about the same wound track as a 9mm pistol round and a similar delivered energy)
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Well seeing as bowhunting is illegal in the uk - it wouldn't have been a Bear hunting triangular would it - but 9mm - getting there ! certainly far bigger than a 0.22 rimfire |
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dpack
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one of my schoolteachers had a polar bear problem when he was watching far northern wolves in alaska in that after it scoffed his marsbar collection it wanted him for a main course iirc two to the chest from a 5.62 ar sorted the problem.he was quite upset at dropping the thing but it was it or him.
i prepped the skull for display (it needed a big pan)and after seeing the size of the teeth i never want to meet one
moral ,if there are bears tooled up just in case makes sense. |
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