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    Randy Newberg EBS

    Sounds a plan
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    Randy Newberg EBS

    Hi just to add. Once you find the windpipe before you cut it pull on it up out of the chest and run your fingers down it into the chest. This frees a lot of the sinew off. Then cut through windpipe horizontally this will take you straight to the gullet. I tie it twice with jute thread as it ties...
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    Ideas for a antelope, deer and elk rifle for wife and daughter.

    Or a K95 rather than R8 in 7x57
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    Pretty & Classy rifles. Lets see them!

    Might want to add the 6.5x55se in that list. But again that was before 1905😂
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    Pretty & Classy rifles. Lets see them!

    Apologies if I’m telling you something you already know. The 7mm mauser was copied by John Rigby in the early 1900’s and used the then favoured imperial system of naming rather than metric. Hence the .275”. If stamped 275 then likely to be an English gun. As a 7mm cartridge the 7x57/275 rigby is...
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    Red Foxes ??

    As Richard said no show. But we will keep trying. There are very predictable and tend to turn up roughly at same time each night. This one seems to have changed his routine, probably because we have scared him off at some time. It’s just a case of working out when he does his rounds again. It...
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    Red Foxes ??

    Infamous more like😂😂
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    Red Foxes ??

    He may be crafty but tonight might just be our night😂😂😂
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    Big Ears strikes!

    Those glasses get everywhere! 🙈Thanks for the comments about the rifle. Got to say it is a dream to shoot with 162gr ammo it drops everything with mild manners. I’m becoming a fan of the 7x57, or should I call it a 275 Rigby🤔
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    Big Ears strikes!

    Glad you knew it for what it was! and it worked 😁
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    Big Ears strikes!

    Cheers for the write up @devon deer. Thanks for the wind mention😂. Great hunt and great company as ever. BE
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    New bowhunter

    Amazingly it’s cheaper in the UK!! $625
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    New bowhunter

    Was waiting for the recurve to surface😂
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    New bowhunter

    Cheers. There is a local 3D shoot with an archery shop attached who I am hoping to go to when the lock down finishes. They run beginners courses so hoping to link up with them to get started. A lot of recurve shooters here in UK so compound in minority but guess the basics will be the same. BE
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    New bowhunter

    Cheers guys. We are still in lock down at the moment so plenty of time to check things out. Stay safe you guys
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