My first .22LR
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There's a Browning T bolt at the LGS in 17HMR. They want 7something for it. Slick rifle though.
You see in this world there are two kinds of people my friend, those with loaded guns... and those who dig. You dig.
Re: My first .22LR
Yup, it's a cheap Parker Hale sound moderator, about 30 bucks equivalent over here. Basically a tube full of washers! Does the job well enough. Rifle groups best with Eley subsonics, I've concluded.
If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space.
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I'm jealous! To buy a suppressor in the USA you first have to fill out a BATF form 4, make out a check for $200 US for a GCA of 1967 "tax stamp", wait six months or so for it to be approved, and then there is the cost of a suppressor that will be $350.00 or more for a rimfire suppressor. I want one badly, but the cost and BS you have to go through is prohibitive.Grello wrote:Yup, it's a cheap Parker Hale sound moderator, about 30 bucks equivalent over here. Basically a tube full of washers! Does the job well enough. Rifle groups best with Eley subsonics, I've concluded.
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Nice rifle. You could do a lot worse than that for a first .22 .
“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” George Orwell, English novelist, essayist, and critic, 1903-1950
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis
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I don't know about availability in the UK, but have you tried any SK ammo. My match rifle loves the Standard+.Grello wrote:Yup, it's a cheap Parker Hale sound moderator, about 30 bucks equivalent over here. Basically a tube full of washers! Does the job well enough. Rifle groups best with Eley subsonics, I've concluded.
“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” George Orwell, English novelist, essayist, and critic, 1903-1950
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis
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Haven't tried SK ammo, no. Not seen it over here as yet but I'll look out for it, thanks!
It's quite a painful process here to get a suppressor, too. A suppressor is regarded as a firearm in its own right
and has to be applied for and granted on the licence, for each calibre. But it does sound like we can get the rimfire ones cheaper here than US. That's a first! 
It's quite a painful process here to get a suppressor, too. A suppressor is regarded as a firearm in its own right
and has to be applied for and granted on the licence, for each calibre. But it does sound like we can get the rimfire ones cheaper here than US. That's a first! If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space.
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A suppressor may be one of the things that you can get easier than we can here in the states. Special licenses, and some states plain refuse to allow them at all.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
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Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Wow, that is a difference. Many of the .308s and similar we see down at the ranges have suppressors. You have to give a good reason to have them but they are pretty much standard over here on the more modern stuff at least.
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Here they are regulated aside from ordinary firearms, the Federal government regulates them, there is a ton of paperwork, heavy taxes, special licenses, long waits, and the expense of the item itself. They are regulated same as machine guns, short barrel shotguns, and such. My state will not allow them at all.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Did you mean Miss or MS. interpreted my wife wants to know?