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Biggest licensed calibre in Ireland

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  • 06-11-2017 5:24pm
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    Gorgeousgeorge
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    As above, just for my own curiosity. id be well down the pecking order with the biggest iv ever owned a .22lr

    Obviously a lot of deer hunters would have the .308 but is there anything bigger


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    RS98
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    Few 338 LM's around I'm sure


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    Uinseann_16
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    .300 win mag would be the biggest non restricted caliber you see and is starting to become more common(there are bigger .30 cals like the 30-378 weatherby magnum etc...) im sure some lads have big bore game rifles for the likes of plains game in africa etc.. so .375 h&h and .416 rigby and similar but they would be countable on one hand
    technically you could licence a .50 bmg but thats in theory not practice


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    gunny123
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    I've seen a few .375 .400, .470 nitro express heavy game rifles. They cost the same a good new car, so not too common, and won't be seen afield in Ireland much. Also a few 9.3mm rifles, an extremely popular calibre, i am told, in Germany.


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    Grizzly 45
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    I do believe one dealer here has either a .460 Cheytac or a .50 cal baby Barrett[bolt action] in the gunroom. Have fun feeding one of those calibres here, must be like 8 or 9 euros a round.:)

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

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    Uinseann_16
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    Grizzly 45 wrote: »
    I do believe one dealer here has either a .460 Cheytac or a .50 cal baby Barrett[bolt action] in the gunroom. Have fun feeding one of those calibres here, must be like 8 or 9 euros a round.:)

    the .50 is 110 pound sterling for a box of 14 :eek:


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    Gorgeousgeorge
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    Grizzly 45 wrote: »
    I do believe one dealer here has either a .460 Cheytac or a .50 cal baby Barrett[bolt action] in the gunroom. Have fun feeding one of those calibres here, must be like 8 or 9 euros a round.:)

    Must be just a demo piece for the customers to look at???

    So say your an rfd who holds a restricted dealers licence could you technically buy what ever you want


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    juice1304
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    Gorgeousgeorge wrote: »
    Must be just a demo piece for the customers to look at???

    So say your an rfd who holds a restricted dealers licence could you technically buy what ever you want

    in a way yes and in another way no, you need to also get an import licence, they will only give you a restricted import licence if it has been licenced. So if it were in the country you could purchase it and sell it yes.


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    Sandy22
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    We've had this question before.

    The largest calibre commonly licenced in Ireland is .729"


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    meathstevie
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    Sandy22 wrote: »
    We've had this question before.

    The largest calibre commonly licenced in Ireland is .729"

    Aka a 12g shotgun if you go by bore diameter as a definition of calibre. I reckon it's .775 inch in that case. There must be a few 10g's knocking around still.


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    Gorgeousgeorge
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    meathstevie wrote: »
    Aka a 12g shotgun if you go by bore diameter as a definition of calibre. I reckon it's .775 inch in that case. There must be a few 10g's knocking around still.

    My da has a 10 gauge, very hard to get ammo for it though


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    meathstevie
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    Gorgeousgeorge wrote: »
    My da has a 10 gauge, very hard to get ammo for it though

    They kind of fell by the wayside with the introduction of the 12g with 3" chamber me thinks...


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    Gorgeousgeorge
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    meathstevie wrote: »
    They kind of fell by the wayside with the introduction of the 12g with 3" chamber me thinks...

    Yeah its an aya yemen i think. Even now with the 3.5" chambers ita obselete


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    gunny123
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    I think what killed the 10 bore is the price of the ammunition, its available, but extremely expensive.


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    Vizzy
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    gunny123 wrote: »
    I think what killed the 10 bore is the price of the ammunition, its available, but extremely expensive.
    I was over a the Midlands Gamefair and one of the lads said that he saw it for sale at about £5 a bang - would that sound correct ?


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    Uinseann_16
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    Vizzy wrote: »
    I was over a the Midlands Gamefair and one of the lads said that he saw it for sale at about £5 a bang - would that sound correct ?

    58 euro for a box of 10 federal turkey loads i saw em in a rfd a few weeks so yeah that d be right


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    meathstevie
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    Uinseann_16 wrote: »
    58 euro for a box of 10 federal turkey loads i saw em in a rfd a few weeks so yeah that d be right

    Give or take €6 a pop...that's mad money for a shotgun cartridge.


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    gunny123
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    Vizzy wrote: »
    I was over a the Midlands Gamefair and one of the lads said that he saw it for sale at about £5 a bang - would that sound correct ?

    Yes it was something around that. Pity reloading cannot be done, i reckon if you had the cases the powder, shot and primer wouldn't cost anything like £5.


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