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GH, welcome. Just a thought, the .375 will do anything you ask of it and the ammo is available everywhere (assuming belted in a magazine rifle). Knowing the UK police it might be more difficult to get bigger stuff unless you can prove you need it. Believe me the travails I have are unbelievable. In November I took my .375 back to UK for case fitting. I obviously had to get a visitors certificate and my friend, a registered firearms dealer, sorted it for me but had to write a letter confirming the gun would be at Hollands for the duration. Last Monday I phoned my friend to get me a visitors certificate as I will be picking up the gun after a range visit to Hollands to bring it back home to Spain on the 11th April. My friend phoned me last Thursday to say the police have refused to give me a certificate as I will be "acquiring" a .375 ??????!!!! My friend advised me that this was nonsense since I own the gun and have a Spanish guia and a EU firearms certificate to prove I owned it before I took it back to the UK. I told him that if the police donīt issue a certificate he can merely re-export the gun to me but I will be billing the police for all transport and insurance costs. It should be sorted next week but just a warning to you. When I took my .470 through London because I was changing airlines and terminals I had to pay a courier 500 quid to carry the gun for me from Terminal 1 to terminal 3 !! (my fault, if I had realised earlier I could have got a visitors cert for the purpose).

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Hi Mike, thanks for the welcome.

You well know the issues I'll face in getting a rifle licensed for use in the uk, the only real way I can see of getting enough practice with it before I go hunting.

I do know a chap who has a 458 lott licensed for deer in Scotland and a few with 375 similarly conditioned so I've got some sense of hope and a plan for the same.

I know tat I won't be able to use the same reasons twice and hence wondering whether to skip the 375 altogether and get a 458.


Below it I have a 30.06 and now that the guys have made me think of the various 416s I am wondering whether a chap with a .30.06 and a 416/458 can reasonably cover it all without needing something in between.

By the way, should you ever need to go through Heathrow with guns again let me know, I know two guys who can do the couriering without needing to charge quite so much money...



Best,

Amir