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Originally Posted by Racinfan83

I know this is not related to the topic - but you talk about hunting in the UK - I thought you weren't allowed to own guns there??

Ha, ha - I can understand why you might think that as we're not allowed handguns. But as for rifles and shotguns, so long as we have the right paperwork, we can have almost anything except semi and full-autos. I myself have .17HMR, .204R, .22-250 and .308. Other things make up for it - screw-on moderators, for example, are easy to get permits for, so I have them on everything.

Originally Posted by We Gone

You can try various sizes of opening up the other side as long as you can close it back up if you don't like it. We can only Hunt wild boars and coyotes year round or deer if you farm but all other game has seasons.

Thank you! As for the hunting - most of our deer have seasons too (not Muntjac), but the effect of the overlaps is that we can hunt them all year. We also don't need any kind of permit beyond the landowner's permission to hunt on his ground, and we can take as many deer as we like.

Originally Posted by scottfab

You can in fact drill out the non-functioning side of each muffler and as mention you'll pick up a nasty resonance (drone). Of more concern is the restriction in diameter going into the front of the resonator at the front of the stock exhaust system. The welding there ends up choking the diameter to 2 1/8 in. This is a performance hit. Many of us have removed this one way or another.

I use to hunt pest varmints here in the US in the open country of Montana. Know what you mean. There was a bounty on some species. Take some night vision pics and post if you have the mind to.

As for the head light buckets design issue and hardware placement you mentioned before, I totally agree. I'd love to write a personal letter to the designer. I have to think he was pressured into leaving it that way for redesign cost constraints. (management)

Thanks - I think I'll pull the exhaust and have a good like at the restriction you mention.

With regard to the varmints - as we don't have coyotes or anything similar here in the UK, our red foxes grow really big. I think the record is 36 lbs. but generally the mid-20's would be considered large. If you're interested, here's a link to a book I recently wrote on hunting foxes: http://www.countrybooksdirect.com/pr.../a-foxers-year I'd love to hunt in Montana!