First time out

[whippeter69 88]

Just go back from the first time I have been out on my own with my shotgun on my SGC lol. It was great fun, I took my terrier amber, who is a great flusher and packed my game bag with a few 20bore no.5's and a box and a half of 7.5's also in my bag were my SGC, BASC book let and my written permission off the land owner.

 

Mother dropped me off at the bottom of the lane and i walked with my game bag,shotgun(which was in the case) and my little busher, Amber. We arrived at the farm and i dropped my shotgun case on the gate, the farmer tells me don't bother asking to go shooting, just come anytime, so i always leave my gun case on the gate to let him know I'm shooting.

 

We walked up to the gorse bushes and tall oak trees and proceeded to scare off the pigeons out of range, so me and Amb walked around to see if i could get a flush for the gun, but to no anvil, there was nothing. We walked along the fence line, Amber and me each side, we can across a fox hole that had obviously been used, then i herd a rustling from the small tree above, but as soon as I so what it was it had gone with no chance of me lifting the gun, it was a grey squirrel. I waited for some movement to give me an idea where it was, Amb and me look at each other and she look as if "well shoot it then" but I could not see it.

 

I opened the gun and picked up a rock, under armed it up into the tree and closed the 20 Bore and lifted the gun to se the devil jumping from a branch, i flicked the safety off and pulled the trigger. I immediately knew i had shot it and opened the gun, first a branch fell, probably because the squirrel was only 7 yards up the tree, and no sign of the squirrel. Then it fell, i walked over to insect it and found then the projectile had completely ripped him open, but he was defiantly dead.

 

It was one of the best evenings I had had. I hoped you enjoyed my post

 

[the Verminator 0]

well done, there. you should go back and look for more though. where there is 1 squirrle, there are usualy more. good luck

[whippeter69 88]

  the Verminator said:

well done, there. you should go back and look for more though. where there is 1 squirrle, there are usualy more. good luck

 

Yes i had seen another two, but they were on the land boundaries so i left them for next time

[gossy 3]

well done mate!! nice write up 2. good old 20 bores yours looks nice aswell. what gun is that??

 

atb

 

gossy

[SportingShooter 0]

Good shooting buddy!

 

Told you it would pay off in the end, being able to get out on your own

 

That squirrel certainly is dead, from 7 yards, you were good to hit him, almost no spread of shot at all

[whippeter69 88]

  gossy said:

well done mate!! nice write up 2. good old 20 bores yours looks nice aswell. what gun is that??

 

atb

 

gossy

 

Its a Rizzini Emilio multi choke, single trigger,ejector,barrel selector. Bloody mouth full lol

[whippeter69 88]

  SportingShooter said:

Good shooting buddy!

 

Told you it would pay off in the end, being able to get out on your own

 

That squirrel certainly is dead, from 7 yards, you were good to hit him, almost no spread of shot at all

I had 3/4 choke and Full in the barrels and flicked it to 3/4 to give a little more spread, imagine the state the squirrel would have been if id using a no.5 Full, probably not a pretty sight

[SportingShooter 0]

  whippeter69 said:

  SportingShooter said:

Good shooting buddy!

 

Told you it would pay off in the end, being able to get out on your own

 

That squirrel certainly is dead, from 7 yards, you were good to hit him, almost no spread of shot at all

I had 3/4 choke and Full in the barrels and flicked it to 3/4 to give a little more spread, imagine the state the squirrel would have been if id using a no.5 Full, probably not a pretty sight

I don't think it would have made much difference Still one lump of lead punching a hole at 950MPH

[The one 8,514]

Nice write up mate shootings a great sport

[gossy 3]

  SportingShooter said:

  whippeter69 said:

  SportingShooter said:

Good shooting buddy!

 

Told you it would pay off in the end, being able to get out on your own

 

That squirrel certainly is dead, from 7 yards, you were good to hit him, almost no spread of shot at all

I had 3/4 choke and Full in the barrels and flicked it to 3/4 to give a little more spread, imagine the state the squirrel would have been if id using a no.5 Full, probably not a pretty sight

I don't think it would have made much difference Still one lump of lead punching a hole at 950MPH

 

that ewould be true at that range it wouldnt of had a chance to open up... poor squirrel.

[Yokel Matt 918]

Good sausaging bud.

[sid the sniper 0]

How old do you have to be to get an sgc?

[SNAP SHOT 194]

Well done on the vermin mate, nice shooting, as long as you remember safety first your of to a flying start......

 

looking forward to seeing more of your posts now that your out on your own....

[SportingShooter 0]

  sid the sniper said:

How old do you have to be to get an sgc?

There is no age limit on owning an SGC, there are upper limits as to what age you can use, possess and buy guns and ammunition.

 

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