Last weekend

[j davies 8]

Moving my way through the acres of land, having shot the place alot I know where to be ready to react quickly etc hotsspots and what not, but shooting always catches you off guard. I came over a ridge, looked up and saw a nice cock pheasant at about 25m. Quickly adjusted magnification to 8 (Have been using higher mag now after seeing other peoples scope arrangement on this forum) raised my gun crosshair bang on the birds temple and crack, down it went. The bird was brain dead, it was obvious from the shot placement and just sheer impact of its head cracking. You know when you've put all the kinetic energy possible into your target and you've done your job right. The bird as standard went a bit mental with nerves so I put it under a tyre lying about and gave a quick touch of its chest to see if the heart was going and it wasnt. I left it to squirm out and headed out slightly relieved having made a kill (pheasants arent usually my choice quarry, but when the dumbest bird in Britain faces you it had to be done). Nevertheless I wnated pigeon! So I headed out to round the other side of those woods shown i nthe earlier pictures, to see if I could catch soem woodies off guard.

hi nice shooting when did you go mate you have not said was it last sunday

[JackReid 35]

Hiya Jack.

 

Good post and nice pictures mate.

 

Do you normaly wear gloves, hat, and face veil when your out and about Jack?

Might help with the stalking mate, cover up all that bright skin less them pigeons see of you the better

 

Its a bit quiet here too mate, as you said, roll on the Summer a ??

 

 

ATB.

 

 

Bill.

 

Yeh buddy I have a hat and face veil combo thingy and only have one shitty glove at the moment but I like to have right hand gloveless for the trigger and pellet reloading. Your right though especially when the feathered quarry is jumpy its essential to have those little extra bits like a veil etc. Even rabbits when I first got it few years ago definatley noticed a drop in the ammount of ones I spooked peeking round corners etc!

 

ATB

Jack

[JackReid 35]

 

hi nice shooting when did you go mate you have not said was it last sunday

 

Yeh saturday eve, sunday all day, monday morning last week.

Try do it every week but not always possible If I was at home I would go almost everyday hehe, I used to!

Jack

[j davies 8]

 

hi nice shooting when did you go mate you have not said was it last sunday

nice shooting mate keep it up

Yeh saturday eve, sunday all day, monday morning last week.

Try do it every week but not always possible If I was at home I would go almost everyday hehe, I used to!

Jack

[Flitney 0]

Hi Jack

Enjoyed reading your post, 95k is a good springer used to have one, i take a trench spade with me to dig a shallow pit to lay in on a unhooking mat to get close to main woody spots with no cover, look forward to reading your next post.

 

ben