So whats it like.

[stealthy1 3,964]

Yo you air gunners, what sort of season have you had? My season seems to run from Setember to Septemer because of the ferreting season. Are your guns performing as you had hoped? There seems to be a wide range of gun makes that we are happy with on this section, just wondered what your general thoughts were on our sport, good or bad? As we seem to be veiwed as second cousins to other forms of hunting, even though we seem to bag more Your thoughts are?

[Phantom 631]

Pretty shitty really old buddy, but thats due to the wife not my shooting

 

Seriously, I've knocked over plenty this year and pulled off some pretty good shots (if I do say so myself) that were either long range or tricky due to obsticals such as gravestones, trees long grass etc....

 

I'm still happy with my baby and I am proud of the way my Marksmanship has improved for much longer shots after being inspired by other regs such as you, Davy, Si, Bill etc........

 

As you know I have a couple of young ferrets, so may give them a job when it gets colder but I'll still be a shooter first and foremost

 

The worst part about airgunning IMHO is that there are still way too many tossers out there (even though they are a minority) that give the rest of us a really bad (and unjustified) name.

 

Phantom

[falcongit 242]

hi mate.my season hasent been great but i enjoy it alot if it wernt for work i would get out more,and talking about tossers there was a kid shot in the neck up my end the other day,a bloke has been arrested for it and the kid has had to have a op to remove the pellet but doing ok,but it doesent give our sport a very good name as phantom as said to many tossers not doing it safeley and in the corect areas where you have permission to shoot,i think everone who owns a air rifle should have insurence for this reason even though most of us are profenial shooters.

 

sym.

[Smoking Toes 4]

so far not realy enjoying the season , started with a new gun and cant seem to get the hang of it, i wish i had kept the 95k. i am juust going to have to learn to love it lol

[garfield 23]

not really started yet too many kits about but that said the farmer is impressed that he is seeing less but i dont really enjoy shooting kits and dont post about it so just waiting till it gets colder

[Phantom 631]

talking about tossers there was a kid shot in the neck up my end the other day,a bloke has been arrested for it and the kid has had to have a op to remove the pellet but doing ok

sym.

 

If I remember correctly; it was the lads father that did it

Total F king Idiot Accident maybe but we all know that accidents like this CAN and MUST be prevented.

 

The police arrested him then bailed him so he could get to the hospital to be with his son.

 

Phantom

[Phantom 631]

Garf;

 

If the weather is to continue as it has been so far this year, the kits will be out all year round again.

Remember my cemetery posts from the past? Kits were still being born when there was snow on the ground

 

The bunny populus is expanding something rotten country wide wich is of course good and bad for us

 

Good = more bunnies for shooting

Bad = Land owners are going to get someone else in to either "Help us out" or replace us.

 

I estimate that I shoot 1 in 4 bunnies that I see, apart from on virgin land, where they just sit next to their mates and say "WTF you playing at" to them as they wave g'bye. Giving me an opportunity for knocking that one over as well

 

Phantom

Edited August 21, 2010 by Phantom

[garfield 23]

i'm always in 2 minds about still shooting kits at this time of year but they usually get a chunk of lead cos of the damage they are doing,but i tend to leave em if they are close to a hole,god knows i've lost a few that way but i did find 2 the other week snuggled up stone dead in a bolt hole after my mate from germany shot em was nice to actually find em after they break danced into a hole

[Phantom 631]

was nice to actually find em after they break danced into a hole

 

I've found that shots to the head on kits causes them to flap about way too much even when their brains are hanging out the other side of the head The younger they are the more they do it. It looks quite disturbing don't it?

 

So now I go heart and lungs for the very young ones; stops em dead they may run a couple of inches but they go down and they dont flap about.

 

Phantom

[garfield 23]

didnt want to body shoot em with .177 but i am awaiting my bsa hornet in .22 so it wont be a problem

[stealthy1 3,964]

Its nice to see everyone's happy with their lot, I've had a bit of a slow season due to one crisis or another, but I'm quite chuffed with my results, I've had plenty to go at, and added a bit more land to my permission slip pile, which is always a good thing, jobs a good'un

[chameleon 26]

My season has been good, got a lot done, I have most of the small niggly bits of land sorted, and saved all the big easy warrens for ferreting this season, so fingers crossed, this ferreting season looks like it could be a good one

[Phantom 631]

I aint so happy now Stealthy

 

You've sent all that nasty wet stuff up here aint yah, so I'm stuck in the fecking house

Still I got to watch the kits snaffle some body parts I gave em earlier Zeus was 1st at the pile this time, his belly looks like a balloon

 

Phantom

[stealthy1 3,964]

If its any consolation its wet here too, so I wont be out in the mud this evening

[ArchieHood 3,692]

Doesn't matter how many times I get out its never enough,took the whole of July off so had to work a fair bit to cover the cost.Nevertheless when I do get out the Sexy 200 never lets me down, so cant grumble