what was your all time best shot?

[Alex Arrigone 24]

hey , i started this to compare skills, and luck!

 

what was your all time favourite kill? crazy range? moving target? collateral damage (double/triple kill)? .....

 

as well as this what was your best day hunting? how many kiils in one day?

 

tell your story to the forum!!! cheers

[hunter1989 91]

hi Alex

 

my best day must of been the other night.

 

me and Ste (rossi_j) went to are footy permission,

 

we arrived at around 9.30 at night and after a short time setting up are rifles ect,we went are own ways.

 

Ste went to the far end of the fields and i went to the footy pitch.

 

after i quick shine i saw around 9 bunnies on one of the main warrens.so i got rested on a post 1 mil dot hold over a whack straight in the eye and the range was 45 yards.

 

after taking the Bunnie back i walked the other side of the field and yet again came back with another range 30 yards.

 

after a short break i went to the car park and spotted to,bi pod came out and i bagged the pair ranges 35 and 40 yards.

 

Ste bagged a nice 2 with a brilliant shot no bi pod or rest he go prone and had this one Bunnie which i believe must of been 45 yards and hit it straight in the kill zone one of my best shots i have witnessed

 

 

here a few pics of that night

[rapidjenky 97]

when i was a kid i used to go out shooting with one of my dads mates shooting. i had a daystate huntsman and he had a 22 rim fire. after a days shooting on one of his permissions we headed back to car and on the way walked past a grave yard. as i looked over the stone wall there were 2 rabbits sat at the other side under a tree which sat just infront of an old 2 bar steel fence. we just got rested on the wall and they spotted us and jumped behind the tree.

we were nearly at the car ready to leave and i had to shoot my rifle off anyway so i said ide shoot the metal fence and hopefully the rabbits may run back around and he could take a shot.

i took the shot and the pellet went "ping" off the fence and sure enough a bunny rand round infront of the tree as he got ready for it to stop to take a shot it suddenly fell over and just layed there.

i jumped the wall and ran over, it had been hit in the side of the head! ide only killed it with a ricochet off the fence lol.

[zini 1,939]

hi Alex

 

my best day must of been the other night.

 

Classic statement buddy

 

PM coming you way ref something else in the post mate.

 

Si

[hunter1989 91]

o ya just clocked on

[andyfr1968 772]

This wasn't my best shot but it was one of the most satisfying....

 

The house next to mine has been empty for a few weeks and some rats have moved into the wall space, I think some workmen must've left some food laying about as they've not been there before in the five years I've lived here.

 

Anyway one of the feckers found it's way into my kitchen, I got the shock of my life one morning when the little sh*t jumped out of bin...

 

I put some bait out that evening and waited with my King Ratty at the ready. After an hour or so I could hear movement from under the sink, sure enough Mr Rat stuck his head out and promptly got a H and N FTT for his trouble It was only a 3 yard shot but by god, it felt good!!!!

 

Zini posted the pic for me some weeks back as my rather old laptop won't talk to Photo Bucket....

 

Cheers.

[zini 1,939]

LOL PM sent to you buddy

 

Si.

[rossi_j 99]

The shot steve described my best shot for a while

.atb. .ste.

[pianoman 3,587]

As a boy shooting with my dad, from the 1960s and through the 1970s I remember bags of well over 100 pheasants and partridge. And such huge flocks of woodpidgeon that one shot from your 12-bore would bring down 4 or 5 birds! You could fill you game bags with air rifle-shot pidgeons if you know how to hide and decoy properly over laid corn or rape seed. I've never seen such huge pidgeon-flocks like those since, these days; a fraction of what their numbers were.

 

I've thought about the memorable shots I've had over 40-odd years of air rifle shooting/hunting; especially with FAC air power. I don't have pics to back em up and, if I told you what they have been, you'd never believe me. Sorry

 

ATB

 

Simon

[J Darcy 5,871]

I have seen a few 'unbelieveable' things over the years.

My mate, Gary, once shot two jays with one shot. I have shot two sparrows (many years ago) with one shot. Once fired into a squirrels drey and one silver bundle fell out onto the floor with a pellet to the head, the other managed to clamber up the tree trunk , obviously shot, to be given a finisher!. I once shook a drey at night and seven squirrels came out, i killed six but the seventh made it away. Loads of other things that i can't remember..... (old age!)

 

 

p.s, just to add Pianoman, i believe there is more woodies around now than there ever has been....

[zini 1,939]

I’ve witnessed my mate Geoff Heywood have a negligent discharge with his old BSA Lightning when out day time shooting with me one Winter.

 

He had the rifle pointed up in the air as it was loaded as his last target (a bunny) run off before he had time to drop it and he wanted to make sure that he didn’t shoot me by mistake.

 

As we passed under a big old oak tree a thread from his woollen glove caught the trigger of his rifle (no safety on) and the rifle discharged and shot a pellet upwards into the area of the tree.

 

What followed then was just amazing as this woody fell straight out the tree with a perfect shot under the chin.

 

You needed to be there to have believed it lads, it was just brilliant.

 

We both hadn’t even seen the woody.

 

I’ve also witnessed another lad I knew when I was a lot younger shoot his air rifle up in the air into a flock of flying corvids and one fell out the sky (stone dead) with a perfect heart shot.

 

He claimed that he meant to do it and some (young un, my age at the time) thought that he was a legend but I know now that he just was bloody lucky.

 

Si

Edited January 5, 2011 by zini

[mikeyblue 28]

Hi Lads,

 

My most memorable kill was my first as a lad. The rifle was a old Relum Tornado in .22 with open sites. My dad had picked it me up from a carboot sale for the princely sum of £10! I learnt the hard way to stalk, it was all trile and error, and had blanked many times before this day.

 

I remember it being a hot summers day, and was walking around the field out back from where I lived and saw some bunnys basking in the sun outside their warren. Stalked to within about 20yds and shouldered the Tornado. Got the closest in my sites and fired. The rifle twanged and the bunny jumped and flipped. To say I was chuffed was an understatement!

 

Mikey.

[farmerkev09 105]

great pics pall looks like you had a good night

[pianoman 3,587]

A Relum Tornado Now there's an underlever, tap loading air rifle I will never forget. You could get one of these, among others, from your mum's mail order catologues back in the 60s and 70s for a few shillings per week. My 23 year old cousin did just that, Ordered himself a .22 and within days of having it, he and I were plinking in my Aunty's spacious garden, I was 12 years old. We have a break for a drink of pop, when he then turned to me and pointed the gun straight at my head and fired the action...

 

Well, he'd forgotten he'd loaded it

 

I remember this almighty thwack on my left cheek that knocked me flat down. The blood was spurting out everywhere and when I got to hospital, the doc said the pellet has either bounced off my left cheekbone or, it will work itself out by supperation. They would not operate as it would scar my face for life. Well, it's STILL in there to this day. I can feel it loose on my cheek even now. Thank God they were actually poorly underpowered by today's standards. That was the last time I saw it fired because, while I was getting to hospital, he took an axe to it and smashed it to bits in his guilt.

 

Easiest thing in the world, is forgetting your rifle is cocked and loaded. Don't ever forget that one!

 

OK my best, no-modesty-now air rifle shot?

2 years ago. 4 Headshot rabbits at 114 metres with my FAC TX200HC .177 carbine; using my Bushnell Scopechief 4-14X50 scope and air arms field 4.51mm pellet. Witnessed by my son Josh. I use a 40 metre zero for this rifle and with hold over, the pellet did a massive amount of damage. I have shot a lot of long range vermin with it, but these rabbits were the furthest.

 

See? Told you you'd never believe me.

 

Simon

[ghillies 209]

60 yard satrling in flight....and then another same shot same flight line a few minutes later, the rest wouldnt take that line afterwoulds...i sat fu two hours waiting!