Mazing 9 Posted May 23, 2011 Report Share Posted May 23, 2011 Hello peeps, Just getting into hunting with my airgun. I have a HW100 .177. I currently have permission to hunt at my local Clay Pigeon club, rabbits being a problem. I bought a Deben LEDRay Tactical GL4 for lamping. Had my first few hours out at night last Friday. Couldn't hit a thing! As soon as the beam hit the rabbit they bolted. Also I kept standing on broken clays which crunched and alerted the rabbits. The following Saturday I decided to walk around the club, noting where the concentrations of broken clays were so I could be a bit more covert. I also bought a red filter for the lamp as I had been told it could help. I went back to the club at 22:30 to have a second attempt, armed with my filtered lamp and remembering where not to go because of the broken clays. Within 8 minutes I had my lamp on a pair of bunnies about 35 yards out. They just sat up and looked directly at the lamp! I took aim at the closest one, between the ear and eye and squeezed the trigger. As the pellet hit him he just fell over. Didn't kick or anything. It was just like I had switched him off. Unfortunately though due to my adrenalin rush from the first kill I totally missed the second. All in all I got 4 in the 90 minutes I was there with two misses. I did however stalk what I thought was a rabbit for 4 minutes but when I got close enough to identify it, I was surprised to see it was a small badger. lol I took a photo of my first ever airgun kill. 2 Quote Link to post
killer11 0 Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 GREAT SHOT HOW MANY YARDS BUD Quote Link to post
Lofty8 0 Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 Nice shooting mate and that's a great first kill to remember forever. Quote Link to post
wedge2409 98 Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 GOOD SHOOTING BUDDY,AND WELCOME TO THE FORUM Quote Link to post
stealthy1 3,964 Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 Shot, and welcome to the section Quote Link to post
Sweeney-Todd 208 Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 Hi Mazing. Welcome to THL :welcomeani: What a brilliant opening post and write up Excellent shot on the bunny, I can see why the rabbit switched off, as you put it, that shot placement is spot on That will be the first of many Im sure, nice one. Have a slut point from me.......read the pinned sections to clarify slut points Look forward to your next post. ATB. Bill. Quote Link to post
silentshot1 206 Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 Hello and great going bud! Quote Link to post
gurtwurz 792 Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 nice work mazing, and welcome to the section hope its the first of many mate cheers, wurz Quote Link to post
andyfr1968 772 Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 Welcome to the forum, mate and thanks for the read, I enjoyed that Quote Link to post
pianoman 3,587 Posted May 25, 2011 Report Share Posted May 25, 2011 Welcome to the section Mazing. Well shot and a good read mate Simon Quote Link to post
j j m 6,540 Posted May 25, 2011 Report Share Posted May 25, 2011 nice shooting bud Quote Link to post
ulverston moocher 60 Posted May 25, 2011 Report Share Posted May 25, 2011 cant beat good old hw100 welcome to the forum bud and all the best with your future forays Quote Link to post
Mazing 9 Posted May 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 25, 2011 Thanks for the comments guys. I'm going to try secure some more permissions this weekend. Quote Link to post
fry 209 Posted May 26, 2011 Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 top shooting and hello. Quote Link to post
rossi_j 99 Posted May 27, 2011 Report Share Posted May 27, 2011 Nice shooting pal I hate broken clays, its not the noise for me, its pulling the splinters out your knees after them kneeling/prone shots :laugh: Welcome to the forum, look forward to reading your future write ups. Best of luck with the permision hunting .atb. .ste. Quote Link to post
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