5hrs in the field today...

[Whizzie 38]

& shot sweet FA!

The only 2 shots fired were checking my zero @ the start of the job. I only saw one small rabbit, too small to take, so left for a fatter day & then i got eyes on a squizzer, from about 100yds, but nowhere to be seen when i stalked in. Tons of bloody hares everywhere, but they're not to be taken on this permission. Just the way it goes sometimes.

 

So just a superb day out, in glorious countryside!

[weekend.rifle 44]

i the same somedays, it doesnt matter if i get nothing its just about getting out and relaxing.......however i must admit its a bit better when i get a good bag

[Phantom 631]

Only 5 hours without quarry

 

I can often spend a day laid up over a set of active warrens and dont see sod all. I'm sure they hear the noise of the cemetery gate and my footprints when I enter, followed up by a few zeroing shots then its "Eyeup lads n lasses, best stay down till he fecks off again!"

Go there to visit the family graves though without a gun and they are more than happy to play or sun themselves in full view of me.

 

Pesky wabbits

 

Tony

[Whizzie 38]

Aye but Tony, this is a bloody big site! They must have gone on a jolly boys outing by the coach load or sumat! I text the land owner to say Rabbits!? What fluffin rabbits!!? He just replied with a lol! Told me am crap, n must not like walking stalking. Lol, but we'd walked some lovely sunny miles.

[Phantom 631]

I'll look forward to showing you how its done soon then :laugh:

 

Tony

Edited October 14, 2012 by Phantom

[redial 81]

Its nice to have somewhere to take the gun for a walk though, hold that thought on a blank day.

 

Cheer's, Phil.

[Whizzie 38]

Phil.

 

Always mate. Always!

 

:)

[bullseye123 2]

we all have those days mate but like already said its just nice to get out

[Whizzie 38]

Made amends this weekend though, freezer will take about one more rabbit & that's it! I'm so pleased with yesterday's raid on Heavens real life country pantry, I'm gonna have a day off it today!

 

Maybe need another freezer??!

[Phantom 631]

Whizzie,

 

Do you Stalk or Snipe? I like to snipe over warrens when I get chance (obviously nice during the summer, not so nice in winter brrrr....)

 

Tony

 

[Whizzie 38]

Both mate.

 

It's a big area, so I have a dander round the usual hot spots to see what's occurring. In one part there's a lovely split recently planted woodland. I had a great time in there from January through April, but then the wild grasses n nettles became too long & you can't see the warrens, I was back there over the weekend, and although in most of it that's still the case, under the trees, the grasses are thinner & it's good to sit n snipe again.

Nothing happening in the paddocks again, but now the wheats in & field re drilled for next year, I could see where the Rabbits have been busy, while they were un disturbed, so those are the areas to work on at the mo, as well as the coppice close to the landowners home & along side the paddocks, where he wants the squizzers thinned out.

 

 

Happy days!