Best Week Hunting

[Tommy_uppy 2]

A few weeks back the misses and I were asked to Farm sit for an uncle of hers. I wasn't looking forward to it much as I was barely working meaning I had to do all the hard graft whilst she worked. I'd asked about shooting there before and got the brush off, so never gave it a second thought. Anyway we went round to be shown what needed to be done and as we were walking out the door, the landowner said "I've left my air rifle out for you if you see any rabbits or pigeons shoot them, they are getting to be a real problem"

well that stopped me dead in my tracks. I grabbed a pen and a bit of paper and asked him to put that in writing. I told him I would be using my own guns, and he seemed very excited about somebody managing the numbers for him. I have just got my BSA ultra back from John Bowkett and I was very keen to see what it could do.

 

On the first day there, I took the dogs for a long walk round the boundaries and hedges and the place was teaming with them. That afternoon was nice and warm and with hardly a breath of wind I lay in a field merrily popping away. The rabbits had clearly never been shot at with a silenced weapon. If I missed they would be back in 5 minutes.

I spent every minute out in the fields until the rabbits were wise to me. I filled the pot for a big rabbit stew on Friday and took a handful of corvids and a squirrel for good measure.

 

Unfortunately the week didn't end that well. I had been bragging to a mate about how many rabbits there were and how well I was doing. So he came over to join me on Friday. The weather was awful it even hailed. we spent 5 hours creeping around and didn't get within 70yrds of anything. But it was still an amazing week. There are still hundreds of bunnies here. I'm going to leave it a bit as no one else is shooting them and come back next month to see what I can do.

 

Sadly no pictures but my gun performed excellently. It was good to start with but John Bowkett has made it much more accurate and consistent. Worth every penny.

I'm only really writing this to make you guys jealous. Its not often that you get an opportunity like this and for the weather to be so supportive as well.

[fry 209]

new perms rule! just shoot different areas so they take longer to wise up.

[j j m 6,547]

well done bud good write up

[Skot Ruthless Teale 1,701]

only writing to make us jealous hahahaha nice one

 

sounds like a great time was had and congrats on the new permission.

 

SKoT

[mark williams 7,558]

Your making me jealous mate

 

atb