Hunting In The Rain

[robphes 0]

It seems like every time I go to grab a couple of hours hunting it's tipping it down and I can't bring myself to drag my TX200 or the old mans S410 out in the rain...this might just be me being a bit of a wimp but i was just wondering what solutions people have found?

 

Are there any decent, rugged synthetic air rifles out there I should look at?

 

Thanks for looking.

[Craig Fosse 286]

A rifle is there to be used, it's a hunters tool, although its looked after as if it was glass, it's built to be hunted with, use it.... Or there is no point in having it

 

Solutions, carry an oiled rag with you, whipe down before u go out, and let it dry naturally at home the re oil... Simples

Edited September 15, 2013 by Craig Fosse

[Craig Fosse 286]

Granted, but I'm in a woodland valley and normally the pigeons come into the ivy this time of year for comfort and to get away from the rain...

 

Rabbits not so much, however I have quite a few times gone out in rain in the hope of a quick clear spell which many who hunt in these conditions know that it's a prime time for the rabbits to sense a break and come out quite often in numbers for a brief spell before the rain starts again.

 

As with any animal, normally it's the times when ur not out u get the biggest bags, I'm saying all this when I remember the day before yesterday howling rain and outside my window on my birdhouse was a woody drenched, eating the corn I had left. (No shooing from my patio as over here I need an FAC and the land checked first).

[targa 5]

When am out in the rain its always with the Fx Boss synthetic, for the occasionaly fox around the pen's. I always spray the gun with Teflon spray before and when i come back inside I screw the stock off the action and the air compressor blows aways the last drop of water.

[pernod 466]

Timmytree animals still feed in the rain. Here in scotland if they didnt they would starve ha ha

The best nights lamping with an airrifle iv ever had have always involved a bit of wind and rain.

 

Yours in sport Pernod.

[pianoman 3,587]

I used to regularly shoot in all weathers but, in the last ten years or so, I've seen so little of rabbits feeding in bad weather I don't bother now. It's not worth a soaking to shoot one rabbit or nothing at all to me now.

 

I always used my HW80 .22. It got soaking wet and with 21 ft/lbs of whack the pellet doesn't hang about in the winds. But, once home I took the scope and stock off, dried it all with a clean cloth and let the metals air and the stock dry-off overnight. Next day, I gave the metal action a light oiling and a wipe with an oily cloth for cleaning it of handmarks, then pop it back into the dry stock. Never had a speck of rust or any other problem with it.

[Craig Fosse 286]

I'd defonantly go out if it was to shoot one rabbit!

 

That's my average anyway hahaha

[pianoman 3,587]

Ahh I was as young and resilient to extremes of weather as you are now Craig. Believe me laddie, you will get to your mid fifties and you will think "Sod it!" when the rain's tipping down and there's a nice warm house around you!

[Craig Fosse 286]

Or I will still be like I am now and go "god dam it i need to get away from the misses" I'm taking my pipe, my rifle and I'm off to sit under a dry tree and watch the world continue on around me !