Daz39 962 Posted April 11, 2014 Report Share Posted April 11, 2014 Went up to the perm last night with Matt, I had invited Mac up too, but he’s got “other plans” this weekend………….. We got there for 6 so still had some daylight, zero’d the scopes and were ready to roll. 3 of the fields are too close to main roads, so we stayed off those and went to the back field. The field is square so Matt walked the left side (then bottom) I took the top side then down the right, planning to both lay up around 30-40 yards from the far opposite corner where most of the rabbits are. I spotted 3-4 rabbits on the fence line down the right side and could see 2-3 more set of ears in the crop which is now about rabbit head height. As I walked to the rabbits, 3 of the 4 ran from the fence (shooting in daylight again after months of dark is taking some adjusting to). I got to what I thought was 35 yrds and went prone. Cross hairs on and the rabbit went down but with a great deal of bouncing. I ran over and pulled its neck quickly. When I looked for the entry wound (I aimed for the eye) it was a good inch lower in the rabbit’s chest. The distance was only 28 yards so the pellet shouldn’t have dropped that much (I had put 4 pellet on pellet when I was zeroing). I decided to lay up there and see if the other 3 came back out. The 3 that were in the field were down at the bottom corner so I messaged Matt to tell him I was yrds short of the corner so he had no worries of shooting me. I lay up for about 20 min when the phone went. “Err, hello is that Darryl?” “Yes” “It’s the police” “Oh ok” “Are you still shooting?” “err yes, I just called it in, log number 909, about 30 mins ago before I started” “right, are you in a field?” “??? Yes” “are you in camo gear?” “?????? Yes” “Are you near a railway?” “??????????????YES” “do you have a gun?” “??? ??????????????????NO, I’m using a feather duster to tickle the twats to death” “?” “yes I have a gun” “We have had a few calls about a man, with a gun, in camo, in a field, near a railwayline” “right, that would be me, and I’m on police log 909, is that ok” “yeah, errr, I’ll call those people back and tell them it’s ok” “you do that” “what time will you be finished?” “WHENALLTHEFECKINRABBITSAREDEAD – now, if you don’t mind, a rabbit came out in front of me 5 mins ago, he is sat watching me thinking I am a right dickhead and I’d really like to shoot him in the head” “uh, yeah, ok, bye” Click phone, click trigger and………..miss!! WTF, a mixture of the inane phone call and the pellet drop on the last shot now has me concerned. I had lined up what I thought was a 25 yrd shot but the pellet went nowhere near the rabbit. I looked again at the rabbit and thought, maybe he is further away from me than I thought. He had only turned around at the last shot. I gave a mildot and tried again, this time the rabbit ducked, literally bobbed his head under the pellet. So I figured one more chance, put the cross hair back on just behind the eye, pulled the trigger and down goes the rabbit – pellet exactly where I put it. Paced to 28 yards. The rabbit was only a young one (hence I thought he looked small so must be further away haha). Two from the back field. At that point Matt said the sun was too low and he couldn’t see, so he came over to me and laid up while I rested against a fence. Nothing else out so we took a walk back to the car as dusk settled. When darkness came we moved to the 3 central fields. Matt had his NV so the plan was to use that to stalk to avoid the red lamp scaring all the rabbits away. We went to a place I had seen 4-5 rabbits the previous trip with Mac and Tomma. I told Matt to walk through a hedge and turn left, that there would be 1-2 out and sure enough there was (4 actually). He stalked up but the rabbits were away before he could get close enough. I suggested we move up the field to 35 yrds from where the rabbits went in and lay up. As we lay there (Matt closest to the hedge me in the field) I scanned the field to my right and under the glow of the street lamps, saw a rabbit hopping along about 45 degrees to us. I got Matt’s attention and he moved the rifle round to get a shot. We figured 40 yrds but his shot cleared the top of the rabbit, too much hold over. The rabbit ran in but we stayed put. Not much after, one of the original rabbits from that corner came out right in front of us, 30-35 yrds away. Matt put the rifle on target (I had the rabbit in my crosshair JUST in case) and Matt pulled the trigger, the rabbit just ran back into the hedge. “whaaaaaaaaaaaaat?” says Matt. “ah mate, I had him bang on, I should have taken that shot haha, you missed the last one, it was my turn any how” Said I helpfully. “I am POSITIVE I hit him” says Matt. “You should have, he was close enough, come on lets go, they won’t be out again for a long while now” “No wait, they’ll come back” says Matt. I went to stand up and Matt goes “Look another – ah wait, I think it’s just a kit” As I looked a rabbit BOUNCED out from the hedge line, not a hop, or a skip or a gamble, but a full on mad as a lark, crazy as a frog BOUNCE BOUNCE BOUNCE. Keep in mind, about 1-2 mins had passed since Matt took the shot. It suddenly dawned on us that this wasn’t a kit, it was the rabbit Matt had shot “AT”. We started to run over and all of a sudden the bouncing just stopped and the rabbit was still. It was indeed the rabbit Matt shot with a perfect head shot. This he-man like rabbit had taken a pellet to the head, without a flinch, ran into the hedge row, hung around a couple of minutes while the two “hunters” took the piss out of each other, only to then bounce back out into the field a good 30 yards to lay down and die. I had assumed Matt must have hit a lung or heart or internal organ, but no, solid, spot on head shot. Incredible, never seen anything like it. So 3 in the bag we decided to have a walk over the road to my other perm. On the way over we saw a rabbit out in the field, under a street lamp. It was my turn so I stalked to the corner of a hedge (all the cover available) which I figured left me 35 yards to reach him. I went prone and took a shot but missed him. He ran to an embankment giving me another chance, but again, mildots wrong and missed him. When I paced to where I thought he had been originally, it was 50 yrds so no wonder I hit the grass. I have to say this was messing with my head a little now. Wasn’t sure if the pellets were crap or just my shooting. Matt has been to my perm before so knows where to go, so we each took a different boundary edge and planned to meet again in the farthest corner. I didn’t want to put my lamp on but couldn’t see much without it. I stuck to the fence next to work hoping the light from the site would help me. But it didn’t. I did however get a good reccy in on work (I am currently not permitted on site due to activity by a certain tree hugging group against my company). I saw 2-3 new families on the work site, behind the 12 foot fence, so made a mental note for when I get back on there at the end of the month. I got all the way round the field, I had seen 7-8 sets of eyes, but all ran to the hedge row when the lamp hit them. I left them for Matt hoping he was having more luck with the NV. Ultimately I got to Mac’s fave spot on this perm. A foot path on the edge of the field with scrub land over it. Tomma had seen a couple here last week and sure enough, I could see 3-4 in the street light. They were away before I could get close, so I lay up under a tree. Now, this is where the madness STARTS. I had been laid up 10 mins when I saw just the nose of a rabbit coming back out, just at that time heard footsteps walking up the path. What do I do? Stand up and say “don’t worry mate” so the bloke knows I am there? OR, lay quiet and hope he doesn’t see me, or scare the rabbit. In the end, I left it too late to choose and the guy was upon me, he was about level with me when he finally saw me and let out such a girlie scream and a “fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck” haha, it was all I could do to stop laughing. The rabbit ran off…. I stayed there waiting on Matt and 2 more rabbits came back out, but in a real boisterous mood. They were bouncing all over themselves and wouldn’t sit still. Then they turned and ran away from me to a fence. Finally after another 10 mins the 4th rabbit comes back out JUST as the damn phone goes again. “Hello Darryl?” “yes” “it’s the police” “right” “are you still shooting?” Are we going to do this all over again? “yes” “what time will you be finished?” “About 12, I’ll call you, if that is OK? It normally is”. “Yeah sure, thanks, bye” REALLY???? The one good thing was the rabbit was still there! Crosshairs on, pull the trigger and roll over. Nice shot right through the eye. Shooting OK, pellets OK. 26 yrds paced. Matt turned up 10 mins later and we called it a night, 4 in the bag. Big lad from Mac's "patch" and Matt trying to photobomb I had decided I wasn’t going to take the kits, (couldn’t sell them and freezer is full) I would leave them for the foxes. I also wanted to try vislauk’s method of squeezing the rabbits to get the guts out. I learned 2 more lessons tonight. A kit’s skin is still very thin, so when squeezing the guts out, don’t be shocked if they actually burst out of its groin rather than it’s arse. And I mean BURST! A kit’s bones are like balsa wood, squeezing the guts out I managed to completely crush just about every bone in it’s body……a little more finesse I think! SEAN!! I NEED MORE LESSONS!!!! The whole thing about the pellets has done my head in. I came home and this morning fired off the other 2 mags I had in my bag. I had 1-2 flyers per mag which is very high. Normally the H&N FTT I use are spot on. HOWEVER, these were the last 42 pellets in the tin, they “looked” ok, but I can only assume they had some damage if they have been rattling round the tin for a few months. Lesson learned, when I get down to the last 100 pellets, they are for plinking only now!! 8 Quote Link to post
smecky 52 Posted April 11, 2014 Report Share Posted April 11, 2014 That's a funny story matey. Nice rifles and shooting too. Happy dayz. Quote Link to post
DenBell 149 Posted April 11, 2014 Report Share Posted April 11, 2014 Nice one mate, your getting good at this. Need to start phoning in my activities to y the police, may save headache in the future. What number do you call? Quote Link to post
Daz39 962 Posted April 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2014 101. Bosh job done! Quote Link to post
bigmac 97kt 13,776 Posted April 12, 2014 Report Share Posted April 12, 2014 I told you day light till dark would yeld better results atvbmac :thumbs: 1 Quote Link to post
Darkie69 76 Posted April 12, 2014 Report Share Posted April 12, 2014 Damn near had me in tears laughing at the Copper phone calls, made my day. 1 Quote Link to post
The one 8,463 Posted April 12, 2014 Report Share Posted April 12, 2014 Aye phoning them and getting a job numbers a waste of time these days Quote Link to post
Daz39 962 Posted April 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2014 Cops were a joke but rather call em and have em call me than a load of the armed response boys turning up!! LoL I do seem to get the numpties after midnight! Quote Link to post
Darkie69 76 Posted April 12, 2014 Report Share Posted April 12, 2014 Suppose it's better to call than get pulled over like i did the other week on the way home, but they were cool with it when i produced the paperwork. Quote Link to post
Daz39 962 Posted April 13, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2014 There is a great clip on you tube of a full armed response team with chopper pulling a guy from a field. Wouldn't want that!! Quote Link to post
The one 8,463 Posted April 13, 2014 Report Share Posted April 13, 2014 Thats the thing its civilians in these control rooms and most dont have a clue as well as asking the questions on the screen they add a few of there own Quote Link to post
Darkie69 76 Posted April 14, 2014 Report Share Posted April 14, 2014 There is a great clip on you tube of a full armed response team with chopper pulling a guy from a field. Wouldn't want that!! Don't suppose you got the link, could do with a giggle Quote Link to post
The one 8,463 Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 The armed response guys seem the most sensible out all the coppers ive been stopped a few times but after getting checked out they have a laugh a joke and leave you to get on with it Quote Link to post
j j m 6,533 Posted April 16, 2014 Report Share Posted April 16, 2014 ive git to say once i call in the police just tell any one that calls them yes the lad has permission to shoot there Quote Link to post
The one 8,463 Posted April 16, 2014 Report Share Posted April 16, 2014 Doesn't matter they say once they get a call they have to attend Quote Link to post
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