Nothing happened up at the pond tonight,but shot a young hare on the way home...had my dinner and the kid had fed it to the eels:(
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Nothing happened up at the pond tonight,but shot a young hare on the way home...had my dinner and the kid had fed it to the eels:(
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out with the .17HMR few days ago
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Just got one trap set where we are planting at the moment. Every day there's 1 to pluck b4 work tho [emoji106]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...08e08ff5a0.jpg
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They just have to keep digging up the grass making a hell of a mess :XD:
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Caught this one red handed last night, introduced Her to the 338 BRX, She wasn't amused :)
Hit the farm for a morning hunt for a change, starting sleeting but rabbits weren't bothered.
28 shot, felt a bit strange using the .22 after so much 17HMR work but Attachment 88259the old JW still knocking them over .
@berg243, believe me mate it's not a beautifully confirmed piece of black Walnut, more like one of the lower branch's from the lesser Asia Minor monkey fuck tree. God know's what it is, probably cheap birch .
Bonzai tree timber?Quote:
Originally Posted by viper
Chu wood isn't it?
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AWESOME night of possum shooting, covered far more distance than i thought possible at my fitness level and made every shot i took, including this one out of a very tall tree about 150m away, as you can see it was the highlight of my night. All the advice really helped, thanks guys. 15 possums total this time with 12 recovered and plucked.
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Also managed to recover the bullet, stopped in the skin on the other side. Surprised the segmented subs still did their thing from that distance. Will continue using them they're proving very effective and paying for themselves.
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Fuck that's a good shot. My jw15 with high velocity was dropping 6 to 7 inches at 100 meters. Had to hold over almost to the bottom of the scope.Quote:
Originally Posted by Angus_A
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I could only just barely see the top of his head in my scope aye, probably a massive fluke but i'll take it. Was shooting to the left on the first shot, adjusted and got him on the second. Right through the neck and two of the petals went down and smashed his lungs. Nice and clean.Quote:
Originally Posted by Russian 22.
Definitely liking those segmented subs. Only negative thing I can say about them is the price.
dropped a couple of pigeons while at the river this week great shots with the shotty but couldn't retreive them as they fell in the swollen river.The leed I gave the one today was about 3 metres.
So lucky shot then Dundee.Quote:
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Awesome shooting mate! i need to go out and nail some more possums.Quote:
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You're welcome to come along with us sometime if you can get out to meremereQuote:
Originally Posted by 300CALMAN
Turkeys [emoji884] with a door knocker....
Breast meat is going for a Scout Camp..
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Double posted but stuff it cause it was a fun day out:thumbsup:
ummer looks to be finally here in the UK had a spare afternoon yesterday so took my next door neighbour out for a crack at the local Pegion population. Haven’t been out all year due to work load
Bill doesn’t get out much either as his wife Has Alzheimer’s so he’s her full time carer. But his kids were visiting so he got a free pass
Started around 2pm and finished up at 7pm.
I set us up in a beech hedge standing back to back so we could call the out what was in coming to each other.
If you cocked the shot up our the bird went just out of range put was vectoring into Bills position then he could have a crack and vice versa. Some of the language was a bit ripe as we missed a few sitters, but good fun all round.
I even managed to get two left right crosses and one really long range crossing screamer that was paced out at 51strides.
41 picked and a few in the hedges that we could not get.
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Shot 6 possums on the walk out from our duckshooting spot.
15 possums tonight, almost entirely at the entrance they were very concentrated. Took the new shotgun for a spin and yeeeeah, way too short to be practical. Time to track down a new 870 barrel i think.
How short is it? Mine is a 20 or something like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Angus_A
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I'm actually not sure I haven't measured it. Only picked it up yesterday so was mostly just giving it a try to see how it ran. Here's a pic. Was a loooooot of fun with slugs! HahaQuote:
Originally Posted by Russian 22.
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Looks like a 16. Is yours a Remington? Mine is ranger copy hahah. Yours looks so much nicer with the wood.Quote:
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Nah it's definitely shorter than 16 cos that's only a 4 shot mag tube. Pretty sure it's a 12.5. Surprisingly doesn't recoil that hard though even with slugs.
Hope you wear ear defenders with a barrel that short:O_O: @Angus_A a longer barrel yes more practical:thumbsup:
PARDON?Quote:
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Unfortunately Remington don't sell spare barrels for left-hand 870 shotguns. You might snag a secondhand one in Buy Sell Swap.Quote:
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Ah don't they? Might sell this one on then if it's going to be such a pain to get a barrel for.Quote:
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Smoked one for the dogs
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Sorry guys, no photo's today but a quick report, a morning hunt that if I had another box of ammo would have gone well into the afternoon.
Cold and dead still, just perfect, rabbits everywhere, took a box of 17HMR, 47 shot.
ive been watching a lot of YouTube clips as I want to keep improving my shooting, really focused on body position today...made a difference.
I could have stayed out all day shooting, so much for the new virus.
If that was a box of 50 you would have to be happy with those sats?Quote:
Originally Posted by viper
yeah was ok as I took some shots that from a position or distance that was marginal.
Closest shot 30 mtrs - longest 205mtrs - misses further out at 240 mtrs and a lot of very steep up hill shooting.
Had a part box of 8 rounds before the box of 50.
Pretty happy but always room to improve.
What scope do you use with your .17 HMR Viper?Quote:
Originally Posted by viper
New PB with the 22lr subs for me this morning, nailed two pest birds at 142 yards, 11.5 moa dialed up from a 70 yard zero.
Quite amaising how well those CCI HP subs kill at that range.
@Flyblown, I use a Nikko Stirling Nighteater that I got off another forum member. Good scopes for the money, mine has the LRX recticle which is nice and fine and comes with the bonus of being one of the recticles on the free ballistic app Strelok.Quote:
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It's the 3rd one I have had over the yrs and they all have being good , I really crank it up over 10x power.
Yup already regret selling mine to @gadgetman and cheap too :oh noes:
Yeah, I sold mine to Viper and regretted it.Quote:
Originally Posted by dannyb
Yeah and now the rabbit's regret both of you guys selling it.:thumbsup:
I love varminting and reckon its one of the most challenging of the shooting sports when you push it out with the rimfire .17s and .22s. I used .17HMR for 3 yrs in Aus on the bunnies and loved it and regretted selling the rifle when we left, stupidly thought it wouldn’t get much use back home in NZ, especially after all the hassle of getting the bloody rifle in the first place. But what it made me do was really test my skills with the .22LR which like @GWH says can be huge fun when you work out your drops and put a decent scope on the wee gun.
But for me the best fun of all is the 400m hares with the T3 Super Varmint, that’s a satisfying afternoon shooting all right when you’re in form, especially if there’s a bit of wind about.
Ordered 10 leg hold traps today, it's not much but it's a start, keen to start practising trapping.
