Thread: What little pesties did you bowl over today?

I like your kill ratio. I clean out peacocks from around polyhouses for my neighbour with a M2 Benelli. Last time I was able to sneak up on them, got the first on the ground, and the other three on the wing. 4 from 4. Love it!

Originally Posted by 30.06king

if my luck holds those big cocks should be there for me to find next time.

you mayyyyyyyyyyy want to rephrase that

Originally Posted by schwen

I like your kill ratio. I clean out peacocks from around polyhouses for my neighbour with a M2 Benelli. Last time I was able to sneak up on them, got the first on the ground, and the other three on the wing. 4 from 4. Love it!

You must be skilled taking them on the wing. I am a barely adequate shotgun shooter and don't think I would do as well as you.
I've noticed that Peacocks are strong and fairly rapid flyers, especially if starting from on high and flying downhill. Even on the level when springing up to clear the ground into flight they do pretty well. Those massive tails on the biggest roosters don't seem to impede them much at all.

Originally Posted by vulcannz

you mayyyyyyyyyyy want to rephrase that

Haha .... yes, probably not the best chosen phrase. I posted late at night and probably wasn't as alert as I could have been. Oh well, too late to edit now so it will stand.
You must have a mind like mine. Probably I would have thought the same if reading it posted by someone else

Originally Posted by 30.06king

You must be skilled taking them on the wing. I am a barely adequate shotgun shooter and don't think I would do as well as you.

If you look at this Peacock taking flight, you can see that more than half of its length is in its tail feathers. If you don’t have the lead placement correct with your shot gun the fall of shot can be into the tail feathers.

Originally Posted by 30.06king

You must be skilled taking them on the wing. I am a barely adequate shotgun shooter and don't think I would do as well as you.
I've noticed that Peacocks are strong and fairly rapid flyers, especially if starting from on high and flying downhill. Even on the level when springing up to clear the ground into flight they do pretty well. Those massive tails on the biggest roosters don't seem to impede them much at all.

I shoot clays every weekend and sometimes during the week. I shot a 90/100 at skeet the week before last with my Benelli, and that's my gun of choice for sporting and compak too. Shooting those peacocks was like swinging through 3 low house targets from station 4.

Originally Posted by Rushy

If you look at this Peacock taking flight, you can see that more than half of its length is in its tail feathers. If you don’t have the lead placement correct with your shot gun the fall of shot can be into the tail feathers.

It's better to miss in front than behind.

Thursday evening walk then quick walk spotlight in North Canterbury. One of those awesome but frustrating outings with wind and not enough long range .22 practice. Ended up with about 20 rabbits/hares over a couple of hours. I was going over/under left and right while the rabbits laughed at me (before the next round hit). Had some really good shots though. Rifle was spot on just operator error.

Mate recently introduced me to shooting off a tripod. Life changing for the areas I regularly shoot.
I tended not to head out after it rained, as I'd get a tad wet when shooting off the bipod, and used shooting sticks when the grass was long.
Now I can stand and shoot, with accuracy only slightly less than using the bipod.
Just waiting for my Arken Zulus scope with the rangefinder to arrive, and then the excuses for missing shots due to bullet drop guestimation, shooting through long grass, etc are things of the past. Problem then is my average shooting capabilities will get highlighted.