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Thread: I wasn't seriously expecting to hit it.........Fluke shots.

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    Towards the end of duckshooting I took the cape rifle out, 1 barrel 16 gauge the other 9.3x58r two ducks lift off the river up boom, both hit the water. Retrieve them and start plucking, no pellet holes in the bodies, strange so I look elsewhere. One got a single pellet in the head and the other got one in the neck that broke its spine and one through the tip of the beak. Obviously having the hundred and twenty extra pellets is unnecessary.
    Oh and if maca49 sees this no the rifle barrel still is yet to get on the board.
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    The first LV group I shot in competition at 100 yards at WBC14, (World Benchrest Champs) last November



    Smallest 5 shot group at 100 yards for the event from LV or HV out of 852 groups, I was very very lucky

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    Shot a swallow off a fence post at 50 metres with my old mans old open sight air rifle as a kid. Never expecting a hit.

    Nailed a wild cat on the run at 100metres as a kid spotlighting with Dad and a 22lr too. Was most surprised.
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    Quote Originally Posted by stagstalker View Post
    Shot a swallow off a fence post at 50 metres with my old mans old open sight air rifle as a kid. Never expecting a hit.

    Nailed a wild cat on the run at 100metres as a kid spotlighting with Dad and a 22lr too. Was most surprised.
    Did your dada have a @Dundee special edition rangefinder?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gibo View Post
    Did your dada have a @Dundee special edition rangefinder?
    Mark 1 eyeball was the go to
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    .. Cripes if I wasn't off to work I would clog ur thread with stories. Good thread keep it up fullas and fullerets.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marty Henry View Post
    Towards the end of duckshooting I took the cape rifle out, 1 barrel 16 gauge the other 9.3x58r two ducks lift off the river up boom, both hit the water. Retrieve them and start plucking, no pellet holes in the bodies, strange so I look elsewhere. One got a single pellet in the head and the other got one in the neck that broke its spine and one through the tip of the beak. Obviously having the hundred and twenty extra pellets is unnecessary.
    Oh and if maca49 sees this no the rifle barrel still is yet to get on the board.
    God you own two of these things??
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    Boom, cough,cough,cough

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kiwi Greg View Post
    The first LV group I shot in competition at 100 yards at WBC14, (World Benchrest Champs) last November



    Smallest 5 shot group at 100 yards for the event from LV or HV out of 852 groups, I was very very lucky

    I’d be pissed off they’re not in the dead centre?
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    Boom, cough,cough,cough

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    Was doing some long range practice with my 7RM and had 3 roos sitting side by side at 714yds with a reasonable cross wind 12/15mph unsure of windage required because of the 2 gullies in between I dialled what I thought and aimed at the middle roo. Because I didn't dial enough windage the left side roo collapsed. My mates who were with me call it as a miss because I didn't hit the middle one to which I replied go and tell that to the roo on the left!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Marty Henry View Post
    Towards the end of duckshooting I took the cape rifle out, 1 barrel 16 gauge the other 9.3x58r two ducks lift off the river up boom, both hit the water. Retrieve them and start plucking, no pellet holes in the bodies, strange so I look elsewhere. One got a single pellet in the head and the other got one in the neck that broke its spine and one through the tip of the beak. Obviously having the hundred and twenty extra pellets is unnecessary.
    Oh and if maca49 sees this no the rifle barrel still is yet to get on the board.
    That would've made an even better story if you said you used the 9.3 barrels lol
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    Shit i got some good footage on camera for you unbeleivables.Best two shots with my stirling was a drake flying off from the creek my brother witnessed it if he wants to take me to court. Another great shot was a bloody pigeon flying over head while I was checking the river level and I dropped that on the wing with the .22.As for my long distance varmint posts they weren't flukes and had the rangefinder calibrated from H&F.
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    Had a mate regale me with a tale of woe. He used to hunt a duck pond that was quite a walk from the house and you could not drive up without scaring everything off. So to walk up he went through a scrubby gully with his shotgun. There was on the odd occasion a deer floating round so he usually had a solid slug handy in a pocket "just in case." One day he thinks he hears a deer. He pops in the round and stalks up to check it out. Its a decent sized boar about 50 metres away. He lines it up and BOOM!!!! A loud angry boar takes off squealling like you never heard before....He dashes up to see whether there was blood to follow and alas it is a complete miss. Surprisingly when he gets the pond there are still a few ducks about. He felt sure they would have departed.....One flies across in front of him...he follows it and fires a single shot with the 12g....One duck explodes into a red mess of feathers and gore and falls in pieces from the sky as the solid slug hits it smack on centre.......He then realises that he hit the pig across the shield with #5 duck shot and understood the squeal. He is not sure if it was a "lucky" shot with the slug. .....The only thing he got that day was a story and a lesson.

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    Almost a hunting-story ; When I was 12-ish, my mate and I were staying at kohitere forest near Levin (holidays). We both had our single-shot .22s, cooey and BSA martini. This day, we 'borrowed' one of Uncle Rays home-brew beers. We picked a ratty-looking one from the very back, then proceeded to walk the entire way to the Tops. A bit shagged and hot at this stage, we opened the bottle and knocked it back, then promptly went to sleep . We woke feeling like shit, stashed the bottle, and made our way slowly back to the house. At breakfast the following morning, Ray looks at us, says "you boys forget something yesterday", turns and looks at the bench. There, is our empty bottle. We froze like deer in the spot-light, and he stands up and walks off...we never did figure out 'how', and it turned out it was stronger than wine, which was why it was so old.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dundee View Post
    Shit i got some good footage on camera for you unbeleivables.Best two shots with my stirling was a drake flying off from the creek my brother witnessed it if he wants to take me to court. Another great shot was a bloody pigeon flying over head while I was checking the river level and I dropped that on the wing with the .22.As for my long distance varmint posts they weren't flukes and had the rangefinder calibrated from H&F.
    And there we have it!! Ha Ha shit mate you are good to wind up And just for shits and giggles, how is it being so short you need to stand on a brick to kick a duck in the arse?
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    Quit a few years back, I was stalking a pond wth my Dad he told me I can have a crack with the 20 guage (at this point I was only using a .410). Reluctantly I said yes. Two ducks flew off and my first ever sho with a 20 guage nailed one of them.
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