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First shot for 2024 and started the year in style

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Oh dear !
Long spring grass
Only the ears showing so not sure about its orientation
Maybe over gunned with the 222R

Shot entered just under the eye

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Just finished getting this Winchester 1885 25 rimfire going with newly self made reloadable rimfire ammo
67 grain powder coated gas checked bullets
Heart shot at 45m and proper damage
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Actually I'm not miffed by the hares.
My wife is constantly telling me to shoot the hares and quail in her garden ... she say " haven't you got any guns" ... pretty ironic statement around here....

Not to be confused with the Stevens Favorite.
The 044 1/2 is a Stevens Ideal but a little narrower than the 44 1/2

Here are my two 044 1/2s together
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I brought another Stevens 044 1/2 22 LR last Sunday.
It took me two hours Monday to make the required urgent repairs.

This foolish hare was just eating windfall apples in my orchard and became...

I finished all the machining on this G1 22 yesterday
Reassembled it last night
Sighted it in this morning
Got these guys this afternoon
What a great little rifle now

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Hunting with vintage rifle scopes is great
You can see and shoot well out to a decent distance
But it's hard to tell how big the target is !
Let's just call this essence of rabbit
Certainly not...

Hairs / Hares
My spell check clearly doesn't hunt

Ah the sun came out and the hairs were out too

Nice and windy so ideal for the 22 wmr
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First kill with recently restored 1910 production Winchester 1885 takedown 22 magnum

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Hopefully first of many kills with this

I got this rifle in rough condition 2020
Got it all...

Old school rifle again today
Grass is so long only the ears show
But a close miss usually gets the head up a bit and then they are in real trouble

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Winder musket!

But might turn out to be Wonder musket

There were 2 hares sitting on my rifle range this morning around the 50m mark.
I snuck in and pulled out the rifle at the front of the safe and shot one off hand with a clean middle chest shot.
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Went out this afternoon and evening to tidy up some wild sheep in a local QE2 trust reserve.
Got 13 and 8 of them were lambs.
After 6 long trips back to the truck got all the lambs out whole and...

That would be my dog then.
But she thinks every time the gun goes off there will be something yummy

I'm using a ghost ring rear and globe front sight so not really what you would call precision.
I could use one of my smaller globe insert discs and have finer accuracy.
It's pretty well set up...

john m that is a very tidy Stevens Favorite !!! Original or refinished ?

I have been laying into the hare's with my muzzleloader as practice for chasing a deer soon.
Got this one 2 evenings ago...

I think its a north island thing.
Most north islanders i take hunting down here in SI are always wanting to blast away at plovers !
We have a few around but compared to paradise ducks they are no...

You do if you walk far enough away from them !


Good on you MikeB.
I had to change over and shoot right handed for a couple of months after I had my left shoulder re built. Way better than not...