Thread: What little pesties did you bowl over today?

Yep and you just killed the lawn mowers

Originally Posted by Localman

Having breakfast this morning, rabbit runs out on to lawn and round garden. Get PCP out ,step outside and it runs away, finish coffee. 5 minutes later 2 rabbits come out ,one shot one dead[ rabbit. Back to reading the news on my tablet 10 minutes later other rabbit out looking at his dead mate another shot both dead.
Photo shows where they fell shot at just over 40 meters.
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Nice Brocock, what caliber you shooting?

Originally Posted by 7mm Rem Mag

Yep and you just killed the lawn mowers

3 years ago when I first started shooting a particular apple orchard that had a seriously bad rabbit problem, after I'd shot several hundred rabbits off it the orchard manager mentioned that they were now having to mow the grass far more often

Originally Posted by Andygr

I'm just in awe of the fact that you have 40m of lawn !!

Mine are about 40 metres bloody high,haven't mowed since before duckshooting.

Originally Posted by 7mm Rem Mag

Yep and you just killed the lawn mowers

Using 22 jsb slugs 15.89gr gun just loves them. Had the rifle about 12 months and still really enjoy using it with good results.
Yes I have a big lawn and garden over two acres.

Ah the sun came out and the hairs were out too

Nice and windy so ideal for the 22 wmr

Originally Posted by Dundee

Mine are about 40 metres bloody high,haven't mowed since before duckshooting.

You need a few more 'buddy's'

Hairs / Hares
My spell check clearly doesn't hunt

After hammering the magpies for the last couple of years, the numbers have been a fraction of what they used to be and the valley has been much quieter. Have hardly heard a bird all winter and it was totally quiet through the autumn. Yesterday, they came back.

Interesting that the boss bird has a completely different call to anything I’ve heard here before. I was keen to record it, but unfortunately he’s dead. Counted 10 birds in the mob this morning, got five here with another two hung up in the trees, and one that the hawk got to before I picked it up. So two more to get tomorrow.

(Mrs Hawk turned up within seconds of me playing the first distress call. She knows that breakfast will be served… soon.)

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 a meal for two

Hare. .22 air rifle. klarus fh10 red/green/white light torch.Scope mounted picatinny, quick release torch mount. 33m. Picked up on red light, difficult to see cross hairs so switched to green. Green light spooked hare started to run, tried the old whistle trick ( which is pretty hit and miss) it worked. shot connected.

The whistle almost always works on rabbits when done right but when Hares are on the move they usually won't stop until they find a place to hide that they think you haven't seen.

what's the correct way? I have very limited success

Shot this over a year ago while stalking another wallaby when this one popped its head up about 10m away from me. Slocked a pellet straight between the ears when it turned its head.

Hatsan 125 Sniper in .25cal (break barrel), JSB Exact King 25.39grains doing 720fps