Thread: Anyone want a Free 308 cause mine is shite !!!!

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Mmmm am I ruining a Friendship or starting one[/B].....

I have met a few good people on here and no more so than Mucko, he has been generously enough to let me shoot and hunt at his place I better kill something soon or the invitations to shoot/hunt my start slowing down and stop. Unless I actually kill something bloody soon ! Jeepers a possum will do at this dire stage!

While ever ones time is short these days in the fast paced lives we live . it leaves little time for hunting especially if your Mucko a Dairy Farmer with 4 kids under 5 yrs old (nope that wasn't a typo !)

So lets set the scene so far....

1st time spot lighting for pigs no pigs seen. ( Feral pigs rooting up the farm coming from the bush at the back of his place.)

2nd time spotlighting see 3 good size pigs I would say an honest 70-90 kgs ? Mmm 30 meters away , I put what I thought was a well placed shot to the shoulder. Now Im new to shooting and hunting and the few animals I have shoot have been on private land and has alway taken one shot to put it down. Imagine my shock that while the pig looked hit . i.e. it went off at a canter instead of a sprint like the other 2 pigs did in the vicinity it certainly wasn't dead ! So I thru some lead in the air, and thats exactly what it was, throwing some lead in the air!!! Needless to say Mr piggy escaped into the bush, we had a good look for him but he was gone.

3rd time up the back of his place in the bush.......friggin had to climb a bloody dam step hill ( high enough for telecom to put one of those radio mast thingies on top (yes Rushy that is the technical term) and other idiots jump off said hill with a wee bit of material and call it fun (para gliders etc).... Get on the ridge half way to the top around the next corner and blow me down theres a deer (hind) looking straight at us. Mucko was behind me and I didn't think he had seen it so I waved my hand like a bloody garla, obvious to much movement and the hind took off at a great rate of knots hence no shot taken.

4th time , i.e. next day Mucko was a wee tired after milking ( 4 kids , 3 am starts) hmm must be getting soft ! So I went up on my lonesome, imagine my shock 2 days in a row ,just on dark (evening) about 500m apart another deer appears a young yearling looking straight at me 100 meters away only offering a head shot. While Im not the greatest shot in the world. I thought I d give it a go, why I didn't go into a sitting firing position I will never know....Tried calming my breathing rate down took aim slowly squeeze the trigger..... Fire miss.... Bugger me the yearling hasn't bolted!!! Reload, f$#k it , it jams.... Im sure I saw the yearling smile as it slowly walks off into the bush...

5th time 2 days hunting in Horomanga River area.... mmm nice long walk in , lots of river crossing 46 each way, no much sign , no fresh sign. No sighting of deer... Enough said really.

Mmm is it me or the Rifle , is it the beginning of a friendship or the end of one....

So Mucko when ya free to go hunting again, 6th time lucky Ha, Ha!

In closing I guess if it was easy they would call it shopping not hunting. And nope Im not giving away the rifle just yet!