Thread: Rabbits and a Long Range Anschultz

A nice afternoon here in the bay had me thinking a few bunnies could be about, pup needed food and hunting them can be challenging..........

A while back i had tidied up a 1965 Anschultz .22 and its cool, a little 1316 model with the top bolt, slide ejector and more patina than a mad max movie


Sighting it in was hilarious, i painted a red dot on the front sight with wifeys fingernail polish to provide a contrast and set up an 80 yrd range with a half inch dot on the target.


Set up behind the rifle i had my first smile, and promptly reduced the range to 50yrds

Putting the very top of the front sights red dot on the black dot i sent mildly warm lead down range.

A tap tap here and a loosen/tighten there and we were one inch high at 50yrds. We were good to go.

Crawling ninja like through the shelter belt i set the rifle out in front, fitting a lightweight Harris immediately elevating its status to a " long range Anschultz"



A few targets moved here and there and way off to my left a lighter coloured target, no rangefinding binos today meant this was gonna be a guessing game, old school if you like, figuring about 80yrds i held dead on and concentrating like a 1000yrd shot i sent an averagely speedy 42g sub in its general direction.

I did not hear the hit but brer lept forward at the shot and lay still, flicking the bolt open the slide ejector caused the brass to land on top of my head


The quiet after a shot always relaxes and after observing the others look around and eventually recommence feeding i got up to retrieve.




Neat little machine and ultra light


I feel we are lucky to have the humble bunny here in nz, -where would our hunting careers have started without them !!