Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Todays speed paunch

Todays shoot.
As promised, today was the day for a volunteer bunny.
I arived at the farm at 10.00am, let the farmer know i was around and set off down the fields to our prime rabbit spot. The three days of heavy rain had waterlogged most of the fields, but the rabbits and pigeons were out looking for food and having a warm in the morning sun. As i was walking along the hedgerow i spotted three potential volunteers running about at the top of the field. So ,very quietly i started the to crawl the 20 yards to get within range of a big rabbit, eating the tops of the oil seed rape shoots. I had a short wait as i didnt have a good side on head shot but when he did turn round, that was it "THWAK".
A .22 Bisley Super field from my HW80K smacked hard on target and it fell where it stood

The other two bolted when the pellet hit the rabbits head. So, that was that....one volunteer for the speed paunch.
Click the pic for the video of the speed paunch

The rabbit was paunched sucsessfully and i left the fur and guts for the buzzards.

Once i was back at the farm i had a quick walk around the area we know has a rat nest. Within minutes i had one, a big one at that. I couldnt get a good head shot but the back of its head and neck were visable. One shot and he quit kicking
Quite a good morning really. 1 Rabbit, 1 big rat and another collared dove on the bird feeders when i got back home.

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