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General Discussion To Gateway To Airguns => Hunting Gate => : glyconny October 13, 2008, 09:42:51 AM
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This is my first post in the hunting forum, after having enjoyed it for several months. Thanks to everyone who has made this forum enjoyable and informative.
I've enjoyed hunting for years, but have recently moved to a big city which limits my hunting to a few weedend trips a year. When I lived in the country I could easily scratch that hunting itch by easily accesible varmint hunting. Living in the city, I no longer have those oppurtunity with my .22lr, it's way too loud and too much gun for the purpose. So after doing some research I settled on getting an adult AG, perfect for my idea of ridding my property of rats and squirrels, and punching paper in my basement.
Over the past few months I've picked up a B26-2 that I had TT'd that's absolutely dead accurate in .22. I also Picked up a Mac1 Discovery that is very neighbor friendly with it's barrel break.
I have taken a few rats already with the B26-2, but had not used the Disco for anything but punching paper.
I figured that since I had the day off today, I would give her a go at the out of control squirrel population. I have a unique situation in that I only have about a 20 ft. space that I can shoot at safely in my backyard, any further to the left or right and I lose my back stop. So i set up in the window that gives me the most access to shooting space. I have a fence about 20 yards away that the squirrels use as their superhighway and it didn't take long before one showed up. A couple strolled on the fence and didn't stop long enough for a good shot. Then a big one comes through with a snickers wrapper in his mouth lol. He stopped and started handling the wrapper, I quickly shouldered the disco, placed the crosshairs between the ear and eye, and let fly with a Predator. I saw him move just before I fired, and thought I may have missed, as he was no longer in my sites, and didn't see any death dance movement below. I went out to check where I hit on my backstop (my garage) and looked at the spot below the fence where i aimed which has about 4-6" of thick grass, and lo and behold, was a big male squirrel. The entry wound was not where I intended it to be, his movement forward led to him being hit at the shoulder, with the pellet exiting the other side. Never had a body kill before, but it was definitely lots less dramatic then when I've hit em with head shots from my .22lr. The thing must have dropped dead on the spot, without any movement......I'm impressed. Here are some pics of my my disco with it's first get. Anyone else have the same observations w body shots?
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An excellent first hunting post,,, I enjoyed it verymuch.... Sounds like you got that disco dialed right in,,, great shooting :)
The pics didn't show up,,,,, perhaps you could try re-posting them?? I'd really like to see that deadly disco and her kill :)
Jeff
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I'm trying Jeff lol. I'm having a hard time resizing the photo small enough.
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The Disco is a lot of gun for the price. I'm still getting the hang of shooting from an elevated place at shorter distances. I hope to post more soon.
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Hey is that a dead squirrel.. wow !!! way ta bread basket that sucker.. please add more gun in the next pics...
Just playing... good shootin...
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Congrats on your first kill with the Disco! That's a good looking one!
What I do is set the camera for low res (640x480) and the pics come out perfect, not too small, not too large, around 65-85KB.
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Welcome to the Hunting Gate and you hit a home run right off the bat..:) The GTA Hunting Gate is one of my favorite GTA Forums..:) We have a great bunch of air rifle hunters who fantastic epics of there hunting expriences. Looks like you are following suite....:)
Great kill and please bring us more..
Gene
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That's what I'm talkin about !!!! Great pic,,,,, sweet lookin shooter and a healthy lookin nutter. I will definitely be looking forward to your next hunting post :)
Jeff
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There will definitely be more to follow as I have an overabundance of squirrels and rats. I'm hoping I can make a small dent. And in a couple weeks I'm heading for my annual hunting trip w/ my brother and friends, and I'm definitely going to be bringing my 2 AGs with me. I've been bragging on them so much lately, all the boys are interested to see what all the hypes about.
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WELCOME and I see you found our Hunting Gate with some fine shootin and harvest.:) Looking forward to more of em and happy to have as part of our BIG OL GTA FAMILY, A GREAT PLACE TO BE!. Ed
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Body shots on rabbits, and desert rats are usually shot-drop kinda deals, the headshots often come with all sorts of antics.
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Nice Huntin w/ the Disco "E",,, I shure LOVE my Disco,,,,Lookin forward to your future posts!! Tim. P.S.,,, Welcome aboard Bud!!
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If only that squirrel played hockey....maybe he`d worn some shoulder pads, and it might have gave him some protection. On second thought....maybe not...since the Disco is so powerful and at such a close distance. heh heh
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A good heart/lung shot does seem to put 'em down in a hurry.
When shooting the edible species I will go for the head shot whenever possible, to prevent "yukkie" hemorrhaging and meat destruction.
For pest control, either of the front end locations works well. Head shots just give bragging rights. They are both terminal in seconds.