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General Discussion To Gateway To Airguns => Hunting Gate => : shadow May 22, 2010, 01:08:51 AM
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I made a late start of it last night for night patrol but by 12:30am I got rained out so I called it a evening and would go after the critters this morning. I was back on the private land by 6:30am this morning and set up in a hide ready for any edible critter to show itself. It was going on 8:00 when I spotted something out in the field and knew exactly what it was by it's movement. I put the glass of the NP on em to get a better look and there he was just sitting proud out in the field and with a quick yardage guess hehe I cut loose with a FTS. With a solid hit he dropped right out of sight so I crawled out of the hide and headed for the harvest counting some yards along the way. I dropped him at 36yrds and the FTS found it's mark so snagged him up and headed back to the hide to place him in the game bag. I hung for another hour just to take in the fresh air that the rain bring's in then decided to call it a morning. I had my harvest for the day and will try a early evening hunt to hopefully score a G-hog. Ed
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Always nice shooting Ed!
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That's one impressive looking hopper buddy,,,,, a meal fit for a king and queen..... Good shooting and I love the pics.. :)
Jeff
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Thats a nice bunny. Makin my mouth water. Great shootin and pics.
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Thank you kindly brothers and I was getting kinda worried about bunnies. :o Last year there were bunnies everywhere around my place and at my hunting grounds but this year so far I've only spotted about a dozen. Last week when I was up on the hunting grounds I spotted two Hawk's sitting in the tree's at the woodline watching the field's, talk about some tough competition hehe. Ed
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Hey, Ed. Do you ever use predator pellets in your Trail NP? If so, how accurate are they in your gun?
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I've tried the Pred's in her but sadly she doesn't want to play nice with them. :0 She's an exception to most of my shooters who love the Pred's but she loves the FTP and that's what I'll feed her. Ed
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That's ok, Ed. Looks like the FTS pellets are working just fine for you. Tom
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Great shot on that wabbit Ed! I could polish one of them off by myself but you can share it with the Mrs.. hehe :)
Yeah hawks are very bad news for someone who wants to have rabbits around for hunting, eating, etc. I used to have rabbits when I bought the house, between the owl that was living in one of my trees, the hawks, and the 15+ cats we had back then in the neighborhood, they were all gone within 2-3yrs. I have not seen a rabbit on our street since 1998 except for one or two 3-4 blocks away (or ~600yds from here).
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Thanks Harry and I checked the Fox den on the far end of the private land, it's active again so I think it's working the fields too. Ed
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Good shot Ed.
I sometimes see one here in my yard. With all the feed I've been putting out for the critters this past Winter I've been seeing one more often.
About 6 weeks ago, one morning I saw two out in the lawn. Several days ago I found an abandoned bunny brood nest in some of the brush. I've never eaten Rabbit,...yet - I'm hoping there will be more hopping when the bunny season opens this Fall ! :D
Paul
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good shooting Ed!
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Thanks brothers. Ed
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That's one hell of a nice shot.
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nice shooting
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Thank you kindly. :) Ed
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Another great head shot.
Good job Ed.