23rd December 2008, the family are asleep in bed (having finished work & school for the holidays) & it’s just after 8.00 a.m. & I finish my coffee & realise I (who hasn’t finished work) am about to be late having become a bit too engrossed in the T.V.
So into the kitchen with the coffee cup & looking out the back door something catches my eye.
Tree Weasel on the bird feeder!
Still in my dressing gown, I slide the B26 out of its cover & load up a Superdome & slide myself through the side door. The Weasel sees me but is unconcerned & continues to attack the bird feeder.
I kneel (so the neighbours can’t see me), raise the rifle, shoot &…. a clean miss!
Damn, when it’s not been shot in a while the first shot sometimes goes a little high & today was no exception.
So I reload, quick as you like, & find the weasel has gone 5 yards back & another 5 yards left & is sitting in some hazel either pondering his near death experience or is transfixed, unable to resist the lure of a feeder full of peanuts.
He’s in profile, so I site up on his shoulder (just in case the second one goes a bit high too & it would then take him through the head or neck) & unleash the .22 Superdome.
For a second, nothing happened….he just sat there & I started to think I’d missed again. But then, just for a moment he shivered & then fell stone dead to the floor without so much as a twitch
Point of impact is right where I put the crosshair. Straight through the pump-room & out the other side, clearly trashing both heart & lungs on its path & there being hardly any bleeding from the entry & exit holes.
Can’t leave dead bodies lying around as the wife doesn’t like it, so bag him up & throw him in the boot of the car as one to sort out later! LOL
The scopes are my Christmas present to myself, a Walther 4x12x50 Centre illuminated Mildot, 30mm tube AO/IR on some Leapers Accushot mounts.
At current exchange rates the scopes would be about $74.00 US or £50.00 sterling, brand new & boxed courtesy of ebay (though I’ve seen them on retail sites at double the price).
The good news is traffic was light & I made it to work on time.
