Well I was a good husband and father this weekend, staying home and getting a lot of yard work and daddy things done. Which left absolutely no time for air gunning, my wife was surprised that I stayed home all weekend and we even made a few trips without an air rifle tagging along. So today when I got of work and had a kitchen pass I grabbed the nearest gun, which happened to the Discovery and headed out. I did make two calls to 2 other forums members to see if they could get out but was unable to get a hold of either of them.
We have another storm moving in tonight so I knew that today maybe it for the week. Tonight’s exercise was all about rapid target acquisition. The birds were super spooky today; I took up a position near the corn pile and used a parked tractor for cover. It took a few shots to get on the board tonight. I must admit I’m a springer guy at heart. Don’t get me wrong, I love shooting the disco, but I miss the recoil of spring guns. After knocking down a few birds I just left them lay and hoped that the other birds would think they were enjoying a fee meal and come in to join them. Once I had 3 or more down the new arrivals wouldn’t stay long, I mean just barely getting their feet down before looking around and the lifeless bodies of their friends and taking flight. So I mean you had to get on target very quickly and get the shot off in a hurry. Most of the birds that did come in left before I could get a shot off. I even passed on a snake that slowly made his way across the feedlot weaving his way in and out of the dead birds. I won’t say I missed as many as I connected on, but I missed my fare share tonight. And I did have a couple of fly offs, but for the most part, most of them just flipped over dead at the shot. I did knock down 3 birds that I couldn’t or didn’t even attempt to recover. I’m to damned be crawling around under or over electric fences. The action was still hot when I had to head for home, I didn’t want to get myself in trouble at home, and dinner was just coming off the stove when I walked in the door. It’s been along time since I got the Discovery out of the gun cabinet but with tonight’s performance it might get a little more trigger time.
