Thanksgiving morning was a miserable rainy day and I was wanting to sight in my Nitro 17.. I did some sight in shots from the back porch until it cleared up.. A bit later it became sunny and I took the the girls out to help me do some shots on some paper tree rats at about 15 yards.. No sooner had I got a couple sight in shots hitting at point of aim at 20 yards when a tree rat made it's appearance..
After a little bit of bouncing around from limb to limb, she finally stopped at about 25 yards out in the neighbor's back yard and gave me a nice broadside shot.. Aimed at the fuse box and with a flick of a switch it was lights out.. Woohoo, my new girl had scored her first kill!
I walked next door, retrieved the TR, woke the wife to tell her the baby she bought me had taken it's first kill.. Set up to take the pictures when the wife pointed out another TR in the same tree.. It was creeping slowly through the limbs, hiding within the branches to elude us.. Finally she entered a clearing and foolishly stopped and looked directly at me, just as the wife said "that's a pretty shot", the Nitro spoke, a Crosman flew, and the last thing that went through the TR's mind was 7.9 grains of lead! After retrieving her, I realized it was the same TR I had missed previously, amazing what tightening up a bolt will do
First TR taken:
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff275/Cfx-131/IMG_2750.jpg Second small one:
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff275/Cfx-131/IMG_2751.jpg Right between the eyes - graphic
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff275/Cfx-131/IMG_2754.jpg Up to 8, time for dinner!
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff275/Cfx-131/IMG_2765.jpg
