Rare walk out for 20 mins.

[Ideation 8,216]

As some of you know, i don't use the old Air rifle that much these days, at least not for 'hunting'.

 

However! I have been stuck in the damn house for the last week nurse maiding my broken dog, and it's been driving me nuts, no hunting what so ever.

 

And i fancied a curry for tea, but had no fresh meat.

 

So. . . . i decided to have a quick 20 min stroll down into the wood, with the old Webley Vulcan .22 Springer.

 

Spotted a couple of rabbits sat out feeding, at about 60 yards, stalked in to about 35/40 yards, picked the one that looked most like a buck, took the shot prone, and missed my aiming mark by a mil or two, but he flipped over and landed in a stream bed, dead on impact.

 

Where he fell.

 

 

I was aiming for the eye, but hit just below.

 

 

Rifle.

 

[darren watson 14]

cant beat a bit of fresh! happy eating mate.

[moxy 617]

Looks like a milky doe to me

 

Good shooting and a post worth reading

 

atb

[secretagentmole 1,701]

Nice shot, I had one like that, lucky your stream was dry, unlike the ditch mine went in!

Edited May 2, 2011 by secretagentmole

[Tyla 3,179]

Ahh ... the webley vulcan, plenty of old memories there! Nicely done mate

[Ideation 8,216]

Cheers

 

Moxy, i was thinking of you mate, so i took my phone

 

Mole - stream is probably somewhat of a romantic exaggeration. . . . bit of a ditch may be more accurate.

[DottyDoo 500]

ferret food at best lol i hate the taste a rabbit

[jasper65 6]

Good to see the old webley vulcan getting out for a mooch I still have a old one here clocking close to 12ft/lbs.

 

them old webleys and the BSA Mercury and Airsporters bring back some memories

[festa 206]

buck or doe i bet the curry was nice lol nice shooting buddy

 

atb gary

[Ideation 8,216]

To be fair, i'll admit it, i was lucky it was a buck, i just went for the 'buchest' looking one.

 

As to the Vulcan, it's a good tool, and i've had it for, i'm not sure, got to be over a decade. . . . never been serviced, never had anything done to it. . . . . don't even need to zero it much.

 

I've no idea what it's taken, but a lot.

 

Keep thinking of getting a decent PCP. . . . . but the Vulcan kind of feels like a 'proper' air rifle (no dig whatsoever, just nostalgia)

 

 

O aye, and the curry was tasty

[19powell90 89]

looks milky to me aswell matey

 

also the proper KZ is below the ear and behind the eye

 

nice one on the curry

 

atb

 

scott

[Ideation 8,216]

It was a buck. But either way, it was dinner

 

And as for the KZ, the bunny was pretty much facing me, slightly angled with the right side showing a bit more, so rather than try for a shot behind the eye at that angle and end up striking only a glancing blow, i was intending for the pelet to pass through the eye and into the brain. As it happens it struck low, but the force must have carried the pellet through the bone and up into the brain.

 

Cheers for the advice though

 

I was just pretty chuffed at the shot with the old springer as it gets hardly ever used these days, and that was the first pellet i had put through it at quarry n some time

Edited May 2, 2011 by Ideation

[Karpman 44]

Cracking pal nice shooting. Nice wright up had rabbit wraps Saturday bloody lovely

 

Karpman

[jasper65 6]

Keep thinking of getting a decent PCP. . . . . but the Vulcan kind of feels like a 'proper' air rifle (no dig whatsoever, just nostalgia)

 

 

O aye, and the curry was tasty

 

Think you're right there ideation. I have a pcp and a couple of springers includeing the vulcan! the Vulan does feel good when I shoot it although must admit the trigger could have done with being a two stage and a little lighter, the one I have here has one stiff trigger but still gets the job done ......

 

Jasp

[millsy44 72]

well done fella, sometimes the spare of the moment quick trips turn out to be the best