19_April What a night! For all the wrong reasons!

[stealthy1 3,964]

Your starting to look like the Jack the ripper of the cemy mate Six with one lump of lead will take some beating, unless someone knows different

[Phantom 631]

Cheers Stealthy

 

I'll take that as a complement

 

Hey BILL,

 

Can you see the pix now buddy?

 

Phantom

[stealthy1 3,964]

Cheers Stealthy

 

I'll take that as a complement

 

Hey BILL,

 

Can you see the pix now buddy?

 

Phantom

 

 

Its cool to be different mate

I can see the pix, have you re-listed the pix on this post?

[Phantom 631]

Yeah Stealthy,

I'm going through my posts, finding the original images and uploading them to photofucket

 

Its gonna take a while though

 

Infact, I'm really tired and may leave it till another day, just do the most recent ones I didn't get to bed while about 03:45 this morning and I was up again at 07:30.

 

Just checked the weather for round here tomorrow is looking reasonable apart from some strong gusts of wind so I may go get myself laid up in the cemy for a few hours tomorrow afternoon/evening.

 

I'm deffo gonna get some of those delinquents that were teasing me yesterday. The wind direction looks favourable for me to lay up in the cemy grounds and nobble em through the fence as they go to frolick in the paddock. The warren and run under the fence is exactly 30 and 33 yards from the fence, so I'm looking at 35 yard shots hopefully I will come away with enough bunnies to line my dpm jacket for next winter

 

Phantom

[andyz 30]

Excellent write-up and pics, very informative and really interesting.

 

Gonna have to look into the Homesteaders way of skinning, I quite like the idea of that!

 

Keep up the great job....

 

Happy hunting ATB,

Andy

[plinkplinkplop 0]

Good right up and very grafic pics lol, So it wasn't an intstant kill then!?!

[chameleon 26]

I love the macabre side of your posts

[Phantom 631]

Good right up and very grafic pics lol, So it wasn't an intstant kill then!?!

 

Thanks Guy's

 

PPP, alas sadly it was one of those very rare occasions that it wasn't a lights out switch off that most hunters strive to achieve.

However; The damage caused to the front of the brain was suffice to make sure it couldn't run anywhere and it took me less than 5 seconds to get to it and finish the job manually.

 

I prefere to take standing shots with my springer and shoot the S200 from the pod as I find the bikini stock awkward to hold at the front, where as the springer is a superb fit in my hands when standing.

 

 

Phantom

[Phantom 631]

Excellent write-up and pics, very informative and really interesting.

 

Gonna have to look into the Homesteaders way of skinning, I quite like the idea of that!

 

Keep up the great job....

 

Happy hunting ATB,

Andy

 

Thanks buddy

 

Aaron and Andy,

 

Heres the method as taught on Discovery Channel

 

You dont need the frame and hooks, I did it with just my hands

 

 

 

Phantom

[Sweeney-Todd 208]

Cheers Stealthy

 

I'll take that as a complement

 

Hey BILL,

 

Can you see the pix now buddy?

 

Phantom

 

 

Hi Tony.

 

Yep.....I can see them mate, and very good they are too.

 

That Tapeworm is a bigun ....they any good for fishing?

 

Im sure you were a Surgeon in a previous life

 

Very good mate.

 

 

 

 

ATB.

 

 

 

 

 

Bill.

[plinkplinkplop 0]

Good right up and very grafic pics lol, So it wasn't an intstant kill then!?!

 

Thanks Guy's

 

PPP, alas sadly it was one of those very rare occasions that it wasn't a lights out switch off that most hunters strive to achieve.

However; The damage caused to the front of the brain was suffice to make sure it couldn't run anywhere and it took me less than 5 seconds to get to it and finish the job manually.

 

I prefere to take standing shots with my springer and shoot the S200 from the pod as I find the bikini stock awkward to hold at the front, where as the springer is a superb fit in my hands when standing.

 

 

Phantom

 

So is that an apoligie for the shit you gave me on my first post!! Quote-Don't take the shot if your not certian of an instant kill!!

[Phantom 631]

So is that an apoligie for the shit you gave me on my first post!! Quote-Don't take the shot if your not certian of an instant kill!!

 

I am sorry for the way you interpreted my response to your first kill post; But I will always stand by what I say.

 

So before you 'fly off the handle' again, please read the following:

 

 

My 1st reply to your first post was nothing like you mention above it was actually this:

 

Well done on your 1st. You will always remember that

 

I would suggest though that if your quarry is running for 40 yards, you need to spend a lot more time on the range, practicing until you can place 10 shots one after the other into a target the size of a 20 pence coin

 

You are obviously not going for the brain shots which should be your primary target.

Once you become more proficiant with your gun and more experianced then you may well go for the heart/lung shots.

If you manage to damage these organs the quarry may run for a couple of yards but that would be it

 

All the best

 

Phantom

 

It was not as you said "Giving you shit" at all It was merely a piece of Constructive Criticisim

And I indeed stand by what I said when you said:

 

And we did had a pop at one which I must of hit as we found blood close to were it try to hide by a stone but we couldn't find it had a quick look in the next field and found that there was a Ewe on here side not looking to healthy so went and told me the Farmer wife about it.

 

As we drove back out of the Farm lane I could see one in the headlights about 40yds away. So jumped out quick loaded up with one of my rested on a post folowed it with the light, fired, AND THUD!!! Wasn't sure if I'd hit it or not!!!!!! After it had ran about another forty yds at did a funky little dance on its back legs and dropped, Adam went and got it for me (cheers mate) and it was dead. Ideal!! Was chuffed to bits as I finally got to see what my gun and light combo would do

 

You then went on to say :

 

Thanks for all your replys, I could answer them all in seperate ways but I think it would just cause an argument!!! I have had Airguns up until I was 18 years old so I'm not really a newbie to killing things and know how it works, I used to shot 6inch nails off a wall with an open site hw30 so at aguess it won't take me long to get my eye in again.

 

I know what a you are thinking if the Rabbit runs 40yds into a hedge it will go to waste, there are several Foxes, Buzzards and Dogs on the farm which don't pester the Sheep even in lambing season (which is now) It is a 250 acre farm with the smallest field being 16 acres (so not many hedges) also the Farmer is a very good friend off mine and I fish with him at least twice a week I am doing it to put food on the table not for the fun so if I lose a few here and there so beit, I think these are fare comments.

 

Not sure about the Ewe I will find out this morning, stressed out with the change off temps at the mo.

 

Cheers for now Plink.

 

I wasn't thinking (and I doubt anyone else was) that the rabbit will go to waste I was thinking about the suffering of the wounded animal.

 

It is up to us as the predator to make sure that we kill as quickly as possible.

 

So as most others said similar or the same as me including the PROFESSIONAL Pest Controller I still stand by my comments.

 

If you read back through many of my posts welcomming new people to the hunting life forum, including one in the last day or so, you will find that I give each and every one much the same advice to them

 

You will see when I put up my next thread about last nights hunt, how angry I become when someone thinks it's OK to 'have a pop at anything that moves'

 

As I said, I was not having a go at you

If I had been I would not have congratulated you on your first kill and I would not have wished you all the best at the end of the post.

I would have come straight out with it and called you an irresponsible C T that gives the rest of us a bad name (please don't think that I am actually calling you this ) because thats the sort of person I am.

 

I just think that you took what I and others had to say the wrong way

 

I am the first to say when I fluff a shot and how bad it makes me feel it just makes me try harder and spend more time on the paper.

 

One of my latest posts I said about not managing to get my usual size group on paper and that I refused to take a shot at live quarry because of that. I went home and tried again another day just as I allways do.

 

Not one of us using an air gun can be absolutely certain of an instant kill, however we can all give it our very best and minimise the chances of the quarry living more than a few seconds after we squeeze the trigger.

 

All the best

 

Phantom

Edited April 22, 2010 by Phantom

[Sweeney-Todd 208]

Im trying very hard NOT too.....