my mates first time(!)

[gurtwurz 793]

well maybe not their first time, but their first time out rabbiting... we met up on the farm cum industrial estate where they live and do dog security from and niall showed me his new toy-a beautiful daystate mk3 lefty thumbhole .22 that he'd bought to go from plinking to hunting with, flash b*****d, and his boy liam proceeded to pull out a b.t.a.s. fx cyclone.177 that he'd just bought. i felt a tad underdressed even with my .20 r10 but we settled down to a lengthy zeroing and target practise sesh so the boys could get the feel of their new toys.

once they were happy we set off to set up ambushes well away from each other and i managed to set off a bunch of their dogs barking fit to wake the dead as i proceeded to my chosen spot which meant that,coupled with the fisherman driving over to the lake on the other side of the field,i was to see sod all so after a while i got up to see how the lads were doing. they'd both got one each and luckily i saw a good sized doe on the other side of some abandoned farm machinery so it was time to play simon says with her til i got about 20 yds or so and settled into a kneeler made a bit tricky by a patch of weeds and a wire fence. at this point i could feel the boys eyes on me, ready to rip the pee if i missed so i settled my breathing down and took the shot.

rewarded with the unmistakable sound of .20 h+n ftt hitting head i stood up to see her wave bye bye with her back leg so i jumped over the fence and picked her up.

back to the boys, all smiles and look what we got,and i showed em how to gut and skin their kills, interestingly young liam turned out to be squeamish-we could tell by the barfing noises as i proceeded to get my hands red. naturally, being sensitive modern men, his father and i helped him get over his weak stomach by throwing small bits of offal at him and telling him in great detail what we were doing.it didnt help much, he later claimed. ah well...

anyway, some photos-

heres the boys with their dates for the night

http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/ad255/gurtwurz/hunting%20pictures/021-1.jpg

our massive bag

http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/ad255/gurtwurz/hunting%20pictures/022.jpg

finally my own paltry efforts

http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/ad255/gurtwurz/hunting%20pictures/020-1.jpg

hope you enjoy em lads,

happy hunting one and all, wurz

[farmerkev09 105]

nice shooting lads keep it up

 

happy hunting farmer

[Sweeney-Todd 208]

Hi Gurtwyrz and friends.

 

Excellent shooting guy's, and nice pic's too.

Sound's like a very impressive collection of Rifles you all have......LOOK OUT WABBITS

 

By the look's of the pictures, if you should loose one down a burrow, you wont have much trouble digging it out

 

 

 

 

Nice one.

 

 

 

 

Bill.

[venomviper 129]

hi ya buddy

wurz buddy looks like you had a good time out matey nice write up and pictures matey and how you getting on with the r10.20? they are a nice gun aint they ?

 

shay

[gurtwurz 793]

hi shay buddy, yeah, i'm lovin my R10 but initially i had problems with it, like a lot of the early models apparently.when i got it, it was in .177 and i couldnt do better than a 1" grouping off a bipod with it, no matter what pellets i was using, but i put that down to me cos it'd been a while since i'd shot owt, so i persevered for a while until i inherited my rapid then i discovered, after an afternoon of getting shamrocks at 30yds that it was the gun after all... i was gonna get shot of it til i got in touch with one of the tech guys on the bsa site who offered to convert it to .20 for me, deshroud it and put a rapid barrel on her for a VERY reasonable sum, so i went with that and i aint looked back since, she absolutely rocks for me now and i wouldnt swap it for the world. balance and pointability are spot on, shes very accurate now, a definite keeper, and i think its the only .20 one in the world!

i get on better with .20 as well, but finding pellets can be a bit of hassle,apparently? luckily my local shop are pretty good so im sorted.

hows the falcon going mate? looked like you were having a whale of a time with her t'other day!

all the best, wurz

[venomviper 129]

hi ya wurz buddy

yeah PROPER buddy i really like the falcon like you said balance and pointability are spot on plus very light and i thought that the bolt and then cocking it would bother me pal but it hasnt one bit its good i can load the gun and not cock it at the same time save on the hammer spring but with the hw silencer on her makes a big difference as well i would like to get a quick fill adapter for her and a skeleton stock for her as well but as she is there is no knocking the falcon at all not to keen on the stock as it looks a little cheapish if you know what i mean buddy but other than that she is cracking matey

 

shay

[aaronpigeonplucker 32]

nice shooting mate! keeping with the recent camo or no camo topic, were you and your mates wearing any?

[gurtwurz 793]

nice shooting mate! keeping with the recent camo or no camo topic, were you and your mates wearing any?

they were wearing what they've got on in the photo, and i had my manky green jumper n combats on. i pulled me snooz up round my nose when i had to stalk mine,but left the rabbit romper suit in the car this time

shay, how do you mean it looks cheap, what like the wood isnt so nice or? i do like a skele stock tho, as long as they dont make the gun too front heavy, but those falcons look made for one, their lighthunters a lovely looking piece, quite well regarded too, so yours should work great with one id've thought?

all the best, wurz

[venomviper 129]

hi ya wurz

nah matey it's just me i am use to walnut stocks and this is beech lol but i know what you mean though it is balanced very well so either would work but i will see i dont want to lose the balance of the gun but other than that the gun is great matey me just being snobish lol are you out tonight ?

 

shay

[gurtwurz 793]

nah mate, took the missus out for a hilltop picnic and its bath night and an early night tonight... i might be out in the morning but definitely tomorrow evening up at a posh livery where i set a couple of nets up to lie behind and snipe from. might take the ol' rapid out for a change as it goes

all the best buddy

wurz

[venomviper 129]

hi ya buddy

i didnt know you had a rapid matey ?

nice guns kyle(slingshot) nice lad to on here has a rapid he was just on about how much to fill it but i dont know but have a word with him about it matey

my lad asked me if he could sell his theoben evo today so i have just put that up for sale now has he wants a pcp nice looking gun but its just left in the gunbox now doing nothing its a shame really he uses my s410 but wants to get in to HFT/FT now so he wants to sell it and he is only 9 years old they sure grow up quick lol

 

shay

[stealthy1 3,964]

Nice work lads, if you copy the IMG link on Photobucket, its the fourth box under your pic, then paste it on to your topic it will display your pix without having to click on the link Which one is your mate in the pix wurz?

[gurtwurz 793]

cheers for the nice comments chaps,

stealthy, theyre both my pals, on the left is niall, right is his son liam-i'm too shy to pose mate

shay,yeah i got given my rapid last summer off a mate-a very good mate!-i mainly use it when lamping as its scopes illuminated so it works better after dark than the r10's little(but bloody lovely)simmons wtc. your boys a lucky little fella, my dad used to get me out in the open air whenever poss when i was a kid, some of my best kiddy memories are just him n me lighting fires and camping-i suppose youd call it bushcraft nowadays. your boy'll always remember these times with you mate

 

all the best fellas, wurz

[BASE JUMPER 18]

ill never forget the first time me and my best mate went out rabbiting no body to show us the ropes and what a night it was, funnily enough we did not get bugger all

[Phantom 631]

Excellent shooting Gents

 

I was gonna say same as Stealthy about the image code, but I'm a bit slow today and thought I'd let the old guy get there first

 

Phantom