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Phantom

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Thank you guy's :drinks:

 

I went to back to Brough yesterday for the "Mid Summer Silly Season" Two days, 4 Birthdays, mine and my eldest girl one day, the eldest lad and youngest daughter on the 6th.

 

I also spent time with my baby in the cemetery and slotted my very first Squizzer :victory: So a very good day indeed, one to remember.

Took three .22 shots though!

 

Here's how it went....

 

I'd checked Zero all fine and dandy, nothing doing in the cemy so had a slow wander (In a bit of a daydream really) over to the paddock, caught a glimps of something in Mrs G's Orchard on the floor.

Thought at 1st glance it was one of her cats, then it moved, a flash of grey fur and "ah a bunny!", just as that thought entered my mind, the fur began ascending a tree trunk "What the feck?" then the voice in my head told me "It's a Squirrel" and I looked away for a split second, then I found myself saying out loud "Squizzer, it's only a Squizzer" then it hit me "IT'S A FECKING SQUIZZER! and more to the point..... IT'S ON MY FECKING LAND!" :doh:

My heart began to race, could this be true? A Squirrel on my land? Only ever seen one there before and that was way, way back in the past. I couldn't believe my luck :shok:

Up came my baby and the crosshair settled just in front of a branch waiting for the head to pop up so I could give it a slap on the back of the noggin. Head appeared, my breathing went to hell, and CRACK! The pellet hit wood :censored:

The noise certainly got the Squirrels attention!

But I'd blown it, the little critter flicked round and gave it legs down the trunk, it's bushy tail flicking as it went, I followed it with my eyes as I reloaded, it ran up the next trunk and I raised my baby again, Dammit! It vanished, where the hell did it go, it still had to be in Mrs G's Orchard surely?

I took my head away from the scope, disheartened my time to shine and pop my squizzer cherry had passed :cray:

 

I looked up into the canopy of the Horse Chestnut tree that I was stood under expecting a dozen or so woodies to take to the sky as they always do the second they see the whites of my eyes. Nothing moved, come to think of it I hadn't seen a Woody all that day :hmm:

As I moved my head down, there not more than 4 yards in front of me, just above head height, I saw this head staring right into my eyes, it's shoulders hunched down, tail hanging below the branch, it seemed to have a "You wanna piece of ME?" look about it, again my eye went to the scope, my left hand turned the Mag down to 6, the Squirrel cocked it's head slightly and I instantly decided on a heart shot. This one HAS to count :yes:

4 mildots hold over on its chest and I released the shot without thinking about it, Nutkin's jumped over to another branch Damn! I'd missed again...... Or so I thought!...... Less than 3 seconds, as I brought my gun down from my shoulder to reload, a grey lump of fur dropped sideways out of the tree and landed almost at my feet :boogy: I saw no blood and half expected the bushy tailed bugger to jump up and run! I quickly reloaded and put the Twink MKII at the base of the ear and phut, I wasn't taking any chances.

The body didn't move :victory:

I've done it, I've successfully shot and killed my very first Grey Squirrel :yahoo:

 

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There was a very distinct lack of blood :hmm: the reason became very clear when I put my knife in to clean the kill. The shot had gone in through the top of the heart and exited out the bottom, and the animals blood had filled the chest cavity, as the knife went in, the blood poured out of the cavity and all of a sudden it dawned on me just how much blood a little critter like this has in its body!

 

What a birthday gift to myself, I feel like a kid that just opened his most wanted gift at xmas!

 

Tony

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