one for sorrow................

[fishfish 17]

was down the allotments today,and as usual i took an airgun,this time my new super10.quite a lot of pigeons like the fruits of my labours,and often i bag a few that sit in the ash trees waiting for me to go.today as i worked a woody alighted in the tree so a shot it central in the chest and out the tree it fell! almost straight away the magpie perched on a branch cackling and going ,so i lined up the x hairs on its head and down he went!

upon retrieval i saw that the pellet had got him straight in the eye and out back of its head!!!!

[squirreltail 15]

Well done mate, was it a fluke or have you done as well before?

[fishfish 17]

i wouldnt say fluke,i think the superb gun and scope helped no end,previously i was using a BSA lightening,you cant even compare the two guns!

[Coney 3]

Nice shooting good head shot!

[Guest little_lloyd]

Ive always found that the pellets go right through the magpies heads like theres nothing but butter inside them,, With my BSA Lightning 2.2.

[duck 0]

well done nice shot keep it up mate

[woodchip 2]

eye eye . nice one

[davyt63 1,845]

was down the allotments today,and as usual i took an airgun,this time my new super10.quite a lot of pigeons like the fruits of my labours,and often i bag a few that sit in the ash trees waiting for me to go.today as i worked a woody alighted in the tree so a shot it central in the chest and out the tree it fell! almost straight away the magpie perched on a branch cackling and going ,so i lined up the x hairs on its head and down he went!

upon retrieval i saw that the pellet had got him straight in the eye and out back of its head!!!!

quality fishfish

 

Davy

[fishfish 17]

there are many versions of the rhyme,some go further than others:

 

 

One for sorrow, Two for mirth,

Three for a wedding, Four for a birth.

Five for rich, Six for poor,

Seven for a witch -- I can tell you no more.

 

Another version is:

One for sorrow, Two for joy

Three for a girl, Four for a boy

Five for silver, Six for gold

Seven for a secret never to be told.

 

A third found in Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable is:

One's sorrow, two's mirth,

Three's a wedding, four's a birth,

Five's a christening, six a dearth,

Seven's heaven, eight is hell,

And nine's the devil his old self.

 

One for sorrow,

Two for joy,

Three for a girl,

Four for a boy,

Five for rich,

Six for poor,

Seven for a bitch,

Eight for a *****,

Nine for a funeral,

Ten for a dance,

Eleven for England,

Twelve for France .

 

i saw eight magpies in a tree,

two for you an six for me ,

one for sorrow,two for mirth,

three for a weddin ,four for a birth,

five for England , six for france ,

seven for a fiddler , eight for a dance.

[Holdaway 2]

Great shooting!

 

I often find my accupels go through both pigeons and maggies even at 40+ yards at 11.5 ft.

 

If I hit a woody square on at too close a range the pellet goes clean through and the buggers end up as foxies supper somewhere else.

 

I am trying some hollow points for close range as I can always (98%) hit head, throat or just above crop. I cant hit bugger all with the hollow points over 25 yards though...

[fishfish 17]

ime using crossman hollowpoints in .22