running rats

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went up the farm tonight to scare a few rats and have a chat with gareth the farmer,as we pulled into the yard i saw a couple of rats on some spilt grain in a gate way!, so i park myself up close by and wait hoping for a shot!

ive been stood there a few minutes when gareth walks over and we start chatting, all of a sudden he points and says there goes one!, i never even thought about it, the air rifle goes to my shoulder, pick the rat up in the scope, swing through and pull the trigger!

now this is where it gets complicated!

i remember picking the rat up in the scope and pulling the trigger but thats all!

i dont remember swinging through it or the sound of the pellet hitting home,and i dont remember seeing it fall but it was dead as a door nail when i walked over to it!, shot through the chest!

my last memory of that rat is a freeze frame of a running rat with the cross hairs just above and behind its arse!

i should point out that i dont make a habbit of shooting at moving targets with an air rifle!, but i have been known to break a few clays now and again but only when i dont think about it!, the clays i remember seeing are always the ones i miss!

just wondering if any one has experienced any thing similar?

cheers

hyper

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ps i better point out the range was about six yards! maybe less!

[Timelord 0]

Still a nice shot even at six yards as the target was moving and I know rats can shift fast too. I've fitted a green laser to my King Ratcatcher for just this sort of thing...

[davyt63 1,845]

hi Pete

nice to here your given those rats a hard time buddy,nice close range shooting mate .

happy hunting

 

Davy

[whippeter94 0]

I remember opening a big shed gate when a out for some feral and a jack daw came straight towards me to gun u in hand lifted it up like a shotgun and pulled the trigger next thing the jack is on the floor stone dead

[cometa300s 20]

i went out with my uncle a few years back it was in the wales area. we were sat in the hide all morning and newt was hapening. i was so bored so i got out of my hide and went in search of my uncle.

 

when i got to him he said lets just go for a mooch as his permision was huge (3 feilds and a massive wooded area at the end, andyway as we went for the mooch the was a rabbit sat at the end of the feild about 40 yards plus. i sneaked a few couple of yards in and lay down to take the shot. had the bunny in the crosshairs about half inch above it head, let the pellet do its work but miss. well thats wat i thought as i got to were i hit it the rabbit was lay about 10 yards away from were i had it lined up with a pellet through the neack well i was chuffed lol

 

thats my only mad thing

 

happy hunting liam

[Ron Weasley 83]

About ten years ago, I had a crappy old break barrel air pistol. Where I lived at the time we had stables. The stable walls were double lined at the bottom, and single at the top- meaning that there was a bit of a ledge at about chest height all the way around.

 

We used one of these stables as a feed room. One afternoon, i'd been doing some plinking with the air pistol, and had a look over the door of the feed shed on the off chance there might be a rat sat there for me to shoot at and miss.

As I looked over, a mouse ran along the ledge on the opposite wall. Instinctively, I swung through it and fired with the pistol.

 

And there was a dead mouse.

 

Utterly unbelievable.

[Coney 3]

Top shooting hyperion.

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cheers guys!