out for a roe

[brno17 5]

Hi all, just thought I would stick a post on about Christmas comp rifle that I won back in december on www.shootforum.com. I chose a 223 howa 1500 varmint and by feck it’s a shooter, certainly the most accurate rifle in my cabinet and as for the wildcat mod it’s the mutts nuts too very very quiet and more importantly you can strip it to clean the crap out of it. Anyway I shot the barrel in with the usual clean 1 shoot 1 for 5 rounds then shoot 3 clean etc. then went for a zero. Even with cheap american eagle ammo that I bought for shooting in I couldn’t believe the way this thing was grouping and as ive shot it more and settled into the trigger it can now put a 3 shot group into a 5p piece at 100yds every time if I do my bit. Been out crow bashing and had a couple of charlies with it but headed out for a look for a roe this morning. The weather was much milder than of late and on arriving at the ground spied two roe out on an open field next to a wood, on glassing them I spied another two in among some young trees, on stalking into them only one was a doe that fed into the treeline before I could get a shot and her young were two buck kids but the other one was a truly massive buck that I would think would be of medal quality but we’ll have to wait til april to see. Headed on along the top of a deep wooded gully and at the end of it I spied two doe kids so got the howa onto the sticks and took one with a neck shot at around 80yds. A big thanks again to Robbie, Kev and Andrew of Wildcat for running the comp. i know youve probably all seen a howa but here’s a pic of the rifle and the deer anyway.

 

 

Atb

 

Alan.

[David 9]

Looks a nice rifle mate,nice shooting when me and mark having a pop up foxing with that rifle of yours

Edited February 15, 2009 by David

[martin 332]

That's a cracking rifle to win mate,well done,what did you have to do to win it.Well done on the Doe too..........martin.

[brno17 5]

That's a cracking rifle to win mate,well done,what did you have to do to win it.Well done on the Doe too..........martin.

 

hi martin, the comp was a photo of a jar of empty cases and you had to guess how many was in the jar and i was the lucky b?$£ard

 

alan.

[brno17 5]

Looks a nice rifle mate,nice shooting when me and mark having a pop up foxing with that rifle of yours

 

hi mate, its an open invite, come up when ever you want. we can get a night sorted soon.

 

alan.

[6foot 1]

Looks a nice rifle mate,nice shooting when me and mark having a pop up foxing with that rifle of yours

 

hi mate, its an open invite, come up when ever you want. we can get a night sorted soon.

 

alan.

well done on winning gun pal and happy shootn

[Squirrel_Basher 17,102]

Well done on your comp win mate .Hope to see a few posts up .I would imagine .223 is THE alrounder for you mate .Good luck with it in the future .

[brno17 5]

Well done on your comp win mate .Hope to see a few posts up .I would imagine .223 is THE alrounder for you mate .Good luck with it in the future .

 

will do tim, out with mark on my permission tonight so there may be a story to tell. your right though about the 223, my 243 is looking a bit redundant right now. all the best mate.

 

alan.