ratchers

3 this morning 1699

Out this morning at 6.30 with the sun shining and very little wind, and nothing even though the feeding box was down a third in two days, then it started raining, I wasn't getting wet due to the full foliage cover so waited it out and had three customers in twenty minutes, then it faired up and with it the greys as I saw no more in the next hour.

very useful information,thanks.

By bottle has just gone out of date so requires a new test, the nearest place to me is 50 miles away and they won't test while I wait, so thats 50 miles back and then the same again when I go to pick it up, a total of 200 miles, so thats about £40 in fuel and another £40 for the test, I can see the advantage it buying a compressor and getting it posted to me.

Nice one Jack and you of course!

two this morning 1488

Was out this morning to somewhere where I have not shot for a quite a few weeks but have maintained the feeder level which has not gone down much until the last two weeks so I decided I better make a visit. Got settled in and had to wait a while for the first visiter which was a jay which I left alone,it flew off to be replaced by squirrel number 1 which took a head shot, an hour later number 2 was down and after that I walked around the wood to see two greys high up in the canopy.

Haven't seen Squirrel Hunter Channel for a while but very watchable.

two this morning 1145

Out this morning and disturbed one on the feeder,hopefully it might come back I thought,half an hour later one did come but was very skittish and wouldn't settle,finally disapeared. A good hour later one was eating its last peanut and down she went, checked thro the scope it was fatal and then waited for the next customer, a little while later I come hear that tell tale sound of claws on bark but couldn't see anything, looked all around and then back to the feeder to see the shot grey trying to sit up, grief a zombie grey!! got the rifle up and looked thro the scope and was quite surprised to see a completely different grey on top of the dead one, it looked as though it was biting the head so dont know if it was trying to **** it or eat it!, couldn't get a shot on it because some pillock had forgot to cut the bracken down and it was moving about so much, in the end it gave me a clear shot which I took, upon inspection it had been a male and the first one was a female so anyone seen that behaviour before?

A male and female today 1075

Back out ever the optimist where I spent 4 and half hours without a shot last sunday,got off to a good start walking down to the flip top when I heard a cuckoo,the first of the year for me. When I got there I could see that the peanut level was way down again and would you believe it after five minutes the first customer rolled up,where were you last sunday?? One down and he wasn't on his own as one somewhere started barking at me but never showed up. After a good half an hour out the corner of my eye spotted movement, at first I thought is was a rat but no it was a grey and it had brought his or her mate,they then continued to run up and down and around the tree which the feeder was on,finally one went to ground and started digging for its lost nuts,it never quite gave the chance of a shot due to the rapid growth of bracken thats happened in the last week,meanwhile squirrel number two was about to become victim no. 2 and that was it before the rain came down. PS Need to hack down that bracken!

Was out early at 6.30 this morning and after seeing a grey crossing the road in front of me was quite optimistic, especially when I saw the flip top had been emptied since my last visit six days ago. Four and a half hours later I was rather deflated as I never got a shot and the only grey I saw sneaked up behind me,gave me the finger and scarpered.

Think I have one of these somewhere as it was put to one side after I got a pard, I'll have a look.

I changed my scope recently as I was not completely happy with the last one due to missed shots so I fitted a mtc atom which has a fixed mag of 10, I zeroed it a few days ago at 20 yards as all my squirrel feeding boxes are at approx at that distance. Was out this morning early and did shoot three greys but I did have a problem with the occular lens misting up because of its short eye relief as the heat from my face caued condensation, anybody else had this problem and did you solve it?

three this morning 1022

Was up and out early myself and in position by 6.30 and had squirrel number one five minutes later, next customer up managed to duck and escape but the next two weren't so lucky, saw the lovely red squirrel again twice in different parts of the wood, hope it doesn't meet the six greys that I saw but didn't have chance to shoot.

I normally shoot a HW100K which is great but for this wood which has open access to the public with footpaths,not that they always stick to the paths I shoot a Edgun Leshiy,even though I have permission some members of the public are not very polite, so after being reported once for carrying the HW100 even though it was in a slip and getting chased up by the Police, I now have the Leshiy which is nice and discreet as it folds up in to a rucksack, I can walk to the feeding box unmolested and feel more or less relaxed.

I had a stinker this morning, two greys on the box and I missed both of them and dont know why as when I checked zero, it was spot on, just one of them days, at least you can hit the target Mice

one male this moring but saw a red, hooray. 902

Out this morning and had to scrape the car again,was gonna be another cold un in the wood and yes I saw that doberman again, but maybe it was guarding a red, YES I saw a red squirrel for the first time in five years, all them cold mornings shooting greys had paid off and even though there are still greys in the wood, we have a red again, I spent five minutes watching it go up and down a large pine tree before it went. Pleasure over back to knocking the greys off, only shot one out of five seen but they all count,

One this morning 890

Just back from a very cold morning in the large wood in which I got four recently,had to scrape the ice off the car first! was in position by seven and first thing I saw was a very fit Doberman which eyed me up and then went, thank goodness. After a while the first grey came along and was at the base of the tree where the feeder was and I was justing waiting for it to go and get breakfast when off he went through the brash, oh well, suns up and starting to warm up slightly when after an hour finally get a grey on to the feeder where he receives a clean head shot, did see another grey but not close enough.Was hoping to see the red which was seen on the trail cam on the box, maybe next time I hope.

One this morning 887

Down on the farm for the the first time in a while and really wasn't expecting to see any greys especially right at the start of the wood where Iv'e never seen them before but there it was shinning up a pine tree,waited for it to give a clear shot which it never did but now there were two and I followed them through the upper tree branches until one stopped and gave me a chance lent on a tree for support and fired, heard the pellet hit and saw it rear up and then just stand there for ages,was about to shoot again when I heard it hit the ground, retreived it to see a clean head shot. Did see another grey where I normally see them but lost it in the branches.