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I have been quite busy recently with getting things ready for the pheasants and my boy starting school so I have not had as much time as I would have liked out on the squirrels, but after a busy day beating on saturday in some of the hardest cover I have been in I managed to get myself out of bed early on sunday to meet up with "Click" to try and get the 5 needed to make it to 100! I got to the permisson at about 6.15, well before light as I couldnt be bothered to go around and feed up the bait boxes the day before, I quickly went around and put a handfull of nuts into each box then I took my first position and waited, "Click" turned up at around seven and made his way in to the woods. I waited for about an hour but nothing happened so I decided to go for a walk and slipped quietly out of my hide and made my way into the woods but as I jumped the hedge I looked back and noticed the first squiz of the day in a tree above the box I was just sat at, typical!! After making my way back to my origional position I set the gun up one the bipod, I knew the distance was 32yds, my zero, so it was an easy shot and the rws claimed their first kill. After putting the squirrel into my new homemade cammo rucksack I decided to continue with my origional plan of taking a mooch back to the other side of the woods, after getting to the box I sat down and no more than two minutes later there was a rustling in a hazel tree right behind me. I slowly turned to see the second squirrel of the day about 8 feet away, I slowly wound the scope down to 3x mag and raised the hw100 to my shoulder, the squirrel knew nothing more, it was lights out!! It was getting on by now and my time limit was nearly up, "Click" had seen a few but im not sure what happened........ I decided to go over to where there are some pony paddocks with oak trees in where I had shot a couple of squirrels on previous trips that were feeding on the acorns. When I got there I was in luck as a squirrel bouced accross the grass, I waited for it to get its head down and got myself into a good shooting position then got out my range finder and pinged it at 36yds. I waited for the squirrel to sit up, which took ages, and when it did I gave a little holdover and the rws found its mark and squirrel 98 did its final backflip just as the church bells started ringing ten o'clock, my sign to leave for home! I am hoping to get out this weekend to try and get the two more needed for my goal of 100, fingers crossed!!! http://i1171.photobu...81/IMAG0201.jpg

Yesterday i recived a text from "Click" to see if I was in, after replying yes he was at my door within two minutes, he walked in with a gun shaped box and I knew that his new Falcon in .177, apparantly the last one out of the factory, had arrived, it is bleddy lovely and the peice of wood on it is stunning! After making me very envious we arranged to go out early on the squirrels so he could christen it, though he was not keen on getting the falcon wet, can't say I blame him! I picked "Click" up at six and we headed over, we started by trying to bag a bunny from the garden with no joy so we went our seperate ways to go and hide up by the bait boxes, I only had to wait for ten minutes before the first squiz made an apperance, I took my time to let him settle in and when he sat up to nibble a nut an AA diabolo hit him in the ear. Half an hour passed before the next one turned up, she took me by supprise as it just appeared on the box I shuffled myself into position and took the shot, she folded up without a twitch! I decided that was probably it for the morning so headed over to see how "Click" was getting on, just as I arrived in the part of the wood he was in a squirrel fell out of the tree just in front of me and there was one happy "Click" stood smiling at me, he had just bagged two in about five minutes! Needless to say he is very chuffed and itching to get out again! http://i1171.photobu...81/DSC_0005.jpg