Zetter Posted July 15, 2013 Report Share Posted July 15, 2013 I was out with a friend on his permission the other day after rabbits with air rifles it was scorchingly hot as usual so I settled down in the shade of a building to wait to the bunnies to emerge. After about 20 minutes while I was looking the other way (isn't it always the case!) a young bunny bounced out about 20 yards away to the left. So I shuffled myself round slowly and caught him a nice shot through the head. I was then happy as I wasn't going home empty handed. Things quietened down for a bit and due to the wedding party going on about 100 yards away it looked like it could be a bit of a low evening. However about 35 yards away on the fence leading to a doggy training field a crow landed and started making himself comfortable to soak up a few last evening rays. Now I have never shot a crow (I came back into shooting after about a 20 year break) and according to my friend they are a bit of a pain on the farm. So taking aim carefully I gave it the required degree of a holdover and let fly. The FX pellet caught it square in the head and it went down like a stone which I was very happy with and proved again that my new Verminator MK2 was still on song. At the point a blooming Doberman came past from somewhere (flipping dog walkers going where they are not supposed to, still it didn't see me though) and the chance of anything furry being out was scuppered for a little while. Taking the chance I nipped out to retrieve my two kills, the rabbit as you would expect from a young one was in prime condition and was a definite candidate for my freezer at home. But the Crow was another story! It looked like it had lost a fight with a strimmer, there were feathers missing and bald patches all over it. I really felt like I had done the poor thing a favour that evening. I have never seen such a sorry looking specimen in my life, compared to the sleek ******* you see hopping about who zoom off at the slightest hint of movement this was their slightly mouldy long lost cousin. Still one of the local foxes probably didn't care when he retrieved it from the hedge bottom . So has anyone else had any instance where they feel they have done the quarry a favour by giving it a quick death when it didn't know what hit it? Atb Neil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sitsinhedges Posted July 15, 2013 Report Share Posted July 15, 2013 How about this. The only thing I have shot in my garden where all wildlife is usually encouraged. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zetter Posted July 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2013 Grim im amazed it was still upright! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sitsinhedges Posted July 15, 2013 Report Share Posted July 15, 2013 That was with an airgun too, I wasn't trying to decoy it with the 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the pigeon man Posted July 15, 2013 Report Share Posted July 15, 2013 Christ that's a mess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reece Posted July 16, 2013 Report Share Posted July 16, 2013 Mostly just shooting the odd rabbit with myxomatosis, whenever the disease comes around. Aside from that, I recall an incident on a local farm where someone had to despatch a deer with a shotgun after it had got seriously injured on barbed wire. How about this. The only thing I have shot in my garden where all wildlife is usually encouraged. How did that happen? Is it some sort of tumour or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bewsher500 Posted July 16, 2013 Report Share Posted July 16, 2013 shot a stag with a broken leg: shot another young stag that was so emaciated that it looked like a skinny hind, when skinned it had deer keds on every square inch of its back and flanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sitsinhedges Posted July 16, 2013 Report Share Posted July 16, 2013 Mostly just shooting the odd rabbit with myxomatosis, whenever the disease comes around. Aside from that, I recall an incident on a local farm where someone had to despatch a deer with a shotgun after it had got seriously injured on barbed wire. How did that happen? Is it some sort of tumour or something? I'm not really sure but it was flying around like it. I put some bird seed on our path and it came back to it. One side of its head was normal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukkat Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 In my time on the farm i had to dispatch may things, Cows, sheep that had been malled by dogs and even a horse, ( the horse had unseated its rider, tried to full gallop down a steep incline tarmac road and met a volvo head on, and broke its fron legs and punctured a lung) the usless vet that attended had no dispatch equipment (gun or other wise) and was trying to give the downed horse a leathal dose of something. it was sad thing to do but used the 410 with a fourlong no 5. Kat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B725 Posted August 3, 2013 Report Share Posted August 3, 2013 A couple of years ago while I was driving the combine,unknown to me a young hare had been caught by the knife and cut off both front legs it was a sad sight but it was never going to live like that so it was shot.The strange thing was that as I went over it it then stood up on its back legs and there was no blood even though both legs had been cut next to the body. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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