sandersj89 Posted February 16, 2008 Report Share Posted February 16, 2008 Just back from a nice mooch with the HMR on rabbit control duty at the family farm. Nice evening, bit of a breeze and nice cloud cover. Took the HMR out with lamp and set of about 9.30pm First field, winter wheat, first scan of the lamp and first rabbit in the bag within 5 mins, nice head shot at about 70m. Walk on about 100m and bingo, number two in the bag, down hill shot of about 90m. Decide to leave these two at the side of the field to pick up later and carry on the hunt. Next field beside a conifer wood, eyes in the wood….hmmmmm Fox, badger or deer??? Turns out to be 3 roe hunkered down so leave well alone and turn the corner of the wood, number 3 rabbit in the bag. Approx 70m. Carry on 30 m past that one, again left to pick up later and scan the middle of the valley below me, eyes again and this time it is obviously Charlie. Lamp off and move down towards him, wind in my favour, go about 15m to bring him into range and carefully drop down to take him of the bipod. As I flick the lamp back on and increase the power he takes one look at me and heads away to the far hedge…damn! I sit there for 20 mins calling, WAM, hands, MP£ on the phone, no sign of him. Carry on around the field and bag number 4 rabbit, easy 50m shot. Walk another 40m and scan the far hedge and eyes, two pairs sat on top of the bank. Lie down and scope them and it is a pair of rabbits side my side about 100m away. Line up the first one and squeeze and get that lovely sound of the impact, rabbit disappears so I hope it has just rolled of the bank, cycled the bolt and the other one is still sat there…..silly bunny. He gets a 17gr vmax through the head as well! 6 in the bag. Both these two popped up on a gate post till later. Scan the field to my right, steep bank rising up about 100ft. At the top on the skyline is Charlie again, sat proud as punch neatly silhouetted against the night sky and only 60m to 80m away!!!!!! Again I call but he is not having any of it and moves slowly away from me out of sight, I work around the field to try and head him off but don’t see him again. Take another rabbit, nice long shot in the lie of a hedge, approx 100m, again he goes up on a fence post and I decide to head back the house to get the pick up to collect the bunnies and try once more for the fox. Out to the first two rabbits and no sign of them, I marked where I left them but they have gone. Blood on the ground and my foot imprints but no rabbits!!!!!! This was not the fox I saw later so must have been another one! Drive around and pick the rest up no problem: No sign of the other fox so called it a day. Very satisfying evening on one hand, the HMR, or more importantly me, did not miss a beat. 7 shots for 7 rabbits. On the other hand the foxes are too clever by half at the moment. Tomorrow the paunch from the rabbits is going out as bait and we will try again. Jerry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russ91 Posted February 16, 2008 Report Share Posted February 16, 2008 nice 1 look like big rabbits Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim McArthur Posted February 16, 2008 Report Share Posted February 16, 2008 Good luck to you, mate! Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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