Cyclone hits rabbit polulation in North Lincs

[monkeyjaimz]

I've just had one of the best weekends in memory (as far as shooting goes anyway).

I have a permission (500 acres-ish) that was my main permission last year, until the game season started then I had to leave it alone until the end of february this year.

When I returned back, I was expecting it to be alive with rabbits due to my absence - what I got was exactly the opposite it was completely dead, I decided to leave it alone for a couple of months and in the meantime obtained another 500 acre permission which I have been shooting fairly regularly since I got it.

So this weekend just gone, I managed to get the whole weekend to myself (usually im in Leeds with the missus) so about 4pm on saturday I ventured out with the newly procured cyclone to my newest permission. I wasnt in a mad rush to fill my bag so just had a lesuirely stroll around the fields, banks and hedgrows taking shots when they presented themselves which was thoroughly relaxing especially with the weather as good as it was.

By the end of the night, i'd collected this little lot:-

 

which I was pretty pleased with

 

On sunday morning I was supposed to be going to HFT with a very good buddy of mine, but he said he'd much rather do a bit of hunting instead - so off we went, we started at about 9am - finishing about 1pm and managed 4 rabbits between us not a bad result but not record beaking either, still it was nice to be outdoors and spend some time with a good friend

When sunday tea time arrived I made a last minute decision to re-visit my other permission that I had been leaving alone for a while, and was very pleased to see it had made a decent recovery. Much the same as the night before, I had a steady walk around the place then finished up at my favourite bipod-ing spot, after another thoroughly enjoyable day - I collected these guys:

 

some of which went to the butcher, some in my pot and the rest to the farmer for his call birds (saves him shooting rabbits with his shotgun and scaring them all away).

 

So all in all a very good weekend for yours truly, im loving the cyclone, the best word to describe it I think is 'surgical' it's that good

[MM]

great bag. looks like a blonde in the middle

[bunnybasher07]

mmm vey nice, you have alloy of skinning on your hands there

 

GM

[maxwell]

good shooting and some decent size rabbits,

[Wookie]

Definitely a good bag! Good shooting

[Toby]

Great shooting!

 

How much do you get from the butch for rabbits?

 

Cheers,

 

Toby

[Lloyd90]

Nice Shooting matey. How much you get for the rabbits ?

[monkeyjaimz]

Cheers guys, yes the one in the middle is an albino - theres another 3 kicking about around that shoot (for now ) I have 2 butchers in the town that will take rabbits, one will give a quid a head for a whole rabbit, the other gives me 1.50 but I have to gut, skin and bag it up

[game_boy]

Great result there, was a couple of good recipes for them on the FWord tonight. How do you find places that will take rabbits? Does anyone know anywhere in central Scotland that will take them ?