hill billy Posted April 29, 2009 Report Share Posted April 29, 2009 Iv just come home from an evening out shooting rabbit's and thought i would pose the question whats your favorite target ? 1st has to be shooting bolting rabbits with a shotgun in late evening out the hatch of my landrover with my 8 shot semi auto 2nd spottin charlie giving a little squeeke and watching the eyes through the scope going up and down as it steams to you like a train then havin to shout at it to stop, then you get that sound no rifle shooter can forget. 3rd has to be watching the shadow of the first wood pigeon gliding over the bare trees on the first saturdays roost shooting and watching the bird fold and crash through the branches Whats your favorite ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleeh Posted April 29, 2009 Report Share Posted April 29, 2009 (edited) A clay. I don't consider animals ''Targets'' and I shoot as much quarry as the next man. Edited April 29, 2009 by Bleeh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Elvis Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Im with you on the fox, I love the noise when that bullet finds its mark....unmistakable!!! and the pigeon.................. I love a nice static rabbit with the hmr, the thud as it hits is very satisfying.................. and i love to shoot squizzers with the 12g................. or a nice pheasant that folds up without a twitch..................... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzy Fudd Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 the red white and blue bullseye type ones like bleeh i wouldnt consider game/vermin as targets as such, but i know what you mean, bolting rabbits would defo be my favourite, followed by a pigeon/crow folding up and hitting down Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rimfire4969 Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Seeing a pigeon coming your way on a roast shoot on a cold Feb afternoon, then realising its a small flock and if alls good dropping a left and right, don't happen that often to me but when it does that is the best Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hill billy Posted April 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 (edited) Before this starts i don't mean to cause any disrespect to the live quarry the majority of us hunt but the header bar would not fit " what is your favorite hunting or clay target shooting situation which gives you pleasure no matter how many times you have done it " so i don't mean any disrespect to any one on this forum and i am not lookin for a political argument, and i do appologise but i did not no how to pose the question any other way, and it was 11 at night and i was nackered. Edited April 30, 2009 by hill billy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groach1234 Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Mine has to either be folding a nice high pheasant or the same on a good pigeon in roost or flight-line shooting. Nothing is better than folding a nice bird and watching it drop like a weight from the sky. George Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gixer1 Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 (edited) I regularly sit on the top of a large bump in one of the fields on my permission with my 22LR and on a sunny evening sit and pick off rabbits, it's never a huge amount but because the situation is so relaxed i can take as long as i like with the shots and usually i can get a clean sheet of all perfect head shots.... It's like sniping! So i would have to say Rabbit....but then i also love the feeling when you line up on a roe deer and it has no idea you are there.... Gixer Edited April 30, 2009 by gixer1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malkiserow Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 before someone else says it ..... A ZOMBIE AT 900 YARDS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flytie Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Dusk, and the sound of teal flighting in towards me with, hopefully, a chance of a shot. Magic! ft Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzy Fudd Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 (edited) before someone else says it ..... A ZOMBIE AT 900 YARDS with a .17 hmr i suspect?? Edited April 30, 2009 by babbyc1000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malkiserow Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 with a .17 hmr i suspect?? Don't be silly..... my 0.177 air rifle can do that no worries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Dusk, and the sound of teal flighting in towards me with, hopefully, a chance of a shot. Magic! ft Yep I'd go along with that, although early morning is the time I prefer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenhunter Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 I'd have to say any 'target' cleanly killed and that includes a well dusted clay! Given the choice I'd go pigeon shooting over anything else Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GW80 Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 another vote for flighting teal in the early morning!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harnser Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 without a doubt the most challenging is wing shooting snipe with a .22 rimfire . Harnser . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njc110381 Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 I like waiting for a Deer to present a decent shot. Probably because I don't get a lot of chance to do it. A more regular one which I enjoy nearly as much is doing the same with a Fox when I haven't got a big enough rifle with me to take a texas heart shot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edward Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 I love sound of a shot from the greener gp and a minuete later (because it was so high) followed by the dull thud of a pigeon hitting the deck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daimler42 Posted May 1, 2009 Report Share Posted May 1, 2009 "without a doubt the most challenging is wing shooting snipe with a .22 rimfire . Harnser ." I like to think that I am a pretty good shot (pigeons, bunnies, rats, duck, geese, snipe, partridge blah blah) but you must be one fantastic son of a gun to hit a snipe with a .22 rimmy, either that you are taking the michael (I've cleaned that up a bit) or have you got the worlds first fully automatic rimfire? :look: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hill billy Posted May 5, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2009 Thats cool how do you practice doing that tie already shot snipe to a pigeon magnet and put it on max power lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleeh Posted May 5, 2009 Report Share Posted May 5, 2009 "without a doubt the most challenging is wing shooting snipe with a .22 rimfire .Harnser ." I like to think that I am a pretty good shot (pigeons, bunnies, rats, duck, geese, snipe, partridge blah blah) but you must be one fantastic son of a gun to hit a snipe with a .22 rimmy, either that you are taking the michael (I've cleaned that up a bit) or have you got the worlds first fully automatic rimfire? What? There are loads of automatic .22 rim-fires! - There's just not many in the UK etc etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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