sometimes an opportunity presents itself so perfectly you just have take advantage of it.
Standing at the kitchen window this morning washing my hands and I see movement out the window by the garden fence. It's a rabbit! I do not have a true hate for these things but over the past couple years they have done some damage to my yard. During the winter they stripped the bark off some young fruit trees and nibbled my young blueberry plants to the dirt! Oh No. It's ON now baby!
I thinned a few last year and had my eye on some this year but I think the word got around to avoid hanging around my place too long because I would only see them moving from one neighbors yard to the other using my yard as a highway instead of a rest stop.
Well I was on my game this morning and quickly slipped out to the shop and grabbed my Streamline 22 Cal and dropped 3 pellets in a magazine as I worked my way out to spy if the rabbit was still around. It was a young rabbit frolicking around and I was able to slip to 20 yards away from it using obstacles in the yard to conceal my movements. It must have thought it was safe up against the fence line because it just froze and watched me. I slowly deployed the bipod legs and readied the rifle to shoot while I estimated the distance in my head. I have the rifle zeroed at 30 and I estimated the rabbit at 20 so I knew the POI would be slightly low. I peered through the scope and found the target and dialed the image into focus. The target remained still and I ran through the procedure through my mind once again in that split second and eased the trigger back.
Pfft POP! Spun it around 180 as it slimmed into a lifeless heap. Not a single twitch, stiff leg or anything, just a dead rabbit.
Retrieved it, took a picture and proceeded to clean and cut it up. It's in some salt water waiting to get cooked either tomorrow or the next. Not sure how I should go about cooking it. I did a sort of stew last time. Maybe I'll try a curry? Thanks for reading
Standing at the kitchen window this morning washing my hands and I see movement out the window by the garden fence. It's a rabbit! I do not have a true hate for these things but over the past couple years they have done some damage to my yard. During the winter they stripped the bark off some young fruit trees and nibbled my young blueberry plants to the dirt! Oh No. It's ON now baby!
I thinned a few last year and had my eye on some this year but I think the word got around to avoid hanging around my place too long because I would only see them moving from one neighbors yard to the other using my yard as a highway instead of a rest stop.
Well I was on my game this morning and quickly slipped out to the shop and grabbed my Streamline 22 Cal and dropped 3 pellets in a magazine as I worked my way out to spy if the rabbit was still around. It was a young rabbit frolicking around and I was able to slip to 20 yards away from it using obstacles in the yard to conceal my movements. It must have thought it was safe up against the fence line because it just froze and watched me. I slowly deployed the bipod legs and readied the rifle to shoot while I estimated the distance in my head. I have the rifle zeroed at 30 and I estimated the rabbit at 20 so I knew the POI would be slightly low. I peered through the scope and found the target and dialed the image into focus. The target remained still and I ran through the procedure through my mind once again in that split second and eased the trigger back.
Pfft POP! Spun it around 180 as it slimmed into a lifeless heap. Not a single twitch, stiff leg or anything, just a dead rabbit.
Retrieved it, took a picture and proceeded to clean and cut it up. It's in some salt water waiting to get cooked either tomorrow or the next. Not sure how I should go about cooking it. I did a sort of stew last time. Maybe I'll try a curry? Thanks for reading
