Engraver
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During the winter months I spent some time restoring/rebuilding my little FX2000 carbine, I depleated much of chambers parts stockpile in my persuit of perfection (some call it ocd) I was lucky enough to source a rare venom stock for it which had seen little if any use, its a dense piece of walnut which has clearly hand finished as its ivory smooth to the touch, and hand cut traditional chequered panels, its a pleasure to handle and its relatively heavy weight makes the gun sit on aim nicely and extract accuracy from, even by todays standards, oh its accurate.
Being a bit of a rare beast summer evening walks are what I imagined to use it for, so with the clear blue sky tonight It would be rude not to.
I found a spot next to a corn field on my permision by the river I found a big squirrel drey, so parked myself under a nearby tree with a clearview of various trees from my left to right but with plenty of overhead cover.
Was about half an hour when I saw some movement a squirrel appeared from the drey and made its way along a branch where it stopped for a moment and thats all she wrote the bisley long range gold connected and she fell into some thick cover, but I sat tight not wanting to blow my own cover because I had a feeling a pigeon may land at some point.
And sure enough after around 20 mins a pigeon landed on the tree line around 40 yrds away, a long shot but a previous plink around my surroundings confirmed the gun was stacking pellets and so a carefully threaded shot was soon on the way aimed half a milldot above the pigeons head, the shot connected with a clear pellet on bone sound but the pigeon took off flying in circles climbing and climbing untill crashing into cover at the otherside of the river, seen them do that many times with headshots before hitting the ground dead, strange phenominon, anyway mr fox or buzzard will have a meal on me tonight.
Then as I watched the sun going down another male squirrel was making its way towards the drey high up in the tree tops at the far side of the river again he paused for a second, it was a rangey shot but pinned him at 35yrds with a clean headshot where he froze for a second before dropping alway down into the river with a dramatic splash, I retrieved this one using my sticks for a quick snap (amazing how rat like a wet squirrel looks)
then I made a steady journey back to the car, watching the sun go down, not always about big bags just a lovely night to be out and about using an old favourite of mine.
(Gl42)
Being a bit of a rare beast summer evening walks are what I imagined to use it for, so with the clear blue sky tonight It would be rude not to.
I found a spot next to a corn field on my permision by the river I found a big squirrel drey, so parked myself under a nearby tree with a clearview of various trees from my left to right but with plenty of overhead cover.
Was about half an hour when I saw some movement a squirrel appeared from the drey and made its way along a branch where it stopped for a moment and thats all she wrote the bisley long range gold connected and she fell into some thick cover, but I sat tight not wanting to blow my own cover because I had a feeling a pigeon may land at some point.
And sure enough after around 20 mins a pigeon landed on the tree line around 40 yrds away, a long shot but a previous plink around my surroundings confirmed the gun was stacking pellets and so a carefully threaded shot was soon on the way aimed half a milldot above the pigeons head, the shot connected with a clear pellet on bone sound but the pigeon took off flying in circles climbing and climbing untill crashing into cover at the otherside of the river, seen them do that many times with headshots before hitting the ground dead, strange phenominon, anyway mr fox or buzzard will have a meal on me tonight.
Then as I watched the sun going down another male squirrel was making its way towards the drey high up in the tree tops at the far side of the river again he paused for a second, it was a rangey shot but pinned him at 35yrds with a clean headshot where he froze for a second before dropping alway down into the river with a dramatic splash, I retrieved this one using my sticks for a quick snap (amazing how rat like a wet squirrel looks)
(Gl42)
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