Well the Muppet in me is alive and well. I drove to a place and on arrival promptly realized I had forgotten the caps 
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Turned around and went back for the caps. I controlled the anger and just enjoyed the ride.
So when I got back to the hunting ground first light had long gone. The cool north wind suits this place and the bright sun would have the rabbits out.
Sure enough it wasn't long and I had one in thick cover right in front of me but it disappeared down a burrow. It was as I was moving to the next stalk that I bumped into a buck rabbit running a doe. They stopped no more than 12 yards away in thick cover. The bright sunlight highlighting the cover so much so I could not see the bucks head except for that near orange patch at the back of the head so the sights settled on that and the trigger broke.
When the smoke cleared I thought I had missed but then I saw some brash twitch a few times, rabbit down.
This place is covered with pheasants. Its tragic how this little piece of land sits between two large estates with large pheasant shoots
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The little 45 hurls 3/4oz of shot amazingly well. This pheasant I stalked into was hiding from me, I thought he had split on me but then from no where he erupted. The smoothrifle swung through and stopped the bird instantly at near 30yds.
Remember those bullets I've been wanting shot of? Well I tried again with them today.
Well just like as in the trade gun they were pathetic in the .45 also. First five and then seven were loaded and they are just wild. Good for crowd dispersal maybe but not hunting! Oh well, they were bugging me and now they are gone.
A good few hours out in the winter sun and welcome change from all the rain.
Hope you enjoy.
B.
.Turned around and went back for the caps. I controlled the anger and just enjoyed the ride.
So when I got back to the hunting ground first light had long gone. The cool north wind suits this place and the bright sun would have the rabbits out.
Sure enough it wasn't long and I had one in thick cover right in front of me but it disappeared down a burrow. It was as I was moving to the next stalk that I bumped into a buck rabbit running a doe. They stopped no more than 12 yards away in thick cover. The bright sunlight highlighting the cover so much so I could not see the bucks head except for that near orange patch at the back of the head so the sights settled on that and the trigger broke.
When the smoke cleared I thought I had missed but then I saw some brash twitch a few times, rabbit down.
This place is covered with pheasants. Its tragic how this little piece of land sits between two large estates with large pheasant shoots
.The little 45 hurls 3/4oz of shot amazingly well. This pheasant I stalked into was hiding from me, I thought he had split on me but then from no where he erupted. The smoothrifle swung through and stopped the bird instantly at near 30yds.
Remember those bullets I've been wanting shot of? Well I tried again with them today.
Well just like as in the trade gun they were pathetic in the .45 also. First five and then seven were loaded and they are just wild. Good for crowd dispersal maybe but not hunting! Oh well, they were bugging me and now they are gone.
A good few hours out in the winter sun and welcome change from all the rain.
Hope you enjoy.
B.
