It's been 4weeks since I walked the fields armed with my Remington, and i wasn't waiting any longer, myself and a hunting partner racked up and set out.
We immediately noticed a huge amount of magpies on the land and I knew I had to bag one.
We moved round the land trying not to disturb them when I spotted a bunch of 12-14 on a sitting tree which has a lovely backstop behind it.
Only problem 220yds stood between me and the magpie.
I chambered the round and adjusted the dial 3clicks of elevation zero clicks for wind age.
Set myself a steady breathing rhythm and let rip.
My target made a loud resounding pop and dropped clean from the tree
The shot hit a little low so next time I know its 4 clicks but was spot on for wind age.
The shot was taken from just to the right of the woodblock in the distance on the high ground (marked yellow) with the target area (marked red)
We spotted Charlie shortly after but I obviously left my short range eyes at home cos he couldn't of been more than 80yds and I didn't spot him until it was too late and he disappeared into the brush
We packed up shortly after nightfall and I called into my old stomping grounds picking out a rabbit at 170yds. Well it would be rude not to wouldn't it lol.
A clinical headshot means my jack russel gets some more bugs
Was really nice to get out after a long break mainly due to a operation on a wisdom tooth that left me unable to eat anything other than porridge for 2 weeks but this made our land feel new again
Atvbr & happy hunting
Max...
We immediately noticed a huge amount of magpies on the land and I knew I had to bag one.
We moved round the land trying not to disturb them when I spotted a bunch of 12-14 on a sitting tree which has a lovely backstop behind it.
Only problem 220yds stood between me and the magpie.
I chambered the round and adjusted the dial 3clicks of elevation zero clicks for wind age.
Set myself a steady breathing rhythm and let rip.
My target made a loud resounding pop and dropped clean from the tree
The shot hit a little low so next time I know its 4 clicks but was spot on for wind age.
The shot was taken from just to the right of the woodblock in the distance on the high ground (marked yellow) with the target area (marked red)
We spotted Charlie shortly after but I obviously left my short range eyes at home cos he couldn't of been more than 80yds and I didn't spot him until it was too late and he disappeared into the brush
We packed up shortly after nightfall and I called into my old stomping grounds picking out a rabbit at 170yds. Well it would be rude not to wouldn't it lol.
A clinical headshot means my jack russel gets some more bugs
Was really nice to get out after a long break mainly due to a operation on a wisdom tooth that left me unable to eat anything other than porridge for 2 weeks but this made our land feel new again
Atvbr & happy hunting
Max...
