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After reading the thing in the deer forum about the mystery object in that fellas deer, I got to thinking about shooting my pellet gun a bit. So, my 8 year old and I strolled out to re-sight it with some new pellets.
After getting it dialed in, we took a long hike through our woods (about 20 yards). We saw a big ol fox squirrel toting an ear of corn to the top of a tree about 40-50 yards away. I put he scope on him, and knocked him out of the tree. We started over to snatch him up and flushed a rabbit. It only ran about 20 yards or so and stopped. I put the scope on it too, and fired one off. I hit a branch, and saw some hair fly...most of which was still on the rabbit! He stopped again by a stump, but eventually took off without me getting another pellet in him.
I called my beagles. They were off running around somewhere and took a while to come home. We had just finished skinning the squirrel when they came back. With the rain still falling, they had a little trouble sorting out the trail, but eventually did. The rabbit bolted across the front yard, throwing water as he went.
Mason (my 8 year old) retrieved his 20 gauge, and we headed to the woodpatch across the yard. The beagles again had a little trouble sorting out the trail, but eventually lit up and ran the bunny in a circle, and back to the waiting, soaking wet, 8 year old redneck, who was waiting on the far side of a 20 bore...bang! HEHEHE...he drilled it.
There is nothing that says redneck like shooting critters in the back yard, and honestly, it was a pretty exciting thing. It was Mason's very first running rabbit in front of the dogs! Good clean fun for sure.
After getting it dialed in, we took a long hike through our woods (about 20 yards). We saw a big ol fox squirrel toting an ear of corn to the top of a tree about 40-50 yards away. I put he scope on him, and knocked him out of the tree. We started over to snatch him up and flushed a rabbit. It only ran about 20 yards or so and stopped. I put the scope on it too, and fired one off. I hit a branch, and saw some hair fly...most of which was still on the rabbit! He stopped again by a stump, but eventually took off without me getting another pellet in him.
I called my beagles. They were off running around somewhere and took a while to come home. We had just finished skinning the squirrel when they came back. With the rain still falling, they had a little trouble sorting out the trail, but eventually did. The rabbit bolted across the front yard, throwing water as he went.
Mason (my 8 year old) retrieved his 20 gauge, and we headed to the woodpatch across the yard. The beagles again had a little trouble sorting out the trail, but eventually lit up and ran the bunny in a circle, and back to the waiting, soaking wet, 8 year old redneck, who was waiting on the far side of a 20 bore...bang! HEHEHE...he drilled it.
There is nothing that says redneck like shooting critters in the back yard, and honestly, it was a pretty exciting thing. It was Mason's very first running rabbit in front of the dogs! Good clean fun for sure.