After two months of out of action I made it back in action today. There was a old dairy I have driven by a couple of times and today finally stopped to ask for permission to do some pesting.
While I was driving to the dairy, as usual New Hampshire didn’t disappoint my funny bone.
The first pass today I saw a flock pigeons reconning the farm, so I ran to a Dunkin Donuts for a dozen. The first attempt no one was home so I took a diversion and then came back, Bingo was the result.
I went up to the door, knocked carrying a dozen donuts and introduced myself to the owner. Most of the cattle had been sold off a few weeks ago, but there were still around 30 head. There was a mixture of pigeons, starlings and plenty of sparrows.
The gun I brought was the Brocock Ranger XR in 177 that I purchased from @Ghostranger169 . The gun is a solid platform, I have a Athlon 4x16 on it (bit large but in the near future it will be replaced) and I have a Tatsu on it. The gun IMHO still has a bit of bark, not loud, but it is notably louder than my Uragan. I was shooting 10.34 grain at around 14 ft/lbs. I mounted my phone SideShot mount for an upcoming video from this debut hunt.
I was a bit off I admit today, and wasn’t connecting like I should, but this is the first time out in 2 months on live quarry. The shots were from 15 to 45 yards. Some total was 2 pigeons (1 recovered the other on a roof) along with some sparrows. I made some stupid filming mistakes like putting my phone in the wrong way into the scope mount.
. There were quite a bit starlings, but one missed shot scared the whole flock away.
So after some good walking around for about 1.5 hours I called it quits and headed for a pint before heading home. It was a well earned pint and the hunt brought a smile to my face for sure. I am welcome back and with all the land they have, maybe I can talk them into let me venturing into the woods behind the farm for grouse.
While I was driving to the dairy, as usual New Hampshire didn’t disappoint my funny bone.
The first pass today I saw a flock pigeons reconning the farm, so I ran to a Dunkin Donuts for a dozen. The first attempt no one was home so I took a diversion and then came back, Bingo was the result.
I went up to the door, knocked carrying a dozen donuts and introduced myself to the owner. Most of the cattle had been sold off a few weeks ago, but there were still around 30 head. There was a mixture of pigeons, starlings and plenty of sparrows.
The gun I brought was the Brocock Ranger XR in 177 that I purchased from @Ghostranger169 . The gun is a solid platform, I have a Athlon 4x16 on it (bit large but in the near future it will be replaced) and I have a Tatsu on it. The gun IMHO still has a bit of bark, not loud, but it is notably louder than my Uragan. I was shooting 10.34 grain at around 14 ft/lbs. I mounted my phone SideShot mount for an upcoming video from this debut hunt.
I was a bit off I admit today, and wasn’t connecting like I should, but this is the first time out in 2 months on live quarry. The shots were from 15 to 45 yards. Some total was 2 pigeons (1 recovered the other on a roof) along with some sparrows. I made some stupid filming mistakes like putting my phone in the wrong way into the scope mount.
. There were quite a bit starlings, but one missed shot scared the whole flock away.So after some good walking around for about 1.5 hours I called it quits and headed for a pint before heading home. It was a well earned pint and the hunt brought a smile to my face for sure. I am welcome back and with all the land they have, maybe I can talk them into let me venturing into the woods behind the farm for grouse.
