My new (old) little .177 bullpup.

Took Elly out for a walk again tonight.
Went to a permission I haven’t been to in about a month. Well, it’s actually two permissions next to each other.
The property’s belong to an Uncle and his nephew. Combined they are about 15 acres of paddocks, gates and fences 😂.
It was actually a nice night, had two short spells of light drizzel, then the stars came out!
I find with these flat horse property’s it is more productive to walk around quietly in the dark looking for rabbits, there is just too much area to cover to sit quietly and wait.
These two property’s share a common boundary with a third property, and as Murphy would have it, all the rabbits seem to be on the other side of the fence, the side I don’t have permission to shoot 😡
Managed to get 12 tonight.
This little AirArms S510 in a bullpup stock is such a sweet little rifle. At 12fpe it is so quiet aswell. The hammer spring makes more noise then the muzzel.
I can’t fathom why it’s previous owner would have ever wanted to sell it… 🤔😂

It seems crazy that this little .177 shoots an 8.44gr pellet, when compared to the 30gr .22 slug the dream line is shooting. That is almost a quarter of the weight of the slug. A quarter of the weight!!!
And at 30 and 40m, those bunnies just keel over, every bit as dead as when they’r hit by a 30grain slug 😉

Hi Flock,
What rifle is that? Sure seems to shoot nicely to me 👍🏻

Took Elly out for her first bit of rabbit control tonight.

Was a cold night, but not raining, so I went for a walk around a new permission.
With a thermal scope on Elly I set off with my shooting sticks, head light, double layers of tracksuit pants and Stoney ridge fleeces and a spare little mag in my back pocket.

I should have put the whole tin of JSB exacts into my back pocket because I ran out of ammo half way round my lap of the paddocks 😡.
I could easily have taken twice as many rabbits if I had more pellets with me.
I lost count somewhere around 10, but I think the final number of bunnies left sleeping in the darkness was around 14.

Not bad for just over an hours work/walk.
Definatly need to plan a few more visits back to this new permission.

Managed to zero the scope today after work.
I’m really chuffed with this group 👍🏻
I think I get some bragging rites 😂
7 shot group at 25m with JSB exact 8.44gr
CTC 6mm

So I’ve named my little S510. I’ve called her Elly.
I needed to get some super high rings which have taken a while to get, but eventually I got them.
I’ve just fitted a 6-24x50 FFP scope, on the super high QD rings, might be a bit of an overkill, but it’s a nice scope and I’m happy with it.
Now all I need is somewhere to go shoot where I can zero the scope. It sucks living in the middle of town and not being able to shoot in my back yard.