My new (old) little .177 bullpup.

I’m trying to build a website at the moment, and I needed a “wow” photo to show the kind of pest control that can be achieved if the rabbits are around.
In the afternoon I checked the balistic calculator out to 60m, in a strong side wind 😡. I hate wind.
Started with the nikko stirling 6-24x50 FFP, wanted to check it’s zero out at 60. Almost packed up before I had even started with that hard blowing side wind, then I thought to my self, use it as a training excersize, because I have very little experience shooting in strong wind, it just frustrates me so I usually go home 😂.

First few shots were frustrating. At 30m I was aiming off by 6cm. Aiming for the middle swinger and hitting the one next to it! At 60m it was worse. Managed to work out the hold over and how far off to hold for the wind and got a decent 3 shot group at 60m
Then switched to the Pard DS35. The balistic calculator worked out the drop correctly, and I had to hold off for the wind, but managed to get two shots on the spinners at 60m. Aim at the big one and hit the one next to it… 😂😂😂





I was actually quite chuffed with my self for beating the wind, so before it all went south I decided to call it on the spinners and go look for some rabbits. I had some work to do if I wanted to get that “wow” pic.
Started at 2pm, walking slowly around and talking quietly to the horses, didnt see a rabbit for an hour!

Eventually at around 3 they started slowly appearing and my shooting session started.
The later it got the more rabbits came out. I managed to shoot a bunch, and then about another 8 that I couldn’t find.
5 hours later and sick and tired of climbing through electric paddock fences to retrieve dead rabbits, I finally got my photo.

Gee, that's impressive Pete. Just goes to show you don't need high power, just placement.

That's awsome number. Have you shot there before or this the first?

Went out to a very small permission tonight.
It’s just a parking lot really, and two patches of grass.
The owner keeps saying there are rabbits there, and I believe him, there is digging and scratching all along the edges of the drive way, but every time I stick my head in there and have a look around, there are never any rabbits there 😡.
This afternoon I decided to do a stake out there. Bitterly cold wind blowing here today, so I parked in the parking lot at last light and sat in my nice warm ute for an hour. No rabbits to be seen.
Just when I was considering calling it a night, I gave the thermal one last sweep around the parking lot and hey, what do u know, there’s a bunny!
So I snuck out my ute, rifle in my one hand, shooting sticks in the other, crept around a bush, and shot him!

He’s now sleeping in the back of my ute and I now have a test subject for the gamo 10x pellets tomorrow morning.
I want to test them with a head shot at 10m and 4.5fpe, and see if they expand nicely.
Might also try one or two body shots at 12fpe aswell.

It says the video is the wrong file type 🤔
And I don’t know why the picture above is on its side? 😡