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    Posted: 06 Oct 2023 at 11:31am
Yesterday I signed up a 75acre dairy farm for some pest control, mainly rabbits.

I went out to look at the farm and their paddocks are huge, and the grass is long!
Was quite a daunting prospect looking at those big paddocks, I'm used to much smaller horse paddocks, that I can usually, almost, reach the back of with my little .177 12FPE Elly. Now I was looking at paddocks 200m long, and full of thick long grass, how the heck was my Elly going to get to rabbits in there??? 

So I pulled out my Anschultz .22LR and started prepping it...
Spent about 2 hours putting some "adaptor" rails onto it, to convert the 9mm dovetail into a 20mm pic rail, then fitted the Pard 35 digital day/night scope and bore sighted it as best I could from my garage LOL
Now I need to get to a shooting range (someones paddock) and zero it in for some long shots with some sub-sonic ammo.

Last night I went out to this dairy farm to start the job there. Dont have the .22LR zeored yet, so all I had was little Elly. Still managed to get 28 rabbits, 1 possum and 1 big fat rat.
Not a bad night.
On a property like this I could REALLY use a 30 or 40FPE PCP, pushing 30gr .22 slugs at 950fps... That would be my first choice over the Anschultz .22LR and could knock bunnies over at 100 or 120m nicely, but I just havent for the money to buy one at the moment!
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would like to give the Tippmann a go on that farm. 😁
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Nice I do pest control on a farm up these ways I'm using either my slazenger or sportco 22lr. Up until recently I've just been using a hand held spotlight and then a light mounted on the rifle when shooting.
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Post some pics of your .22LR’s and your bunnies 👍🏻
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