Prepairing a .22LR for some pest control.

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 

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!