Have you ever shot a mushroom?
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Topic: Have you ever shot a mushroom?
Posted By: Billbobnz
Subject: Have you ever shot a mushroom?
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2022 at 2:13pm
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Well....... What is your worst thing to shoot? Got up Monday morning and in the dim morning sunrise light noticed something brown in the long grass in the paddock when I went out to my vehicle. Thought Yahooo its a hare so back to the house, got the Hatsan .25 out crept up the the fence using the poplars as cover. Sighted it up through the scope and yep it certainly looking like a Hare squatted down trying to keep out of sight. guessed it must have been about 35m so fired.... thud... nothing moved... looked through the scope again and it DOES look like a Hare but now im second guessing myself. Jumped the fence and walking up its a flippen horse mushroom!!! IVE SHOT A MUSHROOM!! We get them growing huge around here the size of a soccer ball and they dry out and go all brown then the wind blows them around. Ill get a photo tomorrow or the weekend to show you. The mushroom hasn't moved since and Ive had a good laugh to myself each morning. |
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Posted By: kruzaroad
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2022 at 4:17pm
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Lmao. Thats hilarious,but totally doable. Ive both creapt up wood thinking it was a hare and scoped the rock strewn paddock, where two hares hang in daytime, only to have them run off from where ive been scoping, at least 3x I can see how a a large,dry,leathery mushroom could be mistaken still farkin funny |
Posted By: J-S
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2022 at 4:38pm
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Posted By: Myson
Date Posted: 10 Sep 2022 at 12:54am
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When you're waiting for game to appear from your hide in the evenings, Scotch thistle heads at 90yds are a real challenge!!! And when there's no thistle heads to blow away (!), Cabbage White butterflies are fun too! You never get bored whilst hunting with a silenced air rifle!  ------------- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq7jVyBfFqE" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq7jVyBfFqE Air Arms S510 US .22 Air Arms S410 .22 Weihrauch HW97KT .177 Weihrauch HW95 .177 |
Posted By: Pauly5
Date Posted: 10 Sep 2022 at 5:05am
Haha, I've stalked a cow poo after spotting it through the thermal spotter. I was so good it never knew what was coming when I head shot it. 
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Posted By: kruzaroad
Date Posted: 10 Sep 2022 at 6:17am
| A genuine sh*t shot. Lmao |
Posted By: Myson
Date Posted: 10 Sep 2022 at 8:12am
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Ha Pauly! Nice one! Did you rest on a stool to get that cow poo?!!!!!!  ------------- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq7jVyBfFqE" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq7jVyBfFqE Air Arms S510 US .22 Air Arms S410 .22 Weihrauch HW97KT .177 Weihrauch HW95 .177 |
Posted By: Billbobnz
Date Posted: 10 Sep 2022 at 9:08am
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahaa Paul that doesn't make me feel so bad at all lol |
Posted By: Billbobnz
Date Posted: 10 Sep 2022 at 11:18am
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Wind has blown it further away and its a bit more exposed. My wife saw it this afternoon and thought it was a hare too LOL Centre Photo
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Posted By: kruzaroad
Date Posted: 10 Sep 2022 at 11:35am
| Yep id be scoping that up. |
Posted By: Pauly5
Date Posted: 10 Sep 2022 at 12:38pm
| Oh yea, that'd get me too. It was probably a decoy to occupy you while they munched your flower garden. |
Posted By: Billbobnz
Date Posted: 10 Sep 2022 at 12:45pm
| Probably is a decoy, a Hare jumped across the drive way on the way out this morning. And I spotted on in the farm out the back at 80m this afternoon. I'll give them a bit longer to breed so there this more 😜 |
Posted By: kruzaroad
Date Posted: 10 Sep 2022 at 1:11pm
| The mushrooms or the hares lol. |
Posted By: Billbobnz
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2022 at 5:36am
| Hahahaha I did try eating a horse mushroom as they are apparently edible, tasted like the sole of a Romans sandle....... |
Posted By: dvlnme
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2022 at 9:35am
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never having eaten a romans sandle wont comment on that one,i too have stalked and shot things that didnt turn out be as expected,once put 2x very well aimed shots into a burnt stump i would bet money on was a large black boar,evan at 10 yards still looked like a black pig to me ,have stalked my share of dead clumps of grass thinking were rabbits more times than can remember,but never shot a mushroom,got have a sense of humor on things like this eh!!. cheers mike
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Posted By: Billbobnz
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2022 at 1:28pm
| Hahahaha, each time I've been deer hunting it's amazing how bushes and rocks start looking like deer |
Posted By: kruzaroad
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2022 at 4:19am
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you'd be wanting to do positive Id before lauching anything from a powder burner. Just out of point of interest. Had the plastic ring in binos eye piece crap out the other week ( spotter 4-10x 15 at a guess. Label came off years ago) love my spotters, leave scope spotting for dead. Turns out the cap of a listeren bottle was the perfect size to make a new out off. She's all number 8 this way lol. |