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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 2:15 am Post subject: One Less Hoodie!
So; Dean, my mate, gave me his Larsen Trap last year and I used it to hammer the maggie's on my ground. Ye don't see them now. But guess what? Pair of f*cking Hooded Crows had the brass neck to set up a nest in some fir tree's, fifty yards from my front door!
Well, I have my chit for a .22 Hornet now and am just waiting to close a deal and get the cash to fetch that home, fully fitted. But mheanwhile, Dean was round here today and mentioned he had his .22 Rimfire in the motor. Get it out then!
Barely ten minutes later, he got the shot from down by my cow sheds. Range to nest probably a little over twenty yards. Nothing in the possible trajectory but open bog.
He reckons he saw its tail and went for a gut shot - messy and not my way. But it was a shot.
I was stood back up here and we both watched the bird leap out of the nest and sail almost vertically down amongst the trees before ..... Vanishing! It Just Blinked Out Of View!
Within minutes, I was down there and quartering the juncus where I reckoned it might have fell. Then we both had a look. Then we brought my air headed young JR in. Then we trampled about in the undergrowth. Nothing!
B*stard was still obviously alive enough to hit the ground and run. God knows where it got itself. But Small Dog'll fetch it back once it starts to chuck up a bit. Or I'll find what the badgers leave, once they discover it.
Consolation was when we - much later - happened upon a couple of shot out primaries. Judging by where they'd been ripper away and considering the bird was laying down at the time; Yeppers. Deano had it right. Right in the guts. It's out there somewhere now. Long since dead. It'll turn up.
And, when I get my rifle? It's mate's first on my list!
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