It took two days to get a rabbit!
Big old fat Bess took hair off one, completely missed another but got the third.
It's nothing to be proud of!
I don't know why I carry her about, she has to be the most inefficient muzzloader in my collection.
Why my little .45" smooth rifle with less shot has more reach! And my .63".
It must be fatal attraction. Or am I constantly trying to justify her existence!
Any way. It was good to make a puff of smoke again and she is a reliable sparker if nothing else.
Fortunately I got a buck and not a doe. I watched him run around his doe spraying his pee in the shallow evening sunlight but they hopped into cover so I lost them.
Undeterred I approached the gorse they entered. I was only about 20yds away when one rabbit went one way and mine came out to check me out.
Bessy didn't hang around, I remembered seeing a spark, the pan flash and the rest blurred into mayhem! The rabbit squealed, I released Jess and she ran and grabbed it from within the gorse. It had crawled back in crippled but it was done and finished.
Now that's done I can put the cow back in the deepest part of the cabinet until next time she beckons.
The photos.
Take care folks.
B.
Big old fat Bess took hair off one, completely missed another but got the third.
It's nothing to be proud of!
I don't know why I carry her about, she has to be the most inefficient muzzloader in my collection.
Why my little .45" smooth rifle with less shot has more reach! And my .63".
It must be fatal attraction. Or am I constantly trying to justify her existence!
Any way. It was good to make a puff of smoke again and she is a reliable sparker if nothing else.
Fortunately I got a buck and not a doe. I watched him run around his doe spraying his pee in the shallow evening sunlight but they hopped into cover so I lost them.
Undeterred I approached the gorse they entered. I was only about 20yds away when one rabbit went one way and mine came out to check me out.
Bessy didn't hang around, I remembered seeing a spark, the pan flash and the rest blurred into mayhem! The rabbit squealed, I released Jess and she ran and grabbed it from within the gorse. It had crawled back in crippled but it was done and finished.
Now that's done I can put the cow back in the deepest part of the cabinet until next time she beckons.
The photos.
Take care folks.
B.