Thanks Billy, I'm not getting clover holes at the moment but I'm sure they will come, I'm hoping that the gun is just going through a settling in period.
I got 2 rabbits this morning. At 4-15am, one of the car alarms went off so I went to investigate, backed up by approx 80kg of Weimaraner and Border Collie
. Nothing was amiss, except the Sat Nav had fallen off the windscreen and was hanging in mid air off the mirror. I got back to bed, couldn't settle after the adrenaline rush, next thing, missus is getting up for work and that was that and by 5-30am, I was on the shoot. I walked straight onto a bunny but spooked it. The rain was lashing down by now, that windy, drizzly stuff that cuts right through your clothes and to your bones. I hid behind the owners horsebox and peared out now and again over the paddock. After about 15 minutes, bingo, 2 bunnies sitting in the corner. I picked on the larger of the two and let off the shot. Thwock and a bunny goes 2 feet in the air, falls to the ground and does the kicking leg thing. The other bunny stood in amazement for a few seconds then hardtailed down its hole. Funny thing is though, by the time I climbed out from under the horsebox and went to retrieve the 'dead' rabbit, I couldn't find it.
I got a call off the onwer this afternoon asking if I had been shooting today as one of his dogs had walked in with a dead bunny.
I got another rabbit about 15 minutes after the first and there was no doubt about this one but after that, i'm afraid the rain got me, so I headed home.