8 December

Not much shooting this weekend, last night (Friday) was the 'Managers' Christmas party, so no chance of getting up early  - and Tonight is one of my Birthday celebrations so that counts out the evening flight..

Being as it was a still sunny day, I thought i would give my new air rifle a go, so popped down to the copse for an hour to clear my head.  The gun worked fantastically with its new scopes,  i took 4 pigeons and a magpie for 7 shots.

The two missed shots were because the pellet hit a branch en route, 3 birds were head shot and the other 2 were hit in the vital organs and dropped instantly (head shot was not possible due to vegetation)

I'm very please with it, and it's a great use of the £ people kindly gave me for my birthday.


Shooting over, a quick change and off for Drinks at Lisa and Danny's (Bro & Sis in law)  Who had arranged a 'Hunting' themed party..  Lots of fun there, and some great pictures of my past put together by Roger.

Party people in the house....

Wendy's 'hunting' cake

Sunday i got a call from Ian to say he was on the Rape filed and the pigeons were going mad !! Once my eyes had stopped spinning and the hang over eased a bit, I went over for a quick hour.   Poor Ian must have wished he'd never asked - I think the dog could have shot better, I only managed 3 birds with about 15 shots.  Luckily he did better and picked up 97 at the end of the flight.