Rabbits with Springers

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grmkc
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Rabbits with Springers

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You Airarm shooters are just gunna have to spill the beans on some of the stuff you blokes are using
I too enjoy a sport of bunny busting with Pneumatics. Lawsie and I both use NV and PCPs for our night adventures and we've been cross checking notes for a while. I'm not as lucky as he, in that I don't have access to plague proportion populations of rabbits. That makes it more challenging. Not game to try my NV gear on the springers just in case it gets shaken to death.

To make it even more fun. I just use your everyday spring driven rifles. The blue laminate HW97K below is a 0.177 12 FPE unit and the wood stocked rifle is a HW97K in 22 cal at around 13 FPE. These rabbits are from my permission in the Mansfield area.

For me, shooting accurately is the key to good hunting. Pellets become too unstable and thus not accurate at higher than 900 fps. All the bunnies were secured at between 10 - 55 m and head shot. Great practice for my FT and vice versa.

The challenge now, is for me to get a mount from Greg Lundy (if he ever returns my call) of Ballistics Enterprise for my Sheridan Blue Streak 0.20 (1968) and bunny bust with it.
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There is definitely alot more skill involved shooting those low powered air rifles when compared to the way I do it (32fpe and 48fpe pcp air rifles that shoot flat to 45m).

Well done mate. Keep up the good work
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Nice photos grmkc,

Nice looking springers too :)

This is my first post on this forum ( hi everyone ) is it ok if we add some more pictures of rabbits shot with springers to keep the thread going ?

I love shooting bunnies with springers !

Well done.
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Good shooting mate.

Nothing wrong with springers for hunting.

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Yep some more Springer expired rabbit pics are very welcome.
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Well done fellas, we need some more of your adventures and escapades, don't be shy now. :D
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Here is a few I took off the one warren, taken at ranges out to 52m with a tuned GinB stocked HW97.
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This is a picture of my Air Arms Prosport. This one has been professionally tuned by mattw975 and is one of the most beautiful shooting (and looking) springers.

I have recently changed the scope and mounts over and she looks even better now :D
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And a lovely gun to work on it was too mate:)
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Nice bit of wood on that Diana 350 of yours Fenring. :wink:
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Hey guys

My first post on a shooting forum in a long time.

Geoff nice hw97, if I get another air gun it would probably be that or a hw77, but probably not in laminate.
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G'day Josh, don't be shy in future mate, jump in and enjoy yourself. Its what makes this place so good. :D
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Any more dead by Airgun bunny pics fellas
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