baileybradshaw
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Well, this is probably not going to read like a glamourous Safari ala Ruark. In fact I know it won't, but I will do my best.
So my Brother in law is setting up a workbench in an unused corner of my shop....don't you love stories that start with "So my Brother in law"....anyway, he is putting up a small wall. I have one of those concrete nail drivers that use .22 blanks. So I am looking through my drawers for the driver, you know, the quick open/glance/close routine...when I realize I just saw a freakin rat in one of them. I didn't see the whole rat, just it's tail end. I call my BIL over to see, and I open the drawer....yup, still there, built a nest and doesn't want to leave. The damn thing turns to see who is "disturbing the peace" as it were. I'm wordering if I am still quick enough to just grab it's tail and spike it on the ground when Buck ( my BIL's nickname...I don't know how he got it)suggests I shoot it with my prototype rifle. I wasn't keen on sending a round into my workbench, but even less on having a rat raise it's brood in my domain of financial aquisition.
Calmly I close the drawer and leave it for about an hour to settle in. Come back, with the rifle loaded and at the ready, slide the drawer open....this is intense tracking....there she sits... Slowly turning towards me she gives me the "you owe me money" look. I don't take kindly to such harrasment. Sensing a possible charge, I shoulder the rifle and let the right barrel go. Clean pass through and the bullet lodges in the bottom of the rubber drawer liner. Range was 1yd ( remarkable accuracy at this range). It was all over as quickly as it began. Pure killer instincts as play.
Well that's it. The first kill for my double rifle. Just nice to know if I needed that second shot.....
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Edited by baileybradshaw (15/03/10 01:56 PM)
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9dot3x74R
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Pics?
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It arrived !!!
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Metalguy
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Make sure to save the cape! You could have a really nice drink coaster with some fond hunting memories to go with it. 
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500Nitro
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Very good indeed.
Well done on the first kill.
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Buchsemann
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That's one classy way to snuff a rodent.
Ya gonna mount it?
... well not in the biblical sense
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mauserand9mm
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I hear that they will charge you if only wounded
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tinker
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Way to go Bailey!
I've owned a few rimfire SxS cape guns with .22 and 9mm, rifle and shot.
I'd often run roundball in the 9mm side and they all tended to hit together over the sights.
Shot charges in the 9mm are murder on rats and mice close in, the .22 have all been quite accurate across our lot, and I've nailed scores of squirrels and possum with the .22 and the 9mm roundball.
It's quite satisfying with the micro side-by-sides isn't it!
Cheers
Tinker
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bwananelson
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no insurance shot,look what the rat did in Europe they killed millions i envy you artists of wood and steel that can build what you want....i wonder could you sleeve a 410 to shoot 22 hornets,by the way shoulder or life size mount
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AkMike
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You need to carve a notch on the stock to remember this! 
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DoubleD
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Oh crap, I suppose we are going to have Rat Thread-post those pictures! now.
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Kalunga
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Congratulations ! I hope You keep the trophy, i.e. the skull. It would look nice once cleaned and bleached. It will always remember You of a great hunt !
Keep on hunting !
Kalunga
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xausa
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Did your brother-in-law grab you by the thumb and do a little dance around the workshop and then carry you piggy-back to the campfire?
Any offspring in the nest?
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450_366
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Concratulations to the first blood on your rifle, i guess you didnt you blood yourself with this kill.
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Andreas
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alexbeer
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You're a bugger Bailey, more coffee laughed onto the keyboard to clean-up now Loved the yarn.
Best
Alex
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NitroX
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Why not keep the rat as a pet?! After all, rats are people too ....
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DarylS
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Good thing you had a double though - a quick second shot might have been necessary to stop a charge elicited through the application of the first.
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Daryl
"a gun without hammers is like a Spaniel without ears" King George V
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CptCurl
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Bailey,
My most sincere congratulations.
Curl
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NitroX
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Curl, very good.
Bailey,
still waiting for the trophy photo.  
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