Aswell as my recurve I also had a new 17HMR Browning T bolt with me this time in order to thin out the rabbit population on this place.I planned to skin and gut them and put them in the chest freezer to keep for dog food.Pretty impressed with it actually it stops rabbits immediately where as with a 22 quite often they make it to the burrow after you hit them but the 17 really knocks them over.
After arriving I unpacked and got ready for a walk as quick as i could .It was still pretty early and hopefully there would be some pigs still out and about.
Within 15 minutes of walking there were a good 10 or so just into the tree line on the hill,I was walking from the top down and it is long grass for the first 300 metres then you hit the trees.
The pigs were on the way down the hill so I followed along until they got to the creek where they all went into this reedy stuff.
There was a log that went into it and after quietly getting on the log I could hear a few moving around not far away.Trouble was I couldn't see them let alone pick out a good one.
Then with the stalks moving around I could see one was about to come into the clear and I shot this young one from the end of this log.
It didnt go far at all and it sounded like the arrow smashed through both shoulders.The commotion caused the rest of them to flee.
I got its back legs off had a bit more of a look around and then went back to the shed for a beer with the farmer.
, I am jealous. Steve
They really give me the creeps, even more than spiders! Brrrrr!