Field Time

[racerkart]

Glad its not just me then. I can see the damage in the way of fresh burrowing from existing holes but they ain't surfacing. Very little in the way of black pellets as well. Done a few warm evenings and a full afternoon this year. Not seen anything. Next move is a dawn raid I think. I used the dreggs of the afternoon to pick vantage points to snipe them from. There was another hot spot but another shooter beat me to it...and bagged a little un to add insult to injury. But absolutely...sitting at the top one of the highest hills around silverstone looking at the scenery for miles around on such a nice day was a welcome break from the pressures of a new job and been a Dad for a few weeks solid.

[bighit]

Glad its not just me then. I can see the damage in the way of fresh burrowing from existing holes but they ain't surfacing. Very little in the way of black pellets as well. Done a few warm evenings and a full afternoon this year. Not seen anything. Next move is a dawn raid I think. I used the dreggs of the afternoon to pick vantage points to snipe them from. There was another hot spot but another shooter beat me to it...and bagged a little un to add insult to injury. But absolutely...sitting at the top one of the highest hills around silverstone looking at the scenery for miles around on such a nice day was a welcome break from the pressures of a new job and been a Dad for a few weeks solid.

rabbits eat their poop .might be why there's not much about .


You shouldn't be too concerned if your rabbit eats his poop. In fact, it's a normal and healthy rabbit behavior.
It may seem gross, but rabbits normally eat some of their feces once a day, either early in the morning or late at night.

These special feces are called cecotropes, or “night feces.” They are produced through fermentation of food in the part of the rabbit’s digestive tract called the cecum. Cecotropes are soft feces that are nutrient-rich and are passed out of the body like normal stool but then are re-ingested later by the rabbit so that important nutrients can be reabsorbed. These feces have more protein, less fiber and higher levels of certain vitamins, such as B vitamins, than the typical hard bunny fecal pellets you might see in the litterbox or around your rabbit’s cage.
While owners are often disturbed when they see their pets eating their own feces, realize that cecotrope ingestion is a normal and important part of rabbit behavior that will help keep your pet healthy. Owners should not try to prevent their rabbits from eating these feces and, since cecotropes are only passed once a day, there is little chance that an excessive amount could be consumed

[tinbum]

I need to find a new permission this end of the county, but last summer I had a lovely spot under a copse of pigeon sitty trees with a rabbit warren to the left. I would often doze a whole warm evening away without firing a shot.

[Missed_dinner]

I got a smallish permission that I haven't had much more than an hour or two at a time to play around in. The trouble I have is getting bored sitting still for to long but if a wonder, a lot of it is open field so the pigeons just scarper as soon as they see me. haven't had a chance to try the rabbit side of it yet. I will get 1 or 2 pigeon and a squirrel if I am lucky. The main thing is I get to spend some time outside with no pressures of everyday life and the owner has a pest free plot (even if its just my presence that keep them away). When its a bit warmer I got a few rats to rid and another property that has a rabbit problem.

[Muskett]

Depends how we go about it or what we are trying to acheive.
East Sussex is one big rabbit warren.

I can harvest 20 rabbits a year from my bedroom window. 10 magpies from my office window.
For daylight walkup its one stalk after another depending on the time of day.
Lamping or NV from vehicles with rimfires on farms around here then for three to four hours work we usually stop at 80 to 100 rabbits. Each farm gets the treatment three times a year, the third time only gives 60. All go straight to the game dealer.

Pigeon shooting over decoys isn't that good, a day might give 16. Always plenty of corvids. Now when I lived in Cambridgeshire if you did your research of flight lines and crops then 100 plus was possible. I've had red letter days in Scotland too.

Knowing your ground, having a big area to shoot over, and timing correctly all goes to larger bags. Even then its easy enough to blank or just get a few. Some places are busier than others for passing sport. Just being out with a gun is reward enough and a couple for the pot is a bonus.
Practice makes perfect, so always good to have a field target set up for some plinking. A session or two at the clay ground is a good afternoon out too. Zeroed my .223 last week which was interesting. Always something, some excuse, to get out and play. Just work gets in the way.