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Waiting For Prey
by: Ken Leamy
I wake up to a new Fall day. Grab a cup of coffee and look out the window to a beautiful
day. I pick out one of my favorite air rifles, the Condor Ext. and a shooters mat and head
out the door. The soft breeze and pine scent hit me and all is right. The temperature is
around 60 and the sky is clear, my hopes are up. I head out back through the woods
to a large field, I find my favorite high spot, flipped out the mat and set up to wait.
Off in the distance a line of trees about 200yds, a large clump of bushes around 100yds.
The field is full of tall grass, a few wild flowers scattered around, a bolder here and there.
Lying here scanning for movement, just grass and leaves drifting, a bird teasing me in the
distance. And then what was that out the corner of my eye? I keep scanning, THERE...!
again, a glint, a movement, a wiggle,a squirm, "dang", I think......, something. Wait..... ,
I see something maybe 100yds +or-. A little shimmer, a glint, a movement? I focus, I'm
using my Sun Optics 4-14x44 so not sure, but maybe, yes maybe there was movement
there. I continue to scan the area, and then a little gust, a slight breeze, the grass moves and
again a glint, a glimmer, trigger gently squeezed, pellet flies, and THERE IT GOES..........,
flying into the air, spinning, twirling, gasping, hitting the ground.
HEART THUMPING..., I calmly sneak down quietly as not to scare off any other prey. I have
that driving urge to see the damage, to enjoy the final moments, to enjoy the feeling that
envelops you, the high of the one shot one kill.
As I come upon the area, looking, quietly searching for the remains, I finally see the resting
place of a lonely empty Bud can with a devastating .257 hole through its head.
Agggggg the HORROR, the HORROR !!!!!
Ever so slowly I make my way back to that favorite high spot and hope for another to dare cross
my path. Ahhh the scent of pine in the morning........
(https://i.imgur.com/REvVxHb.jpg)
Waiting For Prey 2: The Hunt
http://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=98500.0 (http://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=98500.0)
Waiting For Prey 3: The Meeting
https://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=132314.0 (https://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=132314.0)
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and that is what ya get for Not knowing what your shooting at! A BIG NO-NO in shooting sports! :-X
The old irresponsible days of killing anything that moves are long gone. With today's PC atmosphere of pressure to do away with any type of hunting, or shooting sports, much less ownership of ANY kind of gun, we have to show a much greater degree of responsibility and character than in many of our more youthful days.
Never-Ever shoot without knowing what your shooting at! It's the #1 rule of shooting.
Great shot on the Bud can though. As we all know, those .257's can really reach out there! ;)
Knife
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Lol.
Good story,
Ya had me hanging on the edge of my seat :) Yes, we must do what we "can" to eradicate those wild Bud "cans".
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Thanks guys, I did know what was out there, but that would have made a boring story.
And I think the out come was more of a surprise this way, and a lot more fun to read.
Thanks Pellgunfun, glade you liked it.
I will try to write more.
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Fun story Ken defiantly had me going ;D
I was guessing it was a woodchuck or a rabbit... ::)
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Afterword:
Just a note aimed at the two emails and post I got saying I should know what I am shooting at
before I shoot. Well I do. My friend and I play sniper games. He will go out a day or two ahead and
hide a target or two then he will tell me what the target is and the general area. or go with me
if it is a hunt. I also do the same with him. It makes no since for me to tell you up front as that
would ruin the end of the story. So please no more emails. We do know what we are doing and
know how to place our shots.
Thanks for reading. I never thought of putting our hunts on paper but I'm giving it a try.
Doug even had a forest ranger OK a few spots before we did the hunt.
Anyway I am working on another and just might continue with more.
Thanks again hope you like them. Like I said I'm not a pro at writing.
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LOL, I find it so funny that you are getting a bit of "shame on you mail" because of your faux hunt on a Bud can. Guess it's easy for me to see the humor in it, since I'm not the one getting the emails huh :)
I enjoyed the story and quickly found the humor and the joke of it after I finished reading it. Heck the last two sentences were enough to know there was a deliberate scheme behind the whole story, and that the "Bud Can" was the quarry the whole time.
"dang" shame you would have to print a disclaimer before each story. Maybe next time you could post that no "real" animals where harmed in the making of this story, and that the "Bud Can" was not a real Bud Can but a paid actor instead. :)
It must a Democrat sending you emails.
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LOL, a paid actor, that's great. Yeah I was hinting about the glimmer
and sparkle and glint, hint, hint :D
I know my friend is planing another hunt, I might write it up
and maybe put a different spin on it, but I don't know what
the target is until the day of the hunt. Even though I still won't
give away the target until the end.
I'll see if I can remember some of our past hunts. We had one where
a forest ranger helped him set the target.