Smaller game hunting ?

[Shoots100]

As noted in Airedales air gun post earlier this month, After varmint season ended I mounted my backup Adder scope on my "Black Cat" Fusion2  PcP converted .177 air rifle to do some genus Mus eradication around the homestead after seeing some running around while testing thermals earlier in the year.

I found an old jar of almond butter in the cabinet and made a couple of bait piles to view from my deck. 

It didn't take long to put the Cat to work.

Mus 1

Mus 2

And a confirmation pic of Mus 2

Edited April 19 by Shoots100

[airedale]

That kind of hunting is right up my alley.

Al

[Shoots100]

Cat and Mus.

Last night on perimeter watch I had this mouse that really pushed it.

Wouldn't stop for a shot and when it did, I found that I didn't tighten the tank all the way in and the resounding click was all that happened when I pulled the trigger.

After the click, that freaking mouse ran towards me and under the deck.

I went inside and cleared the rifle and made sure it was working.

Went out and found it lurking under the deck with the thermal spotter, not giving me a shot for about 10 minutes until I heard it scurrying under the ladder, trying to flank me.

Bad move for the mouse, as I was dialed in and I dropped it before it charged.

Another mouse bites the dust.

https://youtu.be/XOyoi4MGWZI

 

 

Edited April 26 by Shoots100

[airedale]

I would have loved to have a rig like that back years ago in my Rat hunting days at local town dumps that were crawling with them. I used my car lights and a 22 rifle shooting shorts, after the shot the Rats would duck and cover, turn the lights off and within a couple of minutes they were back out grubbing through the garbage. It was a blast.

Al

[Shoots100]

Have to do some late job's tonight (5/24), so I decided to stay up late and do some hunting around the house.

Spotted this Mus perusing the grapevines between the houses.

It started out in a no shoot zone and then after it got tired of torturing me, it wandered behind the neighbors shed.

Hunting and trying to shoot Mus with a pellet rifle at night will teach you patience.

 

SJC

 

 

[fasteddie]

Shoots 100 - nice videos . Looks like fun at night . 

[Shoots100]

The Cat strikes again.

This time there's no doubt about it.

 

[airedale]

Man that scope is one piece of cool equipment.

Al

[Shoots100]

That's the $2,500 AGM Adder TS35-384 thermal I use as a backup.

My primary scope is the Nvis Halo X50, but it's a longer range scope that sucks for close range work, as you can see in this pic I took of the same spot I dropped the Mus with the Adder.

There's a plethora of shorter range thermal scopes available for the hunter looking to get into the sport for under $2K. 

SJC

 

[Shoots100]

Two more down.

These mice were always hanging out in no shoot spots, so I decided to use nature against nature and strategically placed some pieces of watermelon in those areas so the raccoons would do what they do best and scare them into shoot zones.

It worked like a charm.