Mus 2025

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Been focusing on taking out coyote, so Mus hunting took a backseat.

Since it's been getting warmer I decided to take the Mus rig for a spin.

It didn't disappoint.

Not the best image, but it was very humid.

SJC

 

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Spied a mus wandering about over the weekend, but being Easter weekend I gave it a break.

Weekend ended, break ended, mus ended.

SJC

 

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Worked overnight and decided to see what was lurking about the abode when i got home.

I found a mus that's been eluding me for awhile lounging in a bush thinking it was safe at 2 Am.

Well it turns out that maybe it knew my air rifle lost zero, but it didn't know that as a long range shooter/hunter I've been trained in the use of Kentucky windage.

Kentucky 1  Mus 0

SJC

Confirmed

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Celebrated two birthdays Sunday PM, so that meant eating two pieces of blue velvet cake and a big bowl of watermelon chunks so I was too sugared up to sleep.

What else to do but go outside and hunt mus to work it off.

SJC

 

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With some affordable 1280 resolution thermal scopes becoming available I decided to liquidate some optics and purchase one if the price was right.

Got a NocPix Ace S60R a few weeks ago and mounted it on the Barra .177 PCP rifle to get acquainted with it hunting mus around the abode.

Holy freaking awesome Batman.

SJC

 

 

 

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Mus have been scarce, so I put some bird seed in strategic locations to draw them in.

It didn't take long before a mus was in the crosshairs.

SJC

 

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With the leaves and fauna growing rapidly the mus have plenty of places to hide now, but this one chose the wrong spot to take a break.

SJC

 

[airedale]

Yikes! A splatter job!

Al

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25 minutes ago, airedale said:

Yikes! A splatter job!

Al

I'm waiting to see your contributions of splattering vermin.

SJC

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This mus ran right by the kill zone a couple of times before it stopped.

I gave it an insurance shot just in case because wounded mus are very dangerous.

SJC

 

Edited May 28 by Shoots100

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Beautiful night for thermal and the 1280 res S60R didn't disappoint.

Ordered some HP pellets to try out next week for more explosive results.

This mus gave me the slip a couple of times and thought I was shooting blanks.

SJC

 

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A runner was my first June mus.

SJC

 

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I really tried to make the Gamo 10x hollow point pellets work, but they were too erratic in the accuracy dept.

I'm looking to get a pellet sizer and seeing if I can make them work as they show real promise, are soft and not prone to ricochet.

My PCP rifle prefers the 8.2 grain H&N Finale pellet.

They're prone to ricochet because of their hardness, but are one hole wonders without a lot of tuning.

SJC

 

 

[airedale]

H&N pellets have produced very good accuracy across the board in all of my air rifles.

Al

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This one took awhile before it gave me just enough time to drop it.

The mus in my area are getting cautious, so I took a nap and got up early to catch this one frolicking about while the birds were chirping.

The early bird gets the mus.

SJC

 

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This one gave me the slip a few times, but it ended up like all the others, tumbling.

H&N resized and weight sorted pellets show a measurable increase in first shot accuracy.

SJC