After the drizzle of yesterday, today was sunny and fine. No geese to shoot but I called Jim and arranged a session this evening getting eighteen rabbits over four hours with the night-shooting equipment delivered today. The night with Wiggly at her place, walking Sam in the Coneygear Park first thing.
After the drizzle of yesterday, today was sunny and fine and it was a pleasure to take the dog for a walk to the gravel pits.
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I looked round for any geese but they were not there and will probably not reappear for a while as John has planted rape rather than winter wheat. I was again archiving my summer's journal until the postman brought my new trousers and night-shooting equipment.
The mobile light attaches to the rifle sights to save separate handling of the light source and now we have a red filter a well. I called Jim and arranged a session this evening when we got as many rabbits as we can manage together as late as it takes.
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A walk along the River Cam with Sam afterwards and then a snack dinner at The Three Horseshoes in Maddingly before she had to go to a councillors meeting and me to my shooting engagement.
We still had a short session at her place before we parted. We used my new gun-mounted lamp which proved quite effective for spotting and killing the rabbits but it took some getting used to and so we needed four hours out to get eighteen rabbits.
Poor Jim was struggling with his marksmanship, but we found the best teamwork combination consisted of him doing the stalking and me with the rifle using his shoulder as the steadying prop. The stick could not be used as the lamp reflection on it obliterated the scope image.
All this meant that it was nearly 4.00am before I could get back to Wiggly but she had slept well and welcomed me with great affection and, in view of her period, was quite happy for us to get some sleep together until morning.
Then we walked Sam in the countryside near the Coneygere before driving off to get a fine breakfast and then walking again in the Hinchingbrooke Country Park which seems fine for wooded dog walking.
Our good-byes until the next time in the realisation that it will not be possible again to leave Sam and the Discovery outside her house as it is bound to get recognised. My alibi was that I spent the night courtesy of Jim and Julie Bird who also treated me to breakfast before I left to get home in mid-morning.