Even though it has in this time suffered a bout of mixy it soon bounces back and so driving up to take a look it became evident that rabbits had been at work over the last month nibbling back the wheat, just look at this damage:
This is one area that we didn't get round to ferreting during the winter. The hedge on the right drops down a fifteen foot bank completely covered in brambles and ferns with wire sheep netting at the top. This will be top of our ferreting sorties this winter as the damage done by the rabbits is all along this side of the field.
So set-up the S410 and put out fern makers at 30, 40 and 50 yds. Then it was a case of settling down and lying in wait:
Wasn't long before the first bunnies came out just beyond the 50 yd marker so one and a half mildots over and it dropped with barely a twitch. Over the next hour and a half rabbits came out in ones and twos and a total of seven were taken although one managed to kick itself through the sheep netting and ended up lying ten feet down the bank stone dead but out of reach.
The rabbits were all fairly young and taken from 25 yds to the 56 yarder. Three were taken for the ferrets and the others were left for the fox:
. Sounds like your making the most of it. Nice for the farmer to see some decline in numbers 
