G'day Strikey, thanks for that info mate, I'll have a look today
G'day Bent, the dry firing, after watching a couple of vids on ewe tube, seems to have helped. Two more rabbits last night at 190m, but I was prone so maybe, maybe not.
I have shakes and wobbles from a brain injury so I only ever shoot the shotty off-hand.
Also with the chassis, bipod and nearly a kilo of scope the Howa is a touch over 6.5kg(not the 7.5 I mistakenly claimed in another post) so a little unwieldy.
If I shoot prone I can isolate the shake rattle and roll from the equation fairly well.
The last time I got cocky and tried off-hand I blew the back end off a rabbit and the poor little bugger dragged himself underground before I could administer a coup de gras. Not going to risk that again.
The reason I shoot from the bonnet is that the part of the farm I live on is a fairly large block (+3000 acres) and the topography is fairly mixed but mostly hilly so I drive to each warren and lurk 150-200m off. That also allows me my creature comforts, cuppa, book, music etc.
Over the other side where my landlord lives is another few thousand acres of mostly flat, but he and his son take care of the ferals there.