Thread: What little pesties did you bowl over today?

first for the evening with the .17hmr

Back in NZ for a little bit. Already 3 possums and 1 magpie not far out of Auckland.

Crap weather so had to settle for this lot at the range day yesterday sighting in the new Howa 1500 223

Originally Posted by spada

Crap weather so had to settle for this lot at the range day yesterday sighting in the new Howa 1500 223
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Distence

Originally Posted by FatLabrador

Distence

100m with PMC 55gr FMJBT at $15 per box

Originally Posted by spada

100m with PMC 55gr FMJBT at $15 per box

Top shelf ammo

Originally Posted by oraki

Top shelf ammo

only bought it to do the barrel run in had some left over thought I'd have a laugh and see how it prints.
Guess the laughs on me

Got my first rock pigeon today, went out with the air rifle and popped it off the power lines at a farmer friend's house. He was complaining cause they poop all over his stuff so I said I would help out. Forgot to take a pic in the field but here's how it looks now:


Hopefully its delicious!

Update: It was delicious, though will definitely just be breasting them in future as it is just a morsel and pretty much no meat on the limbs

took off the 20" Sporter barrel and put on a 16 inch varmint barrel . . . first outing

longest shot of the day with the centerfire . . .



longest was 140yds with the Sako Quad with CCI subs later in the afternoon . . 6hrs later i called it a day . . goodone

What is up with the ears on that bunny? or do we have squirrels in NZ now?

Bowled over a bunny tonight running a twenty million grain projectile at about 55 fps. No picture, but judging from the crunch I felt, it won't be much good for anything but unpleasant soup.

Found both of these guys just taking a nap.

I never bowled over anything today - they were all squashed - I took a two hour wander around the top of the Park today - a week since I was there last
About twenty Snap-E traps, three Doc250s and ten Sentinels
Two rats in the Doc250s - nearly threw up my breakfast on one - shit they get messy with six kill bars through them a week back - seems that when a rat has been in a Doc250 - a lot of their mates come back to check out the smell - a bit mean as I am using some old Erayz rabbit blocks - need to put an egg in next trip
Five rats in Snap-Es - all with blue stuff
Found a Sentinel that was tripped - a very lucky possum to escape from that - only the second one I have seen with fur on the kill bar
A few sample pics - I thought I was getting on top of them - but not yet

Seems like this blue stuff is irresistible - this trap up the Park has been dormant for the last couple of months with just apple - but it used to be highly productive on the edge of a gully
My Mate Bill on “South Head Pest Control” (FB) has been telling me to slosh blue stuff over baits and traps
So on Tuesday - I cleaned out the last of a large tube of blue stuff - I was up there today laying out more traps - so checked out the red and blue Timms - bingo
Cruz disappeared long before I got there so I knew I had something - rat or possum - he dragged it out of the Timms and then we had a session of chuck and fetch - he loves it - until he gets a claw in his face
I admit - the blue was a bit overdone - but when I am desperate - I will try anything