Thread: What little pesties did you bowl over today?

Originally Posted by Flyblown

Thanks for that. The whole family is sitting here having dinner, formulating our 2019 anti-mustelid strategy! Need to get some more traps.

Get stuck into em

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Originally Posted by rossi.45

showers today which made keeping the optics clear a problem but some good in close shooting

Lovely looking country their Rossi, an arvo on the bunnies is an arvo well spent. Good stuff.

Coming back from river the other night,no rifle so lined up a hare with the quad.Dog tucker sorted.

Originally Posted by Dundee

Coming back from river the other night,no rifle so lined up a hare with the quad.Dog tucker sorted.Attachment 98544

Dunlop poisoning!

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Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

Do you have any pictures of a Ferret polecat hybrid?

I do. The only one I have on the iPad here is not the greatest photo due to (a) the bad phone the pic was taken with and (b) the extent to which the animal was munted by my Stafford. This one was called live by the twodogs, a fight that resulted in my male Stafford getting a bite under the chin which developed into a very nasty abscess. Will endeavour to find a better photo and definitely to take some better ones next one we catch.



A pied kind of colouring, white, brown and black.

I went out on Saturday night and shot 50 rabbits which was well down on my last outing, it was amazing what a month made as the paddock I saw 100 rabbits in last time had none in it this time. We had just had 2 days of solid rain so the grass was wet and it had got very long, it was a bit like using a flame thrower in Nam clearing out pockets of resistance hiding in the long wet grass. Below is a photo of one such pocket I managed to clear, I picked up the bodies and threw them in a bunch for the photo.

Originally Posted by 7mm Rem Mag

I went out on Saturday night and shot 50 rabbits which was well down on my last outing, it was amazing what a month made as the paddock I saw 100 rabbits in last time had none in it this time. We had just had 2 days of solid rain so the grass was wet and it had got very long, it was a bit like using a flame thrower in Nam clearing out pockets of resistance hiding in the long wet grass. Below is a photo of one such pocket I managed to clear, I picked up the bodies and threw them in a bunch for the photo.

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Doing well there,..


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Four hares, two rabbits tonight. There's a lot more. Game on.

These two from a tad over a couple of hundy. Shan't post a snap of the other side!

Only one hare tonight. Passed up on a couple as I was after the big male peacock up the back. His train is really long now and if I can get him soon it will go into a korowai being made by one of the local guys. So he’s a ‘special request’ peacock. No pressure! I did manage to get some last year and the year before... this photo is from back then. Really really want to get this big bugger though, man they have incredible eyesight, he can see me coming from hundreds of metres away and will start to move back to cover. If he carries on being so wily I may have to resort to the Creedmoor from 500m!

Today’s unfortunate hare:



A peacock, feathers now in a very cool cloak:



Peacock is surprisingly good to eat, slow cooked in a curry its great!

One big gobbler shot in gusting winds at just short of 200 yards with a customised .25cal Edgun Matador

Originally Posted by Wingman

One big gobbler shot in gusting winds at just short of 200 yards with a customised .25cal Edgun Matador

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Hey @Wingman it looks like you have anti aircraft guns all over that paddock, I wish we had turkey down our way I bloody love them. Well done

Lol yes it does look a bit like that.. my mates .22 Matador patrolling the ridge in the background..

I’d never heard of these Edguns on till one popped up for sale here. I’m looking at the for sale listing and thinking how much???

So there’s obviously more to these air rifles than meets the eye, which initially isn’t a very positive impression because they are the bloody ugly things. I shall do some reading to find out how the hell an air rifle shoots stuff at 200 m. You learn something new every day.

Originally Posted by Flyblown

I’d never heard of these Edguns on till one popped up for sale here. I’m looking at the for sale listing and thinking how much???

So there’s obviously more to these air rifles than meets the eye, which initially isn’t a very positive impression because they are the bloody ugly things. I shall do some reading to find out how the hell an air rifle shoots stuff at 200 m. You learn something new every day.

Edgun Russia, Edgun West (USA) and myself have pushed PCPs to a level that has never been done before. Not only have we made it possible to hit critters at 200 plus yards (my personal best was a hare at 243 yards) but I was also the first to ever shoot a 5 shot MOA group at 200 yards.(my claim to fame) I prototyped the power plenum part that made this possible and it is now in production for the Matador R3. The new Matador R5 has been designed in Russia by Ed with this technology in place so everyone can push the PCP limits more than ever was thought possible.

Heres a vid of my buddy Brian in California demonstrating the kit and shooting a sub MOA group at 200y. Check out my Airborne Arms Co channel if you are interested in seeing more about the Edgun kit or vids of it in action.

WOW



(do I need to take back the bit about them being ugly?)