I went to Wanaka on business and just had to take my bunny buster.
I traded 2 bottles of Pinot and some avocados for a farmers quad bike & use of his paddocks for an evening.
Bliss!
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I went to Wanaka on business and just had to take my bunny buster.
I traded 2 bottles of Pinot and some avocados for a farmers quad bike & use of his paddocks for an evening.
Bliss!
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Good 1
Two maggies and a mouse so far:D
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Out with @2gnscib and another mate last night doing some pest clean up on a farm. We accounted for 60 hares and rabbits plus a couple of other critters, including me getting my bogy species, I finally got a confirmed on a magpie at long last. I ended up with a 100% rate on the rifle, not so good on the shotgun but improved over the evening until we had to retire due to lack of light when we exhausted out supplies of charged batteries. and to top it off hairy legs for dinner tonight.
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Still doing predator control at the Park and the farm
Since my last post on 28/3 -
At the Park - 6 possums, 28 rats and 4 hedgepigs
At the farm - 6 rats and 1 hedgepig
Also managed to catch two thumbs :pissed off:- one in a Victor Pro and one in a T Rex - both gone black - safer doing bait - starting to change over from Ditrac to Contrac - that should sort them out
I like trapping round logs -
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Rats coming in out of the cold -
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Hair trigger Timms getting possums and rats -
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These are my pesties that my wife and I smacked over last night. Couldn't be bothered to watch the cricket we geared up n trundled out to the farm where I wife works during calving. She was on the spottie and spotted n shot the first tree bear for the night fair through the scone using her 17 HMRhttp://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15...9b917117e0.jpg
Kept on going n we spotted a hare. I smacked that one using my lever gun another hare popped out. It took off but wifey spotted another set of eyes 'it's lying down in the grass middle of the beam ' buggered if I could see it. Move a bit closer.....ah there it is. Whack! 0h it's a rabbit. Moving into another pdk along a tree line 'there's one up there, we'll get a bit closer to it' got closer had look tree bear had scuttled off but there were two of these.....http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15...73fdebc88d.jpg don't usually get these. Head out of the pdk onto the race n shot a suicidal rabbit at about 10 metres . Umm two should be enough for a pie.... Head down race past a old cowshed oops there's a tree bear in trees...oh n one on the ground. Wife hopped of quad n shot the one in the tree....but not quite out for the count. After a bit of buggerising around, a 10 second shower of rain and 'I can't c it through my scope' I finished it off. Carry on down the race and come across some turkeys ' ooh mike(farm owner) wants a turkey' ok no worries. One turkey as ordered. Walking back back with the turkey 'dear there's a possum on the branch there ' look where she's pointing the light n sure nuff lever gun into action again n the last tree bear for the night.
Final tally
3 possums (plucked n gutted for dog tucker)
2 rabbits ( for pie n cat food)
2 rosellas ( pest control)
1 hare (cat food)
And a bloody good timehttp://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15...f435d2ff86.jpg
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mouse and a magpie:)
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Wanted too take my old bitch Jess to town,some chicks go all gooey seeing a lab.:ORLY:
Anyway the bitch wouldn't get on the ute but when I got home and sais im going hunting she flew out the kennel and onto the bike.:)
Saw the hare sitting there on the way in and was still there when i got back.;)
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Fired the shot and the old girl was away.
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She was to fat to get thru the fence where it was shot so took her up the paddock for a gap in the fence.:D
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The paddocks are looking greener Dundee.:)
KH
That was a neighbours new grass paddock. Yes we have greened up a bit.
Ok back on my property now averaging one maggie or more a day. 35 last month but pointless showing a dead magpie daily.
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Haven't deployed the live decoy trap this year but will soon,at the moment the breeze is flapping the dead decoys wings and it looks great from a distance.:yuush:
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18 Easter Bunnies, enjoyable walk some good long shots, got it Sussed with the Anshutz and Vortex, magic accuracy
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No big game today unfortunately but managed a double on the small game again.:yuush:
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How about some Easter Goats?
The ugly head and neck shots are from the .308, 150gr SSTs nasty :killzonesmiley:
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Today , just 1 magpie , they HATE the Hornet .
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Got my live decoy cage out now and its bringing them in.:thumbsup:
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And used something different to shoot the trapped one out of the sky when I released it.:cool:
I gave it a chance when it was released but it was lights out for the maggie:thumbsup:
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NICE Combo gun .
What is it?
It is a Savage .22rimfire/410shotgun
Came back from Alexandra with this
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Did a fair bit of this.
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New PB of 380m, slotted a fair few at 250m - 300m. But like a real world shooter, also missed !
Fun factor - 1000% :thumbsup:
Not many parts that can be used again in that bunny.
Great stuff Kscott.. hard to beat that sort of shooting for a genuine challenge. Teaches you a whole lot in a short time.
Yup. Being doing it for a few years now, go down twice a year and get some great long range shooting in. Uphill, downhill, crosswind, rocks and stones sticking into your elbows, crotch and chest.
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Went looking for Fallow, found them, are shit there they go, misty at 150m downhill of us, spotty just reflected in the mist, all I could see in scope was white fuzz.
Got to use fog type light next time, I had a feeling there would be fallow out in the paddocks with the fog as cover.
So hare/bunny X at 50m took direct hit to the middle and then there were 2 bits or more, I feel better now :)
Spent Easter with friends in Southland and managed to get an evening shoot in with the kids.
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Not from me, as we/I didn't shoot it, I just shot on our usual farm.
The property next door had a team on it, they pulled @350 off it, but it would've been hard work with loads of thyme growing all over it. Heard numbers were down overall, top team only had 800, worst team had only 15. It's a catch 22 situation - not too much PR because less farmers are putting their properties in so don't want too many teams applying, and less PR means less farmers want to put their properties in to it, so need less teams. The property we shoot on, the farmer pulled it from the bunny hunt a few years ago after folks decided to have a party in the woolshed. Coupled with other horror stories of broken fences and unlatched gates on other places.
But our farmer asked if we could do another property @360 something hectares, which we obliged. Loads of hares about on that one.
That is a shame Kscott that some dickheads ruin it for the other hunters and farm owners.
3 mice,10 magpies since the 7th. Change live decoy tomorrow.
Got this wasp nest under all this bush and can't bomb it as I can't get to the entrance of the nest.:(
So I made a wasp trap and tied it as close to the wasps without getting stung.
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It is working but might take a while to nab em all:)
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Mite be quicker with a couple of leg holds mate.lol
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Here are my 2 nephews on a night shoot I got them in to firearm safety a small game hunting pretty young the oldest holding the rifle was stoaked with his very first kills he achieved all by him self and his brother who retrieved them.
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Absolutely piss bowled a cat this morning in the missus' car. Car's a bit lower than the cruiser, so said cat banged and rattled its way right underneath the car and was smeared down the road behind me.... sometimes I forget I normally drive a truck