Wet day for the washing so hung another hare up.
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Wet day for the washing so hung another hare up.
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1 pestie today, i dont usually try the 17hmr in the wind cos i dont know much bout windage. Had a head wind so gave it a shot. 145 meters. I must have got lucky..https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...65fda23edc.jpg
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Another two hares tonight just as the sun was setting.
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and a couple of glovers
Personally I wouldn't shoot any Peacocks that are malting, Malting being the first step in the Beer making process, such cleaver and rare Peacocks should be cared for and nurtured. A bit like shooting the Golden Goose.Quote:
Originally Posted by andyanimal31
Hare back straps are to good to pass up.Another hare to add to the plate.
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Look what the clever wife has been up to. She says there's a couple of dead magpies at about 180m, up the top of the hill. But I can't see them... :ORLY:
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Got my magpie a touch closer about 50 yards....bang.....THWACK!!!!!!! instant and somewhat explosive death
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This squawker got to meet a 32gr vmax yesterday...
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Theyre bloody messy birds shedding feathers all over the place when you hit them.
Spotted friday nights dinner..hare
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Most people would think just a hill.
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Hare straps egg and chips
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Fcuk me the dog retrieves and the cat puts the back straps on plate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dundee
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Thought it might have been a blank day but the luck changed.Saw nothing at the run off but hit the anchors on the way home as I spotted a hare sitting next to a post.Then a reccy of the old dairy farm spotted a big black cat so he got a headache also,the cat was sitting next to a rabbit burrow.
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Another 2 pies today missed a couple earlier today with @stug but also got 1 no pics of that, got another just now there were 9 of the bloody things harassing mum and dad's geriatric dogs, there are just so many around at the moment.
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Not bowled, more like garrotted:x_x:
Little buggers making a mess of the cellar in Mallorca.
These are just a he best mousetraps! No second one getting the cheese :thumbsup:
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Like shooting fish in a barrel :thumbsup:
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#2 for this afternoon
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Better make that 4....
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That's 8 in total over the last 2 weeks
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And 5....
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Where will it end ? There where at least 10 out here when I shot #5 but regularly as many as 20 mercilessly harrasing the chooks and the dogs.
🤔appear lots of younguns ie greyish back feathers bunch unruly teenagers 🤬🤣
ran over nest of spur winged plover....got a big black possum out of tractor cab for farm worker and smacked it over the swede,it had shat all over the place,what a stink,then saw big fat rat in the sunshine and managed to give it a boot hard enough to stun it...then jumped on it.....all in a days work LOL.
@dannyb when I started this thread I was shooting and trapping magpies on the olds dairy farm got over 1000 in a year and kept the talleys for many more years.You might have 10/50 or 100 but the barstard Aussies will come back as they are territorial and like to take over our country.:thumbsup:
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First 1 for today, stealth mission as there a bit cagey after yesterday's efforts, shot from the slightly open ranch slider in the background where the pink circle is about 30 yards.
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The odd magpie shows up on the island... doesnt last long someone catches up with them
on the other hand... the first animal i shoot with my 7mm wsm is about to be a rat, the little bastards are everywhere, saw 6 the other night waiting for a deer to show up
I'd love to see that :DQuote:
Originally Posted by 223nut
There wouldn’t be anything left...Quote:
Originally Posted by dannyb
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A bit of footage of a goat I shot on the weekend at 350 yards with my 223.
https://youtu.be/op9TnK0dDxk
450 ft lbs at that range with the average 55 gr 223 is marginal I agree shot placement is critical and even that small amount of wind could move the bullet 5 or so inches over that distance depending on direction.
Good on you for the doubletap to finish the job quickly.
Allow me to introduce #11 dunno if the cut outs are helping or not but if anything certainly getting more juvenile birds.... Maybe they are more gullible.
Still getting the adults but they seem to come in once several younger birds are already in causing problems.
I have also noticed that they seem to be more around later in the day than first thing in the morning (which is a pain cause I am working afternoons this week)
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Another hare spotted.
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Zoom
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And shoot!
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I am amazed there are still any hares near your place @Dundee.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dundee
Magpies are attracted to Penguins?Quote:
Originally Posted by dannyb
Today I shot a hare @ 351 yds with my .223.
I think that was my longest shot on small game in 55 odd years of hunting.
I thought you left the Hare due to a soft spot for them?...(I am the same rarely ever shoot one as very few around in places I hunt altho the back-steaks are delicious)Quote:
Originally Posted by Tahr
That's right - you have a good memory @veitnamcam. Its the first one I have shot in many years and I did have a twinge of guilt.Quote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
I skinned it and brought it home for Tilly.
Bruce
Oh I see this thread taking an interesting turn:P where is Pengy?
Bloody good shooting but isn't @Dundee doing at least twice that with his Stirling ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tahr
Tahr is talking 351 full 36 inch yards. A Dundee yard is only five inches. It is all relative though as Tahr is a fully grown man and Dundee is a half grown dwarf. Ha ha ha ha.Quote:
Originally Posted by viper
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Not exactly trophy material but I've been setting this up for about a week.
Magpies see and hear very well, too well for me to have much of a chance normally. These 2 have been hanging around our paddocks about 100+m from the house, occasionally creeping nearer but always on full alert. Forget opening a window or door to take a shot: they're off before I've even sighted them. Even creeping up to a pre-opened window hasn't been very successful. So the day before yesterday I had the brainwave of opening the window and closing the curtains, leaving a convenient slit gap at the window. Yesterday, right on cue, they appeared around lunchtime when I checked but, lacking a clear line of sight and backstop to make safe shot, I let them be, planning today's cunning hunt.
At lunchtime today, I spotted one of these two at first, pecking around one of our tree guards about 70m out. Slowly and silently I lined up through the gap, steadied myself against the window frame, aimed and POP he's toast ... but then a real bonus: its mate stepped out of a hiding place in the same tree guard, looking around with a puzzled look on his face. Re-aim, steady, POP, toastie 2! Both within about 5 seconds thanks to semi-auto.
Thanks to the curtains, I have become invisible. I still have to be quiet, and I wonder about taking the glinty shine off the stainless barrel of my 10/22 with some camo paint or tape maybe. Maybe not. It didn't matter today.
There are at least 3 or 4 more of these pests living nearby, so I might try propping these 2 up with No. 8 wire as lures. Come here, my lovelies, check these out ....
