Mince pie?! What’s next, lasagna? Chicken biriyani?
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I've been shooting springers in Hunter Field Target competition. There is an essential technique known as the artillery hold which is needed to shoot springers accurately. The more powerfull the springer, the more important this is.
There is a lot to find about this technique. You might want to look at this vid for example.
A couple of central otago pests dealt with via leg-hold traps. And a few $ for the boy.
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A couple of the many rabbits i shot yesterday in the apple orchard with the 17 Hornet.
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And a couple a bit closer...
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What vel are you getting out of that Hornet case?
That puk looked surprised too!
I hit a pedestrian possum with both left tyres of my ambulance tonight. We did not attempt resuscitation.
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Magpies are a bit gun shy around my place so soon as they see me they are gone but they like sitting in the paddock around the back so snuck through the bush and nailed 1 about 160m away with the 204 this morning :thumbsup:
No more Kak Kak from this one, blew some feathers off with the hmr... https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...8ad6a485e6.jpg
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This counts, right?
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Not quite a fly but a rat though the eye - CCI subs - couldn't remember if it was the left or right one you were supposed to aim for :thumbsup:
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Nice little shoot in north Canterbury tonight. 46 bunnies and hares, and off home by 9.30. Always fun...
I got another couple of hours of trigger time in yest arvo 'stinging' rabbits with the 17 Hornet.
Got a bit more footage, got quite a few doubles where the dopey buggers just sat there as their mate hit the deck right beside them.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...659ca3cfe5.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...ad56361d77.jpg
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Spent 3 days in the hill above Napier and managed 250 rabbits between two of us. Numbers well down on previous hunts. No young rabbits around. Looks like they have put reproduction on hold for some reason?
Managed to pick up two hinds and a yearling to replenish the COVID-19 lock down stores depletion.
Walk on a gloomy Sunday Arvo in fading light, by Central Otago standards the Rabbit numbers seem very low. What are about are big and in excellent condition.
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Today I managed my most satisfying shot yet and new PB with the 22-250, first kill "dialling" using my on load. Climbed up on the roof of the old cow shed and ranged it at 353m. Estimated wind at 8kph and dialled it in. All of this is new to me, probably more of a fluke than anything but I will take it none the less.
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Today I had some help from this magnificent hound, a 3yr old bitch who found very well, and did her level best to drag them downhill to the bike & trailer. Love this dog. Pedigree Labrador and Great Dane cross, an accident, but a bloody good one.
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I’ll have to get a side on photo and a video of her running for you to really see the Dane.
Got in 3/4 hr ago. Shot seven turkeys. My apprentice( one of my boys) gutted five of them. I chopped wings n heads off then stacked them in freezer. He did well.
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Did a takedown on some turkeys again tonight. 10 in total. This was the first lot. Apprentice didn’t do too bad a job gutting them....
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Pheasant shoot a few days back - fired three shots for two pheasants and a wild cat. And a few days prior, after sighting and testing a load for my 308 (130gr speer HP), shot two magpies ranged at 180.
6 possums under the light last night.
Been a while, went for a quick walk, all under 80m range.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...00d0f572a7.jpg
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Fun on the farm today. Daddy day care is definitely the best day care!
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Sometimes, to save a life you have to take a life....:D
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.25cal @ 85m... POP!
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Had some 7s clay target ammo on me when I dispatched this hare for Bo to retrieve.
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Super fast retriever
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Dog tucker this time might be to many pellets to spit out.
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Step up from my rimfire, new to the centerfire stuff. Was setting up my .223 and zeroing in just got it to where i wanted it, and noticed a rabbit on the hill. Ranged it dialled it. Bingo!!
Very satisfying!
Cant wait to pull off some longer shots!!https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...4c1402cce6.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...9da4ba94e9.jpg
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Went out one of our cantab sites tonight. Had been hard hit by virus so zero rabbits - but popped 33 hares in 2 and a bit hours. 223, 22 magnum and 90 year old 12g shottie all doing the business.
Excellent little outing..
Factory Ammo (unknown).....
Well when i bought the .223 it came with some unknown apparantly bulk buy ammo with NNY stamped on the brass, being new to this, all i could match it up with from Mr google, was PPU 55gr SP.??unless anyone else could inform me otherwise?https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...5dc67aaf65.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...b2c6fea9bc.jpg
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Mmmm... is there a recipe for hare salami? Certainly some of these are big animals - up to 4-5kg. We've have sometimes taken the back steaks but that leaves alot of meat.
Be keen on a recipe...