Another 1 this week at 88yards. Missed the 1st shot up close behind long grass. He took off and stopped long enough for a headshot. 25gr slug under the eye.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...fa986a4152.jpg
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Another 1 this week at 88yards. Missed the 1st shot up close behind long grass. He took off and stopped long enough for a headshot. 25gr slug under the eye.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...fa986a4152.jpg
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A bit more HMR goodness...
Theres a trough below the bottom of the blue line. Puffed a pigeon off there....luckliy it fell onto the pdk n not in the trough..
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Pigeon??
Looks like a plover to me, noisy bloody things.
Nice little shoot last night on farm near chch - albeit a short one. Popped 17 hares in under 2 hours - then Cruiser showed electrical fault and we headed home. 223s all round for boys and caliber ideal in the 30-50k crosswinds, at ranges from 40-140 meters. Doing the driving last night but still nailed a couple. I really enjoy the precision of this Howa 1500 223. Real sharpshooter on bench and in the field.
Short trip but boys still went home with a smile. We have shot them by the thousand, but it can also be a fun outing popping just a few bunnies here and there.
Yep, spur wing plover. Self introduced from aussie 1930s.
Known to pick the ticks off crocks.
Them and paradise ducks biggest pain in arse I can think of trying to get close to hares.
Especially at night.
Had a paradise duck yesterday evening watch me go past it doing a stalk on a hare. Got to 35m away from hare (had already passed the paradise by about 20m)and it took off bleating its alarm call, headed strait at hare, sent it back into the long grass. Then it had the cheek to circle and land 40m away. Sighted it up but refrained from shooting it.
Then had to put up with spur wing plovers screeching and putting Everthing on alert everytime they saw the red light near a dam.
If they weren't self introduced I'd knock the lot off.
If the paradise weren't emdemic to nz I bloody knock them off too.
Speaking of Paradise ducks.... these 2 were shot with a single .17hmr shot at 100m earlier this week. Yes I have a permit.
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Took latest acquisition out.
SIG Sauer asp20 .177
Pellets : JSB exact heavy 10.34gr
40m approx.
Shot a bit low and to right, Attachment 211768still getting use to gun.
Put hare down but not out so popped one in head when got to it.
Finally got around to putting the aftermarket dial up turrets (purchased on here) on my VX3 1-5 and getting it set up n the FX Dreamline .22 PCP. Took a bit of fiddling to get the little torx grub screws that hold the turrets to the pin that slots into the screw slots on the turret. But it works..... I took the windage one off in the end as it gets in the way of the mag a little and probably won't use it anyway - might put that on the old .243.
The old story - first rabbit (before I'd sorted the windage) I missed 2 easy shots before noticing I'd managed to accidentally wind on 8 MOA... The next one wasn't so lucky, 68 yards, dialed 5MOA + 3 clicks - over he went. Way way better than trying to estimate holdover.
223 vs hare. 50gn v max 100 yds 3000fps
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That is some impressive damage
3 Pukeko shot yesterday with the Matador using JSB Hades, 25-80m. Yes I have a permit.
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You eat them? If you casserole them at very low heat, they lose all their stringyness and are quite nice.
Thanks for offer. More likely to shoot one if hungry. Then the pheasants be in more dangour than pukeo. I rather like them as birds, and have had some rather amusing moments watching them.
Brick probly help if you don't slow cook them. Tried a couple other ways and tough and stringy.
What's become an annual goose clear out in a local forest. 60 odd birds and few for the salami pile.
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You shooting .22 or .25 Hades through that @Mintie ?
First rabbit with the bow
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Coccidiosis
Baked beans flavoured rabbit?
13 Pukeko eggs in one nest, new PB for me beating my last PB by 1. Interesting thing with this one was 2 nests 50m each side with 5 in each as well so a total of 23 crushed, all along one edge of a Maize field. Definitely the right time to head out and check for nests!
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? What speed are you pushing the hades, Mintie
So I decided stuff the paper equations, the best way to check number of mildots on a hares head for distance was to nail on to a post and set it at differnt ranges then record the data.
Went to get hare left for hawks, nope way to far gone.
So any way one pops up at dam 160m away. Mid arvo.
Mates son was visiting and has his own arsnel at house, so I asked if he wanted to shoot as he vary rarely has time these days.
So he grabbed the .22 lr then changed his mind for the 243.
This was the resault
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Which when I walked down didn't impress me as I wanted the head then I turned it over.
Unbelievable, awsome human shot and I got to measure the mildots off on scope from 10m to 70m
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My first Darwin award winner in pest shooting.
After two ricochet off twigs next to it at 25m, 5 minutes of cat and mouse around another tree, it decided it would be a good idea to fly to the front of tree and screech at me??
1322 crosman. hades 15.89gr
10m away 10ft up
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Another victim for the HW95.
Successful little shoot tonight on farm near Christchurch. Covered quite a wide area spotlighting from the Cruiser. Not easy with bunnies quite flighty - often only giving couple of seconds pause for a shot. But boys did well and shot 72 hares and rabbits in about 3.5 hours. 223s doing the damage with shots from 40m to about 150m in the 25-50k wind. Great little caliber. All three 223s using the Fiocchi 55gr SP - excellent factory load
A good productive evening. Next stop 2 days in Tekapo....Mmmmmm..
.243 with Precision Hunter factory ammo at 100m. I didn't expect the results to be quite so drastic. At $4 a round not cheap but other ammo shoots better and only have a few left.
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Ouch.
Be perfect for the cat trap.
They would be able to resist it.
Scoped this one out at 80 yards.bit small to fill my belly so Bo got a treat.
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Rabbit for supper!
Got my first rabbit today. I often see them in the same scrub area and so when I walked over to it a rabbit shot out past me so I popped it with the 12ga. Our place is in northern Waikato so we don't have many rabbits to shoot. As soon as I was back at the cottage one was sitting 30m from the deck and didn't move for the next 20 mins. What are the chances I see this after I get my first rabbit, that I have been after for so long!
I ignored natural instinct and decided to leave it for my younger brother to bowl over later.
Finally one slipped up.
Or maybe it was I got it from the bathroom window. A previously unused spot.
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We don't have the mynas out our way yet,east of Dannevirke.
They are cunning birds.
I'm at about 50 odd starlings to 1 mynar (might be two, one glid into gully but sounded like a hit few months back)
Be a great bird for a pcp or 22lr.
I cant get near them with me springer air guns. If you do, soon as you lift it they are gone.
Can't be that long till they get there, I'm Hastings way. (and not doing a very good job of stopping them)
Hmmm turns out a bit of old dog roll and cover is a better way to get mynars.
Just got another too! Attachment 212982