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Have access to a new property, shot 6 but was only able to recover 4. Landowner happy for me to keep chipping away at the population :thumbsup:
Meat not wasted, good friend happy to take it off my hands.
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Wife not keen about chewing on Bright Eyes :(
How do you cook up your rabbit?Quote:
Originally Posted by GdaRock
He doesn't his wife don't let him from the looks of it.
I give the meat to my mate who cooks it Filipino styles with chillies and potatoes. Hate to see game meat go to waste, so happy to give it to a mate who will enjoy with his family :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tall kiwi
Bit of bait for the cage traps [emoji106]
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So packed up to move closer to town for work for next few monthsAttachment 215138. Decided to have one more coffee before left and this appeared. Nice timing, I'd just been thinking be nice to pop once last hare before I went.
Toz 22lr Winchester 42g sub
All of 12m.
Foxy wad stoked too.
Took the rifle to work this morning.
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Heavy pregnant doe so just took the best bits,dog got the rest.
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So in New place. Spent bit arvo sitting on bar stool, behind the frosted glass in bathroom taking out starlings in pear tree, with crosman 1322. While drinking coffee. Lush.
Decided to see if any rabbits at night. ( this is like only an arce section) and ended up with this.
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First .177 possum. Shot behind eye and bit low for my liking. Dropped strait out of tree, not dead but not able to move. Put one thru top of skull which is responcable for ear leakage.
40 ft up, 4m out from tree
Sig Sauer asp20
.177 air arms Diablo field 10.3gr (. 67gram)
Be approx 15fpe at target.
You know for all the opossum I've shot I've never eaten one.
Anyone fill me in on the taste and whether its as good as hare or rabbit ?
You first Kruza, let us know how you get on :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by kruza
Check this out
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sYC0EaUMn1U
Two more rabbits this morning.
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Let you know tomorrow billbob.Quote:
Originally Posted by Billbob
Just grabed back leg off young female that was in pear tree.
Being next to maize fields and the fruit trees I'm hoping it's flavoring is good:relief:
Possum rocks. That is a totally eatable. Better than hare by a long shot. My only regret is I only took one leg. It will be on menu for sure. Gawd all the meat I've wasted not eating them.
Bit more of pain on arse checking for signs of tb.
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Bugger you Kruza, does that mean I need to now........ :angry:
Actually they could probably go well with a dose of sweet baby rays Buffalo wing sauce ��
Don't kill the flavour with sauce.
It is a really good meat.
I imagine that it changes during the season. But hey they eat all the tips and fruits off our natives, so probly good anyway.
Mind you I've eaten Bush rat as well. Cicada and quiet a few other eatable things that don't really sit to well with most people.
My view is if you at least eat it once, then you don't waste time in a survival situation uming and arrhing about a potential food source.
Bon appetite
Be very very careful of accumulated 1080 toxicity.Quote:
Originally Posted by kruza
Shyt a very valid point that I hadn't even concidered. Dam 1080.
Still I've seen no poison signs around area. But definitely be more aware.
1080 does not accumulate.
Brodifacoum does and is readily available over the shelf and used on farms and (non DOC) parks all over the country. That is the one you should be concerned about.
That possum looks great Kruza. Anyone here know the best way to check for TB in possums? keen to try one myself now
Check the arm pit areas for lumps and or puss. Pretty rare to find one and many regions are free of it now. Auckland and Northland haven't had TB in possums for decades.Quote:
Originally Posted by slk12
Haven't shot one of these for a while, they come and go around here. 45m using a Cannon multipump .177 JSB Hades pellet
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(last photo comes with a warning for the squeamish...)
Went for a quick overnighter up the Waiohine Friday night. After no success on the bambi's evening and morning, I was about 200m from hitting the main track to head home, and came across 3 little piggies. Sadly for them, they didn't have a brick house to hide in when the big bad .223 huffed and puffed, and blew their faces in - 3 from 3. Bloody stoked after seeing the damage the little fuckers have been doing. Massive areas of forest floor look like a ploughed field, a little heartbreaking to see. Also pretty stoked with the .223, Winchester Super X 64gr from about 15-20m made quite a mess...
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All happened very fast, and can't quite recall which angle the poor little bastard was... facing :/ but... yeah.
hope you kept the piggly wiggly's. They would be the best size for a small roastQuote:
Originally Posted by yeah_na_missed
I was thinking that... I was in a bit of a hurry to get out trying to make it to Outdoors Hut in Upper Hutt (Outdoors Hutt?) to pick up some goodies (ended up being 30 mins late, and Tony took them elsewhere for me to collect on the way through - what a bloody legend!).
I was probably looking for excuses, but I wondered about residual 1080 - funnily enough mentioned above, and also been told that pigs pick up worms and all sorts of goodies from scavenging carcasses... And along with running late already, they both sowed enough doubt for me to leave them behind, returning the nutrients to the forest, from whence they came. Next time though! (unless someone confirms my doubts).
I check for any type of skin lumps and growths , white spotty lungs or any dark clots in lungs, any lesions, spoting of liver, heart, kidneys ( which I check for any sign of things going wrong).Quote:
Originally Posted by slk12
Over all condition of animal.
Personally I'd just jump on Web and look up tb signs in possum and look at photos of what your looking for. A picture is better than worded discription.
Internal signs of poisoning is something I need to learn up on now.
Caught this stinky little weasel in a rat trap overnight. Man does it stink.
Mum was letting the little Staffy bitch out of the back door for wee in this inclement weather and the dog immediately stopped and looked down at the trap by the kitchen drain. Signalled immediately, mum you’ve caught something… Smelly little bastard was still very much alive so the dog was given the duty of dispatching it. Good dog.
Both Staffys have been spending a couple of hours out hunting in the gardens every night, even in the really shit weather. We thought it might be a ferret again because it’s the mustelid smell that gets the dogs totally wound up, way more wound up than rats or rabbits.
The little bitch is so determined to find them in the undergrowth that every morning we are pulling grass seeds and gunk out of her eyes.
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How did ya swamp comp go @Flyblown or still no results?
Swamp comp? What’s that @Dundee?
Edit- nah, didn’t enter any comps, should have though.
Every tail you cut off a musteloid hand into H&F in the month of November only.And about now or early March the winners are notified.So freeze those tail for next year.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flyblown
Are said lumps/puss visible from the outside or do you need to remove the skin off them?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dama dama
A really bad one will be dripping or wet or have puss visible on the outside. Otherwise could be a limp either visible or able to be felt. If you're going to eat it, then not doubt you'll skin it, so that give another chance to check. If you do find one or suspect you have one, wash your hands and all your gear really well. Catching TB will be horrible. Also notify TBfree, or your regional council. They'll want to get it tested.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tall kiwi
In saying all that really unlikely you'll run into a TB infected one these days. Eat 'em up if you want.
Just looking at the bunny numbers for this new post-lambing season. Note we lamb late down here. Shot 17 in visit to north canterbury farm - hardly worth the drive. Interesting thing though - this was a site on which we shot 20,000+ few years back. Over 1000 an evening at times. How times change.. A second site just 40 min from Christchurch is doing better - 5 visits in 9 weeks for 279 bunnies. Average 56 per trip. Not like south Canterbury but certainly enough to have fun.
Have had to cancel going south twice lately but shortly we'll back onto our key sites in Tekapo and McKenzie country. Last year's best for an evening plus 2 hours in morning was 403, but these shoots can also yield dozens of wallabies and very tasty fallow deer. Looking forward to getting back there - fabulous country and great shooting.
No room for an apprentice tag along?
Doubt I'd keep up
Hi Smiffy - We've had same team for 13-17 years intensive shooting now, and these days some sons and one grandson adding to the roster. Just one new man in all that time as nobody wants to give it up! But I will keep you in mind - may well get a gap some time.
Cheers Mike
Lol my dog did that to a rat in the trap the other day. Little bugger let it go and it ran under the fridge. So I was lying on the floor with the 22 and got the little bugger. Lucky I managed to drag it out with the gaff hook. No hole in the fridge so I'll chalk that up to a win, and a loss to the dog
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Originally Posted by Flyblown
Planning to eliminate a possum or 2 or more this weekend,
Anyone in Auckland area (north shore)
want possum (meat) for their dog,
hate to waste or throw away what Ive killed.
We were just discussing recipes the other day on this thread, Snap 4t! hahah
