I made possum soup once when I was in Auckland for people came from South China, and it was good actually, better than I thought. No gamy small, no funny taste...
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Yeah just saw it haha...
still learning my way at this site and was overwhelmed by the number of pages of this post.
Just 2 possums today, just enough for my buddy's meal.
Not sure about possum soup or BBQ, I guess I would eat it if there is a serious food shortage
at the meantime... I'll stay back and watch.
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Yep doesn't pay to pickup weasels - or any mustelid..
One of our team seems to like getting up close and personal with animals. Few years back while opening a gate for truck he sees a weasel run into clump of grass. Sneaks up and stomps the shite out of it, then reaches down and picks up the 98% dead weasel. Holds it up laughing, then oooh! and drops it very quickly holding his nose. Weasel really got him with the pong. He wasn't very welcome back in the truck - after we stopped laughing..
On another occasion a rabbit was running fast at night, and he turned, zig-zagging towards the spotlight. Cobber has several running shots with 22 and misses him. Stops shooting and rabbit comes up and stops, mesmerised by light, and sits at his feet. He reaches down and picks him, pats his little head, has a chat with him, and we let him go. As mentioned elsewhere its a ritual in our team now - quite often they'll run towards you, under the truck etc. and we do catch odd ones by hand at night.
Then last year we were shooting wallabies and fallow on a matagouri slope, and another teammate shoots a spiker in the head from 25m as it hid in a bush. So he and animal-friendly cobber go over to retrieve it. They get up to 1-2 meters and animal-friendly cobber is reaching down to drag it out when the fallow spiker starts to get up!! Cobber leaps on him and there's a wrestle under the matagouri, then a call, some careful organising and Bang. Another round in back of head for the spiker. Cobber seems to love going head-first into these issues.. :)
Have to say those spikers - 3 that evening - were reeeally good to eat.
Looks to be mostly intact......
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263 yards with the 17 HMR... Loves the A17 ammo :)
Still life of maggie in the green bin.
Didn't go there voluntarily to eat. Needed some convincing with a 177 breakbarrel with open sights and a JSB Exact RS pellet @25m.
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remarkable you could get that close, Josan. I can't get within 60 or so metres of them usually. Might have something to do with the number of punnets of .22 air rifle pellets my brother's shot at them. they'll die from lead poisoning at this rate
Had a night off last night but team did well. Popped out to a site near Chch and spotlighting from truck boys shot 43 hares and rabbits.
Pretty happy with that. Tekapo/McKenzie now coming up. Mmmmm!
The killer rabbits are out there, take a bigger gun.
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Some of tonights haul. So good to get out....Haven't been out for a long time.
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Not sure if it could have survived much longer.
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I'd say not. It's not often you see em like that. Guessing it's body weight is way down?
Not in good condition and an easy catch for the dogs.
A couple cheeky bunnies met their maker on a quick trip to the paddocks
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Ive been testing some of the new Sytong thermals. This one on a Tipmann M4. Rangefinding and ballistics.
Both shots taken standing using a stick for support.
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It’s pretty good but I’m probably more a 1022 fan. I find getting good head position behind a thermal more difficult with the tippmann.
I brought another Stevens 044 1/2 22 LR last Sunday.
It took me two hours Monday to make the required urgent repairs.
This foolish hare was just eating windfall apples in my orchard and became another victim to this 110 year old rifle
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Not to be confused with the Stevens Favorite.
The 044 1/2 is a Stevens Ideal but a little narrower than the 44 1/2
Here are my two 044 1/2s together
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I had someone contact me a while back to do some culling up north.
He said his magpie trouble was driving him to mental, so far had killed a few of thousand on his farm and just couldnt keep ontop of
it. But NZ conditions are different to aussie and the birds will live in close proximity and be highly protective of the collective flock even though
they are monogamous. Usually they would be social to set boundaries and so on but there are some wierd things that happen in nz with introduced
birds.
Haha I just realised I replied to a post 100 pages ago. Apologies
Another pest destined for my buddy's dinner bowl
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Actually I'm not miffed by the hares.
My wife is constantly telling me to shoot the hares and quail in her garden ... she say " haven't you got any guns" ... pretty ironic statement around here.
But having just fitted the tang sight and re zeroed the point of aim it seemed like a great opportunity to try the 110 year old rifle and justify having more than enough guns
the saying USED to be..an apple a day keeps the doctor away...in these modern times a bacon sandwich is more effective.