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Nice evening in Central Otago hills. Getting to know a new Bergara 17hmr. Taking a little while to bed in but working out a good rabbit rifle.
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Nice evening in Central Otago hills. Getting to know a new Bergara 17hmr. Taking a little while to bed in but working out a good rabbit rifle.
I'm a 17 convert, the worst thing about the 17hmr is knowing you won't be bringing out your 22s any more.
Very enjoyable taking the little Ruger .243W for a walk this morning. Just love being out early enough to greet the new day. First time I've had the Ruger out since March due to a couple of spells in hospital and an excess of crap weather. Well, it sure still shoots straight although shots at 102 and 110 yds are hardly an insurmountable likelihood for this little laser. If this good spell hangs around I'll be looking at another quick outing in the next few days.
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Not unhappy with the result. Four hares, two rabbit n one possum
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4 Hares total on a mates block, been destroying his recently planted trees. 17hmr https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...7b03e3f0b7.jpg
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Took Bo down to the river for some possum plucking.....we fulled a bread bag at $95 a kilo with #no 7 steel shot.
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Yummy pest.
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Bit more fur plucking!
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A couple of hours out with the 17HMR and a bag of rabbits for the cat trappers.
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Shot this bugger with no.7 steel thought yeah that be instant kill,wrong jumped from the tree and Bo caught him and drowned it in the river.
Fur drying next to the fire now.
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Back at it tonight.
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Don't have to leave the track with Bo.
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Shoot and retrieve.
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Pluck and job done while Bo watches.
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Home time ..lol
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me names Bo-yall can call ME JACKO SMACKO him nah not shortarse _BOSS will do other wise I might have to walk home-bugger!!
Another one for the fur jar.
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No 7 steel didn't quite do the job.
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Followed up with a No.4 and it dropped in the river.
No problem for Bo.
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Wet dog wet fur no worries!
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Fur drying by the fire again.
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Went to check the pig dump and looked way down the long steep face at this little black bastard loitering around a freshly dump cow carcass.
Shot was at least -45° down, 165m.
Satisfying.
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VERY satisfying [emoji106]
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I have a few chooks and use grandpa feeders, the sparrows are pretty switched on and rob quite a bit of the chook feed. During winter I use a bit of poisoned wheat to keep the numbers in check, the poison is the kind that has a narcotic that puts them to sleep and hypothermia kills them. I usually put the wheat in the garden where some of the kitchen scraps go. After the initial kill the birds wise up and the kill rate drops right off. The interesting part is that some of the remaining wheat in the garden has been knocking of a few young rats, so will keep a bit of wheat scattered around in different areas.
I spent the night at our place in the Waikato on Friday. I went out spotlighting earlier but didn't get anything. At 1AM the dog got woken up by some scurrying on the deck of some sort... You can be sure within 30 seconds I was on the deck in my PJs with the .22. I managed to shoot the possum on the front lawn. While I was up I thought I may as well have a scan of the place from on the deck with my headlamp (only a low power led lenser) so could only see 30 or so metres. I shone the light on a cat on the neighbours place. Believe it or not the cat then walked through the fence into our orchard!! I missed my first shot through the gate at it but chased it out the orchard into the next paddock where I landed a good shot in the shoulder. It darted away next to the shed and then I heard a terrible screech. It ended up in the drain next to the shed. Result! Dumbest cat ever!
Shot the plover with some 1-1/4oz 5s through the 20ga while looking for pheasants. I thought it would be good practice retrieving for the dog - he just walked around it staring intently.
As promised in an earlier thread of mine I WILL be cooking up the plover - its currently curing in the fridge.
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Got out and about with the old man this afternoon. Managed to bag 4 bunnies between the two of us. @Tentman you will be pleased to hear that the new owner of the RART managed to get some first blood with the rifle.
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Nice. Well done guys, awesome when a plan comes off!
The lads and I hiked to the pinnacles (coromandel) yesterday. We saw this fella on the deck of the hut so I chased it with my knife up a tree, threw a few items up the tree to get it to come down. I eventually got it low enough to club it in the head and out of the tree (humanely) with a stick. That made for the second possum in 24 hours after I shot one through my bedroom window the night before.
Location: Pinnacles
Calibre: Stick
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What's the state of the pinincals hut these days and the tracks
Last time I was up there, they had just put gas in it and done the hut up.
It’s pretty luxurious. It feels like they did a recent refurb on the cabins as they are very tidy and nice pain jobs, clean cold shower, 5 x 2-burner gas stoves. They have also enclosed part of the deck that’s joined to the kitchen in sealed glass type joinery which means it’s another space in winter warmed by the communal fire in the kitchen
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Me, Dad and Grandad spent the last day or so in king country harvesting some protein. The Fallow and goats were shot with a 7mm-08, the hares and rabbit a CZ .22 LR. Total numbers for the trip are:
1x Fallow
7x goats
7x hares
1x rabbit
The hares were great fun in the spotlight, mostly inside 60 metres. This morning I let rip on a mob of 6 goats and took them all - after taking out the two nannys the kids stayed put in a good shooting position. Shot at approx 120m
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Another one bits the dust. Or in this case mud.
Got lucky….
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Attachment 229461, nice walk this afternoon, dead still. South facing hills covered in ice, rabbits out warming themselves in the sun.
No photos. Got lucky with two off shoulder(left not right) shots n nailed two magpies. Missed two shots as well. One off shoulder one right shoulder. Al, with witness
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I reckon there's more goats in marlborough than king country, every time I go out I'm tripping over them
Have been doing my part to clear them out while feeding the dogs at the same time but if anyone around here is struggling to find any stinkies I can point you in the right direction
This arvo….hit n miss ratio pretty average….
Two plovers n a magpie….
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Got a plover out the bedroom window this morning,joys of living in the country.
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Sorry about the double up
I dont post in this section much because I'm getting small pests every day and you guys would soon get very sick of photos of dead Pukekos, but tonight's kill of a black rabbit is worthy of posting up for you lot.
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Never get sick of your work @Mintie...keep em coming.