Pack full of rabbits for the afternoon.
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Pack full of rabbits for the afternoon.
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Took Bo up the track to get dinner.
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Spotted one about 50 metres out.
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Thru the black berry and fence for the retrieve.
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Back the easy way,down the track to my hand.
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Hanging for the night then I will remove back straps and back legs for the freezer.
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Central Otago??
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No. Much further north. Got another bag full for the predator traps again today.
@Shearer FURCK! That would break your heart if you were a farmer! Big job there Shearer, crack into it.
Yeah. The current lease holder is quitting it in a couple of weeks so not sure if I will have access to it after that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hugh Shields
Are you shooting commercially? Or recreational?
Just for fun and to provide some bait for the local trapping operations.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hugh Shields
Dispatched these 2 pesties just after I turned on the thermal monocular. Game changer. The pasties can not hide anymore.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...e43ff1f7be.jpg
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@Shearer Yup, rabbit makes good bait! I send some to Greater Barrier Island where they have caught over 200 feral cats!
This week I'll be setting 5 or 6 DOC200 traps around the river, bridge, Gorge where I've seen ferrets on more than a couple of occasions.
Bo needed a hunt.
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100 yards.
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In the head no problems for the Stirling sniper.lol
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Bo brings back the meat.
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Never seen fat on the hares like this.
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Meat for the freezer and not for Bo but he got a snack from his work.
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Bo on another hare hunt.
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First spring rabbits with a .22 not fired for 20yrs.
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Also posted in another thread....
For the one or two days these were living in the bush edge they did substantial damage to the regenerating broadleaf trees.
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Started the tail collecting.
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Silly goat forgot to swap from high-country camo to woodland camo.. no wonder you saw him. Good shooting.
Bit of a mixed bag tonight.
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The look you've captured on that cat's face is fucking priceless! Would be a great picture for a 'caption this'....
Bo going for a drive looking for hares.
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Spotted one under the poplar again.
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Sent the .22 pill away.
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Then sent Bo away.
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Well trained dog there.:thumbsup:
Man I wish my Golden could do that, but she is a town dog and according to my wife, "A companion dog for me while you go hunting! NOT a hunting do so you!"
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Was practicing shooting my 75m gong out the back door with my .22 and suddenly realized this thing was standing behind the gong! Embarrassingly took two shots to kill it, 2nd shot was a head shot tho
6 wee pesties, bit bigger than my normal possums,
I'm finding night vision to be a pretty handy tool, hopefully will get more tonight, turned quite a bit of our pasture into dirt/mud.
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Got more last night, they were a fair bit more skittish this time around, think I'll wait another night or two before going out again as I only managed to get 3 before they all bolted, counted 25 before I started shooting and that was only between 7 and 8 pm so fair to say there is a bit of an infestation :XD:
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@NAKED_GOOSE What calibre are you using? It ain't leaving big exit holes? Hos close were you to the first mob?
Hey @Brad S be a little careful about posting photos of dead NATIVE birds! Shooting a native is a criminal act, but ACT probably won't be able to help you. My understanding is, and I'm sure to be corrected on this, Spur Winged Plovers are a self introduced Australian terrorist. Because it is self introduced, it has gain the NZ status of NATIVE and is therefore protected. That's not to say that they are not a fricken pest (not officially designated), breed in huge numbers and dislodge our prizes native species. I hate the little fucks! They have ruined many a keen hunters stealthy approach. Have I every shot one myself.......nah! Off course not! Would I shoot a native???? Well wood eye?
Huh. I see, I didn't think they were protected these days? I did a quick google before posting the photoQuote:
Originally Posted by Hugh Shields
Spur-winged plovers, like black-backed gulls, have no legal protection. (Protected status for the plovers removed 2010)
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Only a 223, 62gr projectiles with 24.5gr of 2206H
I'm feeling a little under gunned but they still drop on the spot, the first 6 I got were around 50M away and they didn't seem to care that I was picking them off one by one, the ones last night were around 80-100m, I was a little surprised that they all ran away so quickly, being that I was further out than normal, maybe they winded me, was fairly still both nights though.
the hornady 62gr SP turn piglets inside out so I'm thinking that they fully expand within the larger pigs as none of them have exit holes, seems to be working though.
I wish the ones around here were like that. One shot (at any distance) and they scatter like fireworks.Quote:
Originally Posted by NAKED_GOOSE
You had me worried for a bit!Quote:
Originally Posted by Hugh Shields
Why Black Backed Gulls? Not that I'm fond of them, but they would appear to be native, so there must be a reason for the lifting of the protection, more aggressive chip stealers?
Lots of them, I understand they may outcompete the smaller gulls? Also a menace on farms around lambing time..Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkN
Even DOC does control programs on black-backed gulls.
Seems the younger ones don't really care about light or noise, they also seem to be the only ones that'll occasionally come out in the day,Quote:
Originally Posted by Shearer
The larger pigs are pretty jumpy and make themselves scarce quickly with any shooting going on, seems like I still have quite a number to cull back, have got about 20 so far since august but 9 were just the last two days so the NV should earn its keep pretty soon.
First Rosella of the season, hopefully split a breeding pair before they started. Only a couple of hundred thousand to go...
Too late, it will have sent the gps coordinates of your orchard to the rosella net
Daylight hunt. The dog finds the trees they're sleeping in and I wake them up....
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Rabbit hour.
If you look really closely, just left of the fence, on a sunny spot, you can see the white underbelly of a very dead rabbit!
That's somewhere about 150- 170 metres.
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