And now we are old enough to understand, have a great Christmas @PengyQuote:
Originally Posted by Pengy
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And now we are old enough to understand, have a great Christmas @PengyQuote:
Originally Posted by Pengy
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Not sure if this will work but been culling these bloody things off at home
Christmas shopping
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I see whole lamb bbq, slow cooking for 3 hours. Your rifle is rare, would you please educate me a little, thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by akaroa1
Bloody unlikely too get a wild lamb out of there whole.Quote:
Originally Posted by Black Rabbit
Links kipplauf 6.5x65R aka Left handed Blaser K95
Possums have been hammering our orange trees
So put a ring of steel around them and had one in the traps each night
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The little buggers eat the skin and a bit of the flesh and then start on another
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They also like lemons but just eat the skin strangely they leave the grapefruit alone
Banging a few mynahs and magpies after the hay came off today. The 17H still shoots laser beams
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No one likes grapefruit!Quote:
Originally Posted by Marty Henry
Old people.Quote:
Originally Posted by MB
Well some old people
When I first moved to aussie in 2006 was talking to the guy I bought our car from and somehow possums came up.
They are protected over there.
He said they were apparently bastard things on his tomatoes.
Take one bite, stuff the tomato then bite a other one. Rinse and repeat.
Told him it wouldnt last long back here if it did that
smacko jacko is my motto -no excuses kill on sight ! amazing how 40gn of lead /34gm 3"shotgun load is such a permanent contraceptive /behavioural remedy .MD bless his wooly underdaks also swears by the .270!. HMM -while ithink about it a lot met their maker trying to hump a fast moving radial tyre too>Quote:
Originally Posted by csmiffy
Extra style points for shooting off an ironing boardQuote:
Originally Posted by charliehorse
Few bunnies taken of late with the .17HMR. Brilliant little calibre.
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Hmr is a fantastic tool that I just couldn't do without for work. Love it
Agreed @Mintie, haven’t looked back since I bought mine. So good in fact, I just got another and threw a thermal on it for night shooting . Let the fun begin !
Nice little bunny shoot last night by team on a site near Chch. Took mate's 17HMR and my Marlin 795 semiauto 22. Both very accurate rifles and did the job well. Little Marlin semi very clean precise shooter dropping them with ease at 50-80m. 67 bunnies shot in bit over 2.5 hours. We'll do it again in 2-3 weeks time :)
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.17HMR doing the damage on the bunnies
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Out with the 17HMR yesterday evening.
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Wasn't ideal wearing jandles for the retreive as Bo was at home. Got the bugger.
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Stinker! Wasn't the target species but I'll take it
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17HMR doing the business...
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I fancied a change from red meat so went out especially for some bunnies, which are pretty uncommon in my area.
Exactly what was on my shopping list.
Two mature bucks
30m off hand head shot on one
70n elbows on knees neck shot on the other.
Perfect for meat animals
Winchester 1885 circa 1910 bored and lined 22 WMR
6x Malcolm Short telescope
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How much for the fur in NZ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mintie
You sir surely got lots of collections. What `s next?Quote:
Originally Posted by akaroa1
Dunno, gifted this one to the Taxidermist down the road, rare to get them not flattened!Quote:
Originally Posted by Black Rabbit
IF you come cross the snow white ones, it `s good idea to keep fur.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mintie
3 hedgehogs and a possum in the cage trap in front of the cottage this week. Trying to keep the quail babies alive.
No cats yet, but I know there are some around.. what bait are people using for cats?
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Could try a baby quail?Quote:
Originally Posted by StrikerNZ
I was saving them for the Sunday roast..Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe_90
Fresh rabbit.Quote:
Originally Posted by StrikerNZ
Yep fresh rabbit for sure. Even better if its hanging so it moves in the breeze.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shearer
If its a tricky cat. Cover the cage with a old sack or tarp to make it look like more of a tunnel than a cage.
In my experience that helps [emoji106]
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Fresh rabbit for me but replace every evening this time of the year.
I have had success with tying the bait to the back of the cage so your target can maybe get a bit of a taste from the outside but it cant have a meal. I would also place rabbit bits around the cage and a trail of bits inside the cage taking the target to the big bit it already has had a go at ? at the end of the cage. I remember seeing a Cam Speedy video of a tiger hitting the rim of a size 1 trap and feeling the cold steel and holey hell did it lift its back foot off that trap quickly.. I also think tying the bait makes it hard for the target to get the bait off the back wall easily and if it has touched the treadle and not liked the feel of it , I feel the focus will be on the big hunk of meat and not the treadle ? Concentrating on getting the meat and it hits the treadle firmly and then its in for the bad news. I also make sure the steel mesh floor of the trap is covered with surrounding floor litter but not so it interferes with treadle operation.
All good info, thanks fellas. Had been using the sack over the top periodically, so will stick with that.
Another hedgepig in there this morning.
I’ve used leftover roast chicken frames in cage traps for catching feral cats. Likewise oily fish (tinned or smoked) that won’t get fly blown in hot weather.
Some tinned mackerel did the business on the possum and 4 hogs over the last week. That’s the first way I knew I had something in the trap, could hear the can being rolled around..
My first for 2025
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Nice skin
1885 30-40 US circa 1890
Remington no5 303 circa 1902
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