Well done mate! I miss you and the famdam and that great bit of knarley land you've got. Keep the pics and reports coming :thumbsup:
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Well done mate! I miss you and the famdam and that great bit of knarley land you've got. Keep the pics and reports coming :thumbsup:
Dundee they are saying on the Herald website that it was a 5.2 centred at Tokoroa that made buildings sway in Hawkes Bay. I used to live in Tokoroa between the age of 6 and 18 and you wouldn't want an earthquake to cause problems at the chlorine plant at the Kinleith mill.
I see that Rushy heres the details Public Id: 2012p778388
NZDT: Monday, October 15 2012 at 1:05:36 pm
Intensity: light
Depth: 195 km
Magnitude: 5.2
Location: 15 km south-east of Tokoroa that one in Taupo was 5 minutes later so this would be the one but its still a bloody long way from here.And was a good shake
Yes but 5.2 is shit loads bigger than 2.9. There are lots of old concrete dams on the Waikato that would have been bloody close to that epicentre (Ohakuri, Atiamuri, Whakamaru, Mangakino etc). Hope your younguns did the drop cover hold thing well.
Didn't feel a thing here.
i felt it in wellington, chair got its boogy on....
He was online as it hit and didn't feel a thing. The earth moved here thou. Back too the subject might just keep the backsteaks and back legs of the hare.
A bit bruised around the Neckshot:XD:
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Yum!!! Gotta get me some more hare asap!!
EDIT I love that gamey flavour eh...and after chopping up all that meat from the stag, a hare will be a piece of piss! :)
Possom trapper went for a wander the other day and counted 23 hares.
We went up the track tonight with slug gun and back up me took the .22 and we saw two but no chance of a shot.
Been having probs with pestie starlings nesting in roller door of vat stand,so I've been changing from .22 too shotty now and then and I managed to drop one with the .22 into the gum trees but these buggers work in teams.
There were two more dumping nearly a hay bale a day coming in,got one with the shotty yesty.
More mess in there today so I set a leg hold trap in the roller door and get back from the river tonight and Possom trapper said I got one so he disposed of it with VC's rifle. The tall bugger couldn't reset it tho as I wanted the most sensitive trap too kill these pests and it was a mission itself on setting a leg hold trap loaded and placing in the roller door.I dropped it twice tonight still got fingers but will set it tomorrow.:omg:
What are the birds doing to the feed?
When I was 6 I was given a wornout already bsa slug gun and told to shoot every bloody starling on the place.(well before the pc brigade)They used to nest in the shed and shit all over the machinery and workbenches.
I was given strict instructions not to shoot any fantails/tuis/pigions(and when i say strict my old man was not to be disobeyed:D)
They used to land in a plum tree before ducking in and out of the sheds building nests/feeding young.
Naturally they were very flighty after a while and one evening I lined up a Starling in that plum tree at a fair old range and knocked it down.I was stoked till I went to pick it up, and discovered it was a tui:oh noes: I actually cried im not ashamed to say(hey I was 6) and gave it a proper burial. It was facing away and looked like a Starling.
I told my Dad when he come home from his weeks work away fully expecting to go cut myself a switch(im not kidding) and instead he said "youv learnt a valuable lesson boy,Identify your target". Its stuck with me ever since. Both the fact that I killed a beautiful creature I never wanted to harm.And those calm words when I expected a hiding.
VC your dad sounds like mine. Was quick to pull out the discipline but had a great deal of wisdom that at times surprised when you were expecting a clip on the ear. Shame about the Tui but that lesson has served you well through your lifetime.
Back in my days :P haha I used dome heads for everything, I got them from Guncity as local shop didn't sell em, they were Gamo ones they seemed to be awesome in my .22 air rifle.
I use Air Arms Diablo pellets picked up from Youngs Air Guns. Super accurate and heavy enough to knock the buggers down providing I do my part (not hit them in the foot). Air rifles are just like regular rifles, you'll need to spend some time testing pellets till you find the one your rifle likes, plus plenty of trigger time for technique and accuracy.
I used any of the pointy lead ones for rabbits an hares
I used the Promethus slugs with the alloy pointed tip and the black delrin plastic skirt in a Weirauch HW or HK 80/90. Heavy bloody thing but accurate.
Id like to use an air rifle with the Theoban gas ram in it. Those heave springs just destroyed scopes with their two way recoil.
A pigeon I got today
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Well done Toby. Did you get it from out the hospital window while the nurses weren't watching or are you back home now?
I have been home since last Friday :) go back on the 28th.
Pretty good I think, there was a little problem with the chemo and my liver but liver sorted its shit out and started going good again.
Yeah this years roar was pretty slack didn't even get anything but did come close to seeing a stag. heard a few. hopefully next year. Treatment should be over by march I hope.
Some mynas shot at 50m
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Wicked scope toby,what size?
were they disturbing the peace on the play gym.......bastards shotem all mate bring the darkness on those birds.
The maize paddock I shoot in has just been rolled waiting for it to be seeded then there will be alot more, 270m is the longest shot I have taken of course I miss but im getting close I see the dust cloud come up right next to this pigeon I shot at. its a 3-9X50 cheap scope of trademe but it works fine alot better then I thought it would.
.22lr, with winchester 40gr subs, love these bullets but only have 60 left, then its back to normal power points. I do have a .22magnum I could use for the longer range stuff but it has shit scope, I was thinking of swapping scopes around but meh, fun sitting on the roof shooting over the paddocks with the .22lr.
Got this barstard this morning,I must go and give it a swimming lesson:D
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Good on ya Dundee. Another one bites the dust.
Nailed some more birds and another pigeon but didn't take pics, the pigeon had a band/gps looking thing on it? out of all the pigeons I have shot never seen this,
HBC 2010 2633, its green and has blue thing on it with BENZING written on it. I thought it was someones pet or something, not going home tonight. Why tag pigeons?
Thats a 2yr old racing pigeon from the Hawkes Bay Club. The benzing tag is the state of the art eguipent used for tracking speed and times of the racing pigeons. I guess you stopped the clock on that one.:D:D:D