Haha thanks for that, Yeah he stopped allright.
Edit: What do I do with the tag, do they want it back or anything?
Printable View
Haha thanks for that, Yeah he stopped allright.
Edit: What do I do with the tag, do they want it back or anything?
I'll let them no Toby but that tags your trophy mate good skills,will see if they want benzing back but its not much good now the clocks stopped:cool::D:D They're a bloody pest mate so don't lose any sleep over it.
Nah I dont mind at all, Kinda wished I shot more with tags so I could collect them on a lanyard like duck bands
I sent the Pigeon racing club the details hopefully I can tell you more tomorrow.
Its bloody interesting getting a tagged bird as you can track it back which is cool.
The last pigeon I shot that was tagged was from MPC which is Manawatu pigeon club which I shot at the Vagas areodrome while doing a duck disturbance under a permit.:D The bugger flew in range and I tracked the tag back too a local guy that just let his bird out for a feed and fly before he was going to lock it back in the loft.:D
haha
Toby that is a great claim to fame and future brag mate. I can see you now when you are sixty telling your grand kids "back when I was your age I was such a good off hand shooter that I knocked the head off a racing pigeon in flight with my .22". See by then the story will have grown a bit with the telling over the years.
Me and Sean Dundee went for a walk to go and set my possum traps and took the slug gun. When we got there we saw 4 hares but they were too far away. then we started chasing hares and rabbits and ended up not setting traps.
http://imageshack.us/a/img839/6821/img1808mb.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img17/6159/img1811cm.jpg
Good skills PT. well done
Well done!:thumbsup:
Another rat this one had more of a white chest but he got the same swimming lesson as yestys:D
Attachment 3852
You are a regular Pied Piper Dundee. Keep it up
We usually get one band in every 100 pigeons shot on average. My mate keeps them all, pretty sure he has about 60-70 now. One from australia even. There is a website with a list of all the clubs initials which tells you were the birds originated from, cant find it at the moment tho.
Got one more pigeon today, should of got more but didn't, I saw some land in the paddock out the back and grabbed the shotty and was crossing the back lawn and looked up a pigeon was flying over me so shot it and it land right behind me, left it on the lawn and went to the back took 4 shots and got nothing(piss poor shooting).
My flatmate found a dea mouse behind the dish washer today, does that count?
It might have just eaten some of your cooking
Hare fillets .......yum
Attachment 3861
They are skinned but still peel of the off the outer membrane
Attachment 3862
Well done PT:thumbsup: Did Sean get a go?
Dundee ya left half the steak behind:D
PT was too far in front of Sean on that occasion but theres plenty of time yet.Plenty of those fillets VC so not too fussy.
Toby just heard back from NZ Racing Pigeons president your bird was from the Hastings club he has passed the info onto the club.
ok sweet, I shot 2 more today gonna get a few more tonight hopefully.
I just got a phone call from the owner of the pigeon Toby. It was released from Gisborne to go to Hastings,he let 3 birds go and you smoked the loser the other two arrived home.:D It was released on the 6th October so must of been a loser alright.
But that bird that you smoked did win one race from Timaru too Hastings in 11hours.
Theres some great info there too share with your mates Toby:cool:
Cheers for that,very interesting. we shot 17 tonight too but none had tags that I saw.
Caught this bastard frolicking in my coco pops. Chased him round the furniture for an hour with a broken Hughes 500 collective that I found in a box of chopper parts in the corner, which made an awesome club. He ended up running behind the stove, which was a dumb idea considering that there's a steel I-beam sticking out of the wall at the other end, effectively blocking passage through behind the stove. Which left only the way he went in as an escape route, but I jammed a bag of spuds in that end and imprisoned the little f***er. There was about a 10mm gap between the I beam and the oven, so I jammed a kitchen knife in there, and judging by the resulting sound, he wasn't impressed.
Attachment 3924
Attachment 3925
Hahahahaha yussssssssssssss :yuush:
Well done Dan. That brings back memories of my grandfather chasing one fifty years ago with a ceremonial sword.
that rat will be thinking........fuck this guy really likes his cocopops!
The rat will get the last laugh though as it took a dump in the coco pops before Dan dealt to it.
Saw a big fat bush rat last night in the sleet/hail doubling back to camp cos I over overshot by a couple hundred meters in bush in the dark:ORLY: Crossed my mind to deal to him with the 08 when he ran up a tree but was more interested in my sleeping bag:D
That particular box of coco pops is now serving in admirable retirement as a mouse trap... If I hear it rustling, I run over and squeeze the top of the box shut, then take it outside and call the dog over. That and hair-trigger gin traps.
Damned nice of it to pose so well for the photo.
I was surprised at how tough the little buggers skin was, took a good effort to stick him, that kitchen knife was a wee bit blunt though..
The first photo is when he's still alive, I dunno how to make it show up...
That was great laugh this morning when I saw that Dan:D:thumbsup:
well he wont touch your coco pops again
Aww the little guys, are they pests??
Mynas are, not sure about sparrows but im getting bored.
Just cleaning up the land one shot at a time :)