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You do any shooting out at the Kauri Mountain Whangarei rifle club smidey?
This was last summer, my first wild goats and the reason i have decided to get a centrefire. Would have done it sooner but threw too much money into a new hotted up engine for my old ss so had to wait, my uncle was good enough to lend me his model 7 in 308 for that day and i thoroughly enjoyed it and want my young fulla to be part of it to.
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no mate, not even sure where it is but i live within 5k's as the crow flies from kauri mountain. I'll probably look into heading out there when i'm happy with my setup to see what sort of accuracy i can get. A mate who moved to tauranga recently told me about the range out there as he used to shoot there i think so i was planning to find out more.
http://www.nranz.com/uploads/clubs/W...fle%20Club.pdf
Good bunch of dudes up there with heaps to learn from them, but we need more young blood coming through as well. Sucks for me and my mate both being shift workers so often miss shoots.
great, thanks very much for that i know exactely where that is now. been past heaps of times haha.
I'll make contact at some point, child number 4 which is a little over a week old now may hold me up for the next few weeks but i'll definatly be keen to join.
Righto @Nibblet I just made one, I'll throw it into a new thread as not to ruin this one with pics
Nice size hare i got last night :) Love being on holiday
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sitting in the lounge eating dinner when the lil fulla says ''look dad a rabbit can i pat it'' i was like yea sure if u can catch it and he replied '' NO DAD u shoot it and get it for me to pat'' so i did haha he was over the moon his mother wasn't and neither was the cat who had been stalking it 4 15 mins haha
But your boy was! :thumbsup: the rest would have forgotten already, we wont have ;)
My nephew is 3 and every time he see's me its come uncle Toby lets shoot birds. I took him out with his plastic gun walked a few hundred meters with him shooting every bird in sight. Bloody good eyes on him if I can get him to not take ear muffs off he will be sweet in the mai mai I reckon.
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I think its saying "ouch"... ha ha
Almost lost his head over that. ha ha ha ha
I was out hookin up trees for the bull dozer today, our harvester was finishing off a patch beside me and as he was dropping the trees there was a wee koon hoppin from tree to tree. Final tree went over and the poor little bugger decided my direction was the best way to run, even more unfortunate for him was my abundant selection of baseball bat sized logs.....
2hr stroll with the 22 tonight until the wind and rain got too annoying, 26 bunnies down for me and a similar number for my mate.
Brought 4 home for the pot so I should stop sitting on my ass and go deal to them.
Well done GB. That is a good haul.
Well my count just went from 26 to 38.
On a not entirely unrelated matter, is it ok to eat pregnant rabbits? Or will they (a)make me sick or (b)taste like crap
Its just abort right Gravel Ben:D
Milky does, no thks I bin em
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Two bunnies shot with 17hmr, range finder said one was at 45yards and the other 90ish.
Could've had three more, but if I shoot them all they can't breed and then I can't eat them.
Shall concentrate on magpies and plovers.
sorry no idea either but one the hares i posted the other day have twin babies when i gutted it, they must have been ready to be born as they had claws and everything. first hint was milk when i opened the gut, well that and having a huge belly compared to its mate.
I like the way you think Beetroot:cool: Cool shot placement too no waste on those tastey critters.
Ive got a place where I shoot goats, and I only ever take one or two. The farmer probably wants me to take them all, but he doesn't have to know lol.
Younger goats are extremely good eating.
the back wheels are great slow roasted .. in an oven bag ..
and the back "steaks" if you can call them that are great done quickly at very high heat on the grate side of the bbq
8 rabbits with the missus' new air rifle yesterday.
All of them shot out of the windows of our house :D
That's a total of 13 since buying the gun last week. I thought we only had about 9 regular visitors :(
I am quite amazed at the power and accuracy of the wee air rifle, head shots out to 25 metres are quite achievable with open sights.
I remember as a kid stalking rabbits and birds like a ninja only to miss very easy shots, either my shootings improved or the guns sighted in properly (I'd bank on the latter! haha) :ORLY:
before i got my FAL a few years ago i had a crossman g1 extreme air rifle with scope. I lived rural and our property was surrounded by adult totara trees with plenty of possums. I shot nearly 90 possums over 18 months with it and as long as I shot them in the chest they generally died with one shot which is very surprising i think. i used gamo rocket and gamo hunter pellets and they both worked well.