plenty magpies up here.
smoked another 4 squawker birds today, it seems every time i get rid of some more appear. listening to pukeko's scraping at the moment, when season arrives they to will become part of the food chain.
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plenty magpies up here.
smoked another 4 squawker birds today, it seems every time i get rid of some more appear. listening to pukeko's scraping at the moment, when season arrives they to will become part of the food chain.
Pukeko season? Is that like Monday through to Sunday?
As far as I am aware they are a game bird , whether that is northland specific I'm not sure. Be very happy if i can bang them anytime
I think DOC may do the out of season permits
They really are becoming an over populated pest in many areas I observe
Fosh and game issued my permit. They said they could do an out of season permit if it was such a big issue.
The woman I originally spoke to said yep not a problem , should be able to issue you with a permit to shoot 5. I said five birds , and she said no, five percent, at which point I asked to speak to the manager , who was much more reasonable. It made me wonder if she had been told to do that just to placate the greenie bird lovers.
Tim
I can count well over 100 walking up 1km of swamp/ rushes in a small valley, no mallard ducklings survive, and none are ever hunted either
I would like to wipe all of them out and make a sanctuary for the mallards, im sure they don't get all of them, I have caught a few feral cats and witnessed the other day a paradise duck attacking a mallard and her young
i got around two dozen pukes from the wetland that is roughly 100m from my house last season and around a dozen the year before. i started shooting them because they came up to my house a killed over a dozen chicken chicks and they would create all sorts of noise all night around my section. This summer i have noticed more ducks and herons and also spotted a bittern for the first time so it seems that as the numbers of pukeko drop other species increase which makes sense to me when i consider their behaviour of killing all other small birds they can get hold of.
I think having all birds in sensible numbers is the best way to have it, that way one species doesn't dominate and over run the others and become a pest.
Kill the fukas but don't get caught:D
yeah that would be a worry
can you get the howa 1500 in a woddern stock??
But I don't recommend that:yuush::ORLY:
Nah there are several houses over looking the wetland so not game. Session will come soon enough then a wetland walk will be an almost daily event.
Rules are rules and if I don't break them I can't get in the shit
for shooting magpies !?
Took the 10/22 for a walk last night ... lots of fun to be had. These chaps won't be digging any more holes in the horse paddocks.
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Good haul there Gunzrrr:thumbsup:
Free feed for one dog on the way back from river.
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Never waste a road kill if ya can feed ya dog:D
Must add great positioning of the tyres:D
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Tonight's taking
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That black dog on the tarp has the same t on his chest as our dog. Well done jord
Rushy - he is! Check next photo....
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Dundee - he's a collie x staffy, what's yours?
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Fair dinkum, they're in those numbers if not higher over here. In Australia ducks and quail are the only native species that we are allowed to shoot without needing a permit for removing pest species in which case you can shoot possums, magpies, lapwings, roos, wombats etc.
There are a few exceptions, in tas they can shoot wallabies and in eastern vic you can shoot wombats and dingos in Qld. Most states don't even have game bird shooting anymore, these days it's just Vic, SA, NT and maybe Tas. Qld and NSW have to be done with destruction permits.
Stupid logic if you ask me but that's what letting greenies have too much say leads to.
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Got another little bugger with the 17, hit him just right of his head. The bullet made such a mess of the front half I had to cut it off, although I manage to salvage the back front leg.
Made rabbit stew for tea last night. Was excellent and so easy, wish there was more leftovers so I could've then made a pie.
I think I'll try roasting or rabbit pie next time.
Labrador hunterway x
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