You're a legend Dundee I'm surprised you've still got things to shoot at especially between you n ya boys.
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You're a legend Dundee I'm surprised you've still got things to shoot at especially between you n ya boys.
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I know shearer but he's 8 yrs old n as it so happened it was a chest shot. I tell them all the time to go for shoulder chest shots and as we all know we r human and cos we r humans sometimes we just get it wrong. After he'd told me I did say that ideally you would want to go for shoulder/chest area.
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Nothing like raw footage and photo's.
KH
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Knocked these over on Sunday. Weird, the upside down pic is correctly orientated on my phone...
Trying again from yesterday's post...
Good haul but those fancy gadgettes you fullas have always put em upsside down:yaeh am not durnk:
Hey blaser do the red bits make the gun go faster??? Top shooting though.
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Heh, taking the family "out".
Only one today - but the pile gets bigger round this tree - must be ten now and they keep coming back
Forgot to put the pins in the pipe - so he climbed off - but didn’t go far
Changed over to Good Nature paste today Kiwi-Hunter - will be interesting to see if they have been getting peanut butter shy :drool:
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It's not me that shot anything today but when I was getting dinner this evening (5.30) i spied a very large fat ferret ambling with not a care in the world on the lawn out from our patio deck so i went to grab the 22 Norinco but called our little Jack Russell x instead which shot out the bi fold doors & into it. I wish i had a vid camara as they had a great battle going on for about 30 seconds as they fought untill our dog managed to get his fangs over the ferrets back & shook it to death, all this happened about 6-8 mtres from our front door. Absolutely brilliant action of the battle to the death.
I do regret that we're only on dialup as It would've been a great vid.
I saw a tui chase the shit out of a thrush tonight,also happened so damned quick while I was at the river so no footage.The thrush was swauking like mad while the tui was on the chase. Never seen this before.:)
107 hares, 11 rabbits, 5 cats and 4 possums tonight. Nothing we saw escaped. All shot gunned off the back of the quad. Used 150 rounds, so not too bad considering the country we were hammering across after the hares!
Dundee,
I assume your reply was sarcasm so let me make this perfectly clear.
I was not throwing off @ anyones contribution to these threads or replies or implying such ( I'm sorry if it appeared like that) but simply & truthfully related an incident that actually happened a short time before I posted & which I thought viewers might be interested in being not a usual means of a pests destruction ( but is still a "pesty destroyed today). We have a lot of theses critters wandering around out here & any means of controlling them is welcome-- including dogs, vehicles, traps or firearms etc, the amazing thing for us was the fact that it happened so close to the house & I didn't have the means to record it.
Wrong place @ the wrong time for the ferret anyway.
Regards ,
Phil.
Phil, firstly Dundee liked your post. Not sure where you saw sarcasm in his post, I think he was merely making a comment on something he had never seen happen before. I'd be doing the same if I had witnessed a tui being so actively territorial.
I was surf casting a few days ago lounging in my camp chair watching the rod tips.
I keep my bait (Small mussel bed crabs) in a cooler bag beside me.
Caught a bit of movement just in time to see a large stoat amble away from the cooler bag with one of my crabs.
You would think being 100 yrds from any cover I would have been able to club the prick with my gaff but it seems I am rather clumsy rampaging up the beach yelling profanities and swinging a gaff aimlessly😆
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I really enjoy seeing all the stories about the pests you guys are bowling over - hares, rabbits, cats, possums, rats, weasels, stoats, ferrets and more - keep them coming - they are all pests in one way or another to someone or to our environment - especially the ones about stoats, ferrets and cats
I hope I don’t bore you to tears with my stories and pictures about bird predator trapping and baiting - if so just let me know and I will give it a miss
I am also a hunter but I am currently more focussed on bird predator control - round the farm where I try to breed heaps of pheasant, quail and native birds and up at the Te Puna Quarry Park where I hope to bring back pheasant, quail and native birds for visitors to enjoy
I was up at the farm today and checked a couple of Timms traps that I have set just below the bush line - the bloody possums have just started to return after a few years of being controlled by trappers
Sure enough - some bait is moving, one trap has a large furry beast inside and the other has a large spikey beast inside - first time I have ever had a hedgepig in a Timms trap - IMO - hedgepigs are a serious pest and predator of our ground nesting birds :yuush:
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good work time out.:thumbsup:
I'm sorry if I offended you Dundee.I've seen on other posts where replies were worded to "take the micky" out of the contributer & assumed that this was the case.
All that aside, I managed bowled 2 rabbits by the woolshed & another @ the shearers quarters this morning (Norinco JW15A, Rem subs, Parker hale suppressor ---all shot from the house & didn't even need to step out as the dog (ferret killer) fetched them for me to be made into his snacks, Perhaps the mate of that ferret is lurking about agitating the local population.
Regards,
Phil.
First new year pestie
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A bit late ( done on boxing day ) , did drop 2 goats at 178yds with 22 Hornet , spotted then at 305yds & closed to 178yds before shooting them .
Bunny no 4 flattened @ 60yds by Mr Norinco from the lounge ranch slider this evening with 2 large hares, 3 magpies seen around the shearers quarters. Today has been a great day for bunny busting so far & the evening isn't over yet.
Tararua Phil do you eat rabbit,roast rabbit nice and rabbit nuggets are yummy.
Heh, I got one as well.
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Yes we do eat rabbits on occasions with my lovely wife doing excellent "kentucky" style pieces & we've had stews in the past but thats about all. when we were first married about 40 odd yrs ago all we lived on were the rabbits, goat & the odd deer I managed to shoot but since we've been out here we just do the normal fare with the game meat as a specialty. At the moment the dog gets most of the small game we don't use.
How do you do the nuggets?
This evening the 4th rabbit got knocked over for the day as well as a hare so in the last 12 hrs has filled the freezer a bit better.
I wasn't offended just letting you know.;) Takes a lot to get me pissed off or pissed:beer:
Rabbit nuggets hare Phil :thumbsup:
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The summer blues were getting me down. ( stags with velvet and hinds with fawns ) I like shooting neither !
So i thought yesterday arvo i should go and kill something, but i actually killed 24 somethings.
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Just been out , shot 3 magpies , and a monster goat , spotted at 505yds , BUT thought its a bit far for me little gun , 22 hornet , the closest I could get was 325yds , and my drop shrt ran out at 300yds , Opps , ( note to self , always make your chart further than you think is the usable range , as when you get a chance you cannot pass up , its better to have data available , and not have to fudge it ) .
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Way outside my comfort zone:x_x: even my K
I thought you might get a kick out of a pest you don't get to see very often. This bobcat was taken by Pawnee Josh's brother with a Tikka CTR in 260 at 298 yards using a SWFA SS 3-15 scope.Attachment 32643
Thats one cute pussy cat...
Are they a native to your area or regarded as a pest?
9 rabbits and a sneaky hare, plus one hawk intent on making a meal out of some ducklings on the pond, should have landed on that post, it was his last!
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Got these 3 around the paddock next to the house. Mrs black has been quick on many occasions to get into her hole but not this evening.
I had managed to pick off a coulpe of her little ones the other day.