Thread: What little pesties did you bowl over today?

good stuff i hate them.

Yep good work.

Arsehole birds they are! Pisses me off watching them harass the hawks up here. Monday will be back having a good go at the rest of them up here.

Originally Posted by EK9132

Arsehole birds they are! Pisses me off watching them harass the hawks up here. Monday will be back having a good go at the rest of them up here.

Shoot those buggers too! They predators of our game birds

Sorry Dundee I cant bring myself to shoot them. Big fan of birds of prey. The old old bugger at work is often shooting at them, yet to hit one haha.

Originally Posted by Dundee

Shoot those buggers too! They predators of our game birds

My family runs a free range inghams farm and i shit you not i see hawks nearly every day taking off with full sized live chickens. Massive problem to us so i Shoot them when i can Hence the abundance of dead wild cat photos as well

Originally Posted by time out

Love the look of those pussy cats a few months back possummatti - keep up the good work - only one good cat in the wild

Not a lot of work with the rifle - but doing a bit of bird predator work
Needed a bunny for a cage - old fella not keen to give it up -


Rats seem to live under big logs - get a lot of bait blocks in these T stations - one or two wires full - good feeding for a few days -


Rats cleaned out a T station - possum tried to clean out the apple -


Cant get on top of the buggars with traps - so have put out some bait stations - some buggar has been having a feed here


Got some DOC 250s going as well but no luck yet

Cheers mate. Trynna get on top of the population but just when you think you got the last one a few more turn up. Its Happy days when your dad pays you for each one shot though. What a hansom chap your lab is. Looked a bit gutted that you were gonna take that rabbit off him haha.

Magpies, hawks and cats -
I spend a lot of time at our rural property providing native and game birds (pheasant and quail) with a safe haven to breed and prosper - I never shoot the game birds - just enjoy having them round and of course they move round the district
Last year a pair of resident magpies had a couple of chicks - I pinged one and left the three birds to manage the hawks
No doubt about it - the hawk is a bird predator - but they don’t get too close before the magpies hound them out of the valley with mid-air dog fights - it was a nice balance
Cats are a problem round holiday periods - we have a car layby/picnic area just up the road and quite close to a beach holiday area - one last stop before they get to the campground - let the cat out
There are few rats or mice round our place - so the cats kill birds - or enjoy a feed of Whiskas cat tucker in a cage
Cats are like rats and possums possummatti - you never get the last one - just keep trying
My previous post and pictures related to a community reserve that I am working on

One for the Hawk Haters......

i suspect this will turn into a shit storm

Originally Posted by smidey

i suspect this will turn into a shit storm

It is perfectly legal

After a couple weeks of dog biscuits only - the pooch was giving me dirty looks and clearly requesting fresh bunny. I had to oblige ... a quick night shoot delivered the goods with 8 bunnies and 12 possums.

That's a good haul

Had another good day today shot four recovered two. I managed to get the section 2ic as seen in the picture, lead scouts hung up in the old man pine. One on the left is from last week the hawks took his mate.

Ye olde bone yard! Bowled the plover at about 100m with my BSA sportsman handed down to me by my father via his father who got it from his father.