Went for a walk in North Waikato in a farm with a geese problem. It has a decent pond where they hang out before raiding the crops. The Tikka 22-250 with 50gr V-max’s came for the ride. After driving in I had a little walk to keep in cover. I sneaked in on my hands and knees and luckily I had the MTN bipod up front which makes things a bit easier. Most geese were on the water but one was standing on a small island face on maybe 100m away and I lined up and boom - puff and the place erupted. One more lingered enough to get thwacked and the rest were off to the neighbours for the evening. I waded in to get the closest goose to see if I could grab the back legs for a feed but to be honest the v-max had done a demo job at 3500 odd fps. I left it for the hawks to clean up.
That’s when I decided to walk the pond which fills from when the river floods. For once it was quite clear and I soon spotted a decent Koi carp cruising around the shallows like a trout. When it was right at the surface I sent it a depth charge and after the splash and mud cleared it was flat on the bottom. So boots off again and I grabbed it for a look and left another present for the Hawks. I managed another 2 before deciding to save my handloads for better use.
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I’d rather be hunting deer but at least the Tikka got a walk….
