Thread: Pukeko control plan

Having a gamebird license is great if you want to shoot the pooks while they are flying, and with a shotgun.
I find shooting them with a 17 hornet, while they are on the ground gets the job done, at ranges that a shotgun is next to useless. Required a Fish and Game Permit, specifying the address I was shooting, the caliber I was shooting, and a justification (were pecking holes in watermelon one year, and shitting in cattle's water troughs another year).
Farmer wanted some assurances about ricochets, and safe shooting directions. Frangible bullets equaled no ricochet, and I printed out a map of his property which he detailed where the pooks reside, and I updated with safe shooting angles.
Was not overly formal, but put his mind at ease.