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Thread: What little pesties did you bowl over today?

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    @Flyblown your dog is very photogenic. Love it

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    Once shot a stoats that was in the process of scragging a young rabbit.

    Got the bugger good - unfortunately for the rabbit the bullet didn’t know to stop in the stoat..:.
    ‘Many of my bullets have died in vain’

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    Today's call out

    Still taking it easy after a few days away and a good effort on my sons side of the hunting and gathering.
    He texted this morning saying the geese were in, after doing the phone call and getting the muskets out, by the time I was organised it was raining wind was up.
    Manged to get with in the 260yards and picked he picked off a couple, before the mass evacuation.
    Still not completely goosed as they say.
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    Latest hunting trip results. Yea I can't seem to get a deer but possum hunting with the blowgun and a head torch is great fun.

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    By law, you are required to turn on your headlights if it's raining in Sweden.

    How the hell am I supposed to know if it's raining in Sweden?

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    @Flyblown yep I noticed an increase in numbers For magpies down on cousins farm in the king country, just insane.
    Just like you couple of birds got caught up in the pines, I don’t count them unless I can retrieve them.
    Grouchy Smurf had it right all along...

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    Ending the day

    Call came for geese again, but when we got there they had been driven off.
    So not all wasted for the call-out! ending the day with a couple of rabbit's.
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    Night walk with dog.

    Our nightly outings have been a bit knocked on the head! as I haven't been to enthusiastic and the nights haven't been very dry.
    But manage a quick one in tonight with dog and at least he was very enthusiastic, thankfully I hit something for him to find.
    Otherwise the ride home might not been meet with the same enthusiasm.
    Seven months ago this fellow was gun shy, I mainly shoot 17hmr with him now and it's a very different story and worse when I miss and there's nothing to find.
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    @TheJanitar tell me a bit more about this blow gun if yours, where, how much, how accurate are they?

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    Nightly walk with dog

    Well managed another quick walk with the enthusiastic dog.He wasn't disappointed tonight either.
    Thankfully.
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    Nightly walk with dog

    Well, it may seem like a high jacked thread, but which one isn't! Threads that should be pm's and comments that should be threads.
    But hay I am not the admin, thank God.
    But it has got me thinking, nevertheless the nightly walk may have been to early and the hawkes are still feeding on rabbits shot a couple of days ago. Therefore no rabbit's seen and dog went home with no reward, so I gave him a little pestie, well he thinks it is.
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    The nightly walk with dog

    Well Iam not trying to do a series.
    But the nightly walk has benefits.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Seventenths View Post
    @TheJanitar tell me a bit more about this blow gun if yours, where, how much, how accurate are they?
    @Seventenths

    Well, the model I'm using here is the Cold Steel Professional 4FT blowgun. Made in USA I believe.

    It's perfect for using as a walking stick. Just need to get the right sized furniture leg rubber feet thingy from bunnings.

    It shoots several types of darts. You can buy a pack of the Razor hunting darts from gun City. I sharpen these so that they are literally razor sharp. I have to remove and glue the little orange flight onto the dart, otherwise the expensive razor dart will go right through the possum and embed itself deep into the ground, $$ gone. Amazingly powerful.

    With the 4Ft model, I am able to shoot very accurately to about 10 metres. I also own the same model in a 5ft variant which gets slightly higher velocity and is accurate out to about 12 metres - but not so convenient to use as a walking stick.

    Cheers
    By law, you are required to turn on your headlights if it's raining in Sweden.

    How the hell am I supposed to know if it's raining in Sweden?

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    Orders were issued at 08:00 today.

    Flyblown, pines to be planted in 6 weeks. Go and kill the hares. Out.


    So not being one to dilly dally when orders are issued, I went out this evening and killed some hares. I’ve been on top of them this summer as they’ve been prolific. It’s nice to have a few around the house paddocks to watch, but not the kind of numbers where before you know it, they’re in your butternuts.

    The easy hares on the heifer paddocks are accounted for, and tonight conditions were perfect for some long range haring up the back. So out came the .223 varmint rifle, and a baker’s dozen of hares were sent to the afterlife at ranges in the high two to three hundreds. Best shot a respectable 393m with the wee 50gr Zombie Max.

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    A baker’s dozen aye? The younger members here probably would not have heard of that term.
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    Hit and killed a black rabbit in the car on my way to work at 0415 went to get a pic after work and someones dog had beat me to it.Shot three black rabbits but hitting one with the car is a first for me.
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