Thread: What little pesties did you bowl over today?

Three possums in three nights than this wee girl this morning. Have a hen pheasant with poults at foot running around home. Chance of survival just drastically increased, I hope!

Originally Posted by mudgripz

Very pleasant shoot last night on one of our team sites near Christchurch, .....nailed 154 bunnies in about 5.5 hours. .....we haven't made it to Tekapo/McKenzie yet for the BIG numbers. Bumper season coming...

Those are serious numbers.

I'm bloody jealous as my various varmint rifles have had sod all use this summer, such is the grass length up here. I'm actually desperate to knock some bunnies over as the Coon got the very last piece of rabbit for breakfast this morning. He'll hafta suck it up as we have about 5 days of damp weather coming.

01;30 today..SH1 just south of st andrews township...eg along straight halfway to bridge..no more than 300yards from houses a wallaby sitting on side of road wondering about the two moons barreling down road towards it..... thats a wee way out of normal range for them that is for sure.

Good one is a dead one

Good haul yesterday evening.. 64 bunnies, 3 roos, 1 hedgehog, and a hat-trick of ferrets. (Actually got another ferret with the truck on the way back out to the road.. silly thing, I was barely above walking speed). Thankfully had a ziplock and a knife with me, so a good start to the swamp comp.

One of the bunnies was a mighty jackalope..

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

01;30 today..SH1 just south of st andrews township...eg along straight halfway to bridge..no more than 300yards from houses a wallaby sitting on side of road wondering about the two moons barreling down road towards it..... thats a wee way out of normal range for them that is for sure.

Bloody hell, shoot that *tucker! Next thing they will be in Cathedral Square!

Originally Posted by StrikerNZ

Good haul yesterday evening.. 64 bunnies, 3 roos, 1 hedgehog, and a hat-trick of ferrets. (Actually got another ferret with the truck on the way back out to the road.. silly thing, I was barely above walking speed). Thankfully had a ziplock and a knife with me, so a good start to the swamp comp.

One of the bunnies was a mighty jackalope..

@StrikerNZ
Douglas score ... ??
Been hunting years for one of those. Damn hard to locate in the "roar". Very jealous !

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

01;30 today..SH1 just south of st andrews township...eg along straight halfway to bridge..no more than 300yards from houses a wallaby sitting on side of road wondering about the two moons barreling down road towards it..... thats a wee way out of normal range for them that is for sure.

Probly worked its way down the Otaio river bed from the hills.You are right tho,a wee way from the hills.Theres been sightings of roos in Victoria park and Porthills in the last month.

Old man shot this last night. Seen plenty of white rabbits but never a white Hare

Nice in white,but iv never seen a black hare.A few black bunnys around,came across these 2 down the street about 9pm.

About 20yrs ago i shot a white hare down the Tekapo river,2 days later seen one about 2ks further down the river,didnt bother shooting him.About 2 yrs later,seen a white hare in the Haka pass at the road gate,didnt bother shooting him either.Let his white gens breed on i thort.

Originally Posted by Trout

About 20yrs ago i shot a white hare down the Tekapo river,2 days later seen one about 2ks further down the river,didnt bother shooting him.About 2 yrs later,seen a white hare in the Haka pass at the road gate,didnt bother shooting him either.Let his white gens breed on i thort.

This one might be related to your first one... wasn't far away

seen one by pleasant point golf course...another closer to waitui (saw that one over a 3 year period so might be a few) and one other in hill country just south of pleasant point.... hard case how they can still "dissapear" running along in irrigator rut.they must be super cunning to avoid becoming hawk food when young.

Taking the rifle out when I put the chooks away, paid off. It's been months since there have been enough rabbits to bother heading out. Bonus possum sitting on the lawn. Looked like a cat in the thermal, and I had to wait for it to show a profile of it's head to 100% identify it correctly. Nothing worse for neighborhood dynamics than shooting the neighbors cat.

Another all night session with @alan last night, got home about 8:15am. I shot 1, Alan knocked over 204 for a total that wasn't predicted after some of the others only got something like 84 from the previous shoot. The first 100 came up after just under 3 hours. I retired early from shooting and took up driving duties after an altercation with a Macrocarpa limb, receiving a punch to my right eye making vision not too hot. Great fun.