Thread: What little pesties did you bowl over today?

Good haul

Two of these tree wrecking mofos tonight

Tastiest pests we have seen,but some might disagree.

Originally Posted by JoshC

Two of these tree wrecking mofos tonight

Whats the rifle there Josh?
A friend removes goats from his young pines but recon deer don't touch them(apart from stripping velvet of course but even then seem to prefer natives to strip and colour up )

Good work Josh.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Whats the rifle there Josh?
A friend removes goats from his young pines but recon deer don't touch them(apart from stripping velvet of course but even then seem to prefer natives to strip and colour up )

It's my Browning A-bolt 280.

Goats are bad, but deer are a pain in the arse too. These spikers/stags have destroyed dozens of trees in this one gully, trees will die. Trouble is the spikers don't lose their spikes for quite some time, so the keep rubbing trees up all year. I think they just do it for fun. They'll also strip the bark off the trees and eat it, killing the trees. Any trees that are within ~30 metres of the scrub line/bush edge are a 3rd of the size of the trees further out, simply due to deer browsing. A browsed tree will take years to recover, if it recovers at all.

Must be quite a few numbers down there JoshC?

Originally Posted by Dundee

Must be quite a few numbers down there JoshC?

There isn't a shortage of deer in Southland if you look in the right places. Not so many in this particular spot, we saw two, shot two. A couple of deer can do a lot of damage to a crop. They're there all day everyday with not much else to do but lie in the sun, chew grass and wreck my trees.

Originally Posted by JoshC

There isn't a shortage of deer in Southland if you look in the right places. Not so many in this particular spot, we saw two, shot two. A couple of deer can do a lot of damage to a crop. They're there all day everyday with not much else to do but lie in the sun, chew grass and wreck my trees.

Roger that

Big walk today but paid off. First goat taken at 50yrd before handing riffle to my companion to drop its pal before handing the riffle back to me to flatten another goat running at 175yrds. Good fun. Cheers @Barefoot for the riffle and knife

What a good bugger Barefoot.

A couple of bunnies got the works on Friday evening.

Just a sit and wait for them.

Originally Posted by scottrods

A couple of bunnies got the works on Friday evening.

Just a sit and wait for them.

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Cool photo!!

Cheers. I feel very priviledged when people invite me round to knock over a couple of bunnies simply because of a reccomedation.

Yep tailing finishing on our blocks shortly so we're off for a big post-lambing shoot in week or so. Probly do a sleepover in the shearer's quarters and do as big a cull as possible first up. Farmers report quite a few bunnies around and this year winter/spring has been drier so no long grass problem. Quite a number of team members with smiles on their dials and busy charging up R/T and Maxtoch batts etc. Better get to the range for a bit of practice first. Quite a few piggies on one block ....and two deer came home in the back of the truck a few trips back also....very nice sausages

Jonathan - is that a short barrel JW synthetic in the pic? How are you finding bunny numbers this spring?

Anyone else been out - how are you finding rabbit numbers this year. Should have been good for breeding with mild winter and no heavy rain to kill little ones in burrows.