Thread: What little pesties did you bowl over today?

A good dark night out there tonight.
Lots of critters seen and shot.

More fluff in the bag and some bloody big hares.

Even tripped over a hedgehog at one stage which was very unfortunate for him





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Nice walk this arvo, big rabbits and lots of them, cold wind though.

@berg243 , with the huge numbers down here we get a lot of strange colour variations, this is the second one I have shot like this.
The fleck in the coat is very cool.

No pretty colours in this lot, but 7 from 7 for the mighty J Dub 15

Another 4 possums after tonights duck shoot.

A bit of fun with the 17 Hornet tonight.

The hornet works well in the dark when solo, as i don't need to worry about ranging them etc like I would with 22 subs, if I can see it in the Maxtoch just aim straight at it.

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Cold hunt yesterday Arvo, rabbits looked about as cold as I was..not one of the more pleasant walks.
Still productive. This one was the highlight.

22 hornet strikes again

Drury school possum hunt was on again this weekend. Big shout to the FODS (Friends Of Drury School) team for sticking to their guns and organising it again this year despite all the bad press from the PC groups getting their 'opinions' printed in the press and the hand delivered flyers in the rural mail boxes claiming that participants were blood thirsty murderers.

Interesting that even with all the bad press over the past 3 years where activists pulled some underhanded stunts, this year saw the highest number of entries on record (big increase in the number of 'family entries'), and the biggest haul of possums (just over 1,600) and the highest level of funds made for the school (just over $6k). AWSOME !!

Our team managed second place with 206 kiwi bears. Top team was low 300's



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Cleaned out a few more from the orchard this arvo, most of them were hanging around there burrows this arvo.

Some slid back into their holes that far I could even see them, just a big red stripe down into the hole. Others were too graphic to photograph.

The 20gr vmax at 3750 fps sure is devastating, but awesome for the 150 - 200 yard shots

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Originally Posted by hotbarrels

Drury school possum hunt was on again this weekend. Big shout to the FODS (Friends Of Drury School) team for sticking to their guns and organising it again this year despite all the bad press from the PC groups getting their 'opinions' printed in the press and the hand delivered flyers in the rural mail boxes claiming that participants were blood thirsty murderers.

Interesting that even with all the bad press over the past 3 years where activists pulled some underhanded stunts, this year saw the highest number of entries on record (big increase in the number of 'family entries'), and the biggest haul of possums (just over 1,600) and the highest level of funds made for the school (just over $6k). AWSOME !!

Our team managed second place with 206 kiwi bears. Top team was low 300's

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Edit: PS - I hate iPhone auto photo rotation!

Well done what a mean effort

Originally Posted by hotbarrels

Drury school possum hunt was on again this weekend. Big shout to the FODS (Friends Of Drury School) team for sticking to their guns and organising it again this year despite all the bad press from the PC groups getting their 'opinions' printed in the press and the hand delivered flyers in the rural mail boxes claiming that participants were blood thirsty murderers.

Interesting that even with all the bad press over the past 3 years where activists pulled some underhanded stunts, this year saw the highest number of entries on record (big increase in the number of 'family entries'), and the biggest haul of possums (just over 1,600) and the highest level of funds made for the school (just over $6k). AWSOME !!

Our team managed second place with 206 kiwi bears. Top team was low 300's

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Edit: PS - I hate iPhone auto photo rotation!

Good effort. Must be a real hot spot to get 200 plus possums..


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Originally Posted by tiroatedson

Good effort. Must be a real hot spot to get 200 plus possums..


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You'd be surprised at the places you find with the biggest numbers.

My aunt up north has a lifestyle block surrounded by farms. Very little bush around except her place.

I shot most of her possums one time.

The following year her neighbour shot 60 over the year. They come for miles across the paddocks for the citrus fruit etc.

if you get rid of all of them there will be an abundance of food

Originally Posted by tiroatedson

Good effort. Must be a real hot spot to get 200 plus possums..

Originally Posted by northdude

Well done what a mean effort

They were hard to find this year. A lot of 1080 poison dropped in the area in the past 12 months which knocked out some of your usual spots.
Most of these had to be dragged out on kids snow sleds to get then back to the vehicle. 20 possums on a sled (50kg?) dragged around the hills was bloody hard work.