Thread: What little pesties did you bowl over today?

Another hare spotted.

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Originally Posted by Dundee

Another hare spotted.
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I am amazed there are still any hares near your place @Dundee.

Originally Posted by dannyb

Allow me to introduce #11 dunno if the cut outs are helping or not but if anything certainly getting more juvenile birds.... Maybe they are more gullible.
Still getting the adults but they seem to come in once several younger birds are already in causing problems.
I have also noticed that they seem to be more around later in the day than first thing in the morning (which is a pain cause I am working afternoons this week)
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Magpies are attracted to Penguins?

Today I shot a hare @ 351 yds with my .223.

I think that was my longest shot on small game in 55 odd years of hunting.

Originally Posted by Tahr

Today I shot a hare @ 351 yds with my .223.

I think that was my longest shot on small game in 55 odd years of hunting.

I thought you left the Hare due to a soft spot for them?...(I am the same rarely ever shoot one as very few around in places I hunt altho the back-steaks are delicious)

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

I thought you left the Hare due to a soft spot for them?...(I am the same rarely ever shoot one as very few around in places I hunt altho the back-steaks are delicious)

That's right - you have a good memory @veitnamcam. Its the first one I have shot in many years and I did have a twinge of guilt.

I skinned it and brought it home for Tilly.

Bruce

Oh I see this thread taking an interesting turn where is Pengy?

Originally Posted by Tahr

Today I shot a hare @ 351 yds with my .223.

I think that was my longest shot on small game in 55 odd years of hunting.

Bloody good shooting but isn't @Dundee doing at least twice that with his Stirling ?

Originally Posted by viper

Bloody good shooting but isn't @Dundee doing at least twice that with his Stirling ?

Tahr is talking 351 full 36 inch yards. A Dundee yard is only five inches. It is all relative though as Tahr is a fully grown man and Dundee is a half grown dwarf. Ha ha ha ha.

Not exactly trophy material but I've been setting this up for about a week.

Magpies see and hear very well, too well for me to have much of a chance normally. These 2 have been hanging around our paddocks about 100+m from the house, occasionally creeping nearer but always on full alert. Forget opening a window or door to take a shot: they're off before I've even sighted them. Even creeping up to a pre-opened window hasn't been very successful. So the day before yesterday I had the brainwave of opening the window and closing the curtains, leaving a convenient slit gap at the window. Yesterday, right on cue, they appeared around lunchtime when I checked but, lacking a clear line of sight and backstop to make safe shot, I let them be, planning today's cunning hunt.

At lunchtime today, I spotted one of these two at first, pecking around one of our tree guards about 70m out. Slowly and silently I lined up through the gap, steadied myself against the window frame, aimed and POP he's toast ... but then a real bonus: its mate stepped out of a hiding place in the same tree guard, looking around with a puzzled look on his face. Re-aim, steady, POP, toastie 2! Both within about 5 seconds thanks to semi-auto.

Thanks to the curtains, I have become invisible. I still have to be quiet, and I wonder about taking the glinty shine off the stainless barrel of my 10/22 with some camo paint or tape maybe. Maybe not. It didn't matter today.

There are at least 3 or 4 more of these pests living nearby, so I might try propping these 2 up with No. 8 wire as lures. Come here, my lovelies, check these out ....

Originally Posted by SickShooter

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Not exactly trophy material but I've been setting this up for about a week.

Magpies see and hear very well, too well for me to have much of a chance normally. These 2 have been hanging around our paddocks about 100+m from the house, occasionally creeping nearer but always on full alert. Forget opening a window or door to take a shot: they're off before I've even sighted them. Even creeping up to a pre-opened window hasn't been very successful. So the day before yesterday I had the brainwave of opening the window and closing the curtains, leaving a convenient slit gap at the window. Yesterday, right on cue, they appeared around lunchtime when I checked but, lacking a clear line of sight and backstop to make safe shot, I let them be, planning today's cunning hunt.

At lunchtime today, I spotted one of these two at first, pecking around one of our tree guards about 70m out. Slowly and silently I lined up through the gap, steadied myself against the window frame, aimed and POP he's toast ... but then a real bonus: its mate stepped out of a hiding place in the same tree guard, looking around with a puzzled look on his face. Re-aim, steady, POP, toastie 2! Both within about 5 seconds thanks to semi-auto.

Thanks to the curtains, I have become invisible. I still have to be quiet, and I wonder about taking the glinty shine off the stainless barrel of my 10/22 with some camo paint or tape maybe. Maybe not. It didn't matter today.

There are at least 3 or 4 more of these pests living nearby, so I might try propping these 2 up with No. 8 wire as lures. Come here, my lovelies, check these out ....

Nice effort, I can echo your sentiments of them being very cunning, magpie culling can be very satisfying. Today is the first day this week I haven't been to my spot to pop a couple but I'll be there tomorrow

Originally Posted by GWH

A bit of footage of a goat I shot on the weekend at 350 yards with my 223.

https://youtu.be/op9TnK0dDxk

How come you shot the white one? They're the easy ones to spot

The unlucky 18th feral cat since August.

Originally Posted by Russian 22.

How come you shot the white one? They're the easy ones to spot

Because the last video of shooting a goat at 900 yards I posted, I got given grief for picking on the black one, so thought I'd better not make it a pattern.... it was presenting the best shot ;-)

I was all set for another long distance hare shot.

But pissed around and zoomed a bit further with the camera.

To show the mighty stealth and distance...

Of the ole faithful .22lr Stirling..Switched camera to video mode and the bloody batterys went flat on the retrieve