Thread: What little pesties did you bowl over today?

10th magpie for the week all at 100 yds plus with the 223 / hornady 40gn Vmax.

Plus a rabbit and a hare at similar distances

Tim

Good stuff. Barstard Maggies

We've got a plague of them atm.

And the ones that are left are bloody wily ... Good stalking practice though


Tim

They have made themselves established in the nelson region over the last ten years too.

Dunno how widespread they were but I remember shooting plenty of them on granddads orchard in Kina in the late 70's and 80's

plenty magpies up here.
smoked another 4 squawker birds today, it seems every time i get rid of some more appear. listening to pukeko's scraping at the moment, when season arrives they to will become part of the food chain.

Pukeko season? Is that like Monday through to Sunday?

As far as I am aware they are a game bird , whether that is northland specific I'm not sure. Be very happy if i can bang them anytime

Originally Posted by kiwi39

Dunno how widespread they were but I remember shooting plenty of them on granddads orchard in Kina in the late 70's and 80's

Another old bugger aye

Originally Posted by smidey

As far as I am aware they are a game bird , whether that is northland specific I'm not sure. Be very happy if i can bang them anytime

They are. Outside the gamebird season, they're a no go.

For most farmers they're a pest and as such are shoot on sight. Not that I would ever advise you to do that - that would be illegal.

Originally Posted by kiwi39

They are. Outside the gamebird season, they're a no go.

For most farmers they're a pest and as such are shoot on sight. Not that I would ever advise you to do that - that would be illegal.

last year i got a permit to shoot them at my local golf club, out of season and with a rifle. took 30 or more but this year they are back up to the original numbers again

I think DOC may do the out of season permits

They really are becoming an over populated pest in many areas I observe

Fosh and game issued my permit. They said they could do an out of season permit if it was such a big issue.

The woman I originally spoke to said yep not a problem , should be able to issue you with a permit to shoot 5. I said five birds , and she said no, five percent, at which point I asked to speak to the manager , who was much more reasonable. It made me wonder if she had been told to do that just to placate the greenie bird lovers.




Tim

I can count well over 100 walking up 1km of swamp/ rushes in a small valley, no mallard ducklings survive, and none are ever hunted either
I would like to wipe all of them out and make a sanctuary for the mallards, im sure they don't get all of them, I have caught a few feral cats and witnessed the other day a paradise duck attacking a mallard and her young

i got around two dozen pukes from the wetland that is roughly 100m from my house last season and around a dozen the year before. i started shooting them because they came up to my house a killed over a dozen chicken chicks and they would create all sorts of noise all night around my section. This summer i have noticed more ducks and herons and also spotted a bittern for the first time so it seems that as the numbers of pukeko drop other species increase which makes sense to me when i consider their behaviour of killing all other small birds they can get hold of.

I think having all birds in sensible numbers is the best way to have it, that way one species doesn't dominate and over run the others and become a pest.