Thread: What little pesties did you bowl over today?

I haven't had a lot of time to really test it properly, but it seems close enough. On paper last weekend it tracked well enough at 100m and the holdover lines seemed to work well out to 300m. I was shooting varmint sized rocks with it out to 400odd. 0-300m it's good, after that I wasn't hitting the rocks everytime, more like 3/5 times. And of course I couldn't call those shots exactly where they hit etc, ie they hit the rock. That second hare at 225 I simply put the first holdover line on its shoulder and let rip. So they minute of hare anyway. At the moment I'm just using hornady training ammo.

Originally Posted by Toby

Sweet shot, even sweeter rig! A-bolt?

Yeah micro abolt. Been my go to gun for a few years now. Works well.

Originally Posted by JoshC

I haven't had a lot of time to really test it properly, but it seems close enough. On paper last weekend it tracked well enough at 100m and the holdover lines seemed to work well out to 300m. I was shooting varmint sized rocks with it out to 400odd. 0-300m it's good, after that I wasn't hitting the rocks everytime, more like 3/5 times. And of course I couldn't call those shots exactly where they hit etc, ie they hit the rock. That second hare at 225 I simply put the first holdover line on its shoulder and let rip. So they minute of hare anyway. At the moment I'm just using hornady training ammo.

Got some of that Hornady ammo myself. Good stuff.
Cheaper than buying just the brass.

oh, I just had to drop my son's mate back home, and squished a mouse on the road

Originally Posted by rambler

oh, I just had to drop my son's mate back home, and squished a mouse on the road

I squishhed a mouse and seven starlings today

This bastard won't be weight lifting again

Getting rather sick of the buggers nesting and filling up the vat stand with hay and debri.
Nailed an old glove to the window and this seems to have stopped them for now.

Went for a walk round the Park today - got one coon in a Timms and three coons in Sentinels - that’s four more that won’t kill our native bird chicks
Getting the hang of the Sentinels now - peanut butter and a splash of “blaze” down the tree - mixture of icing sugar, flour and nutmeg
Still got some traps on the shelf - need to get them out but a challenge to place them “securely” where people are walking by - I will have seventeen out in the next week
Also squished a big rat in a DOC 250 - put some new shape into him - wish they would stick to the bait stations and leave my eggs alone
Bloody rats are taking bait faster than I can put it out through about sixty stations - need to get it up to a hundred very soon
Saw lots of quail in the bush, put up a couple of pheasants - Tui seem to be very happy right now
Went round the farm yesterday - birds everywhere - put up lots of quail, pheasant, saw lots of Kingfisher even a couple of Woodies - cock Pheasants called all day long - pest control is going well - no bait is moving and nothing in twelve stoat traps - birds are loving it
Nice time of the year for birdlife -not so nice for the coons -

nice work! we can make a small difference in our own areas for sure. A couple years ago large numbers of plovers moved in and all the other birds split. I started smashing the plovers with an hmr and since they got the message all sorts of birds have come back and it's a lot quieter (no squawking all hours of the day & night) apart from the minimal noise created by the nice birds

Time to change the glove to a coloured one as the bastards are back

Sat under a hedge camoed up and shot another.

Grey squirrel with my JR.

Finally got these two who have been pissing me off for over a week

Either had not enough gun, no gun, or enough gun but no geese. Finally this morning success, wonder how the cat will like them

A nice young headshot rabbit. Seen a hare but will try and get Sean onto that when he gets home from school.

Also seen a white one on the way to work this morning.

that's a good looking bunny for the pot Dundee

Those old 300 trx's just keep going, should maybe start a thread on them

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

Those old 300 trx's just keep going, should maybe start a thread on them

Great bikes MH - just love my old one - but I guess they are toys compared to some of the workhorse machines that are out there today - they don’t even have auto or power steer
Good idea mate - start a thread on old wheelers - two, three, four etc
Trying to make out what brand of 22 in the avatar MH - looks like a Unique?
Jeez Dundee - I wouldn’t like to be a pest on your farm - white would have to be pretty rare wouldn’t it? - I was in the bush yesterday checking possum traps and came by a fluffy wee magpie on a log - could have touched it - had my wife with me - so had to leave it to grow