Thread: What little pesties did you bowl over today?

Oh my god, don't get me started on the beaver stories. I bet R93 has seen a few sub species in his travels. I developed a taste for Singaporean hairless in the early seventies. Ha ha ha ha.

Originally Posted by southernman

Got one of these, (Beaver) as its dammed up a mates creek and flooding the fields,
First game shot, with the used Cooper 6x47 Remington, I bought this winter, several others seen, but reluctant to shoot, if Cant be recovered,



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@southernman are they any good to eat?

Originally Posted by viper

yeah I got some Beaver last night, didn't look like that and it didn't have much of a pelt either.

....Disclaimer:...may have smelt worse....

Hahaha......dirty old beaver jokes, they never get old!

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Originally Posted by wsm junkie

@southernman are they any good to eat?

No, terrible, But bears love them, and most are used for bear bait, trappers normally sell the carcass for bait, quite good money.
got a mate who drags a beaver carcass, behind the quad, up and down cut lines, and then to his bear bait stations.

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

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Bit reluctant to post this after your sick beaver jokes.
But here's a little pest my daughter shot yesterday
Porcupine.

well done, I flippen hate them things, must pulled two thousand quills, out of dogs, since I came to Canada, and sum dogs just don't learn, quite good to eat, so I am told.

Originally Posted by southernman

No, terrible, But bears love them, and most are used for bear bait, trappers normally sell the carcass for bait, quite good money.
got a mate who drags a beaver carcass, behind the quad, up and down cut lines, and then to his bear bait stations.

So with the guys dragging them up and down the line to put scent down do they stink like a ferret or something ?? Are they a Mustelidae ?

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

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Bit reluctant to post this after your sick beaver jokes.
But here's a little pest my daughter shot yesterday
Porcupine.

Not in the bloody South Waikato she didn't.

So the Moose tells me it is Fiordland. I never knew they had Pocupine and is that a Caribou? Bloody South Islanders have been holding out on us. Ha ha ha ha.

Yeah I shot a Moa just out of Cromwell last weekend Rushy, drum sticks alone fed the family for a week, tastes great, bit like Kiwi.

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

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Bit reluctant to post this after your sick beaver jokes.
But here's a little pest my daughter shot yesterday
Porcupine.

what's the little rifle which looks to have no forend?

Originally Posted by bully

what's the little rifle which looks to have no forend?

Marlin Papoose??

So you can kill one of those things with a .22? I recon that's just a garden hog that @7mmwsm been feeding Waikato.

Originally Posted by 300CALMAN

Marlin Papoose??

So you can kill one of those things with a .22? I recon that's just a garden hog that @7mmwsm been feeding Waikato.

That is plausible. The elixir of life would be a good growth stimulant for an animal.

Originally Posted by viper

Yeah I shot a Moa just out of Cromwell last weekend Rushy, drum sticks alone fed the family for a week, tastes great, bit like Kiwi.

I had heard that.

a full day on the hill with the Varmint rifles

started with the Remington which weighs 12+ pounds, most of the weight is in the barrel where it should be, starts to get a little heavy after 4 hours walking . .. then onto the Ruger, 10+ pounds, a nice change which feels alot lighter after the Remington.

longest shot 331yrds