Thread: What little pesties did you bowl over today?

Interesting title..
Have been quite on the posting, but not on the pest management side.
Been trying a cheap night vision unit and it has been giving good results.
With pigeons, rabbits and all sorts of critters, the great white is a gene factor that comes up in a certain block from time to time.
I find it interesting! Some have had more white than this doe and blue eyes.
But for old blue eyes I did it my way 樂

Originally Posted by Flyblown

Big PROUD moment for Dad tonight. Young lad says...

Hey Dad, you going after a hare tonight?
Yeah mate, bit windy for the rimfire tonight though.
OK. But I think I'm ready for the centrefire now.
Ya reckon? I reckon so too. Wanna give it a go?
Yup.

And cool as a you like he setup the .223 Super Varmint, walked out with a purposeful stride, found a hare, ranged it and worked out his drop on Strelok. He dialled, I checked, and the rest is... dead hare. First go with the full sized centrefire on an animal and he smoked it. 173m, quite a breeze, he held on the nose, bullet went straight through the shoulders. Good boy.

Cool thing is about the lad is despite the ADHD and general bonkersness that comes with being a 13yr old testosterone fuelled ball scratcher, he's in no rush. He's happy to learn, happy to take his time. Shoot paper, shoot some cans. Rimfires and small centrefires, always sensible, never a dumbass. He's had the chance to go with the big rifle before, but nope, not quite ready yet Dad. His decision tonight, no pressure. And no hare fever either.

Really chuffed for the lad. As you can tell.

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Thats awesome as, sounds a very sensible kid, they'll be no stopping him now, goats and deer very soon I'm picking.

Had this bugger try to sneak past today! No ground game
But since I was on the end peg and a clear shot he got both barrels....so technically he wasn’t on the ground when shot

Wasn’t the first time some had had a go he only had 1.5 front legs still in good nick though.

Nice Beretta

S04

@Sideshow so when you say no ground game....does that mean its a quick photo then toss it in the scrub so no one knows

Very nice grain on that shotgun.

What do you typically do with the foxes once shot?

When I was in Austria my first foxes I shot, pelts weren't able to be used (big holes from large calibre), there teeth were turned into an edelweiss

Originally Posted by Sideshow

Had this bugger try to sneak past today! No ground game
But since I was on the end peg and a clear shot he got both barrels....so technically he wasn’t on the ground when shot
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Wasn’t the first time some had had a go he only had 1.5 front legs still in good nick though.

Do you guys get black foxes there mate?
I seen a couple or even may have been the same one in BC a month or so ago.
They're pretty cool to see.

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Driving in Australia 23 years ago, father pulled over on the side of an outback road to show us kids a dead fox on the road. He then proceeded to extract the canines under our instruction, for some kind of trinket that never eventuated


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What load are you using @Sideshow

6s 32grams @charliehorse

Originally Posted by wsm junkie

@Sideshow so when you say no ground game....does that mean its a quick photo then toss it in the scrub so no one knows

No when we have the briefing at the start of the day it’s quite normal for that call to be made as there are beaters and dogs in front. So no ground game no low birds is quite a normal call. As I said though I was at the end of the line and had a clear view of my firing zone and target. If he wasn’t wounded and missing that front leg I’d have let him go. Also the land owner was in line of sight and gave me the okay before I shot him. @wsm junkie
Safety first!

On the way to the river tonight I took the mighty .22 as a passenger
Rabbits were dumb and will be a feed!

3 from 4 at work today 10-70m used em to rebait all the work traps for one last tail for the swamp comp or preferrably the cat seen yesterday.

Originally Posted by R93

Do you guys get black foxes there mate?
I seen a couple or even may have been the same one in BC a month or so ago.
They're pretty cool to see.

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Not that I’ve seen! Although saying that R93 I did see a very big black thing dead on the M4..... not sure if it was a cat, fox or one of those panthers that’s ment to have been running around here.