Thread: What little pesties did you bowl over today?

Three brothers hunting for three consecutive afternoons - 1,233 rabbits, two cats and three deer. Body is aching a bit today after three days in the hills and the 5 hour drive home this afternoon. Now I have to unpack and clean some gear.

One of the cats that took a .22WMR round to the body while running at full till across the paddock. Appears that the "butt, body, beak, pull the trigger" works with cats as well, only it was "tail, body, whiskers, pull the trigger".

Finally hit a block with a small, bugger me it was not a small, bunny problem. Tested out the boys new JR15 Chinese .22 bolt with full over barrel. Thing shoots like a laser! Son (12) took a friend up and he had his first ever go with a rifle and bagged two fine specimens. There must be something in the water in the northern part of HB as the hills they were alive. Looking forward to some regular visits. Easy country to work in and plenty of healthy game.

Christmas Eve bunny hunt. Large numbers for Northland, or where I shoot at least.

Last night out for the evening constitutional, I took tentman+ as the cpr back up
Wind was up a bit, still a good little time, I was supposed to be the quide ! but I kept losing the client. The answer I got was I am just covering the ground.He may of covered it but had nothing to show for it either.
This post should of been tentman+ ! but the only picture is on my phone.The guide always takes the pictures, but couldn't for the life of me convince him to get down in the position, with the rifle and trophy.
KH

@Kiwi-Hunter - we all know its the guides job to skite things up, its a wonder the little fellow wasn't shot offhand at 200 yards in the wind uphill. . . by the guide after the client missed (again)!

Originally Posted by Tentman

@Kiwi-Hunter - we all know its the guides job to skite things up, its a wonder the little fellow wasn't shot offhand at 200 yards in the wind uphill. . . by the guide after the client missed (again)!

Close but no cigar.
As it is I had to pack it out and do the post.
KH

These 2 didnt stand a chance

Another hot and sweaty day on the hill, knocking over pest goats and recovering a few for the dogs. Great fun with the young fella, gradients up and down to turn your eyeballs inside out, and the sad and eerie sight of the sun turning blood red as the smoke from Aussie arrived. Over forty goats shot, a real mission to get the back blocks cleaned up as they are horribly overrun.





Bloody dogs are spoilt, seem to think the bike is for them. That Huntaway is the biggest one I've ever seen, freakin' gorgeous dog, beautiful temperament. He's a handful when riding shotgun with his heading dog mate. No room for my boy on the bike, so the young fella ends up running behind! Something's wrong with that!

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

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@ghosts may have a photo of 3 in the one trap that occurs on the island!

Originally Posted by Flyblown

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Geez, they breed big flies down there!

Took my daughter out to shoot a few bunnies at the Out Laws





Ended up with 16 bunnies and a magpie

It was the wife's turn this evening. We'd worked out a gully where quick escape for the goaty menace was very hard. I spotted and called range, she dealt out the 6mm death. No action photos unfortunately as we forgot the damn phone.

She was ON FIRE and so was the poor old Howa .243 after she'd finished. Two full 10 shot mags and another 5 after that in minutes, with 5 rounds kept in reserve for any wounded, or suckling kids. The barrel & suppressor were far too hot... Smacked the nannies first as usual, then picked off the best looking yearlings. Only two goats took two shots and I'm pretty sure we downed another 22. We accept that this .243 barrel is being abused and is gonna be shot out...

We'd worked out this was a good spot from some long distance glassing, and the upside was the terrain allowed for a steep but doable descent into the gully and recovery of the best bits of the best goats shot. Bit of a sweaty middle aged slog out and a late date with the dogs. Here's a snap of some of the backstraps, washed down and de-haired. Still another four bags to go... they'll have to wait til morning. Great fun, good out-there-doin'-it exercise with a tough as woman who sure as hell can still shoot the tits off a fly.

Here's a bit of DIY phone scope footage while shooting a few rabbits in the berry orchard this evening. Tikka T1x 17hmr

https://youtu.be/59L48i7Xz4o



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Flyblown so that we can have a bit of perspective on this, is a woman who can shoot the tits off a fly the female equivalent of a man that can shoot the nuts off a gnat blindfold at fifty paces? I am interested to know as that is some mighty fine shooting.

Ha ha @Rushy, yes her shooting is impressive, but more so is her willingness to climb up and down crazy steep faces covered in felled scrub and pangas, looking for dead goats, and then hauling them around and throwing them at me. At one point, I was cutting up a fat as goat, as another one came flying down the slope and only just bloody missed me. At that point I called time-out, for a Health & Safety discussion.