Thread: What little pesties did you bowl over today?

Originally Posted by tiroahunta

What do you think of the RPR? Contemplating one of those myself.


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RPR 17hmr is the most accurate rifle in my collection. Take down pests with absolute confident, no 2nd thought.

Quality build, adjustable LOP & cheek rest height, piccadilly & m-locks and heavy duty. Trigger pull suit me well. Relatively undervalue in my opinion. Definitely a good buy if you don't mind the weight, and accuracy is what you after.

I caught this strange looking possum the other day.... poor bastard.

A bit more work with red and green light. 2 hares and 2 rabbits. I've come to the conclusion that the green light work's best. Red light they don't really like and move off fairly quick. The green light just confuses them and they are not sure what to do. I shown the green light around the neighbors heafers and they didn't worry, when I put the red one on them they ccame running up to the fence.

Originally Posted by Phil_H

What's the rifle setup @Swanny???

Cheers
Phil

Hi Phil, it's a Rossi 20g single shot. Suppressor not quite as quiet as I hoped. Have to do some work on the load. Holosun red dot sight which you need as you can't look along the barrel with suppressor on. I like the sight and one of the hares was running at 90 degrees. First running one so pleased how easy it works. Light on a picatinny rail underneath. Cheers Swanny.

Two for one shot. Stoked.




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Fine little shoot last night. A weekend Tekapo trip postponed because of weather so 3 of us headed out to farm on way to Akaroa. It was a night shoot wandering big acreage in the truck with Maxtochs, 223, 22 magnum and shottie. Windy, gusty conditions made it very challenging at distance but we did get pretty much everything we went for. 33 bunnies in about 3 and a half hours - almost all hares.

New-to-me Howa 223 shot its first animal, then old 1930s 12g side by side beat the shite out of me as usual ... Good outing - boys did well.

Took the 22 for a walk yesterday. These things weren't very gun shy, missed a couple and they just looked around like nothing happened! A lot different to the ones that know me at my in-laws place.

Right now the stock rotation is perfect for a late spring evening hare hunt - the heifers are in the roadside paddocks and the back blocks are a week into their regrowth having been grazed flat. Guess where the hares are.

So a good man-bod workout up the hill with the .22LR and S&B subs for a spot of hare stalking. Couple of these were solid 100m+ shots off old pine stumps, two were offhand (one standing at 40ish, one kneeling at 70ish) and one a fairly run of the mill 60m headshot prone on the edge of the long grass.

What’s really got me stoked is the new anti-hay-fever recipe, which is dealing to the infernal allergy really well. This is massive for me. Home having a brown ale with no symptoms whatsoever. Result!

Originally Posted by Flyblown

Right now the stock rotation is perfect for a late spring evening hare hunt - the heifers are in the roadside paddocks and the back blocks are a week into their regrowth having been grazed flat. Guess where the hares are.

So a good man-bod workout up the hill with the .22LR and S&B subs for a spot of hare stalking. Couple of these were solid 100m+ shots off old pine stumps, two were offhand (one standing at 40ish, one kneeling at 70ish) and one a fairly run of the mill 60m headshot prone on the edge of the long grass.

What’s really got me stoked is the new anti-hay-fever recipe, which is dealing to the infernal allergy really well. This is massive for me. Home having a brown ale with no symptoms whatsoever. Result!

Nice work! Always fun. Whats the hayfever recipe mate?

You and your cat will be very well fed. Hare is premium meat, as good as venison in my opinion

Originally Posted by GWH

Nice work! Always fun. Whats the hayfever recipe mate?

The quack changed me from Loratadine to Cetirizine, and added Ranitidine, which is an antacid treatment that apparently helps with allergic reaction. Has certainly made a difference for me. And my brown ale burps taste better. Who knew?

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

You and your cat will be very well fed. Hare is premium meat, as good as venison in my opinion

The only cats we have here on this property mate are the dead ones in the offal pit.

We have some well-prepared vacuum packed hare meat ageing in the fridge, I will report back on the venison comparison after consumption.

Might try out that hayfever recipe. Ive been plagued by chronic allergies ever since early 2020, and only subsided a little during mid winter. Trying all manner of antihistamines which usually don't work that great.

Sent out some Pellets tonight between 57yards and 135 yards.

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Hell yeah...



I hollered at the hill when I finally nailed this bastard this evening. He gave me the run around all last summer - I had one shot at him with the Creedmoor from a silly distance and screwed it up by having the wrong bloody projectile selected in Strelok. That didn't go down very well. Took me a couple of days to work out why I missed as well, jeez I was cross. Stupid bugger. You don't get many chances to shoot at this wily bird - ever since the flock started getting pressure (after ripping open haylage bales and wrecking valuable winter feed) they have become incredibly wary of any human activity within a good kilometre radius of their hangout.

Earlier this spring I took a mate up the back there to try and get this damn bird. I said...

I'm going to go up this way, you go up that way. Don't whatever you do walk up the central race through the farm.
Why?
You have to go along the creek in cover, then up the hill inside that wee bush block.
What?
Yeah mate, else he'll see you.
No he fucking won't, I'll be miles away!
Yeah mate, he will. Eyes like a Reaper drone, that one. Old buggerlugs used to come up here in a ghillie suit to get onto these birds.
Nah come on Dave, you're just being a useless cunt. Watch, I'll get him.

So off he goes up the middle race, the easy way, and Mr. Bird sees him from a good 900m+ away and runs straight back into cover. Ignominious defeat. Again. The "I told you so" isn't very nice so I stopped asking him to come help.

This evening I went the very long way round. All the way round the bottom of hill on the boundary, then very steeply up to the airstrip at the back. Crawled my way across the second half of the airstrip so not to be skylined, and got to my spot behind the old fert shed blowing like a bastard, sweaty as. Then promptly got smashed by a thunderstorm which soaked me right through and made me cold as, plus I forgot the bug spray so I got farkin' mutilated by the sandflies. Luckily I'm full of antihistamine for the hayfever...

A+ for effort and discomfort. But as soon as I was setup I though ah ha, you wily old bastard bird, you won't be looking for trouble up here.

Right on cue, out comes Mr. Bird with three hens, but from the other side of the bush block where he lives, which I've never seen him do before and explains why I haven't been seeing him and his hareem for a while. That immediately added another 200m+ to the shot. This totally threw me. So I waited until he was settled, and ranged him - 430m. Crikey.

.223 Rem, 50gr Z-Max, patchy breeze from 20h00ish. Mental arithmetic (i.e. guessing) and a cautious wind 2 MOA hold was decided upon. Dialled 7.5 MOA up on the Sightron and settled in for the shot. Bastard was now staring straight at me.... No way, surely not. For a good 10 minutes he didn't flinch, just stood stock still, staring directly at me. He must have seen my movement while I ranged him and dialled. Bloody hell! I was sure he was gonna gap it, but when he finally, cautiously pecked the ground it was a clear indication... get ready.

Another couple of minutes of patient breathing and slight shifts of the reticle to the left as he moved and I thought it's now or never... exhale, hold, bang.... THWOP.... and dead right bloody there. Man was I pleased with myself.

Long story for a supposed "dumb bird" hey! This was one of my most satisfying shots for a long time.

Plus I got a whack a bunny a tad over 300m on the way to the bird, which just made my day. I love my SuperVarmint, had it 10 years now and it's been a damn fine varmint rifle.