Thread: What little pesties did you bowl over today?

Two toes fine, one toe is touch and go...

Ensuring the new lavender plants have a fighting chance.



Really liking the new IR940 illuminator. The rabbits are just going about their business completely unaware something bad is going to happen.

Spotted this hare at 150 yards.

Top corner above baleage.

Sent the .22pill on the way with Bo in hot pursuit.

Straight through the head.

Originally Posted by Dundee

Spotted this hare at 150 yards. Top corner above baleage. Sent the .22pill on the way with Bo in hot pursuit. Straight through the head.

Good dog. Always good to Bo on the go.

Ive changed scopes on 17 Hornet, so went out to the Apple orchard to sight it in last night.

It was pretty windy so i sighted it dead on at 43 yards which is its near zero for a secondary zero at 200 yards.

Then went out and looked for a few rabbits. 1st was a body shot at around 100 yards

Then a head shot at 150

Then i spotted a pair of ears thru the binos a fair way off, ranged at 275 yards.

A quick check of the ballistic app had me dialing on 1.5 moa.

I pulled my bino case in under the back of my rifle as i cranked the mag up to 20x.

As i settled the nice fine floating dot in the middle of the ret on the rabbits head that had just popped up a tad more, i pushed the CZ 527's trigger forward to set it...

A super light touch on the trigger as the ret was centred right in the middle of its head and 20gr of Vmax nastiness was on its way.

That unmistakable 'whop' 'crunching' sound of a solid head shot came back as i watched rabbit drop in its tracks thru the Sightron S-tac 4-20x50. What an absolute steal theses scopes are at the Cameraland NY current discounted price.

I reckon it just might be zeroed spot bloody on!

Snipping pests at longer ranges with the 17 Hornet is just so much fun. Very rewarding and super effective.

Im always amazed at how people can shoot bunnies at over 100 yards or even over 200. Its like magic to me, as someone who doesn't really get ballistics and all of the math behind clicking the scope things. All I know is that i sight in at about 50m, and the bullet drops a fair few inches at 75 and beyond, so I usually try to get within 50m of bunnies before shooting which isn't ideal but good stalking practice.

3 hares and rabbit today up on dairy farm with .22lr...didnt manage the one sitting along deer fence,projectiles kept hitting wireas angle was not in my favour...the runner who just kept going ,not letting me get bead of .22lr on him ,made mistake of stopping on dairy lane 200ish yards away,I unleashed thunder in form of 22-250 driving a 50 grn berger and ended his running days for good...actually unleashed it twice as the super nice but like trigger caught me AGAIN,first shot took back foot off,the 2nd however did just what I asked....by hoki that rifle is LOUD...... must look into suppressing it soon.any more than 3 shots and the ears just ring n ring.

22-250 and 17 Hornet took these down the other night. Took the boys out to celebrate the end of the school year, windy conditions cost me a couple of times. The salami pile is getting up, might be a trip to the butcher in the new year.

Originally Posted by JessicaChen

Im always amazed at how people can shoot bunnies at over 100 yards or even over 200. Its like magic to me, as someone who doesn't really get ballistics and all of the math behind clicking the scope things. All I know is that i sight in at about 50m, and the bullet drops a fair few inches at 75 and beyond, so I usually try to get within 50m of bunnies before shooting which isn't ideal but good stalking practice.

To be fair, the 17 Hornet makes it pretty easy. With the little 20gr bullet getting along at 3700 fps the trajectory is pretty flat. Ie any rabbit within 230 yards i can just aim straight at it and as long as you're holding steady its dead.

Beyond that i use the shooter app to tell me what i need to dial. Once set up and validated its really not that hard.

Whereas shooting a 22lr with subs, id need to dial 22.5 moa for 200 yards, which is the equivalent to shooting my 7mm Saum at 1,000 yards lol.

Saturday's effort. 80 -90 taken in total. Not very sporting this time of year but the numbers are out of control so happy to do my bit. Ran out of shells so then it was on with the 22.

Excellent varminting evening today… not a breath of wind, rabbits and hares in abundance. Took the wife, the .22LR and the .223 Rem. Shot half a dozen hares, all over 220m out to a max of 325m, and another couple close in with the .22. Snagged a few bunnies with the .22 including a nice 95m shot off the rim of a cattle trough. The wife is a dead eye shot, you don’t wanna be a lagomorph anywhere within half a click when she’s armed and ready to roll.



Found a cool spot to take the Staffies tomorrow - site for a new shed has been prepped and there’s a pile of fence posts and pallets absolutely chock-a-block full of young bunnies. There’s a completely clear 30+ metres of dead flat pad all around the timber pile with no more than a half inch growth of grass, so nowhere to hide once they break cover. We sat up high and watched a good 14 or 15 small rabbits lolloping around, I clapped my hands and they all ran into the pile of timber. Then they came out again… and we repeated the trick. Those dogs of mine are going to have a farkin’ field day. I think we will commandeer the neighbours Jack Russells as well.

3 Magpies sitting in a tree at about 50m, dropped one and the other 2 came down to see why it was on the ground, pew pew and a nice little pile of 3 Magpies dead.

@NZ_noddy it's been put to good use since you let it go, it's out and about with me most days and accounts for a serious number of kills!

Originally Posted by Mintie

3 Magpies sitting in a tree at about 50m, dropped one and the other 2 came down to see why it was on the ground, pew pew and a nice little pile of 3 Magpies dead.

That’s why it’s so important to always get the first one.

The very gun shy remnant of our spring magpie population came for a rare visit a few days ago. There’s only four left and they scatter at the first sign of movement. Those birds have watched a good two dozen of their mates act all weird and stop flying… and just lie there… just after a strange pop noise. They don’t like that strange pop noise anymore.

I saw the birds at about 80m through the pittosporum, snuck up to the fence for the shot, and inexplicably failed to hold over. WTF? Dumbass.

Puff of dust directly below the bird and off they went. Man I was cross… bet at least one and probably two of them would’ve come for a look if I’d hit the first one. Haven’t seen them since.

Snuck away for a couple of days with a buddy to do some pest control.
Still in recovery from emergency surgery couple weeks ago so took it easy.
851 rabbits, 14 wallaby and 2 cats later.