Thread: What little pesties did you bowl over today?

Bugger you Kruza, does that mean I need to now........

Actually they could probably go well with a dose of sweet baby rays Buffalo wing sauce ��

Don't kill the flavour with sauce.
It is a really good meat.
I imagine that it changes during the season. But hey they eat all the tips and fruits off our natives, so probly good anyway.
Mind you I've eaten Bush rat as well. Cicada and quiet a few other eatable things that don't really sit to well with most people.
My view is if you at least eat it once, then you don't waste time in a survival situation uming and arrhing about a potential food source.
Bon appetite

Originally Posted by kruza

Possum rocks. That is a totally eatable. Better than hare by a long shot. My only regret is I only took one leg. It will be on menu for sure. Gawd all the meat I've wasted not eating them.
Bit more of pain on arse checking for signs of tb.
Done at 180c on air fry.

Be very very careful of accumulated 1080 toxicity.

Shyt a very valid point that I hadn't even concidered. Dam 1080.
Still I've seen no poison signs around area. But definitely be more aware.

1080 does not accumulate.

Brodifacoum does and is readily available over the shelf and used on farms and (non DOC) parks all over the country. That is the one you should be concerned about.

That possum looks great Kruza. Anyone here know the best way to check for TB in possums? keen to try one myself now

Originally Posted by slk12

That possum looks great Kruza. Anyone here know the best way to check for TB in possums? keen to try one myself now

Check the arm pit areas for lumps and or puss. Pretty rare to find one and many regions are free of it now. Auckland and Northland haven't had TB in possums for decades.

Haven't shot one of these for a while, they come and go around here. 45m using a Cannon multipump .177 JSB Hades pellet

(last photo comes with a warning for the squeamish...)

Went for a quick overnighter up the Waiohine Friday night. After no success on the bambi's evening and morning, I was about 200m from hitting the main track to head home, and came across 3 little piggies. Sadly for them, they didn't have a brick house to hide in when the big bad .223 huffed and puffed, and blew their faces in - 3 from 3. Bloody stoked after seeing the damage the little fuckers have been doing. Massive areas of forest floor look like a ploughed field, a little heartbreaking to see. Also pretty stoked with the .223, Winchester Super X 64gr from about 15-20m made quite a mess...



All happened very fast, and can't quite recall which angle the poor little bastard was... facing :/ but... yeah.

Originally Posted by yeah_na_missed

(last photo comes with a warning for the squeamish...)

Went for a quick overnighter up the Waiohine Friday night. After no success on the bambi's evening and morning, I was about 200m from hitting the main track to head home, and came across 3 little piggies. Sadly for them, they didn't have a brick house to hide in when the big bad .223 huffed and puffed, and blew their faces in - 3 from 3. Bloody stoked after seeing the damage the little fuckers have been doing. Massive areas of forest floor look like a ploughed field, a little heartbreaking to see. Also pretty stoked with the .223, Winchester Super X 64gr from about 15-20m made quite a mess...
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All happened very fast, and can't quite recall which angle the poor little bastard was... facing :/ but... yeah.

hope you kept the piggly wiggly's. They would be the best size for a small roast

I was thinking that... I was in a bit of a hurry to get out trying to make it to Outdoors Hut in Upper Hutt (Outdoors Hutt?) to pick up some goodies (ended up being 30 mins late, and Tony took them elsewhere for me to collect on the way through - what a bloody legend!).

I was probably looking for excuses, but I wondered about residual 1080 - funnily enough mentioned above, and also been told that pigs pick up worms and all sorts of goodies from scavenging carcasses... And along with running late already, they both sowed enough doubt for me to leave them behind, returning the nutrients to the forest, from whence they came. Next time though! (unless someone confirms my doubts).

Originally Posted by slk12

That possum looks great Kruza. Anyone here know the best way to check for TB in possums? keen to try one myself now

I check for any type of skin lumps and growths , white spotty lungs or any dark clots in lungs, any lesions, spoting of liver, heart, kidneys ( which I check for any sign of things going wrong).
Over all condition of animal.
Personally I'd just jump on Web and look up tb signs in possum and look at photos of what your looking for. A picture is better than worded discription.
Internal signs of poisoning is something I need to learn up on now.

Caught this stinky little weasel in a rat trap overnight. Man does it stink.

Mum was letting the little Staffy bitch out of the back door for wee in this inclement weather and the dog immediately stopped and looked down at the trap by the kitchen drain. Signalled immediately, mum you’ve caught something… Smelly little bastard was still very much alive so the dog was given the duty of dispatching it. Good dog.

Both Staffys have been spending a couple of hours out hunting in the gardens every night, even in the really shit weather. We thought it might be a ferret again because it’s the mustelid smell that gets the dogs totally wound up, way more wound up than rats or rabbits.

The little bitch is so determined to find them in the undergrowth that every morning we are pulling grass seeds and gunk out of her eyes.

How did ya swamp comp go @Flyblown or still no results?