Thread: What little pesties did you bowl over today?

4 Hares total on a mates block, been destroying his recently planted trees. 17hmr

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Took Bo down to the river for some possum plucking.....we fulled a bread bag at $95 a kilo with #no 7 steel shot.

Yummy pest.

Bit more fur plucking!

A couple of hours out with the 17HMR and a bag of rabbits for the cat trappers.

Shot this bugger with no.7 steel thought yeah that be instant kill,wrong jumped from the tree and Bo caught him and drowned it in the river.
Fur drying next to the fire now.

Back at it tonight.

Don't have to leave the track with Bo.

Shoot and retrieve.

Pluck and job done while Bo watches.

Home time ..lol

me names Bo-yall can call ME JACKO SMACKO him nah not shortarse _BOSS will do other wise I might have to walk home-bugger!!

Another one for the fur jar.

No 7 steel didn't quite do the job.

Followed up with a No.4 and it dropped in the river.
No problem for Bo.

Wet dog wet fur no worries!

Fur drying by the fire again.

Went to check the pig dump and looked way down the long steep face at this little black bastard loitering around a freshly dump cow carcass.

Shot was at least -45° down, 165m.

Satisfying.

VERY satisfying

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I have a few chooks and use grandpa feeders, the sparrows are pretty switched on and rob quite a bit of the chook feed. During winter I use a bit of poisoned wheat to keep the numbers in check, the poison is the kind that has a narcotic that puts them to sleep and hypothermia kills them. I usually put the wheat in the garden where some of the kitchen scraps go. After the initial kill the birds wise up and the kill rate drops right off. The interesting part is that some of the remaining wheat in the garden has been knocking of a few young rats, so will keep a bit of wheat scattered around in different areas.

Originally Posted by Flyblown

Went to check the pig dump and looked way down the long steep face at this little black bastard loitering around a freshly dump cow carcass.

Shot was at least -45° down, 165m.

Satisfying.

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Good work what Calibre?

Originally Posted by Dundee

Good work what Calibre?

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50gr ZombieMax at 3400fps turned that cat inside out. It was rearranged for the photograph for obvious reasons….

I spent the night at our place in the Waikato on Friday. I went out spotlighting earlier but didn't get anything. At 1AM the dog got woken up by some scurrying on the deck of some sort... You can be sure within 30 seconds I was on the deck in my PJs with the .22. I managed to shoot the possum on the front lawn. While I was up I thought I may as well have a scan of the place from on the deck with my headlamp (only a low power led lenser) so could only see 30 or so metres. I shone the light on a cat on the neighbours place. Believe it or not the cat then walked through the fence into our orchard!! I missed my first shot through the gate at it but chased it out the orchard into the next paddock where I landed a good shot in the shoulder. It darted away next to the shed and then I heard a terrible screech. It ended up in the drain next to the shed. Result! Dumbest cat ever!

Shot the plover with some 1-1/4oz 5s through the 20ga while looking for pheasants. I thought it would be good practice retrieving for the dog - he just walked around it staring intently.

As promised in an earlier thread of mine I WILL be cooking up the plover - its currently curing in the fridge.