Thread: Hunting in the Rain

Can't beat a day goat shooting even in the rain, great write up.

Originally Posted by Rushy

On ya Pete. It is certainly fun smacking goats over.

Mighty good eating too if you choose them wisely

Originally Posted by Kiwi Greg

Mighty good eating too if you choose them wisely

Yes bought some meat home with me.

My wife's friend loves our lamb roasts

Cheers
Pete

How am I going to blood my Hawkin and Sharps if you keep knocking off all the goats, a nice young one would be ok for curries . I have spotted some on one of my hunts, so will be having a look again soon, I only want two, should take only a hour or two with my fast loading Hawken.

Great read! Cheers

Originally Posted by BRADS

Awesome Pete nice to see a good story after some of the bitch squabbles latley.

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Has there been bitch squabbles?!?!? Man I must be reading the wrong sections!

Well it raining again and today we had planned my first hunt since my Heart Event in April.

So what's a man to do?

Simple put on ya rain coat, grab your rifle and go hunting

So I picked up my mate at 8:30 and headed for our hunting block.
Today we were hunting/ culling Goats and as usual it was AR's only.
The day started well with our first mob sighted within 100m of entering the block the AR's were lit up and shortly after 8 Goats were on the ground.
With Mags reloaded its time to start climbing the hills, the goats around here love being up high.
This will be my first test, how will I go on the hills?
The cardiologist has told me to take it easy, with only moderate exercise so I won't be pushing it too hard.
Well the first series of ridges saw us climb 150m in elevation and I was puffing quite a bit but with a short rest I was right again, good job we rested too because as soon as we crested the rise in front of us we spied our second and much larger mob of goats at about 200m away on the next rise.
With the AR's cycling away nicely I quickly despatched several Goats with my 5 round mag running empty in less than a minute.
My mate who was running a 30 round mag at this stage cleaned up the remainder of the mob, however there was a few escapees that needed to be followed up

Once again the mags were reloaded and away we went again climbing each crest in the hills in turn.
I was feeling quite good now and although I wasn't running up the hills I was managing to drag my sorry arse from one to another without too much difficulty.
As the day went on we cam upon several more mobs that fell quickly to the efficiency of the AR's.
By mid afternoon the rain was getting heavier and we decided it was time to head back to the car.
Retracing our steps saw us encounter several more smaller mobs of goats including this billy.


Once back at the car a tally up was had, we had been hunting for 5 hours, travelled about 3 kms, climbed over 200m in total, shot over 50 goats between us and nearly ran out of ammo, but the best part was I was back hunting again.

I found that I can still climb the hills ok, need to get fitter, but are back hunting...... In the Rain.

Cheers
Pete

Awesome stuff Pete

Way to go Pete.

Good on yah Pete, goat curry this week?

Originally Posted by P38

Well it raining again and today we had planned my first hunt since my Heart Event in April.

So what's a man to do?

Simple put on ya rain coat, grab your rifle and go hunting

So I picked up my mate at 8:30 and headed for our hunting block.
Today we were hunting/ culling Goats and as usual it was AR's only.
The day started well with our first mob sighted within 100m of entering the block the AR's were lit up and shortly after 8 Goats were on the ground.
With Mags reloaded its time to start climbing the hills, the goats around here love being up high.
This will be my first test, how will I go on the hills?
The cardiologist has told me to take it easy, with only moderate exercise so I won't be pushing it too hard.
Well the first series of ridges saw us climb 150m in elevation and I was puffing quite a bit but with a short rest I was right again, good job we rested too because as soon as we crested the rise in front of us we spied our second and much larger mob of goats at about 200m away on the next rise.
With the AR's cycling away nicely I quickly despatched several Goats with my 5 round mag running empty in less than a minute.
My mate who was running a 30 round mag at this stage cleaned up the remainder of the mob, however there was a few escapees that needed to be followed up
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Once again the mags were reloaded and away we went again climbing each crest in the hills in turn.
I was feeling quite good now and although I wasn't running up the hills I was managing to drag my sorry arse from one to another without too much difficulty.
As the day went on we cam upon several more mobs that fell quickly to the efficiency of the AR's.
By mid afternoon the rain was getting heavier and we decided it was time to head back to the car.
Retracing our steps saw us encounter several more smaller mobs of goats including this billy.
Attachment 72584

Once back at the car a tally up was had, we had been hunting for 5 hours, travelled about 3 kms, climbed over 200m in total, shot over 50 goats between us and nearly ran out of ammo, but the best part was I was back hunting again.

I found that I can still climb the hills ok, need to get fitter, but are back hunting...... In the Rain.

Cheers
Pete

Life is good again, Pete. I'm delighted for you (and your family).

Originally Posted by Tahr

Life is good again, Pete. I'm delighted for you (and your family).

+1

great stuff,nothing like a good bomb up to make a man feel alive. never appreciated goats when I lived up north,sure do miss them living in south canterbury....just as well we have wallabies.

Thanks guys

I was really great to get back out hunting again.

looking forward to some Spring hunting now.

Cheers
Pete

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

great stuff,nothing like a good bomb up to make a man feel alive. never appreciated goats when I lived up north,sure do miss them living in south canterbury....just as well we have wallabies.

Shooting Goats is great fun, and the meat is very good too.

I used to love hunting Wallabies.

We used to hunt them on a landcorp farm near Rotoma back in the 80s.

Was nothing for three of us to get 100 in a night with a Shotty, A trebly and a Spotlight.

Tastey little buggers too

Cheers
Pete