Thread: Dougies Hunting Trip With The Dundees

After arriving at the farm,introductions all round quick coffee slurped back and then stock work to do before any hunting adventure can begin.

Told the kids to get there gear on and Dougie was out of the house getting her warm gear on when I caught a glimpse of a nice slender leg I kept my mouth shut...

Stock work done then it was of too shift traps that were set in these rugged gullies from the nights before.



After traps were pulled of the trees and a new location was selected by Possom Trapper we proceeded down these greasy tracks slipperier than the Rena slick.The last trap was wrenched off a nice native rimu by Possom Trapper while Dougie stayed seated on the quad and I was a few feet away having a puff on my cigarette,when around the greasy corner slid the owner of the block on her quad where we were trapping on followed by an over excited hunterway pup that lept onto Dougies lap and covered her in clay footprints and slobber.

On the greasy slide too the new location Possom Trapper with his eagle eyes spotted a hare sitting next too its old warren.




Dougie was ready with her soldiers pose in the comfy squat position



When the bang echoed through the gully the hare sat still and never flinched a muscle,the shotty was passed to Possom Trapper who pumped 2 or 3 more rounds into this bullet proof hare when it scarpered up the bank a bit then it was my turn.I moved a few metres too the left of the shooting position too drop the hare in a very wet gully.

Possom Trapper and Dougie went to retrieve our fallen victom and Possom Trapper was a victom himself too a soaked mud bath at the bottom of a sodden gully when he rose he couldn't see the hare cause of the mud bath he just had so Dougie was directed by me from the top of the firing position almost loosing her gummies but the hare was retrieved all smiles a few minutes later.



Traps were all set for the brushtailed opposums in some great new locations and territory that was full of possom sign.



Then back too the house to get rid of the dead socks that we were all wearing by now and greeted by a nice hot meal of crumbed and battered trout and chips that was prepared by Mrs Dundee . Then Sean Dundee was taken on the quad too set his granddads cage trap baited with an apple before we headed out again for the night shoot. Part 2 next.