An afternoons work
05-08-2006, 05:07 AM
#1
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: NSW AUSTRALIA
Posts: 214
An afternoons work
I just got back from an afternoon recon of the new hunting ground.
I started with a spot of lunch and then opened the shotgun case and reached for the Rottweil and I was just starting to remove it when I glanced at my Grandpa’s old gun snuggled underneath it. I realised that the last time that I used it was back in November last year, when I took it pig shooting in QLD and I thought that it might be nice to warm it’s barrels once again.
I loaded up the car and headed off when I arrived about 1 minute later, and had only travelled about 200m down the track when I saw a big fox off to my right make it’s way up the hill and through the neighbougrs front yard, that’s when I first got the feeling it might be good afternoon.
I parked just across the river and went for a walk along the tracks with the GPS just to get to know the place and of course look for any surrounding houses and other areas of interest. I am was surprised just how big this place seems for 800ac, as it is all very folded country with lots of creeks and washaways it just seemed to go on.
I saw about 15 or 20 rabbits as I walked around and hundreds of Roo’s, I also saw some fresh sign of Goats and as there are lots of little 10-20ac goat farms in the area with frequent escapees and as the neighbour has a small mob of wild ones living on his block, I’m not at all surprised.
When I was on my way back to the car I saw another big fox run up a hill 100m in front of me it then stoped, sat down and had a good look at me, I wish now that I had remembered to bring the whistle.
I decided by this that I had seen enough and as it was getting quite cold not to mention late I decided that I would shoot a couple of Rabbits for dinner and head home (all 600m up the road)
I was just crossing a wash heading to a patch of blackberries that had some bunnies sitting around it when my dog flushed a Hare from the wash just 20m in front of me, it ran away from her and strait at me only to be greeted with a boom and 1o/z of N/o 7 ½ shot. He cart wheeled with the first barrel and was stone dead, I called my dog away from it and over to my side when another Hare took off 15-20m to my right, I swung the gun up and fired off the other barrel and sent it cart wheeling just like it’s mate.
I picked them up and was quite impressed by both their weight and with getting two Hares from two shots with my Pop’s old Blunderbuss (55yrs old and still going strong)
I got home 5 minutes or so later I got out my camera and took a few photos, dressed the Hares and left them to hang while I cleaned the mincing machine and then got to work making some mince.
I started with a spot of lunch and then opened the shotgun case and reached for the Rottweil and I was just starting to remove it when I glanced at my Grandpa’s old gun snuggled underneath it. I realised that the last time that I used it was back in November last year, when I took it pig shooting in QLD and I thought that it might be nice to warm it’s barrels once again.
I loaded up the car and headed off when I arrived about 1 minute later, and had only travelled about 200m down the track when I saw a big fox off to my right make it’s way up the hill and through the neighbougrs front yard, that’s when I first got the feeling it might be good afternoon.
I parked just across the river and went for a walk along the tracks with the GPS just to get to know the place and of course look for any surrounding houses and other areas of interest. I am was surprised just how big this place seems for 800ac, as it is all very folded country with lots of creeks and washaways it just seemed to go on.
I saw about 15 or 20 rabbits as I walked around and hundreds of Roo’s, I also saw some fresh sign of Goats and as there are lots of little 10-20ac goat farms in the area with frequent escapees and as the neighbour has a small mob of wild ones living on his block, I’m not at all surprised.
When I was on my way back to the car I saw another big fox run up a hill 100m in front of me it then stoped, sat down and had a good look at me, I wish now that I had remembered to bring the whistle.
I decided by this that I had seen enough and as it was getting quite cold not to mention late I decided that I would shoot a couple of Rabbits for dinner and head home (all 600m up the road)
I was just crossing a wash heading to a patch of blackberries that had some bunnies sitting around it when my dog flushed a Hare from the wash just 20m in front of me, it ran away from her and strait at me only to be greeted with a boom and 1o/z of N/o 7 ½ shot. He cart wheeled with the first barrel and was stone dead, I called my dog away from it and over to my side when another Hare took off 15-20m to my right, I swung the gun up and fired off the other barrel and sent it cart wheeling just like it’s mate.
I picked them up and was quite impressed by both their weight and with getting two Hares from two shots with my Pop’s old Blunderbuss (55yrs old and still going strong)
I got home 5 minutes or so later I got out my camera and took a few photos, dressed the Hares and left them to hang while I cleaned the mincing machine and then got to work making some mince.
05-08-2006, 09:26 AM
#2
Dominant Buck
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Ramsey , Indiana
Posts: 22,545
RE: An afternoons work
Nice looking hares , never seen bunny meat that dark though . Our Eastern Cottontails have flesh that looks and tastes a lot like chicken . I love sniping them with a pellet rifle while they munch the clover in my lawn .
05-08-2006, 08:02 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: NSW AUSTRALIA
Posts: 214
RE: An afternoons work
I said in a previous thread that they are different from Rabbits in more then just size as they have red meat not white, I thought that a photo might show the difference much better then I could ever explain.
The funny thing is they taste nothing like Rabbit at all but rather similar to Deer instead, there my favourite game meat to eat and now I can just pop down the road and fill the freezer whenever I like, I plan on eating them much more often.
The funny thing is they taste nothing like Rabbit at all but rather similar to Deer instead, there my favourite game meat to eat and now I can just pop down the road and fill the freezer whenever I like, I plan on eating them much more often.
good rabbits. lots bigger then iowas finest lol
