Duck shooters

**Maha** · 6th May 2011, 15:09

Calling all Ducks, Calling all Ducks....in a word......DUCK!

**nodrog:Me** · 6th May 2011, 15:29

Fuckin BANG!

**Edbear** · 6th May 2011, 15:51

Originally Posted by Dave Lobster

Wouldn't it be more 'sporting' to shoot at things that can shoot back?

Ducks with guns...

**Flip** · 6th May 2011, 18:22

I do go duck hunting from time to time but I prefer goose hunting, its a lot more challenging.

Rabbit hunting.......ummmmmmm.......this was taken a couple of years ago at the Easter Bunny Hunt (wobbleys on the way home) we got about 700 or so that night. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5UW9VMwb50 There are heaps of them around this year. We went out last weekend and got about 600 in 2 nights.

**SMOKEU** · 6th May 2011, 18:49

Originally Posted by Dave Lobster

Wouldn't it be more 'sporting' to shoot at things that can shoot back?

Yeah, go to Iraq and shoot some towel heads!

**Mom** · 6th May 2011, 19:05

Each to their own, and power to them.

I could not decide this morning who was more excited, my neighbour or his dogs

All dressed up, been back and forth to the maimai for the last few weeks getting ready. Dogs buzzing out, him pacing waiting for his mate to arrive

Not for me personally...

**MadDuck** · 6th May 2011, 19:14

Originally Posted by Edbear

Ducks with guns...

Yeah! Go the ducks

**Mom** · 6th May 2011, 19:37

Originally Posted by Flip

We went out last weekend and got about 600 in 2 nights.

Do you eat the meat? I love rabbit meat! I hate the thought of it going to waste. What do you shoot them with? Hopefully not buckshot, makes it impossible to have clean meat. Head shots are far more difficult I agree and for culling purposes impractical, but it would be nice to think at least some hit the pot?

**Flip** · 6th May 2011, 20:36

Originally Posted by Mom

Do you eat the meat? I love rabbit meat! I hate the thought of it going to waste. What do you shoot them with? Hopefully not buckshot, makes it impossible to have clean meat. Head shots are far more difficult I agree and for culling purposes impractical, but it would be nice to think at least some hit the pot?

Mostly with a 223 varmiting rifle. We do eat a few, we collect up some of the clean hits and do a great big pot of "Tastes like chicken" korma curry and serve it on rice. Its my favorite rabbit recipe at the moment.
We shoot on some of my works farms, we have 3 big otago properties under control as far as rabbits go and are just starting now on numbers 4 and 5 now. The alternative is we have to poison and as I some times moralise about shooting rabbits it is a lot better for us, the rabbits and the enviroment if we shoot them.

**Edbear** · 6th May 2011, 20:47

Originally Posted by Flip

Mostly with a 223 varmiting rifle. We do eat a few, we collect up some of the clean hits and do a great big pot of "Tastes like chicken" korma curry and serve it on rice. Its my favorite rabbit recipe at the moment.
We shoot on some of my works farms, we have 3 big otago properties under control as far as rabbits go and are just starting now on numbers 4 and 5 now. The alternative is we have to poison and as I some times moralise about shooting rabbits it is a lot better for us, the rabbits and the enviroment if we shoot them.

It's a bit of a dilemma, really, once you have such vast numbers to deal to. It's similar to the possum problem. Could enough trappers and shooters do enough every night to make a difference?

Most people would class duck season as a sport, not a necessity for meat, same as deer hunting. Anyone who uses a firearm only because they have to and not because they enjoy it is a rare person indeed.

**Maha** · 6th May 2011, 20:50

......but why go to the extent of dressing up like Rambo and spend so much time selecting the right sopt and building what can only be described as a lavish shit house, when all really need is a loaf of bread?...

**Shadows** · 6th May 2011, 21:00

Originally Posted by Maha

......but why go to the extent of dressing up like Rambo and spend so much time selecting the right sopt and building what can only be described as a lavish shit house, when all really need is a loaf of bread?...

You also need a bottle of rum and a sack hidden inside your jacket.