Blr243 wrote:Yes it was pretty cool. And all the more amazing considering I just happened to be thinking about wedgetails and piglets .....I was telling a farmer about it and he said that once on a family fishing trip on some inland waterway he saw a wedge tail swooping down on a jack russell dog. Everybody realised the eagles intentions and everybody ran to intervene but they could not get there in time ...they all had to watch as the eagle took yappy away on a one way flight
TassieTiger wrote:Geezus Brinny - I nearly choked on me coffee. Didn’t know footage like that was out there. Bloody hell. I’ve got a pair of nesting wedgies on a cliff that over looks A farm - I watch em for ages soaring the thermals...
NTSOG wrote:AJB: "... hits them hard the sound of the bullet hitting them is unforgettable ..."
A friend tells me he can tell the difference between a head shot and a body shot on a fox by the sound, but my hearing is a bit suspect nowadays - tractor ear an audiologist called it - and I always wear ear plugs.
Jim
NTSOG wrote:G'day oldbloke,
I cannot get the soft type of ear plugs into my right ear, probably due to a form of 'surfer's ear' brought about by over 25 years of sailing dinghies and getting splashed in the ear-hole. I use plastic types that have several 'flanges' and they stay put deep in the external ear canal:
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I have a pair of Leigh Light ear muffs and always wear them on the tractor, even in the cabin, but find that they make it awkward to remove and then replace my spectacles one handed when out hunting being 'clamped' firmly over my ears: I see better through my thermal viewer without my glasses so will slide them back on when I see a fox coming while holding the rifle with my other hand.
Jim