Die Judicii wrote::wtf: ????
Yeah......
Die Judicii wrote::wtf: ????
cz515 wrote:I been seeing a few lately around here, they must been breeding. A neighbour had the smaller ones in his backyard early in the year.
I Reckon the best is to shoot them with a camera. I am tempted to take my done around for a spin agreed the rains through
bigpete wrote::allegedly:Die Judicii wrote::wtf: ????
Yeah......
bigrich wrote:ordered a tikka t3 stainless in 6.5 swede this afternoon . popular opinion is these are exceptionally accurate , even more so when put in a good aftermarket stock . and cause they use a 30-06 length mag you can seat right out for more case capacity. unlike my 7-08 which is limited to 2.8"
Oldbloke wrote:bigrich wrote:ordered a tikka t3 stainless in 6.5 swede this afternoon . popular opinion is these are exceptionally accurate , even more so when put in a good aftermarket stock . and cause they use a 30-06 length mag you can seat right out for more case capacity. unlike my 7-08 which is limited to 2.8"
Why fuc around buy a 30.06. Lol
bladeracer wrote:Oldbloke wrote:bigrich wrote:ordered a tikka t3 stainless in 6.5 swede this afternoon . popular opinion is these are exceptionally accurate , even more so when put in a good aftermarket stock . and cause they use a 30-06 length mag you can seat right out for more case capacity. unlike my 7-08 which is limited to 2.8"
Why fuc around buy a 30.06. Lol
Even better, 7mm-06 (or .280Rem)
Oldbloke wrote:bigrich wrote:ordered a tikka t3 stainless in 6.5 swede this afternoon . popular opinion is these are exceptionally accurate , even more so when put in a good aftermarket stock . and cause they use a 30-06 length mag you can seat right out for more case capacity. unlike my 7-08 which is limited to 2.8"
Why fuc around buy a 30.06. Lol
bladeracer wrote:Oldbloke wrote:bigrich wrote:ordered a tikka t3 stainless in 6.5 swede this afternoon . popular opinion is these are exceptionally accurate , even more so when put in a good aftermarket stock . and cause they use a 30-06 length mag you can seat right out for more case capacity. unlike my 7-08 which is limited to 2.8"
Why fuc around buy a 30.06. Lol
Even better, 7mm-06 (or .280Rem)
bigpete wrote:
Fillet it,skin it,run it through a mincer,and make fish cakes
Lazarus wrote:Mowed the yard, for the second time in 3 days set up my blowfly target for the .22 at 200m aaaaand it rained, again.
Never thought I'd bitch about rain after carrying stinky town water home during the drought, but there it is.
Nice rack Pete
bladeracer wrote:Lazarus wrote:Mowed the yard, for the second time in 3 days set up my blowfly target for the .22 at 200m aaaaand it rained, again.
Never thought I'd bitch about rain after carrying stinky town water home during the drought, but there it is.
Nice rack Pete
200m sounds like fun...as long as the wind is behaving
Had my daughter and her young kids (eight to eleven years) here this week so I avoided shooting, but they were determined that they wanted to see some before they went home last night. So I took them out yesterday and put a dozen rounds through the SMLE for them. They were very, very surprised at how loud rifles are, apparently Fortnight isn't so noisy
Had a calf at 0330, just went out to check her, she's rolled under the fence and is happily sleeping in the road verge. Fine until she gets hungry and can't get back through the fence, so I'm going to have to try to get her through myself.
Lazarus wrote:bladeracer wrote:Had a calf at 0330, just went out to check her, she's rolled under the fence and is happily sleeping in the road verge. Fine until she gets hungry and can't get back through the fence, so I'm going to have to try to get her through myself.
I have a niece who is scared of guns, never been near one and her sister who is partnered with a farmer and lives with them and sees them for the essential tool they are.
Her man is one of the mad pig stabbers, bugger that for a joke.
She had me make him a purpose built sticker, he says it works a treat.
I've been trying to get the scared one to come out and learn but she's a townie through and through and has the "Hollywood" syndrome.
Good luck with the newborn, she'll eventually learn you're the go to guy.
bladeracer wrote:Lazarus wrote:bladeracer wrote:Had a calf at 0330, just went out to check her, she's rolled under the fence and is happily sleeping in the road verge. Fine until she gets hungry and can't get back through the fence, so I'm going to have to try to get her through myself.
I have a niece who is scared of guns, never been near one and her sister who is partnered with a farmer and lives with them and sees them for the essential tool they are.
Her man is one of the mad pig stabbers, bugger that for a joke.
She had me make him a purpose built sticker, he says it works a treat.
I've been trying to get the scared one to come out and learn but she's a townie through and through and has the "Hollywood" syndrome.
Good luck with the newborn, she'll eventually learn you're the go to guy.
Thankfully my daughter understands that I've been shooting most of my life, and shoot very regularly here. She also considers shooting, and being familiar with firearms, to be a useful life skill as well as an enjoyable hobby, though she's not very interested herself. I'm not sure she's ever done any shooting but she has been hunting, she's actually been out deer and pig hunting a lot more than I have, though her boyfriend's family hunted pigs with dogs and knives in Qld.
Drizzling out there but at least it's not freezing
Little cow was buried in the bloody blackberry, they don't seem to notice the thorns when they're less than a day old
I stomped most of it down but still got a few pricks lifting her out. The road fence has steel angle stringers in between the fence posts so you can't just pull the wires apart and push her through. But I found a stick and wedged the bottom wire up enough to get her head under, then just pushed. She jumped straight on the teat but I pushed mum up the hill closer to the gang, hopefully she'll settle down up there. We've got six more coming so we're up every three hours to check them anyway, if the wee one pushes down toward the road again we'll bring it back up.
My daughter's eleven-year-old asked me isn't it hard living on a farm. I thought about it before answering her. The rain, the cold, the mud, the cow poo, mile after mile of walking every week, high costs with low to no income, constantly repairing everything that breaks down, so many hours clearing fallen trees and repairing fences, having to trek into town any time I need something, animals getting crook and dropping dead despite your best efforts, nights spent out in the rain trying to keep a newborn calf alive, having to go and get firewood and get a fire going before you can be warm - it all sucks pretty much. But actually _living_ out here, away from people, traffic, crime, drugs and alcohol, all the petty meaningless issues that plague so many city people - it's pretty bloody awesome I reckon!
bladeracer wrote:
My daughter's eleven-year-old asked me isn't it hard living on a farm. I thought about it before answering her. The rain, the cold, the mud, the cow poo, mile after mile of walking every week, high costs with low to no income, constantly repairing everything that breaks down, so many hours clearing fallen trees and repairing fences, having to trek into town any time I need something, animals getting crook and dropping dead despite your best efforts, nights spent out in the rain trying to keep a newborn calf alive, having to go and get firewood and get a fire going before you can be warm - it all sucks pretty much. But actually _living_ out here, away from people, traffic, crime, drugs and alcohol, all the petty meaningless issues that plague so many city people - it's pretty bloody awesome I reckon!
Lazarus wrote:I hear you my friend, I go to my sister's place in town and it's like something out of my nightmares.
Standing in her bathroom using the "convenience" one day, looked out the window and there's oldmate next-door, about 5 metres away doing the same.
Awkward moment, we nodded to each other and went about it, but OMG, what a way to live.
Like being in the slam.
And the noise.
I'd rather go to the vet for the green dream than put up with that.
My nearest neighbours are over 3km down the road.
This year is the second without mulesing and the difference is amazing.
Happy babies running around after marking as though nothing had happened.
The boys were walking a little funny, but who wouldn't with an elastrator on.
Bloody rain and a late frost took their toll, but remarkably few compared to when they had been mulesed.
NTSOG wrote:G'day bladeracer,
Hopefully the market will continue to get stronger for sellers and you'll do well. My neighbours [who made $2200 for their steers before the FMD scare] also got $1800 for their heifers at the same sale.
Let us know how you go.
Jim
bladeracer wrote:Another cow in labour now so Rose is out keeping an eye on her, hopefully she drops quick with no issues so we can get some sleep.
bladeracer wrote:NTSOG wrote:G'day bladeracer,
Hopefully the market will continue to get stronger for sellers and you'll do well. My neighbours [who made $2200 for their steers before the FMD scare] also got $1800 for their heifers at the same sale.
Let us know how you go.
Jim
I forgot about this.
Rose got the ticket back but I've already forgotten the details. The biggest three-year-old bloke was 520kg and made $1700 nett. Two smaller boys were a three-year-old 385kg who made $1740 and a two-year-old a little over 300kg that made $2200 and something. Then three youngsters that we didn't get the weights of made a little over $5500 for the set. Angus made the big money, ours are Murray Greys. Our two-year-old made 25% more money than the three-year-olds though - that's annoying.
brinny wrote:I sold a big hereford steer a while back that weighed from memory 1070 KG....made $3800.....
Lazarus wrote:
I hear you my friend, I go to my sister's place in town and it's like something out of my nightmares.
Standing in her bathroom using the "convenience" one day, looked out the window and there's oldmate next-door, about 5 metres away doing the same.
Awkward moment, we nodded to each other and went about it, but OMG, what a way to live.