by Gaznazdiak » 27 Jun 2018, 2:55 pm
It happened here on Sunday.
The rail line runs past the house about 80m away and there is a maintenance track alonside it.
Just after sundown I heard 2 shots really close so I went out for a look and there was a ute parked on the track about 175m from the house. When the driver saw me he took off along the track and disappeared. There were no obvious casualties, there were no sheep in the house paddock, so I thought nothing more, until this morning when I found the remains in the pic. The scumbag slithered back after dark.
This whole 1200h block is a native reserve with no natives shot here at all and the few roos here have worked it out and would graze up to within 10m of me when I'm set up over a warren and seem untroubled by the .223 so they'd be sitting ducks.
What sh!ts me the most is that 70m further along the trajectory from where the ute was sitting to the remains, about 65m, are the plainly obvious shearing and machinery sheds about which I lurk in wait for Tony Rabbit. And how bad a shot do you need to be to need 2 shots, from what sounded like a 6.5mm at least, to get something the size of a roo from 65m? And where the hell did the first one go? Arsehole!
When I was in high school, the father of a kid in some of my classes ended up in the slammer for shooting back. He'd lost several cattle and then one of his horses, so he heard the shots, went out with his SMLE and put a few rounds into their engine bay. No casualties except the car, which we all thought was a shame , seeing as he was going inside anyway.
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