zobster wrote:Hi guys, I know I've been absent for a long time. But I'm back now. I recently came across a farmer who gave me permission to shoot feral geese on his land! SCORE!!
But these things are bloody smart with 6/6 x-ray, terminator, super long range vision! They see the farm ute approaching from a km away, they scatter and rush onto the river where no shooting is allowed, conservation land or something. I got one last week and they "remembered" my car and they would the same thing. I tried spotlighting them, the moment I light them up, they do the same thing.
There are at least 200 of the animals and the farmer would like to see them gone.
Any tips and tricks to getting more than one on every trip? There's a pipeline that run across the paddocks where the geese are, I've used it to stalk within 200m of them and unleashed the mighty OSA 223 on them. Then they scatter onto the river.
These are none migratory as I've seen them year round grazing in the paddocks.
Chronos wrote:12g, 36 grams of BB and put yourself between them and where they take refuge (across the river)
You'd want to be there before dawn ad catch them as they come from their roost to feed and again at dusk when they go back to the nest
Chronos
Gwion wrote:There are often a lot of feral geese around, some times in among flocks of Cape Barron. Would be doing the CBs a favour by getting rid of the ferals!
Title_II wrote:If you carry a fun in Australia you will go to jail.
NukeBOMB88 wrote:Use a rifle from long range?
Wylie27 wrote:Brett,
what about your 50BMG? surely perched up on a hill about 1km away with a hollywood style scope zoomed right in on the geese would be uber quiet for the geese
zobster wrote:I like the idea of the hide. Might try and convince the farmer on that.
The one I shot I kept the breast and legs. Made a ragu out of it, not too bad. 1hr in the pressure cooker.
zobster wrote:I like the idea of the hide. Might try and convince the farmer on that.
The one I shot I kept the breast and legs. Made a ragu out of it, not too bad. 1hr in the pressure cooker.