What did you do today?

[Wapiti]

Mustering and vaccinating, putting cows with the new bull and separating weaner Droughtmaster cattle. Bugger. No lunch today, as is usual lately.

[bigpete]

Picked up a pair of Hikmicro Habrok HQ50L multi spectrum binoculars from the LGS

[Bugman]

Not much. Went to docs, all good there then came home and did sfa.

[Oldbloke]

Made a basic cammo poncho with some cammo netting I bought cheap.
Packed the ute. Heading off tomorrow morning for a few days hunting..

[bigpete]

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Went hunting goats

[bigrich]

Made a basic cammo poncho with some cammo netting I bought cheap.
Packed the ute. Heading off tomorrow morning for a few days hunting..

good luck mate , hope you get some venison

[bigrich]

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Went hunting goats

good stuff pete , goat curry on the menu ? that goat looks preggers , should have a bit more fat on it . i nailed a goat a few weeks ago that was really healthy with a bit of fat on it . i gave some to a mate and he reckons it's really good . i'll have to cook some of mine up this weekend . cheers

[bigpete]

I don't think it was pregnant,she hadn't bagged up at all.
I love eating goat,so does my boy

[Oldbloke]

Made a basic cammo poncho with some cammo netting I bought cheap.
Packed the ute. Heading off tomorrow morning for a few days hunting..

good luck mate , hope you get some venison

Na, no good. Rained, blew, rained and blew some more.
Was going to go out thisavo but not feeling well.
With luck tomorrow evening (got urgent job to do first) for a couple of hours with the whistle.

[Bugman]

Got up and went to work. Great weather here at present but ufortunately, no time for shooting.

[bigrich]

Got up and went to work. Great weather here at present but ufortunately, no time for shooting.

it pays the bills mate . someone's gotta do it

[bigrich]

I don't think it was pregnant,she hadn't bagged up at all.
I love eating goat,so does my boy

i've been eating it for years . used to be able to shoot as many as i wanted down tenterfeild . depending on property owners wishes it's a bit harder for me to get goat meat these days . i'm selective about the species of goat to get the best meat . yeah i know they're fairly interbred , but some have strong throwbacks in physical traits . best tasting i ever had was a long haired nanny that looked like a dutch variety . hardly any gamie-ness at all in the meat . recent one was a short haired "brindle" coated nanny . both of these were larger than the smaller white variety that don't seem to taste as good. i use chicken stock in my goat curry , and only lightly brown the meat in a covered saucepan with a decent amount of olive oil before adding stock and vege's . yep. that's on the menu tonight

[CJRBOLTGUN1]

set up some steel out at 500m ,shooting off the back verandah,and thats gonna be it cause of the rain

[bigrich]

set up some steel out at 500m ,shooting off the back verandah,and thats gonna be it cause of the rain

raining cats and dogs where i am . hoping their getting some 4 hours west where i hunt

[bigpete]

Spent the day exploring and doing bird photography. Saw 3 goats but had no real interest in killing anything so let them go

[bigrich]

Spent the day exploring and doing bird photography. Saw 3 goats but had no real interest in killing anything so let them go

i only shoot goats/deer for meat , unless the property owner wants them gone . they might compete with livestock for graze, but their a resource in my book

besides seeing eagles up close on culled carcases, the most amazing bird i've seen is the major mitchell cockatoo. with their crest up and wings extended their beautiful . do a google search on images if you haven't seen one . pics on my iphone don't do them justice . you using a good camera pete ?

[Oldbloke]

Haven't seen a major mitchell cockatoo for a while. But quite a few king parrots tho.

[bigpete]

Spent the day exploring and doing bird photography. Saw 3 goats but had no real interest in killing anything so let them go

i only shoot goats/deer for meat , unless the property owner wants them gone . they might compete with livestock for graze, but their a resource in my book

besides seeing eagles up close on culled carcases, the most amazing bird i've seen is the major mitchell cockatoo. with their crest up and wings extended their beautiful . do a google search on images if you haven't seen one . pics on my iphone don't do them justice . you using a good camera pete ?

I seen them when I went to Booroorban in April. Couldn't quite get a good photo though.
I'm using a nikon D7000 dskr with a 70-300mm nikkpr lense. It does an ok job but I'm planning on getting a nikkor 200-500mm f5.6 lense soon for the longer shots/little birds. This trip I've manage to photograph mallee ringnecks,Bourke parrots,yellow naped honeyearers,striped honeyeaters,Jacky winters,female red cap robins,2 species of butcher birds,and a species of swift I've yet to identify

[Flyonline]

Had a couple of weeks off but didn't get a lot of hunting in between the good half being away for a week and both girls sick (at the same time ). Did manage to come across the first fallow I've seen in the flesh for a while, a little button buck but it was crossing from private to plantation on the road, but confirmed that there were fallow where I thought there were (and only 200m from public huntable land). A bit of a walk showed up some promise, some very fresh sign and possibly busted 2 deer in different places that I didn't get to see. This area was burnt maybe 18 months ago, so the bracken is THICK and noisy, but there's nothing much else except in the gully bottoms in the way of brush.

I'd decided I wanted to get a small tarp for emergency rain showers, so I bought a few m2 of some UL fabric and started on a waterproof(ish) gun sock that I can keep in the back for downpours. Good thing I did as I had a heap of trouble getting the sewing machine working properly before I worked out that the thread type was the wrong one. Then this morning I knocked up a 1.5x2m tarp with trekking pole/stick holders and tie-outs in a bit over an hour. The 'assistant' then asked if we could put it up, so we did that and I had a bit of a play with various other setups. Just have to get hold of a few ultra light tent pegs and some light reflective tie out cord (using thick para cord for trialing).

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[CJRBOLTGUN1]

set up some steel out at 500m ,shooting off the back verandah,and thats gonna be it cause of the rain

raining cats and dogs where i am . hoping their getting some 4 hours west where i hunt

probably not as much as the coast but feral numbers will be up this year due to better rains and better crops

[Bugman]

Heading west for some rest, recreation and to add to the prospects for lead mining on the property I will be staying at.

[Oldbloke]

Lots of rain and wind where I am.

Sooo, Mrs oldbloke and myself had a day of DVSs.

Here is a timeless classic. One of our favourites.

https://youtu.be/XPSBLFhz8i8?si=_cpPvfQ1TsDC4Za-

[Wm.Traynor]

Very good OB.
And I was cooped up too and here is what I watched
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA5C9IM ... =2&t=5170s

[Bugman]

I ate a meat pie with chips.

[Oldbloke]

Very good OB.
And I was cooped up too and here is what I watched
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA5C9IM ... =2&t=5170s

Annoying can't watch it.

[wanneroo]

I am on a great adventure. By the time I am done it will be over 10K kilometers of driving. I have seen many, many things and will report back soon.

[bladeracer]

Very good OB.
And I was cooped up too and here is what I watched
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA5C9IM ... =2&t=5170s

I've seen Midnight Run a few times, but not in the past twenty years or more. I enjoyed it, might have to find it again.

[bladeracer]

Spent five hours driving home after an awesome three days shooting Cowboy at Bendigo, what a blast!
The shoot-offs today were huge fun. Mano-a-Mano, two shooters on the clock, fastest goes into the next round, slowest is out. I shot cap & ball Friday, yesterday and this morning but decided black is too much of a lottery for the shoot-offs, you just don't know whether they'll all go off. So I borrowed a pair of Vaqueros. I made the mistake of declining to use their ammo though and used my own, which the pistols didn't play well with - six of the ten rounds were light strikes, despite running the five around the clock two more times. I bet they'll fire just fine in the rifle when I test them tomorrow - oh well

[bigpete]

I am on a great adventure. By the time I am done it will be over 10K kilometers of driving. I have seen many, many things and will report back soon.

That sounds like fun !

[bigpete]

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Painted up my Wirlki's so I run less chance of losing them in the scrub