What did you do today?

[bladeracer]

My life got flipped on its head while I was at Bathurst
When I left it was peace and quiet here. I got home to find that my daughter's family will be living with us now, two adults and four kids from five to fifteen - a very much more hectic life. They were passing through on the way down to Tassie where they'd put an offer on a bush block. Somehow (I'm still not sure how) it all changed and they're now staying here.

The kids are good though. The oldest has been coming pistol shooting with me so we'll sign him up at the club real soon. I've booked four seats at the longarms safety course next week so we'll have my daughter, her husband and the two oldest kids licenced by next month.

[Darththorn]

My life got flipped on its head while I was at Bathurst
When I left it was peace and quiet here. I got home to find that my daughter's family will be living with us now, two adults and four kids from five to fifteen - a very much more hectic life. They were passing through on the way down to Tassie where they'd put an offer on a bush block. Somehow (I'm still not sure how) it all changed and they're now staying here.

The kids are good though. The oldest has been coming pistol shooting with me so we'll sign him up at the club real soon. I've booked four seats at the longarms safety course next week so we'll have my daughter, her husband and the two oldest kids licenced by next month.

If you can figure out a way to get LRD to process your applications within a month, let me know your secret method.

[bladeracer]

My life got flipped on its head while I was at Bathurst
When I left it was peace and quiet here. I got home to find that my daughter's family will be living with us now, two adults and four kids from five to fifteen - a very much more hectic life. They were passing through on the way down to Tassie where they'd put an offer on a bush block. Somehow (I'm still not sure how) it all changed and they're now staying here.

The kids are good though. The oldest has been coming pistol shooting with me so we'll sign him up at the club real soon. I've booked four seats at the longarms safety course next week so we'll have my daughter, her husband and the two oldest kids licenced by next month.

If you can figure out a way to get LRD to process your applications within a month, let me know your secret method.

Yes, I see they're running about four bloody months currently
Oh well.
Actually, five doing the course now, finally convinced my brother-in-law to add CatA/B to his CatH

[bladeracer]

Permit finally came through so I picked up the Norinco 1911A1 .45ACP this arvo.
Just finished loading 190rds for it.
We have a Classic Pistol match on Saturday morning so I'll see how it shoots then.
600,000 serial number so near the end of the 1995 production run I think.

[bladeracer]

Shot a Classic Pistol match this morning and really like this pistol.
I loaded 230gn round-nose bullets just to be sure they would feed, and they shot fine, zero issues today. Another shooter gave me five rounds of his SWC 200gn loads and they ran fine also so I'll order more of those.
Picked up a Kimber .22LR conversion for it today, and that ran fine as well.

[Wapiti]

Something really weird happened this afternoon.
I was out taking some silage to supplement feed the old cattle (old Droughtmaster girls we just keep that we don't breed from anymore), and they all rocked up. Good to put eyes over them all to check if any are having trouble or checking condition. I like to see them nice and fat and able to take the cold winter nights we get.
Many deer come over too, even a few pigs at times.
Anyway, I stood on something strange, it was the black tufty end of a pigs tail, chewed or ripped off. WTF? Then I see all this blood in the dirt. I looked everyone over and no problems. So I sat on a log and just watched quietly for 15 minutes, looking all around.
I see this big hollow log, broken in half, splintered all over the place with the broken 6-foot section sitting on the rest of the old fallen tree. Blood around the log, on the splintered wood, big tears in the ground and scuff marks.
I thought, could i have driven over something with an implement, or the pipe layer the other day and not noticed? No, no f'ing way. Because I've been running underground poly everywhere to new troughs as I'm expecting a very bad drought.
So I take the tail back, going to show the missus, but Dusty the dog grabs it and chews the bones and what's left worth eating from it when I was doing something else, and wrecks my show-n-tell.

What the hell happened there, I do not know. All the big deer I usually see come over all OK, all the old girl cattle, the donkeys that patrol that paddock all there and no blood around their mouths.
You just cannot have game cameras everywhere, but I wish there was one there last night. Scary thing was, it was barely 300m from the house, over the hill.
Always something happening.

[Die Judicii]

Something really weird happened this afternoon.
I was out taking some silage to supplement feed the old cattle (old Droughtmaster girls we just keep that we don't breed from anymore), and they all rocked up. Good to put eyes over them all to check if any are having trouble or checking condition. I like to see them nice and fat and able to take the cold winter nights we get.
Many deer come over too, even a few pigs at times.
Anyway, I stood on something strange, it was the black tufty end of a pigs tail, chewed or ripped off. WTF? Then I see all this blood in the dirt. I looked everyone over and no problems. So I sat on a log and just watched quietly for 15 minutes, looking all around.
I see this big hollow log, broken in half, splintered all over the place with the broken 6-foot section sitting on the rest of the old fallen tree. Blood around the log, on the splintered wood, big tears in the ground and scuff marks.
I thought, could i have driven over something with an implement, or the pipe layer the other day and not noticed? No, no f'ing way. Because I've been running underground poly everywhere to new troughs as I'm expecting a very bad drought.
So I take the tail back, going to show the missus, but Dusty the dog grabs it and chews the bones and what's left worth eating from it when I was doing something else, and wrecks my show-n-tell.

What the hell happened there, I do not know. All the big deer I usually see come over all OK, all the old girl cattle, the donkeys that patrol that paddock all there and no blood around their mouths.
You just cannot have game cameras everywhere, but I wish there was one there last night. Scary thing was, it was barely 300m from the house, over the hill.
Always something happening.

1) Cows with guns ?
2) Aliens ?
3) Poachers ? (most feasible)
4) A big hungry dog or pack of ?

Got any pics of the log ?

[Wapiti]

Yeah, yeah I know, you open yourself up to humourousness by posting stuff up. There's a completely normal explanation, I just don't know what it is.
No phone service here so when working I don't take the phone as I've broken too many, so heaps of opportunities for memories are missed.
Only thing I could think of was bringing the tail back for showing the wife because it wasn't chopped off clean, it was chewed off at the top. Great idea, when one of the dogs jumps up and flogs it.

No dogs in that paddock, about 300 acres, it's been exclusion fenced. There are a few pigs in there, I've tolerated them because they clean up the other animals I've had to get down in number but I have been distracted. They've escaped me so far by hiding in the gullies and piled up timber windrows from fence prep.

I did see a very dominant boar once, attacking a sow very violently and trying to kill it, and another old boar slicing open another I'd shot the day before. I know that when pickings for meat are scarce, they will eat one another. Like humans do.
There's not many times I've shot something the evening prior to find any trace of it the next day.