Back were I belong.
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Many moons ago ... I turned up at a blokes place, a really old house on a rural block.
As i drove down the driveway i could hear 'the eagles' playing REALLY LOUD and then heard a couple of loud bangs.
Ol mate was sitting in a recliner at the end of the long hallway just inside the front door with a 410 in hand, shooting rats running between the kitchen and loungeroom at the other end of the hall.
We cut up sheets of fibro(probably bloody asbestos) we pulled off the chook shed down the back to patch up the holes in the wall.
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As i drove down the driveway i could hear 'the eagles' playing REALLY LOUD and then heard a couple of loud bangs.
Ol mate was sitting in a recliner at the end of the long hallway just inside the front door with a 410 in hand, shooting rats running between the kitchen and loungeroom at the other end of the hall.
We cut up sheets of fibro(probably bloody asbestos) we pulled off the chook shed down the back to patch up the holes in the wall.
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bushpig said:
During plagues there were so many mice the cats n dogs stopped eating them. They would still kill them but leave them laying all over the yard.
Had to sit the legs of our son's cot in tins of water so the mice couldn't climb up. Horrid bloody things.
Ah RJ you keep ringing back tose memories.
My Dad and "Uncle" Bob used to shoot rabbits, skin them, clean them and then sell them around the neighbourhood for 2 bob a pair.
I still love rabbit stew with dumplings, yuMMMMMMMMMMy!
Thanks again.
Mackka
My Dad and "Uncle" Bob used to shoot rabbits, skin them, clean them and then sell them around the neighbourhood for 2 bob a pair.
I still love rabbit stew with dumplings, yuMMMMMMMMMMy!
Thanks again.
Mackka
I remember having rabbit stew as a child - tried it again a months ago---EEeeeeeeyuk.....taste buds have changed.
Jaros
Jaros
My brother and I used to trap rabbits. Left 2 Wheat bags full of traps under a tree. Really should go get them. They sell for good money at markets and such.
Growing up in the country was great.
Not yhe best image but this is the rabbits in trees.
Growing up in the country was great.
Not yhe best image but this is the rabbits in trees.
Jaros said:I remember having rabbit stew as a child - tried it again a months ago---EEeeeeeeyuk.....taste buds have changed.
Jaros
I love rabbit. When we went night shooting we would first light a fire to warm up by and I would shoot a couple of bunnies and throw them in the coals whole. Come back later and peel the crusty skin off and eat the flesh. Yummo.
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I used to professionally shoot and trap rabbits for a couple of years in the early seventies to the northwest of Eldorado in Victoria, and even then, before myxo hit, you could look out over the paddocks in the late afternoon and the rabbits were so thick you'd swear you were looking over a crop of swaying wheat. The moving rabbits were so dense it looked for all the world like swaying fields grass or wheat. I used to run a trap line that i'd check twice a night and shoot as well and it was rare not to get close to 100 pair a night working by myself there were that many.Ramjet said:
SCROUNGER said:
I've seen roos like that. Looks like a paddock full of tree stumps... than they all start hopping. We would go spotlighting 3 or 4 times a week, shoot dozens of roos. Go back the next night and couldn't see that we reduced their numbers at all. Vermin to farmers. One property would supply us with ammo because we saved them all the hours they would spend doing it themselves.
silver said:
More than 7 I'm sure
