How we used to do things.
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HoudiniHarry said:
".22 Shorts", they were great for knocking off rats in the grain sheds, wouldn't penetrate the corrugated iron.
Others may have a better memory than me, but I seem to remember a low powered .22 I think you could buy .22 subsonic in long rifle which was one that would go a little further than the Shorts but was quieter and hit harder.
I also had a Remington pump action .22 absolutely worn out and basically useless, it was so inaccurate.
My Lithgow .22 was also well worn I had to hold the bolt down with my index finger and pull the trigger with my 3rd finger. It had backfired and blew the back of the shell casing and I ended up with powder burns and bits of brass in my right eye. But I wouldn't stop using it as it was very accurate and light to carry when out rabbiting.
Later my favourite (out spotting at night) was a Stirling .22 magnum. Cheap but surprisingly good.
I also had a Remington pump action .22 absolutely worn out and basically useless, it was so inaccurate.
My Lithgow .22 was also well worn I had to hold the bolt down with my index finger and pull the trigger with my 3rd finger. It had backfired and blew the back of the shell casing and I ended up with powder burns and bits of brass in my right eye. But I wouldn't stop using it as it was very accurate and light to carry when out rabbiting.
Later my favourite (out spotting at night) was a Stirling .22 magnum. Cheap but surprisingly good.
Had a fox terrier cross named "Nippy" he lived up to his name. Foxes would come sniffing around the chook pen which was close to my sleepout on the verandah. I'd sometimes wake to a few snuffles and snorts. Sure enough at daylight another dead fox with its throat crushed. Nippy never barked and was about same size as the foxes but they didn't stand a chance. Out in the paddock he'd run them down and by the time I caught up with him they would be strangled and he'd look at me with a look, "next" ?
Foxes were my main target, evil animals they would drag a new lamb out at birth, eat its heart out and move onto next. Someone may remember the bounty for a pair of fox ears and emu beaks?
Foxes were my main target, evil animals they would drag a new lamb out at birth, eat its heart out and move onto next. Someone may remember the bounty for a pair of fox ears and emu beaks?
Knew a bloke that had a small dairy many years back & he had a rat plague in his hay/grain shed. He nailed hundreds of large fish hooks upside down to the posts in the shed then went in at night they all took off up the post he got hundreds of them worst part was getting them off he said.Nightjar said:
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When we were young kids (under 10), we used to take off with a bucket and some string with meat on it and head off for the day.
We walked miles over the back paddocks searching for water and did yabbying, caught frogs, blue tongue lizards, chased rabbits, and finally got home about sunset. Muddy, tired, scratched, sunburnt - but that was a great day!
Wouldn't happen with kids these days...
I walked 2.2kms to high school, carrying a heavy book bag, in rain, hail, frost or heatwave, and then walked a further 2.3 kms to the tennis club for coaching after school, then walked 4.5kms home. There was no getting driven to school, no bike, we walked or we didn't go anywhere!
Other days we'd head out with our friend with her billy kart with a big sack to collect aluminium cans to trade in for cash too.
And our parents never asked where we'd been all day - we were just out playing - as kids did in the good old days!
We walked miles over the back paddocks searching for water and did yabbying, caught frogs, blue tongue lizards, chased rabbits, and finally got home about sunset. Muddy, tired, scratched, sunburnt - but that was a great day!
Wouldn't happen with kids these days...
I walked 2.2kms to high school, carrying a heavy book bag, in rain, hail, frost or heatwave, and then walked a further 2.3 kms to the tennis club for coaching after school, then walked 4.5kms home. There was no getting driven to school, no bike, we walked or we didn't go anywhere!
Other days we'd head out with our friend with her billy kart with a big sack to collect aluminium cans to trade in for cash too.
And our parents never asked where we'd been all day - we were just out playing - as kids did in the good old days!
greyhound said:A penny bunger inserted into a head stem of a bike or a piece of pipe and some marbles,now that's a lethal weaponHard Luck said:
.... we used a disassembled bike pump tube secured to a broom stick with pvc tape - now, I'm on the wrong side of 65 and I remember the local copper turning up at my primary school and demonstrating how dangerous said contraption was ]
cool.. you were nobody if you didn't have one
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++#=3++++++++++++++++++++++##3+ dang. can't get it on windows???
Post 61 has details + link for other uses.
Hold the "Alt" button down then click 0163
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Just saw this pic of kids having fun in the old fashioned manner back in 1898. Location is Lane Cove in Sydney, which looks very different these days!
Love the old musket the young bloke is holding.
Theyve all got guns.... plus 2 more leaning against the tree!
Must be guarding the chicken coup.
Must be guarding the chicken coup.
