Boring update this week we turned up at the farm as usual,right in front of us was a great big scaly tail clambering up a pile of sawdust dumped in a corner of the barn, well my mate tried to whack the rat with a shovel and guess what !!!!!!!!! he went **se over *it hit the wall and cracked a rib,after a very painful journey home has spent the rest of the week in bed.
Hopefully (if hes well enough) we may try again next week
Rats 'R Us
Sunday 27 November 2011
Friday 18 November 2011
Shooting Update (Again) 17/11/2011 Nelson Farm
OK, another update at "The Nelson Farm", there are plenty of rats left to shoot at this farm otherwise we would have moved on to another problem area,normal routine arrived at the Farm at 7pm made a cuppa,zeroed our scopes and away to go.
I again took to climbing the builders trestle as it is a great vantage point as it overlooks the cattle pens, my mate took to stalking the duck shed, after around 5 mins. or so the rats started to go about their business mooching about around the feet of the cattle and horses probably around 15 metres or so away, as my scope was spot on at that distance I quickly took out three in a quick time,my mate started off very slowly with the odd sighting or two before they started to stop for a split second this was all he needed and accounted for five in as many minutes, time for another cuppa and discuss tactics now refreshed we spent another three hours and accounted for a total of 16 shot bringing the total at this farm to 123 shot in Eight Weeks
Saturday 12 November 2011
Shooting Update 10/11/11 Nelson Farm
Ok another update decided to visit the Nelson Farm this week on a Thursday night instead of our regular Wednesday night as we have for the last seven weeks hoping to catch them sleeping, as usual we called to the house to pick up the keys for the gates and barns and parked the Landy inside the big barn nice and dry to brew a cuppa before we started, after a quick reccy with the hand held Nightvision to see where the action was we set about taking up position I made for the ladder platform as in previous weeks my mate decided to try sitting in the yard about fifteen yards from the duck shed where he had seen a lot of action the week before.
It was probably ten minutes or so before the action started in my area although the scaly tails seemed to keep at the maximum distance away I was scoped up for around 15 - 20 metres and with stock in the pens as well the shots were very challenging (although safe) my body count after four hours was five shot, my mate started very slow in the yard as the scaly tail was playing peeb bo through a small hole in the bottom of the door but after putting down a small amount of cat food as bait he finally managed to shoot four.
The number shot this week was nine this was down in number compared to previous weeks but as we have been shooting this Farm every week for the last eight weeks and having good numbers shot including this week the total is now 105 less scaly tails, there are a lot more there but we will have to work a lot harder to get them.
It was probably ten minutes or so before the action started in my area although the scaly tails seemed to keep at the maximum distance away I was scoped up for around 15 - 20 metres and with stock in the pens as well the shots were very challenging (although safe) my body count after four hours was five shot, my mate started very slow in the yard as the scaly tail was playing peeb bo through a small hole in the bottom of the door but after putting down a small amount of cat food as bait he finally managed to shoot four.
The number shot this week was nine this was down in number compared to previous weeks but as we have been shooting this Farm every week for the last eight weeks and having good numbers shot including this week the total is now 105 less scaly tails, there are a lot more there but we will have to work a lot harder to get them.
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