Bunnies!

LSWCHP said :

KB1971 said :

LSWCHP said :

KB1971 said :

A lot of local hunters would be quite happy to help too.

I certainly would. 🙂

My air rifle does 1000fps, quicker than a subsonic .22 but without the noise. It would be so nice to be able to wander the 1/2 a k or so up the hill from my house to pop some off. No one would be any wiser except for the fact I was carrying a rifle down the street…. 😛

Your air rifle sounds like a nice piece of kit. 🙂 Still, I prefer the subsonic .22 for walking around.

I’m going to hunt Tallaganda next week, and I have friend who has a friend near Boorowa that is overrun with bunnies at the moment. .22LR close up, .17 HMR a little further away and .204 Ruger in a Remington 700 VLS varminter at 500m. Accept no substitutes.

Its actually a cheap Daisy jobbie from the States with a plastic stock and trigger. Bugger of a thing to hold onto because of the recoil but when you set yourself up right with a good bench rest it places groups of about an inch at 25m, at 40m yesterday we were shooting ally cans with one shot through the bottom and out the other side (they were laid on their sides). Great fun with a scope for 100 bucks 😛

Bunnies are fun and great to eat, I now have a small spit roaster which will burn them up nicely so i need to get back out there to get some.

I also need to look into an R class licence……

KB1971 said :

LSWCHP said :

KB1971 said :

A lot of local hunters would be quite happy to help too.

I certainly would. 🙂

My air rifle does 1000fps, quicker than a subsonic .22 but without the noise. It would be so nice to be able to wander the 1/2 a k or so up the hill from my house to pop some off. No one would be any wiser except for the fact I was carrying a rifle down the street…. 😛

Your air rifle sounds like a nice piece of kit. 🙂 Still, I prefer the subsonic .22 for walking around.

I’m going to hunt Tallaganda next week, and I have friend who has a friend near Boorowa that is overrun with bunnies at the moment. .22LR close up, .17 HMR a little further away and .204 Ruger in a Remington 700 VLS varminter at 500m. Accept no substitutes.

I am thinking bunny very nice in a curry and very useful for wiping bears bottoms

I’d love to be allowed to get out there and trap a few.
Instead the solution is always to pump poisons into the ecosystem.

My kelpie (slightly X-ed), who has also accomplished little but is only about a year old and still very puppyish, is loving the wabbits, which are everywhere here in the country south east of Canberra.

She’s only caught one so far, which I had to despatch as she hadn’t got to that chapter in the “How to chase and catch rabbits” book.

Some cartoonish moments – she and old fat dog nearly clashed heads when a large bunny ran between them.

IP

deye said :

dungfungus said :

I’ll bet if the rabbits started to invade the National Arboretum there would be no amount of government money spared to get rid of them.

What do you mean if? I haven’t been there lately, but they were certainly there prior to the Arboretum.

I mean simply that there are some places in Canberra that are more sacred than others. Also, you may have seen the odd rabbit transiting the area before it became the Aboretum – it was previously a pine plantation and rabbits generally don’t infest them as forage doesn’t grow under radiata.
Are you sure that you didn’t see hares in the Aboretum area? They have been having fun eating some exotic saplings – the white cockatoos will harvest the ones that survive the hares.

dungfungus said :

I’ll bet if the rabbits started to invade the National Arboretum there would be no amount of government money spared to get rid of them.

What do you mean if? I haven’t been there lately, but they were certainly there prior to the Arboretum.

LSWCHP said :

KB1971 said :

A lot of local hunters would be quite happy to help too.

I certainly would. 🙂

My air rifle does 1000fps, quicker than a subsonic .22 but without the noise. It would be so nice to be able to wander the 1/2 a k or so up the hill from my house to pop some off. No one would be any wiser except for the fact I was carrying a rifle down the street…. 😛

dungfungus said :

The current crop of ACT politicians have no idea of the amount of damage rabbits have caused in Australia. Pity Val Jeffrey didn’t get elected as he would well remember rabbit plagues through the last century and he would have the sense to do something about them.
I’ll bet if the rabbits started to invade the National Arboretum there would be no amount of government money spared to get rid of them.

Would this feral infestation fall under the bailiwick of Lord Rattenbury? I think so, as he is also the current Baron of TAMS. A Federal Greens sanctioned method of eradication (without putting the ACT into dire hock) will be a real test of his mettle.

How Canberran.

News flash- Bunnies spotted in Crace as well..