Goat shoot
Went out for a shoot with a mate to get some goats to feed his bloody great Irish Wolfhounds.
Finished up with 7 and a half including a couple of nice big billys. The half is the bit that really gave me the shits big time. We came up to a turkeys nest dam and as we circled it a nanny stood up and instantly we could see it was injured so the 243 put it out of its misery. On closer inspection it showed it had been chewed up around the hind legs and somehow had escaped the dog that bit it. No problem, skin and gut it and cut out all the bruising because it was going to go through a mincer anyway. Not 2 km further down the track we come across a dead goat obviously pulled down by a dog, shot, then left to rot, no doubt for someone's sport? The probabilities of a wild dog in that country are small so expect someone in town who has a good knowledge of the station and its tracks are doing their very best to get everyone else banned from shooting there.
Sorry, no pics, never even thought of taking a camera, though the two real big billys would have made fine trophy shots.
Final score, mate with the 243, 7 and a half, me with 1947 Lithgow hornet nothing but who cares, as long as there is something in the icebox who cares who got it, same goes when fishing.
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Dale
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We have quite a few goats around here at Karara, but they can't get into the village anymore. In the past they have come in and destroyed the trees and bushes around the village, keeps our gardener guy pretty busy. My sister and brother in laws catch them up at their Twin Peaks station in Murchison and sell them off for some good money. I'd post some pictures but I have got no idea how too.
Cheers
Dale
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Mr Wolf
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Apparently 40 or so
were hanging around a mine camp for some time just north of Agnew. Only place where they could exist free from wild dog attack.
Willy
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.......and how does one
Willy
jayce
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By Calling land owners and
By Calling land owners and stations and asking for permision.
jamey ford
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Date Joined: 25/05/11
1947 Lithgow Hornet sounds
1947 Lithgow Hornet sounds like ot could be a collectores peice!
Far Quirk!
carnarvonite
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No such thing
No such thing as a collectors piece in my book, it earns its keep though sometimes think the round tumbles down the barrel instead of spiralling from the amount of shots its had through it.
One has to know the property owner and be trusted to do the right thing, the mate who I go out with is a very respected Carnarvon resident and has spent his whole life here, through his metal fabrication business he knows just about all the station owners and gives them a ring when he wants to go . Usually they give him a heads up on where they have seen mobs to cut down on the amount of travel needed to find them.