These boys don't mess about.
3 rifles, 87 goats in a single session

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...cHvRUdA&feature=plcp

Makes the "heres another roe doe" stuff our UK you tube channel posters put out look very mundane and bland.

Nothing like a good cull.

NZ and Aust are some of the better places
to do them as well.

Agreed.

I will say though that they are not the best exponents of long range shooting (neither am I)
and some of the shots maybe could have been edited out of the video.

IIRC from the commentary at the start of the video the maximum distance was only just over 300m.So not exactly long range.I would suspect that incorrect range estimation accounted for a number of the over the top misses.

What I like is the fact that they don't try and sanitise the whole thing. So you see it as is, warts and all.

If you get a chance take a look at some of their duck hunting clips. They are a riot.

This is the same property that we have been trying to find time to get out and hunt on for the last couple of years.

I didn't realise until I spoke to the guys down there and they told me!!

Looks like it is back on the possible list for April 2013 along with a Thar hunt if I can get my diary in order by then.

K

I have to say that these guys arent the best goat cullers I have seen in action. The group that I hunt with have done many similar culling operations in very similar terrain and I cant say I am overly impressed with the footage shown.

But it is pretty fast and furious for a while , and you do get to do a lot of killing. Hunting it is not , however.

Muzza

I don't think they would claim to be the best either. But at least the footage is honest. Rather that sanitised like so many others.
Or worse still just plain boring.

Muzza

I don't think I have been on a cull that hasn't been fast and furious !!!

Indeed , guys. The footage is honest - its very hard to make good footage because the action is fast and furious and usually spread over a fair area. Unless you are the dedicated camera man the end result is as we see here. Certainly I have never managed anything that even slightly resembles professional footage.

But its all shooting , and doing pest control is an important role down here for private hunters.

It looked more like the shooter was a client with the guides filming and spotting. Given their very long series of perfectly executed head/neck shot videos, I'm pretty sure the two guides could have done a cleaner job.

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Originally posted by Boghossian:
It looked more like the shooter was a client with the guides filming and spotting. Given their very long series of perfectly executed head/neck shot videos, I'm pretty sure the two guides could have done a cleaner job.

You are spot

I think you'll find that "Peter" is one of their shooting buddys from earlier videoed hunting trips, and both Tony and his partner did some of the shooting.

Many station owners in Oz put their kelpies onto the feral goat mobs and muster them into the yards,2-300 (or more) at a time, The last i heard they were getting 35 + bucks a goat at the abattoirs.

Someones eating a lot of goat down your way then.

Ha ha nah,they are exported over your way or at least far from Aus.

They do muster some here , but the terrain and standard of fences on some properties make it difficult. Thats why shooters are used to keep the numbers down.

A bunch of goats that have been chased by dogs get very wise and disappear back into the bush at the first sound of a dog or farmbike. At times those goats become nocturnal feeders to avoid being chased.

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Originally posted by gryphon1:
Ha ha nah,they are exported over your way or at least far from Aus.

So I found out recently goat lungs make for good alligator bait.

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Originally posted by 505G:
I will say though that they are not the best exponents of long range shooting (neither am I)
and some of the shots maybe could have been edited out of the video.

My sentiments.Also, it is possible to get a bit tired with having to concentrate on live targets at a sustained pace.

Best-
Locksley,R

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Originally posted by Jools:

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Originally posted by gryphon1:
Ha ha nah,they are exported over your way or at least far from Aus.

So I found out recently goat lungs make for good alligator bait.

Jools,
You've been watching swamp people too then... My new favourite show.

K

Just signed up a nice new lease down in Wicklow. We were down there last Saturday evening doing a recce, forby lots of Sika, there are some bloody great goats on the mountain.

Methinks a few of them will get the 260 medecine this autumn.....