Culling 350 yards 300 WIN MAG 178 ELD X
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Can you shoot swans?

Yes.

If they identify as ducks!

NZ originally had black swans, but they went extinct pre european times. Some Australian black swans were introduced in the 1800s and they thrived. To the point where in localised areas they need culling.
In most areas they are on the game bird licence with limits of 2 to 5 a day.

A pity Swans are not a better tasting game bird. I used to shoot a few but never succeeded in making the meat palatable. Always found excessively gamey flavour, tough chewing and quite oily meat to be quite off putting, and others found the same. Stopped shooting them unless asked to cull a few.
Always enjoyed pulling off a good shot on Swan though. The way they fold up mid-air is something to see.

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Originally posted by 30.06king:
....... Always found excessively gamey flavour, tough chewing and quite oily meat to be quite off putting, and others found the same......

The same thing is usually said about James.

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Originally posted by 30.06king:
A pity Swans are not a better tasting game bird. I used to shoot a few but never succeeded in making the meat palatable. Always found excessively gamey flavour, tough chewing and quite oily meat to be quite off putting, and others found the same. Stopped shooting them unless asked to cull a few.
Always enjoyed pulling off a good shot on Swan though. The way they fold up mid-air is something to see.

Just breast them and cut into thin strips for a stir fry. The sauce and spices negate most of the game flavour.
Our local fish and game rangers encouraged hunters to cull black swan around here. They live on the oxidation ponds or in the estuaries north and south of our airport and travel around in the aircraft flight paths so the aviation guys also like to see them culled. Fish & Game organise a cull shoot every season on one of the big pond systems using a boat to flush swan and canada geese over the positioned shooters. Talk of raining swans and geese, swan do look spectacular when they fold up mid-air.

Night on the Wallabies









Three days during Tahr Rut.

Bull Down 300 WIN MAG 178 ELD X 90 yards



Walk back to Camp, head and cape weighed 14kg


Glassing the Bull

Culling Nannies from Camp

Awesome pics! Nice bull all right. Some of those wallabies looked like fallow.

Good one James. Great pics, thanks.
Just a question. Do you own any trousers ? You know, you are allowed to wear longs in Winter time

Greener has been getting some use of late.




Elk will eat Pigeons

Another Kiwi giving the Wallabies a hiding...

See what I did there

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Originally posted by Bakes:
Another Kiwi giving the Wallabies a hiding...

See what I did there

No I have no idea

Rugby reference mate

There I was thinking this was a site for Hunting and Shooting, not games for children.

Have no idea or interest in anything to do with that game.