Greetings from Australia

[Hoptoit]

Greetings from Australia to all you pigeon puffers, squirrel squiffers, fox fluffers, bunny bashers and assorted bird and rodent botherers! I'm an animal control contractor and pro shooter here in Oz where we regularly have to deal with some of the less popular English imports like rabbits, pigeons and foxes. I look forward to learning some new tricks and reading your stories. Where I can I'll add in for the for the general edification of all. 

Have a great day

Hoptoit

[TIGHTCHOKE]

Welcome aboard.    

[ditchman]

welcome.....im sure you can teach us some new tricks...

[Hoptoit]

Most if not all of my pigeon shooting is done with an air rifle around buildings and reserve. I'm loving the Z Vision red light for pigeons at night. Great for foxes and bunnies too.

Edited 16 hours ago by Hoptoit

[sam triple]

Hi just having a cup of tea and some TimTams a great Aussie biscuit import here , I follow a few of your Country men in you tube RJM hunting being one of them , enjoy the forum 

[Hoptoit]

3 hours ago, sam triple said:

Hi just having a cup of tea and some TimTams a great Aussie biscuit import here , I follow a few of your Country men in you tube RJM hunting being one of them , enjoy the forum 

We bite the ends off the timtams then suck your tea through it🤣

[Pukka Bundook]

Welcome Hoptoit from another new member.

TimTams yep!

Where are you if I may?

Have fiends up around Gympie, and down in the Surrey Hills.

Uncle worked on a station in WA for years and talked about it the rest of his life.

Best,

R.

[sam triple]

27 minutes ago, Hoptoit said:

We bite the ends off the timtams then suck your tea through it🤣

Yes the Aussie side of the family showed us that when we were out there , years back 

[Bigbob]

Hello and welcome mate i look foreword to seeing your posts and picts 

[Hoptoit]

7 hours ago, Pukka Bundook said:

Welcome Hoptoit from another new member.

TimTams yep!

Where are you if I may?

Have fiends up around Gympie, and down in the Surrey Hills.

Uncle worked on a station in WA for years and talked about it the rest of his life.

Best,

R.

I'm in the Mandurah area of Western Australia. Great place to live, awesome fishing and full of pigeons, foxes, pigs, roos and bunnies

[Hoptoit]

7 hours ago, Bigbob said:

Hello and welcome mate i look foreword to seeing your posts and picts 

Thank you 🙂

[Minky]

21 hours ago, Hoptoit said:

 animal control contractor and pro shooter here in Oz 

we regularly have to deal with some of the less popular English imports like rabbits, pigeons and foxes. I look forward to learning some new tricks and reading your stories. Where I can I'll add in .

 

Welcome.

Well you've got your work cut out to control any of the unwanted.  We've been trying for a looong time without success.   I see that you have made a start.  I knew and shot with a gamekeeper who used to be out every day that he could and certainly every night lamping, For fox and rabbit .  He recond on between 250.. 300 fox a year and after harvest they'd be out shooting rabbits.   I've seen his hilux pickup loaded with rabbits as if it had been loaded by a jcb excavator.   The downside of all of this is diminishing returns,  time, money and purpose.  Also killing and dealing with this does have a mental effect.   Back when I was a kid there was Myxomatosis that decimated the huge rabbit population  for many years.  There were many times that there were outbreaks but recently there has been rabbit hemorrhaging disease  which is very lethal, but nature is strong and they come back stronger.  Similar to viruses that mutate.  Now I understand that the government out there has a bounty for certain things ..but we can't discuss anything like that here.  Anyway welcome.   We can discuss fox and pigeon control  no probs. 

 

 

[Hoptoit]

7 hours ago, sam triple said:

Yes the Aussie side of the family showed us that when we were out there , years back 

You are truly a man Kemusabe when you can suck the TimTam and have no chocolate on your fingers 

[Hoptoit]

7 minutes ago, Minky said:

 

Yeah it's a job and a half. We have native animal populations affected severely by the imports so we battle with purpose. It's a constant fight between pigeons and native birds for nesting sites even. Foxes and feral cats kill everything they can and rabbits don't get me started. We have Mixie occurring as it feels like it and Calici is put out there but most populations are resistant now. Along with that the kangaroo population builds up to a point where they start starving to death during summer. People don't believe it when you tell them kangaroos actually do hop down the street in suburbia around here. We also have a huge amount of feral pigs in the area. Some places have been populated by moron pig hunters with no regard for the environment. So yeah busy times cleaning up and keeping balance.

[Pukka Bundook]

2 hours ago, Hoptoit said:

Yeah it's a job and a half. We have native animal populations affected severely by the imports so we battle with purpose. It's a constant fight between pigeons and native birds for nesting sites even. Foxes and feral cats kill everything they can and rabbits don't get me started. We have Mixie occurring as it feels like it and Calici is put out there but most populations are resistant now. Along with that the kangaroo population builds up to a point where they start starving to death during summer. People don't believe it when you tell them kangaroos actually do hop down the street in suburbia around here. We also have a huge amount of feral pigs in the area. Some places have been populated by moron pig hunters with no regard for the environment. So yeah busy times cleaning up and keeping balance.

Have a mate over where you are Hop, does shifts in the mines then back to the old place when he's off.

He's a heeler, and enjoys his shooting as well.

You have your work cut out with feral trouble.

Any cain toads?