Been to the farm

[JeffinNZ]

Hi all.

Took the family to my 'adopted parents' farm for a long weekend. The place is usually the proverbial desert but this time they had received long overdue rain and it was more like a bog. My girls loved helping out with the farm work:

Taking down the electric fence. The feed break was a good 170 yards long and Kiera reeled up the top and bottom wires and Abby did the middle. I gathered up the stakes (photos are a bit grainy from my cell phone):

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This is letting the sheep out of one paddock to get to the cale:

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And on the cale for a meal:

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We moved some pregnant sheep down the main road to fresh pasture also:

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This is the intended result of such care:

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And dad's first bunny of the weekend. I shot it from the toilet window using my .32-20 with subsonic loads. A 311008 over 4.3gr of Unique for just over 1000fps. NO, I was not sitting on the toilet. The window allowed a clear view.

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I shot a few more rabbits using my .223 with a load of a Lyman 225415 doing 2100fps. It is amazing how that little flat nose bullet still absolutely levels rabbits out at 100m without any expansion. You can't beat a FN boolit.

Brought home some rabbit meat for us and the pets and one skin I will tan for making streamer flies for fishing. A great weekend away.

[x101airborne]

Awesome. Sounds like a great time. I am using the RCBS FN in my 223 and I am very happy with it also.

[melter68]

Nice pics, thanks for sharing. Oh boy those wide open spaces, good shooting land.
cheers chris in england

[square butte]

Many good shots made out the bathroom window from many different homes over the years. I'll wager the same is true for many of us. Best window for putting woodchucks out of my misery here. It overlooks the vegetable garden

[waksupi]

Very nice~!

[NVcurmudgeon]

Nothing like a weekend in beautiful country in the company of your kids for making priceless memories. Sounds like you have worked up escellent CB loads for both your .32/20 Cadet Martini and your .223.

[Bulldogger]

by the photos I reckon a good time was had by all, sheep included. Your girls are growing quick too!
Glad you got a little shooting in. The sheep looked to enjoy the Cale (same as our Kale greens?).

Thanks for the beautiful landscape shots.

Bulldogger



(You were in the John so you could quickly change into and out of your super-purple tights for the shot, right?)

[JeffinNZ]

Opps. Sorry, Kale. My bad.

I'm a man of great discipline. I shot the bunny THEN answered the call. ;-)

[Cactus Farmer]

Nice looking Martini too! Any actions arond there for sale? I need another one or two or a half dozen..........I love the small actions,heck, I like 'em all. I'm thinking I need to build my big one as a 416 Russian Express. All the gun anyone ever needs I'd bet.