JeffinNZ
08-07-2012, 04:58 AM
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):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v505/JeffinNZ/Farm%20visit%202012/Image0160.jpg
This is letting the sheep out of one paddock to get to the cale:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v505/JeffinNZ/Farm%20visit%202012/Image0162.jpg
And on the cale for a meal:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v505/JeffinNZ/Farm%20visit%202012/Image0163.jpg
We moved some pregnant sheep down the main road to fresh pasture also:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v505/JeffinNZ/Farm%20visit%202012/DSCN3329.jpg
This is the intended result of such care:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v505/JeffinNZ/Farm%20visit%202012/DSCN3332.jpg
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.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v505/JeffinNZ/Farm%20visit%202012/DSCN3331.jpg
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.
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):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v505/JeffinNZ/Farm%20visit%202012/Image0160.jpg
This is letting the sheep out of one paddock to get to the cale:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v505/JeffinNZ/Farm%20visit%202012/Image0162.jpg
And on the cale for a meal:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v505/JeffinNZ/Farm%20visit%202012/Image0163.jpg
We moved some pregnant sheep down the main road to fresh pasture also:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v505/JeffinNZ/Farm%20visit%202012/DSCN3329.jpg
This is the intended result of such care:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v505/JeffinNZ/Farm%20visit%202012/DSCN3332.jpg
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.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v505/JeffinNZ/Farm%20visit%202012/DSCN3331.jpg
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.