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Reply #180 - Nov 4^th, 2006 at 9:57am

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Yeah great to make and even better fun to use "if you are on the giving end not the getting end" was a real pro at building these in my young days but we used to make our frame out of heavy guage fencing wire bent in the required shape of a forked stick worked really well and the forks didnt break after a lot of use as did the wood ones
memories of the past
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Reply #181 - Nov 5^th, 2006 at 7:18pm

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Sounds like you had the later model FURPH

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Reply #182 - Nov 30^th, 2006 at 7:17am

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Going through some old photos the other day reminded me of how cold it gets in the west during winter when we used to have what we thought was fun in those days spotlighting rabbits for ready cash was the usual weekend activity the fun had nothing to do with it of course with the most hated job being the actual spotlighter because you had to sit out in the cold for the whole time freezing your rear off while everyone else got to jump off and run down the live rabbits after the initial shot had been fired over the rabbits head. Not a popular job and if you got lumbered with the light you could'nt sell it to anyone, As the sun began to show so did the frost and I can tell you that nature did not stink in its delivery of some of the coldest and whitest ground covers that you can imagine shame there were no digital cameras in those days. 89cents a pair was the price paid in those days yep 40cents each now a rabbit will cost you as much as $20.00 each that was 21 pair in those days what a mark up and I looked at the price of second hand rabbit traps and the bloke wanted $10.00 each for them and I can remember paying that much for 50 traps in the 60's lord I wish that I had bought a couple of thousand and kept them (Yeah I know if wishes were horses old drovers would ride)
Bloody rabbit we ate it every way you could cook it and it always tasted the same no matter what you did you could never even get enough curry into the pot to change the taste cant see myself paying todays prices for a feed of underground mutton woul rather a good steak or lamb chop
OK OK I know enough whinging

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Reply #183 - Nov 30^th, 2006 at 11:54am

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G'day Kel, your ditty brings back to mind several things, although I grew up in Tasmania I don't ever remember the nights getting as cold as they did when I spent three years working in the desert west of Coober Pedy, bloody cold out there. We went spotlighting of a night to supplement our rations and nothing was safe, foxes, feral cats, dingo's and 'roos but we only ate the latter.

As a kid in northern Tassie I earned pocket money selling rabbits, 2 shillings a pair and I had no shortage of customers. I had several ferrets and went out by myself most weekends on a bike with their boxes, nets etc etc and a sawn-off mattock to dig the little buggers out. Never lost a ferret but boy I dug some almighty holes. LOL. Later on I bought myself a 14 gauge shotgun and then a .410 (or was it the other way around ?) but it was never as much fun as ferreting, aaaaah memories. pd

When I die I hope my missus doesn't sell my camp ovens for what I told her I paid for them. pd

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Reply #184 - Nov 30^th, 2006 at 1:36pm

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Underground mutton eh.

That brought back a few more memories. And as mentioned before, we certainly ate plenty of them.
Dad made me wait until I was a "teenager" (13) before I was allowed out with the .22 on my own. But not such a crack shot at that age and bullets (I think) about 5/6d. a box and only 6d./pound for skins never really balanced the books. So an investment in "leg irons" was made and the result of 2 runs late afternoon was quite profitable. Then came the meat buyer, field gutted rabbits, skin on, about 2/6d. per pair. These were hung in pairs over a horizontal pole near the road gate and covered with a large piece of hessian. Occasionally the buyer was a day late, but he always took them and always paid correct weight! We only ate rabbits with a "clean liver". Often used to wonder if the folk eating those from under the hessian knew how fresh they were.

Anyway, still have a bit of that gear left over from those days, who knows it might yet become useful again
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Reply #185 - Nov 30^th, 2006 at 3:51pm

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Get a look at that photo PD Mikel must be the most self sufficient bloody bloke in Australia those sheds of his seem to be able to produce anything I know where I'm heading if we ever get invaded straight to his sheds and bugger the dog I'm just gonna sit near the door and cry until he lets me in.
So be warned Mikel Grin

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Reply #186 - Nov 30^th, 2006 at 4:51pm

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Y'know Furphy, it makes me reluctant to posts pics of my few pots after mikel's shots of his Tilley lamps, C.I. pots and now all those ankle irons. I can see he's a believer in the old saying, "Never throw anything out, it'll come in handy down the track". What else does he have in that shed of his ?
I'm planning on a trip up his way around April next year so maybe I'll find out, mikel be warned.

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Reply #187 - Nov 30^th, 2006 at 8:14pm

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& PD you all carry the scent of dog on you shoes, if not on your hands, so maybe Mike's best friend will recognize you as friend.

Now, by times I am a pack rat. In Nova Scotia I used snares for rabbits. I've never found convenient territory here, but maybe down the road I will. I bet I still have them.

But I could hear more about this spotlighting. I don't quite see how it works(ed).

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Reply #188 - Dec 1^st, 2006 at 1:57pm

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LK the gentle art of spotlighting was a popular activity for rabbit shooters both seriuos and those after a bit of fun when hunting if that word can be used loosely the millions of rabbits that used to be such a problem before the introduction of rabbit control measures by government.
Spotlighting was used at night utilising high powered 12 volt lights much the same as the driving lights (not headlights) used on cars to assit normal headlights. these were set up as hand held lights that could be attached to the car battery and then shone over the grass flats etc where the rabbits usually came out at night to feed. Once you caught a rabbit in the light beam you destroyed its night vision and you then shot a bullet over its head causing the rabbit to cower into the ground thinking that because it could not see you could'nt see it you could then usually (if you were quick) just run up to it and pick it up alive off the ground providing after the usual despatching of the animal an unmarked carcase for sale to the freezer works who were the buyers in our area anyway. The animal was required to be presented with its intestines removed after it was despatched of course.
A lot of fun could be had when using 3 or 4 catchers when the rabbit became aware that someone was there and it tried to get away and many times the supposed hunt after a rabbit ended up in everyone rolling around to weak from laughing to try to catch anything hence to reason for it to be so popular by young people in those days and in fact i've seen it used for sports training for football cricket etc and girls usually loved to get involved although they most times insisted that the rabbit be released when caught (Yeah Right) bloody females were most times more bloodthirsty that blokes.
Anyway hope I explained the gentle art of spotlighting clearly

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Reply #189 - Dec 1^st, 2006 at 4:33pm

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We'd have a little problem with that. most places. If we didn't the coyotes, would be right plentiful.

The Battle of New Orleans

Well, in eighteen and fourteen we took a little trip
along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip.
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans,
And we caught the bloody British near the town of New Orleans.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Well, I see'd Mars Jackson walkin down the street
talkin' to a pirate by the name of Jean Lafayette [pronounced La-feet]
He gave Jean a drink that he brung from Tennessee
and the pirate said he'd help us drive the British in the sea.

The French said Andrew, you'd better run,
for Packingham's a comin' with a bullet in his gun.
Old Hickory said he didn't give a dang,
he's gonna whip the britches off of Colonel Packingham.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Well, we looked down the river and we see'd the British come,
and there must have been a hundred of 'em beatin' on the drum.
They stepped so high and they made their bugles ring
while we stood by our cotton bales and didn't say a thing.

Old Hickory said we could take 'em by surprise
if we didn't fire a musket til we looked 'em in the eyes.
We held our fire til we see'd their faces well,
then we opened up with squirrel guns and really gave a yell.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Well, we fired our cannon til the barrel melted down,
so we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round.
We filled his head with cannon balls and powdered his behind,
and when they tetched the powder off, the gator lost his mind.

We'll march back home but we'll never be content
till we make Old Hickory the people's President.
And every time we think about the bacon and the beans,
we'll think about the fun we had way down in New Orleans.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin,
But there wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Well, they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go.
They ran so fast the hounds couldn't catch 'em
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.
But there wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

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