Hi all, Last night we free camped 105km East of Balladonia in a 24 hr stop. We moved way back in from the road where I like to be. My eyes caugh the flash of a big moggy dart across the track. Did you see the size of that feral Lambie. Nope, never saw a thing. I stopped and confirmed the tracks were a moggy.
After setting up for the night, I set up my feral Moggy catcher. Come 10ish to trap went off. What a monster at 9.3kg I trap these things for farmers back east. They are deadly to our Fauna. An I am always on the lookout for them in free camps.
A after a few photo's I left him futher into the scrub for the dingo's we could hear earlier in the night. Come morning he had being taken. Good ridens.
To night we are free camping 60km from Kalgoorlie. Tomorrow we will refuel and top up the food supplies in Kalgoorlie and continue our adventures.
We used to shot gun them in years gone by when out hunting bunnies with ferrets. Put a ferret down a hole & line up near the other exits. Knock the rabbits over after they had run a few yards. An odd cat or two would sometimes duck out from hiding & scoot across the paddock. Took some hitting as they went like 'scalded cats'.
You'd get some big buggers.
My favourite trick was to get up a tree overlooking a large warren area with a bag of tinnies, a stick of sausage & my trusty .22. Got lots of bunnies that way & an occasional feral cat. Great to observe nature as you waited.
Used to live on 100 acres next to a piggery, who didn't cover there kill pit, lots of huge ferrals, fortunately a lagoon in between. Sometimes the cats would visit us, a gun was very handy. Had 28 species of native birds on our place.
I too would be interested in the trap, as we have several feral's around the 25 acre property we are currently sitting, I've tried stalking them with my rifle but they are very skittish and wary, unlike the plagues of bunnies !
