First Kill

[Tara Louise]

Casey is over the coast here working for a couple weeks and I went down to his place on the weekend to give him a hand out roo shooting for a couple nights. I brought my bow along because on the property we were going to be working on there has a lot of rabbits. We puled up right on evening near a big lot of warrens and could already see a few rabbits chasing each other around. We stalked in behind a big old rock fence line which gave us good cover to get within 40m of the rabbits. I managed to get 3 shots off at some young bunnies and all were pretty close but none connected. We stalked up on the last lot of warrens on the hill and Casey spotted a ginger cat sitting on top of the warren. I didn’t want the bloody thing to get away so I told Casey to shoot instead and after watching him shoot under it by about an inch I wish I had taken the shot myself. After the cat made its way back down a hole we walked down to collect my 3 arrows and we spotted a young rabbit feeding down the bottom of the hill. Casey said you might as well have a crack, use your fourth pin. I placed my 40m pin on the little rabbit and shot the arrow off hitting the rabbit through the back legs. He hobbled around for a bit and sat up again so I sent another arrow his way just nicking it through the front leg. Casey grabbed it finishing it off and congratulated me on my first kill with a bow. Now I’m really keen to head back to the flinders and have a crack at a billygoat.
http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t289/Tara_Louise_Benc/P1000722.jpg

[hunt or be hunted]

well done getting your first kill, good to see you wearing the apropriate hunting clothing;):confused:

dan.

[Puk]

Good on you T.L.
Bunnies can be hard to hunt, and to be accurate enough to hit one two shots in a row from 40 metres is fantastic. :eek:the first harvest of many, i'm sure.;)

Puk

[Glenn]

Well done Tara, and good luck when you have a go at the goats, I'm sure we will see some more photos...Glenn...

[cougerking]

great work! well done on the first kill!

[will]

2 shots at 40m good stuff!

[Mozza]

well done :)
best of luck on the goats too

[howie]

Said it b4, You go girl..............Howie

[adam]

Awesome stuff Tara and great photo Cas, good to see the camo shirt put to use.

Hopefully some better footwear when hunting goats.

Keep the harvests rolling in.

Adam

[Tara Louise]

I reckon the footware will be better, but we took the photograph today because it was to dark last night after i shot it to take any good photographs. Yeh the shirt is getting put to good use when i get a chance to go out...

[spiderbait24]

cool....

nice t shirt, lol.

[HOOD]

Congrats Tara, bout bloody time Macca took you out with a bow in ya hand instead of the camera.
Well done.

[XTfreak]

Congratulations...
Bill

[Scott]

Good onya Tara! one of many I would say.:)

[stevenn]

Good onya,good to see the ladys having a go.cheers stevenn

[silent killer]

well done there t.l keep up the good work...
......Cheers alex......

[fiend]

Great to see another female spill some claret! The goats had better say their prayers!! :P

[timbo]

Congratulations, I am sure that this will be the first of many. If you can hit a rabbit twice at 40 meters you can park an arrow in the vitals of a goat.
Go get em!

I guess this means that it is Macca's turn to carry the camera.

Cheers Tim

[fox hunter]

Good shooting, rabbits arn't the easiest things to hit.

[jindydiver]

Great stuff

Next time I bet you don't give Macca the shot at the cat :D

[Tara Louise]

yeh thats it jindydiver, next time i will have some confidence in my shot and i will take it myself instead of letting him take it... He was pretty annoyed when he missed it... I think he is going to try get it with his bow sometime this week while he is still over here or keep it till next time.

[yatesy54]

Well done!!!!! lol i don't ever see women hunters so it's nice to know there out there. Congrats

[macka]

This was tara's first hunt where she actually had a bow in her hand. She only missed the first three by bee's whisker and when she hit the little one just before dark i couldnt believe it. I was pissed off big time about missing the cat but her first harvest had me on a bigger high then her i recon! When she finds time to come down this way she'll nail a goat for sure!

Cheers for that Shirt too Adam its going to get put to some good use when she gets a spare weekend.

Macka