Denni Ute Muster 2015

Riding Shot Gun

My new Beretta 690 Black Edition sporter. 

I use this for hunting and Sporting Clay Target shooting. In the sport of Clay Target there are several disciplines:

Down The Line Shooting (DTL), or Trap Shooting, where a throwing machine  shoots clay targets out from a trap house in front of you in varying angles over a standard measured layout.

Skeet is the discipline of shooting over a standardised eight 8 pad system, set between a High and Low trap house flinging out clay targets.

Simulated Field or Sporting Clays is target shooting of clay targets where the targets are thrown to represent the quarry that hunters would normally pursue using a shotgun, such as duck, quail, pheasant and even rabbits. Its often called a shooting equivalent of golf.

Sporting Clays and Overview

Beretta Australia say they are committed to ensuring that your shotgun performs to the highest standard so a Beretta shot gun comes with free fitting and free servicing for life if you purchase from an authorised Berretta Dealer. Got mine at Bendigo's premium firearms dealer Smiths Outdoors (#allforthehunter)

Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta  was founded in the 16th century, Beretta is the oldest active manufacturer of firearm components in the world.

 Un-carved stocks used for making custom guns for clients.

 A row of shotguns.

 Me at Berretta Australia

Waskillie Wabbits

Visiting a property in central Victoria on a beautiful spring like day hunting Rabbits. Feral animal control is also rewarding if you can eat the them.

P.E.T.A. People Eating Tasty Animals.

Rabbit country

Evidence of a previous inhabitant

 Antler does not look out of place on this old pioneer house chimney stack

A great vista

Down to work with the CZ .22

Bunnies busted humanly with head shots

A fine brace of coneys as the British might say.

Rabbit back straps

Lake Albacutya and Lake Hindmarsh July 2015

The Wimmera River rises from the Great Dividing Range below Elmhurst, between Ararat and Avoca, and flows generally north by west near the towns of Crowlands, Glenorchy, Horsham, Dimboola, Tarranyurk, and Jeparit then it used to run into the Wyperfeld National Park and the Big Desert Wilderness Park.

Lake Albacutya fills from Lake Hindmarsh via Outlet Creek when the Wimmera River is sufficiently in flood. At high water mark, the lake covers 5850 ha and is 8 metres deep at its deepest.

Lake Albacurya hasn't filled since 1976, and hasn't received any flows from the Wimmera River since 1996. The lake historically fills and empties on a 20 year cycles but due to man made climate change and river diversion this cycle may be affected.

In 2011 Lake Hindmarsh filled but not sufficiently due to Wimmera River irrigation and diversion.

When it does fill water will then flow further north from Lake Albacutya into Wyperfeld National Park, but that hasn't occurred since 1976.

Lake Albacutya sunset

 Lake Albacutya from the Western ridge

 4x4 Sand Dunes on the North West end of Albacutya

Albacutya on the left and winter wheat cops on the right from the sand dune ridge line 

Winter Wheat

Hermione on Lake Hindmarsh

Dry Lake Hindmarsh July 2015

Almost full Lake Hindmarsh in 2011