OFFICIAL THREAD: General Cookery and Discussion

[nootje]

I'm pretty sure he's joking. A 12ga would nearly obliterate a hare.

I’m not, size 4 steel shot is what’s usually used. Gets a goose down from about 10m and a hare up to 20m will be killed by the shock to the nerve system. Unless you shoot it quite close you don’t even need to pick pellets out of the meat.

Not to be confused with buckshot, which at size 4 would indeed probably obliterate it. But I’ve yet to see those shells in these parts, if they aren’t forbidden like brenneker type slugs.

@NakedYoga as well.

 

[brokencycle]

I’m not, size 4 steel shot is what’s usually used. Gets a goose down from about 10m and a hare up to 20m will be killed by the shock to the nerve system. Unless you shoot it quite close you don’t even need to pick pellets out of the meat.

Not to be confused with buckshot, which at size 4 would indeed probably obliterate it. But I’ve yet to see those shells in these parts, if they aren’t forbidden like brenneker type slugs.

@NakedYoga as well.

The only time I've seen #4 buckshot is as part of a self-defense load.

The difference is crazy: #4 bird shot is 3.3mm diameter and 3.3 grains. #4 buck is 6.1mm diameter and 20.7 grains. Why do they have two different sizes for the same number?

 

[lawyerdad]

The only time I've seen #4 buckshot is as part of a self-defense load.

The difference is crazy: #4 bird shot is 3.3mm diameter and 3.3 grains. #4 buck is 6.1mm diameter and 20.7 grains. Why do they have two different sizes for the same number?

Vanity sizing.

 

[beargonefishing]

I’m not, size 4 steel shot is what’s usually used. Gets a goose down from about 10m and a hare up to 20m will be killed by the shock to the nerve system. Unless you shoot it quite close you don’t even need to pick pellets out of the meat.

Not to be confused with buckshot, which at size 4 would indeed probably obliterate it. But I’ve yet to see those shells in these parts, if they aren’t forbidden like brenneker type slugs.

@NakedYoga as well.

Get a .22, use snake shot rounds if you need the spread.

 

[nootje]

The only time I've seen #4 buckshot is as part of a self-defense load.

The difference is crazy: #4 bird shot is 3.3mm diameter and 3.3 grains. #4 buck is 6.1mm diameter and 20.7 grains. Why do they have two different sizes for the same number?

I have no clue why that is, although everything gun related probably has roots in some weird historical thing.

mis @JLibourel still around? He probably knows why, or knows somebody who does.

 

[nootje]

Get a .22, use snake shot rounds if you need the spread.

If I wanted to snipe hares i could, the .22 would indeed do the job. But, that’s not how it works. Hare season here runs from mid September until the 31st of December. In some part they are already rare (thank living in a densely populated country that has seen some of the most intensive agriculture in the world) so you only take out a few after doing a rough count with night vision. this is done through driving them out of the field with several hunters and dogs, with people on point at the ends.

In some parts there are plenty (I’m lucky in that a good friend has hunting rights in an area that’s great for hare) so the same procedure applies, minus the counting. Although you still want to keep several alive for next year. Not too many though, otherwise the farmer who owns the land will start to complain.

I made this photo last December helping out another friend, so I didn’t carry a gun. This is exceptionally large with a twenty man/woman line, but it gets the point across. There are many hares there, so in this manner they are culled to a point where they do not do too much damage to the crops.

A day like that nets about 40-50 hares (multiple fields like that) which gets distributed amongst the participants, so about two per person).

safe to say hunting culture differentiates a lot between here and there.

 

[nootje]

Oh, and about cookery. I’m learning all kinds of new crap due to having to live on a microwave for another 1,5 weeks.
Our new kitchen will be installed on the 19th, so until then it’s camping style in our own house (with a lot of take out/restaurant nights of course)

 

[Omega Male]

Growing up we had spring hares, which are less of a rabbit and more of a cross between a squirrel and a kangaroo. The method of hunting as teens was to get as drunk as possible and gun the pickup over open farm fields at night. Catch them in a spotlight and they freeze, so you'd dive off the truck and just wring their necks. Assuming you hadn't broken your own.

 

[nootje]

Growing up we had spring hares, which are less of a rabbit and more of a cross between a squirrel and a kangaroo. The method of hunting as teens was to get as drunk as possible and gun the pickup over open farm fields at night. Catch them in a spotlight and they freeze, so you'd dive off the truck and just wring their necks. Assuming you hadn't broken your own.

They do freeze in spotlights, i still find that cool to see. But diving out of a pickup? I’d have to be a teenager for that.

 

[beargonefishing]

Top of the jeep, spotlight attached to cigarette lighter and a .22 hunting small game brings back memories.

 

[beargonefishing]

Hmm, I don't think that's correct.

 

[NakedYoga]

Hmm, I don't think that's correct.

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Definitely doesn't look organic to me.

 

[beargonefishing]

I'm blaming pio for all my quarantine weight gain. I also got a new knife.

 

[edmorel]

Blue bowl has dough rising for focaccia, some potatoes I’m twice baking, small pan has garlic/herb infused olive oil for focaccia, some farmers market corn and lastly, a prime porterhouse that my fleabag supermarket had on sale for 7 or 8.99 on the cast iron

 

[reidd]

Cantaloupe fresh out of the garden.