Coypu Hunter 486 Posted December 7, 2015 Report Share Posted December 7, 2015 (edited) Took a 50-yard shot at a coypu that's been steaming around our little lake the day before yesterday... Clean miss. So I re-zeroed the rifle, by which time it was too dark to shoot. The scope had shifted, and POI was about four inches low and a bit right. The rifle has been hanging in its slip since I went off to Ingerland a couple of weeks ago, so dunno how that happened... it normally stays bang on zero for months at a time. Went a-stalkin' again yesterday evening, as dusk was falling. As I crept down to the small beach area of the lake, the coypu plopped into the water and swam off.I wandered along the Eastern bank until I spotted it hiding under the undercut bole of a tree overhanging the Western bank, 40 yards away, where it thought it was safe and out of view. I set up on the shooting sticks, lined up the rifle through a gap in the bankside trees, started the camcorder rolling... Only a littl 'un, 40cm nose to butt, 80cm nose to tail, 9.5lbs/4.5kg. For the irrepressibly bloodthirsty, there's a video of the action here... https://youtu.be/uNrAqxtj0OY Edited December 7, 2015 by Coypu Hunter 5 Quote Link to post
unlacedgecko 1,467 Posted December 7, 2015 Report Share Posted December 7, 2015 Do you eat them? Can they be hunted with dogs? 1 Quote Link to post
Coypu Hunter 486 Posted December 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2015 I don't eat 'em, because they carry leptospirosis (Weil's Disease), toxoplasmosis, and possibly rabies (the evidence is unclear about this). Some do eat 'em, and I believe they're considered a delicacy in Hungary... This bloke in Uruguay likes 'em in a stew... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVA2EAzDIH8 You can hunt 'em with dogs, and some do in France. Quote Link to post
jonnie bravo 572 Posted December 7, 2015 Report Share Posted December 7, 2015 Very nice, they are quite the beast! Ideal vermin for FAC air/rimfire I'd imagine? 1 Quote Link to post
Coypu Hunter 486 Posted December 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2015 Aye, a Winchester subsonic through the 22LR drops 'em on the spot. Pest control/hunting with air rifles is illegal in France, so of course one wouldn't do that, would one? 2 Quote Link to post
ratbuster 808 Posted December 7, 2015 Report Share Posted December 7, 2015 so of course one wouldn't do that, would one? Unless you're " a couple of miles " from the Capital. The further away from Paris, the less the law has its effects .... Would like to give them a go with my .25 Stealth Good shooting CH, well done ( saw the video ) Quote Link to post
Coypu Hunter 486 Posted December 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2015 You may well think that, but I couldn't possibly comment... A 13 fpe .177 or a 16 fpe .22 will also do the trick. Allegedly... 2 Quote Link to post
treecreeper 1,136 Posted December 7, 2015 Report Share Posted December 7, 2015 can be a proper nuisance these not so little buggers, id love a bash them with me 100 and nv but don't think that's allowed 2 Quote Link to post
ratbuster 808 Posted December 8, 2015 Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 The Coypu in East Anglia in the 70's made " the Rise of the HW35's " possible. Before the Brittons used their Webleys and BSA's, which weren't really up to the job....... (Nowadays that would have been the HW 100's in .177 .... ) 1 Quote Link to post
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