30/6 to 8/7

N:Before the trip to Broome I went to my uncle’s farm (Georgie went to Warburton at a friends holiday house) after mum dropped me of she went to her parents place in the Katamatite Township for the night. She came back the next day and me and my cousin Mat drove the X-trail around and then mum left for her last working week for a term. Russell (my uncle) shot a fox in the top paddock with the .17 calibre rifle he shot it at 144 yards on the run we went around the sheep in the morning and found a carcass of the lamb that the fox had been feeding on. We did some shooting of the slug gun at an empty drum I got my eye in( the night before I had some shots with the .22 and none of them hit the microwave I was shooting at) then we marked lambs I picked them up and put them on a bench where they were drenched, injected, their tail (and if they were a boy then their Balls as well) had a ring put around them to cut the circulation off so they would fall of (painful stuff) then their were branded with a special paint. Taking them back was fun though on the 4 wheeler. We went out spot lighting and got three hares and no foxes, we did see a lot of foxes but didn’t get any. The next day all we did was drive and shoot we went around the sheep in the land cruiser we and mat took turns at driving. We shot with the open sighted .22 for me the first time and the other with the scope and of course the slug guns. We went out spotlighting again; we got a fox it fell in the water and Russell had to walk right up to the channel crossing to get it. We drove to Numurkah to met with my grandparents who would have me for the next few days before we would then finally head off for Broome!!!