Whats the biggest thing you've murdered?

mayordenis wrote: »

rabbits but it was more self defence

As long as you shouted "it's coming right for us" it's ok.

crow

My fear of pain

CursedSkeptic wrote: »

Refer to oneself in the third person is moronic, please refrain

think you meant "Referring to oneself in the third person is moronic, please refrain".

If you are criticising someones posting style try not to make mistakes yourself

I couldn’t be arsed re-writing all this so I just copied it from my bebo blog, it’s a year and half since we got back from the trip, I am still sickened by this country!!!

On the way back down to the farm after lunch I got a call from Dwayne over the 2 way (the cb radio) I was to meet him at the feedlot and help him with the bait. Just to explain what the bait is, in the outback every 6 months or so most properties do what’s called a “bait”. Kill a large steer, peel off the hide and get the best meet off him. Then cut up the meat into fist sizes and they would be injected with a very strong poison that would kill anything that would eat it. The neat is taken and put out around the boundary fence and around the water holes. The main targets are dingoes.
So I met Dwayne, left my Ute at the feedlot and went looking for steer. There had been put one aside just for this purpose as he has bad hooves. He was about 4 years old and he normally hung around the river where he was nice and close to the water and not too far from some grazing. He was after fattening up nicely. Took us a while to find him and when we did he was lying down on the opposite side of the river. We made our way around and I loaded the rifle, a .22. Dwayne went over about 10m from the beast and took a shot at it. It got up and moved off deeper into the bush, Dwayne followed and I stayed with the vehicle. I heard 2 more shots then Dwayne called out to me to bring the vehicle out, Dwayne had the beast down in a clearing, still alive. I parked, close, got out and Dwayne asked me if I wanted to kill it. I took the gun, cocked it and took aim, he got up and started to move away as I aimed. I lined up the crosshairs just behind his ear and fired. He dropped, legs still moving trying to run. I reloaded, walked over, put the barrel to the back of his head and fired. No more moving. I cleared the barrel and put the rifle back in the Ute, while Dwayne got the knives, special knives for exactly this purpose. Sharp in the extreme, he got one for himself and one for me.
I was thinking in my head that I wasn’t totally sure if I could do this but didn’t say anything. Dwayne said to watch him a while and do what he did. The beast was down on its side so we had easy access to all of 1 side. Dwayne picked up the back leg, placed the hoof between his legs and started to cut the hide just above the hoof all the way around, and then one cut right up the middle of the leg. He is trying to peel the hide off with out damaging the meat. So I picked up the front leg and put the hoof between my legs and started to cut into the hide just above the hoof, around the ankle but the beast kicked out!!!! I almost **** myself! Dwayne started laughing and said that the nerves stay active for about 20mins after the kill, that I should just hold on tight. He could have told me that sooner the bastard! So then I did it again and peeled the hide off the leg, right up to the shoulder. It was pretty sick really, it was still warm, no gloves, could feel everything on my hands, the fat tissue under the hide, the meat and blood in places, but surprisingly very little blood. I found out later that Dwayne had bled the beast, cut straight into the heart at the very start and let it all bleed out while I put the gun away. We kept going, peeling the hide from the neck down and the hoofs up to the spine. Dwayne picked up the front leg and cut deep in around the shoulder, I realized that he was cutting it off, left him take the weight of the leg and did the cut for him, right through the shoulder socket. He lobbed it into the back of the Ute and we did the same with the back leg. We then sharpened the knives again and started cutting all the good meat off the carcass, Dyane showed me where all the different steaks come off the animal. I got the long strip of fillet off near the spine and put that in the Ute along with the rest of the meat. When we had what we wanted we rolled the beast over and did the same on the other side. When we were finished there was a ****load of meat in the Ute. It was almost 6.30pm when we finished, we took it up to a ship container to process it in the morning. The carcass is left where it fell.