One of those days......

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There must be other exotic stuff over there to hunt.
Being warm you must have to get them proccessed pretty fast.
How are the gun laws there?
 
There must be other exotic stuff over there to hunt.
Being warm you must have to get them proccessed pretty fast.
How are the gun laws there?

Growing up my folks had a shrimp farm right at the bottom corner of Molokai Ranches trophy park.
There were Eland, Black buck, Audad, and maybe a few others in there (can't remember now).
The exotic animals are all supposedly to be gone now, but I've seen blackbuck twice in the last 5-10years or so, out side the fences.
which is actually pretty often considering I'm almost never hunt the areas they would frequent.

Theres random stuff kinda all over.
Blacktail on Kaui, Goats everywhere, Sheep here, mouflon here and lanai, Axis on every island except Oahu and Niihau (tho there maybe some), Pigs in every yard. Seen some of those guys last week at work, might try collect a few in a couple months if no one beats me to it.
I'm probably missing something, but that's what I can remember off hand.

Gun laws are restrictive.
10rnd pistol mag cap. No "assault" pistols, sbs/r, suppressors. Need a permit to acquire, and have to register.
I don't find it offensive tho, simply because they don't actively try beat you over the head with them. The fact that all the folks that work in the firearms offices are super nice helps too lol.
 
You forgot the cows lol. I got to know how you feed the farmed shrimp, make algae?
Yeah, feral cows too!

You buy shrimp feed LOL! much like raising anything else, there are a number of strategies for growing shrimp. We used (actually did Prawns primarily) in ground ponds and semi intensive culture. So when we fed, the prawns ate some, and the rest just added nutrients to the ponds.
 
So what is the difference between a schrimp and a prawn?
There are some notable physical difference, but the generally accepted distinction is either geographical, or more commonly fresh (prawn) vs salt (shrimp) water.

What our farm was designed to raise were Macrobrachium.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrobrachium_rosenbergii

But we also did Vannamei.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteleg_shrimp


And ornamental fish, food fish....stuff.
If toads were marketable, we woulda made it lol......I burned up 6 or 7 pump.airguns in 4 years or so.
 
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Being warm you must have to get them proccessed pretty fast
Forgot to answer that. I usually debone, or at least quarter in the field.
I've gutted animals and left them hanging in the shade, or under a bush for most of the day, then picked them up on the way out. Guts in tho, 'specially if they have a hole in em, and they will go bad pretty quick.
 
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When I got home, I found that my oldest dog had passed while we were out....I'm enough of a romantic to believe she came on one last hunt with me. So while I'd usually attribute both taking an excellent animal, and my equipment holding out literally just long enough to luck....

All I can say is thanks Poi......

I'm told there are a lot of unexplained happenings in the islands, so you never know.

Sorry about your canine friend, but congrats on a beautiful sheep! Looks like your days of missing are over, hopefully for good.
 
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