Homekill rig

[Heym SR20]

What a really excellent set up. And far far more humane than loading cattle up onto a truck and then taking them off to market, mixing them up with lots of strange animals and then taking to any abbatoir.

Using this mobile slaughter rig you can turn up to a farm, quietly separate those for slaughter with very little stress and then straight into the chiller and to local butcher, farm shop with minimal food miles.

But our clipboard warriors in the UK would have an absolute hissy fit cos it doesn’t fit their predefined criteria of massive abbatoir businesses run by (I expect) Tory party donors.

 

[Norfolk Horn]

Nice numberplate!

You don't miss a lot

 

[VSS]

You don't miss a lot

You've never seen me shooting.....

 

[Waz77]

Nice set up, but now I need to know what the guts are used for

 

[Sonicdmb73]

Vegetable oil is whats used here for chainsaw.s

You maybe surprised Dave..a dog will walk past a rump steak to have a feed of raw washed tripe,believe me! Its natures wonder food and makes them shine,also it is one of the first things that wolves/dingo`s,cape dogs go for.

These little battery saws (below) are very good units for splitting a spine.

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My old boss and stalking mentor used to use an electric recip saw in the larder. Battery version is certainly more portable. Maybe just don’t use the same one on site Monday morning. There’s bound to be someone offended by any blood left on it.

Re the chain saw .... there was a time when we used vegetable oil, but discovered that the material we were cutting provided all the lubrication required ... plenty of fat and other assorted juicy stuff keeps the bar and chain well lubed. May go electric at some point, but so far have just stayed with what has worked for us for so many years.

I hadn’t considered the fat etc doing the job.

 

[SikaHunter]

What caliber do you use to shoot the animal? I have heard you can use a 22 but it seems a little under powered in my opinion

 

[nun_hunter]

What caliber do you use to shoot the animal? I have heard you can use a 22 but it seems a little under powered in my opinion

There is a good YouTube channel run by one of these home kill guys and he uses a 223. He knows his stuff and in one video drops 4 cows in about 30 seconds with pretty much zero stress exhibited by the cows in turn.

 

[User00033]

There is a good YouTube channel run by one of these home kill guys and he uses a 223. He knows his stuff and in one video drops 4 cows in about 30 seconds with pretty much zero stress exhibited by the cows in turn.

^^^ This

Some guys use .22LR, some use .22 Hornet, some use .223 Rem.

I can’t remember what ammo he uses, but the rifle is a Tikka T3 with a substantial over-barrel suppressor that is remarkably quiet.

It is important to recognise that the choice of cartridge is not the most important aspect here. The skill and temperament of the shooter is the key. As we discussed on here not long ago, a competent shooter with a .22LR hollow point can be very effective.

 

[nun_hunter]

^^^ This

Some guys use .22LR, some use .22 Hornet, some use .223 Rem.

I can’t remember what ammo he uses, but the rifle is a Tikka T3 with a substantial over-barrel suppressor that is remarkably quiet.

It is important to recognise that the choice of cartridge is not the most important aspect here. The skill and temperament of the shooter is the key. As we discussed on here not long ago, a competent shooter with a .22LR hollow point can be very effective.

Very true. I was really impressed with how he set up, let the cows come to him and relax then knew the right order to shoot them. Pretty sure the fourth was on the ground before the first one had started kicking. First shot was about 15m I think and the final about 50m.

 

[shakey jake]

What caliber do you use to shoot the animal? I have heard you can use a 22 but it seems a little under powered in my opinion

plenty of power in 22 cal bullets all depends on the chambering?

 

[Cheviot]

There is a good YouTube channel run by one of these home kill guys and he uses a 223. He knows his stuff and in one video drops 4 cows in about 30 seconds with pretty much zero stress exhibited by the cows in turn.

this him

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCctOagGrJld9QdFAnf0T16A/videos

 

[nun_hunter]

this him

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCctOagGrJld9QdFAnf0T16A/videos

Yep thats the one