Thread: Game bird diary for all

Originally Posted by Rushy

Sue the heli operator Dundee. How much value would you put on a lost duck opportunity?

Thats easy. Count the total amount of money you have spent on waterfowling equipment over your life and divide it by the number of duck dinners you have had and you will come up with your average cost per duck. Most people would be in the hundreds if not thousands of dollars per duck.

Originally Posted by MassiveAttack

Thats easy. Count the total amount of money you have spent on waterfowling equipment over your life and divide it by the number of duck dinners you have had and you will come up with your average cost per duck. Most people would be in the hundreds if not thousands of dollars per duck.

That is a good place to start

Originally Posted by MassiveAttack

Thats easy. Count the total amount of money you have spent on waterfowling equipment over your life and divide it by the number of duck dinners you have had and you will come up with your average cost per duck. Most people would be in the hundreds if not thousands of dollars per duck.

Just don't let the Mrs find out the final figure.

Shooting in the Waikato this year was a real treat, limit bags by lunchtime on both days on mallards ... B52's don't do it for me, either in the sights or in the pot. Planning a quick evening shoot tomorrow as weather looks okay and will take the young fella.

Lindsay Barnett how did you and the lads get on? I may have missed your report in another thread?

Few pics from tonight but never saw a bird

There are birds on the pond Dundee or are those decoys of yours fooling me?

Pt, and a mate and myself shot on the green pond tonight


A few visable fresh tracks were spotted across the weed



Dog keen as usual but I wish the history lesson between these two would halt.



They finally shut up and dog got back into position.



1750hrs they were still yakking when two came in between the big gum trees.

I dropped one PT fired a shot other fella never got a shot off.

First drake for the season

Good on ya Dundee. You need to throw some clays up for PPT to practise on

pardon the quality but the first quail of the season
id thought the area buggered cos cattle were grazing it but they still thier and yes i missed the next 2 after dropping this one first shot.
just goes to show you should quit while your ahead

Southerly blew in but didn't deliver the rain.

The resident dab chick showed its appearance



Then a cuppla b52's made the mistake of visiting the pond

Nice work on those swans, be a bit of a load for the retriever.

Went out to the lake late this arvo. Virtually no wind and just the occasional whiff of high cloud. Only shot a wounded Canada we saw on the walk in to end it's misery; there was almost nothing of it. Did get four mallards to commit but due to lack of light couldn't shoot them. Managed to talk a dose of Canada's over as well with the same result, but I was only playing with the caller at that stage.

b52's dundee??the bloody one i shot looked like an antunov heavy lift aircraft coming at me ,and it made a thump like one when it finally hit the deck! mrs didnt think much of me either when sons mate walked it into the lounge only to have a "deadcrap"on the carpet right in front of her!!

"Hey Mrs Kotuku look what we got ..... Oh shit sorry, I'll clean that up but neat bird eh"?

Dundee you're holding this thread up all by yourself, good work mate! i will have a look after milking see what i can get in my sights.