2013 Waikato Rumours + Tall Tales. Where do they come from ?? How many can we list?

1. Have heard so far quite a few weeks back that we were to be burdened by an even shorter season then last year.
Being a case of life or death made an enquiry on Hamilton and was told no too early for that (as suspected) we will do our counts much later on then discuss it...
I said that cool can you sort it out so I dont get so much sun burn on opening day as well...

2. Have been told today that theres talk of banning mechanical battery powered decoys, pinning guns to three shots, only allowed to feed for x number of weeks prior to the season ...
Asked the guy if he could ask the people who said that if they could tell me next weekends lotto numbers but guess waht .. Bugger said they couldn't

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Bloody ducks Happy. There is a family of stealthy ninja Parries that come to the house each night and shit all around the pool.

Sure there's actually some substance to that stuff, recently councillors Cocks, Sherrard and Madsen pushed this through at a Ward 3 meeting. Same guys who don't support duck research at all, but will give you all the answers all the same. You could vote for them and watch the self fulfilling prophecy come true... or just vote for commonsense. (we should keep this forum free of politics, I like it here for that reason).

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Originally Posted by Rushy

Bloody ducks Happy. There is a family of stealthy ninja Parries that come to the house each night and shit all around the pool.

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Ninja sniping Rushy like a boss ha ha

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Originally Posted by Snuffit

Sure there's actually some substance to that stuff, recently councillors Cocks, Sherrard and Madsen pushed this through at a Ward 3 meeting. Same guys who don't support duck research at all, but will give you all the answers all the same. You could vote for them and watch the self fulfilling prophecy come true... or just vote for commonsense. (we should keep this forum free of politics, I like it here for that reason).

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Sorry don't know bout that no interest in political side either I assure you just thought a medium of common rumors would be helpful to
Dispel some myths and keep it real ....

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Originally Posted by Snuffit

Sure there's actually some substance to that stuff, recently councillors Cocks, Sherrard and Madsen pushed this through at a Ward 3 meeting. Same guys who don't support duck research at all, but will give you all the answers all the same. You could vote for them and watch the self fulfilling prophecy come true... or just vote for commonsense. (we should keep this forum free of politics, I like it here for that reason).

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It baffles me that they all spend hours mass debating slight changes to hunting regulations to slightly lower the number of ducks shot.

When what they should be arguing about is the best way to put more ducks into the sky so we can all shoot more ducks out of a healthy and growing wild population.

Have you moved in here Massive?:)
Akl/Wai is no longer the duck factory it used to be and council needs to adapt to that, its quite simple to me the more people you have living in an area the less natural duck habitat you have, theres a big urban spread in this area thats putting alot of habitat out of FnGs control
all these threats of lower limits and regulated decoy spreads and pinned guns are REAL!! as snuffit said it won't solve the prob at all but might delay its affects for a few more years , not eaxacly an answer to the problem.
If your enrolled to vote do so and use it well, we need a change!
Ps I hate all political bullshit too but if we the hunters dont give a shit who will?

Okay here are some of the answers as Reported by" Guy Ralph" Councillor .

10 bird limit
3 shot per gun
Season 4 weeks ending 4 June
No feeding 30 days before start of season
No change as to Flapping or electronic ducks

To be confirmed at February Meeting those no change expected.
No decrease in licence fee.

First thing they should change is remove the steel ban.

Re: A/W F&G Meeting 15th December 2012
Reply #7 - Dec 15th, 2012 at 11:19pm
This Quote has been taken from another Forum and is from Guy Ralph AWFG councillor 15 Dec

For the record 2013 season regulations are
mallards and Grey ducks 4 weeks 10 bird limit
There will be a restriction to 3 shots for this season
the exemption that allows baiting of waterfowl will not be applied for. So no feeding of areas you shoot on 30 days prior or during the season.
If there is a need to disperse Paradise Ducks in the King Country it will be a Junior only special season.

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Okay here are some of the answers as Reported by" Guy Ralph" Councillor .

10 bird limit
3 shot per gun
Season 4 weeks ending 4 June
No feeding 30 days before start of season
No change as to Flapping or electronic ducks

To be confirmed at February Meeting those no change expected.
No decrease in licence fee.

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Be a season I won't be buyin a license if that's how it goes

Thats very harsh cutting the season that much ,think they need to cut the license fee accordingly .

When I was local delegate to council 1 Saturday a month I got to sit threw 3-4 hours of listening to a bunch of idiots waffle on about nothing & achieve nothing positive .Month after month the same BS in the end I got totally pissed off with it & gave up.It would appear nothing has changed or is likely to any time soon.

Next years my last year as junior then its too adult fee *crys*

Utter bullshit the rangers should have been skulking the tosses we have heard boasting 450 ducks on opening morning for the last 10 years but they weren't cos it was their mates. This if it's true sucks big time when you have people like me and my mates that spend shit loads on pest control fresh water and breeding
habitats It will be ok just will turn us into tosses as well Anyone want to pay years rego for their car for 6 months I'm a no sorry just regod my road bike and got butt fuced can't do that twice a year...

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First thing they should change is remove the steel ban.

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Their is a bloke that has a serious personal agenda of banning lead in sub gauges, just voted onto the national F & G council.
It is going to get far worse with these idiots implementing personal beliefs, and I believe your money spent on 20, 16, 28g guns will be wasted if you have to fire steel atv waterfoul, making them less effective over certain types of shooting.

These types of people are stuck in their own little world and how they do things, and think everyone else should be the same.
Yet somehow they always get into a position of influence and fuck everything up. It would ruin the sport for me, as to how I enjoy and go about it, if they ban lead in sub gauges, period.

Well thats shit. Sub gauges are ok with lead but I cant see it being good for ducks unless their right on you/ wouldnt cost of steel sub gauge ammo be through the roof?

I have no idea Toby but I suspect so. The reasons lead was banned in the first place is IMO unsubstantiated crap. More ducks apparently die of starvation than anything, I reckon.
The west coast, apart from the odd tidal lagoon, has fuck all dabbling water and I fail to see how lead is a threat anyway due to our rainfall cleaning things up all the time.
If you shoot ponds there should be fuck all shot going in them if your shooting properly anyway. I really hate steel as it limits your shooting ability.

It would be nice if they would sort out a summer parrie season for north auckland.
There are a number of pissed off farmers now because they have been told in the last couple of years they can't get a permit for control because there is now a (singular) weekend in summer to shoot parries! Not much use if you have a few hundred parries and mallards turning up eating the maize feed.

I agree R93 100%

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Originally Posted by Barefoot

It would be nice if they would sort out a summer parrie season for north auckland.
There are a number of pissed off farmers now because they have been told in the last couple of years they can't get a permit for control because there is now a (singular) weekend in summer to shoot parries! Not much use if you have a few hundred parries and mallards turning up eating the maize feed.

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Hmmm Barefoot. I guess the "my land, I will do what I want" approach probably doesn't cut it but that is my view. I have shot parries over my land just for pissing me off while out rabbit shooting.

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Originally Posted by Rushy

Hmmm Barefoot. I guess the "my land, I will do what I want" approach probably doesn't cut it but that is my view. I have shot parries over my land just for pissing me off while out rabbit shooting.

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Yes to that Rushy and they also dont like 308 and 300 Win mags going off at the same time when they follow us deer hunting. It tends to shut them up rather permanently and quickly...