I see what you mean...:)
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I suspect you are entirely correct, @Tim Allen...there is a sound rationale behind protecting hens WHERE THERE IS A SMALL/SPARSE POPULATION...lucky ones who can bag hens as well...there must be some birds up there...
]i wonder if you set a hen as well as cock limit do you then encourage to some extent the if it flys it dies mentality??
well a hen maybe a feed a cocks a feed a trophy and a hard flushing,cackling,nappy change producing ,gaudy son of a bitch, that i love to hate then love again:yaeh am not durnk:
this depending on the hunt the dogs work my shooting the birds condition colouring:D
just hard to get excited about killing a hen after 39 years of bieng told hell no.
dont get me started on pointed and flushed quail :ORLY:
how is it possible to miss as often as i do a bird not much bigger than a bull sparrow with 300 odd pellets at 30 feet??christ last season i barely kept myself in roast quail and veges including at least two trips to the gunshop for more 9,s:O_O::D
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In Hawkes Bay we are permitted two roosters a day...
How many did YOU get Tony, with that slug gun, tuis, Kereru, Ruru oh the list goes on!:O_O:
thats how i got this male phezzy he got clipped by a car south of rakaia on state hwy one poor sod. i thought he might be nursed back to health but when he couldnt move the next day i new his time was up:oh noes:[img]http://i1046.photobucket.com/albums/.../Image0125.jpg[/img]http://i1046.photobucket.com/albums/...mage0123-1.jpg
I hunt from one side of eastern to another, I don't see the need to shoot hens. The population is healthy but not that healthy - I certainly won't be shooting a hen. However its only one weekend, I can't see it making much difference if it's this year only