Thread: Game bird diary for all

Originally Posted by Tahr-Bound

Yeah I saw his headlamp early in the morning when I dropped off a 410 to the boy on the that side of the river. We shot over the other side. The weather turned perfect on the Monday! Lots of wind.
Just buggering about with the dog in the evenings now getting her steadier till I find a decent riverbed camp to hunt... Then I have to go get a chamois and get my 280 onto some tahr and then....and then...

I'm still keen to shoot some river beds when I am back out of our block. I will do a scout round on the drive back to hoki as well.

Just a quick report from the Manwatu. Opening weekend was fine warm and no wind. The ducks were real suspicious of the loud calling and spooked by shots from several kilometers away.
however the team worked hard called well and some of them shot well too, as we ended up with a 5 man limit by 11am on the saturday and same conditions on sunday resulted in a 4 man limit by 1130am.
this saturday we ventured out to the pond not knowing how it would go as the treetrimmer has been in cutting down the willows overhanging the fence arround the pond ready for a new fence to be put up.
Same conditions for most of the morning with shots going off all over the place wind did get up a bit for a while. The ducks decoyed a bit better than last weekend with the young guns running hot i mostly sat and watched as they decked a lot of ducks with clean kills a ranges that I wouldn't have attemped. yep those A400 guns sure can shoot ducks dead.
By 1030 we ran out of ducks and were stranded at 2 short of a 4 man limit of mallards plus a couple of spoonies as well.
We spent the next couple of hours cleaning up willow branches for the farmer as a thankyou for the acess to a great spot