Did a midweek hunt down towards Waitakaruru, we have hunted this farmers land for a few years and while we see hundreds if not thousands of birds heading to and from the firth, very few are low enough or display any interest on coming in to the field spread.
Every year we tell ourselves we aren't going back and its just too much of a heartbreaker. This year was different, a patch of surface water had them committed in the final hour of shooting light resulting in 13x of the hardest won Mallards we've ever shot!
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