Thread: Game bird diary for all

well I shot down rakaia with GSP follower ,another good mate and a young bloke having his 1st season. mate got 8 on our Pig pond ,which strangely he attributed to the large fermenting wild pig turd in its middle. Just after we discovered that pond we had a run in with a young sow &2fat piglets whom i attempted unsuccessfully to take out with the 12guage!I still intend to square the ledger but Im happy to wait. by hell some of the barrages heard sounded like the royal horse artillery engaging in a regimental fire mission -and that applies to both sides of us.
warm fine norwest breeze -2 shots fired in morning session both by choggy under GSPFs keen gaze at a seemingly suicidal bomber parrie!
i saw 3 mobs at about the same altitude as a bloody flying pencil headed from chch to hokitika.

gadget-your squirt &flap decoy -mate a hoot a minute-fluffs about like the front row at a gay mardigras.I had great delight sitting in my chair listening to GSPF's calling then setting luvly boy flapping a squirting water as i let rip with my pissed mallard rendition.!

shot the pig pond in the evening session with choggy&myself on guns and GSPF&mate as spotters&callers. One mob decoyed in in the early evening light -we let a volley go but probably a little eager too early in the season and they buggered off ,tho one plump young drake was definitely minus a large clump of arse feathers.
spoke to an ellesmere shooter this afternoothe lake shot similar to what whe experienced and any ducks taken were termed "bloody hard work"

bloody great weekend and wouldnt miss it for all the tea in china. thanks to gspf &his other half whove put us up for the weekend -cooking&hospitality superb(as usual). the rugby -bugger me you waikato blokes better get some get a bloody good feed of mallards into the cheifs -they need it crikey dick thought someone had spiked me beer as the game unfolded well done the highlanders.
GSPFaint gonna be a happy chappy as his hurricanes got reduced to a genteel breeze in yappieland.

anyhow itsa eaerly days yet but hell aint it grand to be back in duckshootin harness ! please if youre hitched donot roll over in bed tonight and lovingly coo"cmonl luv let me get a shot away"
i assure you duckshooting humour stretches as bloody far as a set of aching shins!(last year that was!)
hot barrels plentiful birds ,keen dogs and above all stay bloody safe!