Good skills Toby,gotta love the shovellers;)Nice batch too:)I'm glad I spelled that "batch" right it could of looked worse.:ORLY:
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Good skills Toby,gotta love the shovellers;)Nice batch too:)I'm glad I spelled that "batch" right it could of looked worse.:ORLY:
I shot a few spoonies that didnt have many colors but when I got that one I really wanted to get it mounted but it cost heaps. I should of attempted my self, theres always next year
What boat is that Toby? I would love something small and portable.
Light too. me and my lil bro pick it up. its a smart wave. with one person in it and a 4hp on the back it gets up on a plane and motors.
Well just reminicing whats to come. Hope me and possom trapper have a better season this year,had a slow start last year unlike many of you. PT has sold his sheep and could be picking up a single barrel 12 guage tomorrow.........good luck fellas and fellesas:D
2 mallards.,1 pukeko back into it. Photos when we get back,21degrees slight northerly no rain.
Today's effort before the weather packed in.
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PS, the mag blocker (to have the 2 in the mag and one up the chamber limit) kept giving me feeding jams all day. :pissed off:
Really had to make sure I fully chucked the action to avoid this.
Good skills dogamatix I will add a few pics soon but our bag didn't change.
Beautiful clwar day not a cloud in the sky in rakaia. Stopped shooting at 12 and ended up with 25 parries (limited early) 61 drakes and 39 hens for a even 100 mallards
Clear hot day today, ducks trading high all day. But we limited on both mallies and parries.... 147 birds all up. Had them piling in tonight but sat back with a few beers and let them land. Second season on our new pond. Pretty happy.
Attachment 9385 74 ducks in total . Pulled stumps at noon , big BBQ and beers was a great day , mallards decoyed well considering the fine weather . Pot licker went real good on the retrieves . Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD
Ellsmere Munsey?
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Challenging day at Ellesmere today. Skies clear this morning and the birds were flying high and very quickly gun shy. I spent way too long calling birds in and by the time I made a grab for the gun my mate had missed them all with his gun and they were off. Still he managed to bag two parries this morning before we retired for a couple of hours when things got quiet. Returned late afternoon and bowled a mallard and swan each.
I suspect more birds were into the ponds on the lakeside farms as there were some impressive volleys coming from them. I'm stoked with my humble haul. Didn't miss much that I shot at. Probably should have shot at a few more that were probably in range, but I err on the safe side. Happy that I whistled the swans in from a reasonable distance and my expensive parrie caller performed admirably.
One mallard
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Quick look at river one pukeko
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Have this dab chick bobbing around pond
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My bitch spronking through the rough...
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Saw two roosters in the morning but to have shot them would have made me a trespasser...went back again in the afternoon...no birds...the guys around here told me they had better night shoots than morning shoots...heard some pretty serious volleys across from the river...sent a gaggle of greylags down stream into the line of fire of some guys on the riverbed...even with no birds, so neat to be out with gun and dogs...a ranger stopped by...no outing for us today...housework in the morning and visitors soon to arrive...dont they realise what day it is today ....:)
53 mallards and 12 parries today for a total of 155 mallards and 40 parries for the weekend.
Wind was forecast to turn to southerly so we decided a later afternoon shoot was in order. Our new maimai was occupied so we wandered along and set up in another empty one. The next maimai along had a group of guys with a big spread and calling up a storm so the birds were heading into them, though most were flying pretty high and straight.
I did manage to whistle another swan over for a dose of high speed steel to a load hails of hurrah from the next maimai. I quickly exited and went for the retrieve and quickly noticed that the head was up and it was starting to paddle so I quickened the pace a bit. It was between me and the next maimai so I couldn't send a finishing shot off. Apparently in the noise I was making I missed the call of 'run Forest, run" from the neighbours before I got to a spot where I could send off a safer finishing shot.
There was not a great deal of other action until we managed to call in three mallards and had them in the perfect spot only for my mate to miss with four shots and me not to send any steel there way due to technical difficulties. For some reason my thumb couldn't find the safety to the right of the action, then the same thumb couldn't find the safety on the tang, then I finally found the flippin' safety just behind the trigger. The call from the neighbours at this effort was 'What are you doing?", just before one of the birds did a low fly pass on their maimai where it was nailed.
I did manage to get another swan to fly our way but part way over was sky busted by another crew before flying over another maimai where it was nailed. He didn't collect it so we grabbed it on the way out. Swan casserole will be on the menu again shortly.
From the description Tussock that pond looks bloody low too.
We had another fine boring day at no.1 with four ducks coming in and only one dropped
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Night shoot moved to another half empty pond
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With cold barrels but good times
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3 mallards,2pukekos,2 maggies,a few plovers and a bloody expensive rabbit for this opening weekend.
Our new pond (on the oreiti near dipton southland) with my new spread looked great. everything that looked came in. We probably only missed 6 ducks all day. Tally was 49 mallards for sat. 17 mallards and 2 parries for sun. we are going to have another shoot this morning and then we are going up to my place for some more shooting. No photos too busy having great time. Only reason for the right up is coz i cant sleep.
Happy hunting Username
our opening weekend on lake wairarapa was pretty sad this year, got 4 mallards, 2 parries ans a swan on sat, 1 mallard and a swan on sunday. as usual the weather was too bloody good the lake was like glass and the ducks were flying miles high and landing in the center of the lake. didnt help i was reduced to using my escort semi as a single shot with something broken in the chambering mechinisim so hopefully when i sort that out i can have a better go at them when the weather turns.
Team photo when we packed up yesterday lunchtime. We're all best of mates and have been shooting opening together since 2005. We built this pond last year and had a very enjoyable weekend shooting this season. Our total for the weekend was 200 birds, limited on Saturday and pulled the pin early at 11 yesterday to pack up. All of our ducks were plucked or breasted and given to neighbours, friends and family.
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Wow, some good tallies there guys, shit opening day, 8 of us on the Waikato river, NOT ONE DUCK BETWEEN US!!!!!!.....then in the driving rain late sat arvo 4 black swans before the Lightening had us scared off as we were sitting in a tinnie.....
This is our effort, i managed to condense half an hours footage into 11 minutes.
Tally was 45 mallards retrieved and 5 or 6 parries, all done by 9.30am.
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Had a 100 percent talley on this pond this morning:D One took off,one shot.
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That second black lab looks jealous Dundee
His turn will come Rushy,another one tonight at the main pond
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Steady on there Dundee you are shooting all the girls. Who is going to lay the eggs at your place next year? Maybe if your got the lads to give the decoys a new paint job they might attract some boy ducks:)
Those 4 girls were dumb enough to fly into a shot gun blast and are the only 4 ducks that we have shot,that makes for a pretty quiet start for the season and others have shot way more than us. Shootm deserves the medal for the green head bag. But then whose going to root all the females that aren't shot if the green heads are dead?
We had two black swans land on our pond tonight and we left them.
They all taste the same :D
Too right Toby very tastey:D
I have a taste for duck wings now need to shoot some really bad now. Tomorrow shall be the day depending on the farmer. Says yes then its pigeons says no Im gonna float down the river try get me a duck or two
What a life eh Toby?
Yeah not bad.