what no cuddle from the date dundee to keep warm:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Dundee
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what no cuddle from the date dundee to keep warm:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Dundee
Left side was warm:PQuote:
Originally Posted by gsp follower
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Early morning rooster, almost a double flush but for my shooting. Got the second a few minutes later though.
Guess I won't be calling any parries in:pissed off::oh noes:
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Not been shooting much but pretty wrapped with this pair of parries taken as 1-1
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Then next afternoon a nice rooster that Shadow flushed out of a patch of willows on the way for the evening shot
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Another clean shot over head rocket, 36gr steel #3's are very effective at 30' DOA
Saw two ducks fly into the green pond while shifting stock.Came home and got my dog and went up there blew them away.:D
The drake landed in the pond where the clearing is. Miss Jess launched her self from the bank almost onto the drake.Attachment 36900Attachment 36901
The hen landed in the grass in the back right.
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Nice work ,looks in need of a neck stretch.
DJ on way & late B/d pressie
The little fella does it again...
Home early yesterday arvo so I thought I'd strike while the iron is hot and ran Baz while he is on form. Didn't disappoint...
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Excuse the bedraggled looking birds. They are the first I've allowed him to retrieve, as they were nice easy ones in the clear where he could mark the fall and I could steady him if need be. Pretty amateurish retrieves to be fair, but being his first hot retrieves I'm happy and can only improve. Hopefully the next ones aren't drowned in slobber like these :)
Sorry Tim Allen I should have put this is the brace yourself thread :oh noes:
Nice photo .You may have to break out the eyeliner as stiff competition to win the brace yourself comp . A feller down south is trying to take it out with birds from up your way ha ha !Quote:
Originally Posted by Pointer
If you get the eyeliner pics out, I will !
Hey What happens on tour stays on tour :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pointer
Cheers for the callers @Chris
Haven't missed a night getting out there yet since the season began:)
Tonight me and dog went to big pond, one lonesome swan was there on our approach.
Southerly blowing as we approached from the South side and all bird hunters will know ducks (birds) will take off into the wind.
We walked half way down the pond as it made its departure and had to wait for it to clear my decoys before letting wrip.:D
Downed the bugger:)
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No ducks came in but it sounded like WW3 WAS happening at the river.
On our way home I tryed to capture the dog retrieving it across our bridge over the creek.She fell in once but recovered and I only captured these 3 pics.
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going on an invited hunt on saturday morning high hopes and warm gear a must:D
pickin minus 1 or 2 will be about right:O_O:
Never seen a bird tonight. Ground was frozen when I left:(
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great morning on a irri pond patchy with bouts of extreme birdiness fn cold in places to.
nice bit of work from the invitors springer and great fun allround.
10 taken and all in good nick.
Blank tonight,dead calm no birds heard or seen:(
3 mallards for 3 shots and then another 5 shots for a Parrie. the parries where a lot higher and I thought I had missed or only slightly wounded it . But I ended recovering it 15mins later and some 300 mtrs away. A totally enjoyable ending to the season for ducks
nice mate i wont ruin your buzz and say our best is yet to come:yaeh am not durnk: oopsQuote:
Originally Posted by Gapped axe
north canterbury pheasant weekend coming up ye uur.
hard to get excited over 2 days of dodging everyman man and his dog for a paranoid over harassed cock bird:D
Have pheasants on the hit list until end of August here as well as pooks .
Parries until end of June ,it ain't over yet by any means .
I don't call parries ducks, but yes I will still put some time in to them until their season ends, now I know they are there again. Saw a couple of Parries in the same spot this evening.
Mate and I downed one tonight and the good old dog delivered the goods.
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Breasted it for my mate too take home,he was wrapped to see the first ever duck fall out of the sky.:D
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jet pohangina river
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my opening day spread pretty happy with the home built vortex made from a windscreen wiper motor and some scrap steel
are those goose shells you,ve converted to oversize parries prattpoint ??Quote:
Originally Posted by prattpoint
look great if so:thumbsup:did you not have a chair??:yaeh am not durnk:
Yeah I bought two dozen super magnum goose shells of trade me this year painted half as mallards and half as parries they are bigger than swan decoys was worried they were too big but seem to work well, I can carry them all myself and they are fast to set up,
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Good day in the forestry even after a rabid spaniel had a go at my dog and left him bleeding and limping.
been there had one try to towel my dog up everytime he tryed to get back in the maimai, with a retrieve, a year or two back.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wildman
never known a springer to be so aggresive:wtfsmilie:
quail gave me the slip apart from a single today.:XD: didnt even shoot at it:D
did ofcourse see a nice pheasant a day late and a rogueish disregard for the rules short:yaeh am not durnk:
sou west front forcast for later today.
how late is anybodies guess probably after dark:yaeh am not durnk:
yr website has it from 6pm-midnight Weather forecast for Lake Ellesmere (New Zealand)Quote:
Originally Posted by gsp follower
Thanks Stugs! I have been trying to find a decent site for weather at the large pond for a while now.
It's about time we got a few weeks of southerlies I reckon, the way it is going all the ducks will forget to fly if this weather keeps up.
Yep, I've been watching it too, missed the southerly the other week, had relatives visiting.
+1 on the site . its the shiss . gutted finished work early too was out in Lincoln .Had deks, NO GUN !Quote:
Originally Posted by C404
@Munsey, that would be a real pain...
Mallards finished for me, really rough conditions at the big pond.
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Nothing up there tonight so we went to the green pond and watched the gum trees sway.
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Not a bird seen apart from some magpies that took a load of steel into there roosting position in the gum trees.
Great times with family and friends and the mutt .................bring on next year!!
Still can shoot parries here till the 12th july but road trip on the way. Say hi if ya see the forum decal on the ute;)
you gonna get this far down dundee ??Quote:
Originally Posted by Dundee
plenty of hunting here in the next few weeks geese should be back to the lake real soo if not already plus ducks parries and extra long swan season.:D
Not this year gsp ddn't get paid this month:pissed off:Quote:
Originally Posted by gsp follower
This morning it was my 4th missed bird in a week...
ride it out the worm will turn pointer :XD:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pointer
dont start overthinking the shot let your reactions/ muscle memory do the job;)
That memory thing is bugging me. Which one of these does a duck look like?Quote:
Originally Posted by gsp follower
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http://cmtrailer.co.nz/sites/default...T13-165-8P.jpg
http://www.iradio.ie/blog/wp-content...ipper_bath.jpg
