Well and truly plucked Eeebees. Me thinks the instinct is strong I that one.Quote:
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Well and truly plucked Eeebees. Me thinks the instinct is strong I that one.Quote:
Originally Posted by EeeBees
:):)
cheer up GSP follower. You're not alone. I've shot one pheasant this year :) I never thought I'd say this but I'm a little bored of it!
You will have your hands full now too mate ;)Quote:
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Oh God, the world is going to end...:D:D:DQuote:
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On the contrary, it is just beginning :)Quote:
Originally Posted by EeeBees
I've never shot a pheasant:ORLY:
Tongue twister for yas :D
I'm not pheasant plucker
I'm a pheasant pluckers son
I keep on plucking pheasant till the pheasants pluckings done.
Now say it 10 times and you will fuck up.:thumbsup:
Yea, I feel more excited to just train with my dog instead of hunt. Not sure what that's all about. its a weird year.Quote:
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Works been crazy lately so after work today went for a quick walk to keep the insanity at bay. Wasn't expecting much and took all the dogs for an "armed walk", normally only take 1 if serious
Wandered round and dogs got keen, trying to watch them all and young dog tracked off unseen, put up a rooster just over the ridge, bugger, Saw roughly where it landed, went over and old pointer put it up again but couldn't get a shot till it was at extreme range, had a stab in frustration (wouldn't have normally taken it), bird flew on and landed behind some trees somewhere roughly where I was headed. So I carried on, after a good 200m the pointers got keen so was waiting hopefully for a flush, then looked at the Lab X who normally stays close, he was very interested in a tussock, next thing I notice a tail feather sticking out,stoked. No idea where I hit it, only found a small bit of damage. Was very lucky to find it and will go back to only taking sure shots
Then I was fast tracking back to ute as getting late, young dog was running flat out on the dunes and suddenly locked up solid, I went over and she wasn't moving so I knew it was close, took a couple steps and up he went, this one was very well hit with a big cloud of feathers, got bugger all meat off it unfortunately,
So was a great team effort from the dogs and sanity is restored, well at least till the morning
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headed out to my favourite spot at lake elly
cold as a well diggers arse but the sound of heaps of geese vacating the area had hopes given the sign on the ground of some loafers returning.
but no cigarespecialy once theflax planters turned up.
i predict the week after ducks close or the week after that i,l be taking picks of me and our premier waterfowl.
so good to hear good numbers of them in flight and to see hundreds of ducks even tho not shootable
Game bird season all over here.Pukekos are still on the list I dealt with one today.
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we are spoilt except for pheasants and with canadas all the time which may sound great but i think are making them much harder to hunt and more inclined to and seek the peace and quiet in the wet areas in christchurch.t
which ofcourse gets hunters moaned at for not con.trolling them but unless they start breeding a stupid strain which doesnt respond to year round pressure and wont settle where thier safe when its offered on a plate i dont see a immediate solution.
you can guarentee the council didnt think of one in advance and ecans will be punitive short term or a balls up.
Again, today I took the Turk for a walk for no apparent reason...the little dog got onto some scent which tracked through a fence onto a neighbouring vineyard...I take my fold up saw with me everytime we go out just in case I find a nice stick for stickmaking...at least we came home with a couple of sticks...the wind following the river bed on a couple of occasions was unbelievable...
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All these pictures are making me hungry as well as inspiring me to go for hunting on this weekend. Hope so that I would get some fresh flesh for myself too.:drool:
Went south of chch, for one last crack on the ducks . Great weekend , with plenty of wind on Saturday. Ducks didn't want to commit and my shooting was terrible . Sunday was cold as a witches tit with a steady breeze a smaller irrigation pond . We all shot well, dogs went well too . Nice to get some birds in the freezer . Big thanks to @gadgetman for the loan of your laydown blind . What beer? oh ahh Tea do you drink ?
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had my 1st decent crack at a covey of quail yesterday.
missed the main flush by bieng a couple of yards to far away but got shots at 2 stragglers ;)
less said the better:O_O:
hoping the parries will settle back in a favoured haunt so i can take advantage of the .extended west of stste hwy one season.
Great day out considering getting to end of season. Some good dog work and a bit of luck had my limit for the day http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...a3e9219455.jpg
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Nice one, awesome pup, Have you had her out on deer much?
Yeah she's got me a couple, and lost me a couple. Certainly knows what they are and will indicate them, but she's more of a bird dog. Doesn't like sitting still and moving quietly, unless she's stalking a pheasant when she goes into stealthy stalk modeQuote:
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@gsp follower, I was wah wah wahing about the coveys of quail prior to Opening Day and getting very excited about the forthcoming dog work etc but I have not been able to find one of them...maybe they knew about the weather...who knows...:(Quote:
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since i dont have a pointer anymore a lot of the fun of quail has escaped me:sick:Quote:
Originally Posted by EeeBees
but in my travels ive discovered at leas one current feeding spot and 2 crossing points baCK TO ROOSTS.
so any fine,ish afternoon i can pop up give the kuri a run saw some firewood and put the dog thru the inkweed and or wait for the coveys to return to the roosts.
within a hour or so depending on the wheather you can set your watch by thier return times provided i dont over pressure them.
Sounds like she's got natural hunting instinct. I don't think Tyne will turn out to be much of a deer dog but she stalks any bird she sees.
Last weekend walked for hours and only saw 1 hen, today has these 2 in less than and hour, pretty happy http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...8bc8c8e564.jpg
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You need to come up north for a pheasant hunt then....Quote:
Originally Posted by Titanium
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Nice walk this afternoon with @hillclima
Awesome photo wildman
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I've been giving it a late season nudge....
no goose action at the lake at the mo but shoulnt be long early novembers usually good according to my diary.
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If so,me one can turn those three photos id really appreciate it, thanks
Good stuff.
Done:thumbsup:
KH
Nice high birds
Thanks Kiwi-hunter :thumbsup:
Yes Wildman, they do present some lovely high birds, if we had had some wind i recon that they would really get up there :D
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Ponds building up nicely
crop getting hammered by parries.
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Hope Mrs Oraki doesn't see this.
On my travels today, I saw this mob of geese. There were 3 mobs of about this size in the same pdk. Might need to make a follow up call and see if they're still there in a couple of days.
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It's the only problem with my job. I go to lots of places, and see lots of things, be it birds in a paddock or pond, or other animals grazing greenfeed paddocks. Need to get a proper map with people's names on it
I bought a game bird licence for the coming season today. Bring on the mud and disappointment! :)
Shooting with the Miroku Mb or did you move it on?
yeah, did sell it which was shame because it was such a lovely gun, just not suited to what i was doing.
