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First 2 quail for the season. Feeling hungry
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First 2 quail for the season. Feeling hungry
Today's walk, got my mate one of these over a great point and stalk https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...37dce60736.jpg
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Saw a covey of a couple of dozen today... Sadly not where you can shoot still awesome to see them
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My son's dog - 1st season. She has performed really well on the ducks, and is now on the pheasants.
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One kamikaze
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One hot dog. Cooler under the beech hedge:thumbsup:Attachment 70753
Seen some big arse mallard drakes on private land that dwarfed the parries.Attachment 70760Attachment 70761Attachment 70762
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Setting up for a mid season shoot . Hasn't been shot since opening .
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Took a wander today ... heaps of 'traffic' ... oh well, Turki got another walk ...
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On our afternoon outing down one of the fine rivers today, I took this foto ... one of my father's favourite poems was about Crusoe ... he only ever recited one line and it went like this, particularly if we were getting close to a hut and saw footprints heading in the same direction ... poor Crusoe saw with fear struck eyes, the footprint on the shore ...
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anyway, back to serious matters, youngster did a smashing point, I took her forward to flush ... HEN AWAY ... love it when it all starts to gel for the young ones ...
Dodged the rain yesterday for an armed walk to stretch the legs and stumbled into this fulla https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...4160960a42.jpg
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Up at big pond tonight,downed one but had no dog,this one fed the eels.Just on dark it was getting dragged all around the pond.
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shit that's a big irri pond:yaeh am not durnk:Quote:
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Thats the small one , the sunday pond is 8 hecters . Dog earns his keep on these ponds , he's still sleeping it offQuote:
Originally Posted by gsp follower
Finally got the young fella a drake for the season.This is the young bloke that I refereed for his FAL and has been out on multiple ocasions with me.Tonight paid off.Bird breasted and he was happy as a pig in mud,as he did fall a metre deep for the retrieve.
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Got one here this morning and dropped an evening drake at another location.Worst season ever only 14 birds down.But did have the enjoyment of introducing a new FAL holder too the sport and he shot two so licence was $93 which means it was $46.50 a bird for him without expenses.:o
I'm sure you're new pup is conting down the days all ready. Hear many shots @Dundee?
I bet if you asked him Dundee he,d say cheap at double the price Dundee.Quote:
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well done you.
Only shots were emptying the mags at the night. Must be slackers in our district.Quote:
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Yip he had a blast good times for sure.Quote:
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Had a spare hour this afternoon :thumbsup:
lookin very promising for tomorrow avo southerly front on the way
The kids, pup and I went scouting for some ducks to chase later in the week as the weather here today was mint.
We found a raft of around 200 birds which will take a bit of nutting out on how best to hunt them and we plan to get into them in a few days.
Scouting mish successful.[emoji106]
Was mucking around at home close to dark and decided to head out to the Bro in laws farm as there were a few geese flying around last time I was home from work.
They are usually moving between 6 and 6:15 pm. Got setup in a wee hole around 5:30 but idn't hear a honk for over an hour. Passed up shooting at half a dozen easy ducks while waiting for the flight. Nothing moving so I head back to the truck around 6:30, unload the gun and put it away. I noticed some rabbits on my drive in so grabbed the thermal and .22 and went for a quick look handy to the truck. I got round 50m from the truck when I heard a few honks coming right at me. Around 20 geese flew 10 yards above me on the way to their paddock and I was standing there with no bloody shotgun.😆
Decided it was not my night so headed home. Will give them another go tomorrow nite and not give up so early.
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Thermal and the 22 would make short work of em and no pesky pellets to dig out :thumbsup:Quote:
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Geese are still a game bird to me so shotgun and on the wing only.Quote:
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to true,Quote:
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i went snow quailing it almost worked but not quite enough snow.
saw 2 groups but there wasnt enough snow bashing the trees and scrub down to keep them on the road .
which is eessential when jumping them with no real dog sorry osky :D
ah well -rain and all i decided Id have to go after ducks in mrs car after all.an obliging farmer up the grey valley gave me the thumbs up to shoot on his farm .
arrive there grab sexy wee russian (baikal) and head down back of cowshed.lots of ducks milling about on the wing-rst up and watch em -see where they land ,"lets go"
holy shit batman ,from the creek in front of me two mallards erupt ,-first shot of the season dropped the drake into the paddock!!
now ive got two bloody parries stalking me ,warnin everything,so i goes into stalk mode.this went on for 30mins or so -i couldnt qiute get into effective range.,so bugger it.
anyhow come to ye old electric fence gate-somehow hand came into contact with bare metal hook holding it to post
a Decent zap-holy shit a mallard hurtles right over me noggin from behind-In desperation i fired an arse chaser-not that ;;whaaat-he dropped outta the sky into a nearby creek.
I lumbered over through mud and cowshit but found a deep wee hole(too deep for thigh waders at least)blackberry out over the water and a few feathers -my nasty feeling is the resident eel /sare dining on my duck.still thats Murphy for you
anyhow rains gettin heavier so set off back to car for a coffee-out corner of me bung eye i spots a very angry white head comin over the hill in the paddock.Hmmmm-one very irate parrie hen trailed by Rambo drake-shes hissin like a puncture.next minute hes got this WTF imoff and away he scrambles,she gives one final hiss and goes airborneonly to run into a double load from the baikal-a cloud of feathers and she dropped like a stone.
Im bloody happywith my harvest.another jarring note -on way home coming through totara flat-large 4x4 towing a horsefloatroared out of the mist and as he passed a large stone hurled off the horsefloat tyres ,smacked the bonnet and hit the windscreen like a rifleshot. Thought i was fucked,but miraculously it didnt break or even leave a mark.
givenim driving my mrs car (her second after i wrote the previous one off)It wouldnt look too good on my wifes favourite man ratings.
wellk done that man, we did shit down boggy in a to mild nor easter:oh noes:
my pick is he crawled up into that blackberry shit old son.
seen almost identical on the rakaia bridge southern exit tho this was a truck and the boulder flew up about ten feet and landed on the bonnet of a car 50 metrs in front of me.
suffice to say that driver needed a change of undies and a new bonnet.
he panicked a bit to and swerved off the road :O_O:thank christ there was some distance between us.:yaeh am not durnk:
kotuku ive concluded your a worry armed or unarmed and possibly the 2nd unluckiest vehicle operatpr in nz.
i cant quite bring myself to call what you do DRIVING :sarge::sarge::smash::smash:;)
and that friends is the most intelligent character analysis ive ever seen from him !usually its hey you fuck knuckle or similar-used to harass me about owning an escort s/auntil l pointed out when i met him he was using a fucking escort p/a20g until like victor on the electric razor ad he switched to a remington.only reason he didnt buy the company is victor got the bastard first!
mind you him and his other half are bloody great hosts and of that im eternally greatful.
Iknow he sniggering too-bloody canes squared the ledger in wellington!
incidentally that drake was fat as butter,but that parrie hen from the colour of breast meat maybe a little older than her appearance suggested.
just had WCF&Gon phone asking if id been out -you been tipping em off bro
@kotuku the male parry usually always flys around when you drop his white mate. When I shoot parries it's the white one the right one to drop
you.l need jaws of fuckin steel to eat that parry:DQuote:
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you could always do a alf steptoe and take the portable gnashers out and give it a good pre gumming like he used to do .
to trim the pastry on the pies he made for aaaroold.:yaeh am not durnk:
Haven't put many pictures up this year as haven't got out as much as normal. But heres a few from when I did get out
Today's effort
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Couple weeks ago
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Closing for ducks was a waste of time but got this guy when got bored and went for walk. The new setup to transport everything worked well though https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...5d9848b32c.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...f51fa7a8b3.jpg
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Yeah maybe a little bit, but Ness is going awesome so pretty stoked.Quote:
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Can't believe I started this thread and have never even shot a pheasant.Get closure on the farm and I have an invite up the Bay a bit.;)
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to much water around here last week of the mallards and theyre spoilt for choice but some bad stuff forcast for friday and the weekend.
pretty sure i got some parries lined up cos my pond falls inside the th canterbury region whose parry season west of state hwy one runs quite long
the usually coupla inches deep gravel pit pond
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went out for last hunt of 2017 today -another farm up the grey valley.bugger all about-had one mob of parries in sight but just settin up to do a stalk when a hua of a domestic broke out about 6 in a scrap screamin and divin at each other before headin everywhere.
had another pair come in a little later but farmstaff had a mob of cows in the adjacent race and courtesy &commonsense ruled.mind you id have been hard pressed to clean em up anyhowcause on sighting these bellowing shitting things and short fat man with long hollow stick,they soon figures out fuckofski was their saviour.
beautiful day to be out and about though over here in grey,and its duck for tea tonight so I cant complain.
thanks to darryl &suzanne for hosting me,indeed to all those farmers who selflessly allow us duckshooters to hunt on their farms. may your generosity repay you 6 fold.
