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sat on pond sunday evening had two mallards come in but let fly 5 metres to soon i reckon,Quote:
Originally Posted by gsp follower
oh well quail still open and parries and swans untill the end of september and geese all the time.
Visited the family in Te muka last few days.....few social visits to a few farms I got permission to shoot on last time I was down and they were disappointed I never bought a gun down, ducks for Africa, what a magic place reminds me how it used to be in the waikato.
As per the norm seen a few pheasants around Ashburton on the road side.
know what you mean kawhia but without a dog i restrict myself to game and places i know i can recover .:D
mallards closed sunday last but plenty to keep bird hunter happy dog or no.
had a day on pigeon's today with a mate to work her dog,a lot of work for a little dogAttachment 73320
Nice haul there @nightshooter how many you get? Also what where they coming in on?
@Sideshow we ended up with 79 pigeon's.i'm not sure what they where coming in for but i think it was water or grit,i had mostly 1 and 2 coming in all day with no big mob's it was good because i was the only one shooting
Year @nightshooter don't bomb up the big mobs get out of your hide and wave them off. They then come back in ones and twos.
Give it 10 days and you will be good to go again. Not before as that time is there memory span. Once that is up they have either forgotten our once more think that it's safe.
Good luck:thumbsup:
Oh open up a few crops and find out what they have been eating :thumbsup: you might then get another wack at them on there food source :thumbsup:
@Sideshow hoping to get back at them about the end of the month,the farmer feed's a lot of grain to his sheep so they are alway's on his farm:)
kotuku wood pidgeons aint gamebirds.
yes they tasty yes they have feathers but no notty allowed to eatty.:D
BAD KOTUKU BAD,BAD KOTUKU:O_O:
ha fucking ha-about as much chance of me shootin one of those fat bastards as there is me extracting gold nuggets from cowshit.Quote:
Originally Posted by gsp follower
read the report -carcasses left in a camping area near moana-any local or kiwis would realise just how bloody easy it would be to chuck em in the lake or one of the rivers -bloody big eels right through there so a coupla pigeons would be dealt to quick smart.this reeks of hungry tourists lookin for a feed and being ignorant of regulations.
????hi powered airrifle used.maybe disturbed by someone so they shot through before gettin caught.
cant imagine any locals being this fucking dumb
they aint that fuckin tasty anyway.
but yes if your innocent then it must be ze germans:D
I really cant imagine they would be at this time of year .certainly in the spring when theyre gutsing up large on miro berries(theres god knows how much of that round the edges of lake brunner)and theyre either that fat or pissed on fermented miro in the gut ,then yeah could understand someone yeilding to temptation -but this appears(being my operative word)to be all out of kilter .a -feed??looks like there'd be bugger all meat on either-in fact that last duckshooting outing i went on im sure i saw a kereru get blown backwards by a parrie fart!Quote:
Originally Posted by gsp follower
we all know what guts's parries are in a wet grassy paddock-even the hen i nailed wasnt that meaty.
better still any of you blokes out there familiar with maori customs and food gathering-when did the ancestors traditionally harvest kereru and how did they process them.
Well what every they did to harvest and prepare them it can't have been that good:o because..........
They did not have the secret ingredient ;)
They had not yet discovered the art of making a brick:XD: defiantly need one of those to cook one of them:wtfsmilie:
Kotuku I don't know the answer to the when part of your question but fifty plus years ago my paternal grandmother (who was Ngai Tahu) showed me how to cover the feathers in a thick coat of clay and put the bird ( complete with gut full of Miro berries) into a bed of embers. When done you would break away the baked clay which would pull the feathers out of the bird and leave a succulent baked pigeon carcass. It was bone sucking good. In or around 1972 a young Private Rushy performed this feat of culinary expertise on a survival course on your fair southern isle and found himself on a charge when the DS found the evidence. Cost me two weeks confinement to barracks and the corresponding loss of wages. As I recall, it was worth it as I had savoured the tasty morsels while others at the time were suffering the pangs of hunger.Quote:
Originally Posted by kotuku
Yes rushy -after a feed like that your farts would be real boomers in an ambush Id imagine!(had a mate who lived on rat pack bakebeans-he gave away two of our ambushes with farts that would strip the serratone of a bathroom wall.even the DS staff were gaggingQuote:
Originally Posted by Rushy
bloody good initiative that man showed -DS obviously lacking in the humour dept -whats new
.the claybake method apparently was also used in UK by ancient gypsies who cooked hedgehogs in same manner.given what ive read about hedgehogs though id have to be bloody ravenous to even contemplate the option.
lot of kereru in the waioeka gorge opanae camp area in 78/79;):ORLY::O_O::D
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Yesterday, inspite of his beautiful road in, he got onto a cock bird, who, after three months of harassment was not going to stay put for anything ... up out of the willows and across the river very fast ...
My great uncle told me that Tui was very nice to eat ... but if you ate more than one or two you would be sick on account of how rich the meat was ...Quote:
Originally Posted by kotuku
Apparently, hedgehog is said to be very similar to chicken ... dastardly little cretins ...
EeBees i may very well technicolour yawn after reading that urgg bloody hedghog.Quote:
Originally Posted by EeeBees
ive heard that gypsyies eat them????
It's been a slow season for me for various reasons but today was great. The old dog still did a great job on the quail only to have my shooting to let him down. Still got one though.
And a bonus rooster...
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Yes, they roll them up in clay or mud and put the whole thing in the embers ... nom, nom, nom ...:O_O:Quote:
Originally Posted by gsp follower
Good work!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Wildman
As your season is coming to a close:(
Ours is winding up :thumbsup:
Fences on:O_O: water on the go:redbullsmiley: and ready for the birds today:thumbsup:
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Well that's it now the fun starts with all the feeding watering and then trying to stop them from going too far:ORLY::thumbsup:
A son of Dix de la Forêt du Pinto on a recent trip to the Mainland ... after quail and chukar ...
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ooh me bloody neck:DQuote:
Well that's it now the fun starts with all the feeding watering and then trying to stop them from going too far
how did he go i believe the owner called in on me on the way thru;)Quote:
A son of Dix de la Forêt du Pinto on a recent trip to the Mainland ... after quail and chukar ...
@gsp follower, I am not actually sure of the tally!!!! We mostly spoke about the weather bomb he and the poor dog endured .... :)
Your onto it spent Saturday lugging bags of grain around:x_x: it's for a good cause though plenty of other birds benefit from it ah..Quote:
Originally Posted by gsp follower
This afternoon,we took a pleasant walk and the fusil got an airing ... but it was great being out with her ... game or not ...
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the beauty of that was he got to leave we have to stay for the next one and the next one etc::yaeh am not durnk:Quote:
Originally Posted by EeeBees
hope they had a great time even so.
YGreat spot you visited. The lake is home to the Crested Grebe, amongst other birdlifeQuote:
Originally Posted by EeeBees
oraki, these are not my fotos but his owner's ...
She pointed and flushed a cock bird today; the shot would have been awkward so we watched him away ...
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Bet you got a dirty look form the dog for that:XD:
She turned to me and gave me the LOOK!!!!!
ive never been so ashamed as when my gsp pointed a covey of quail held them mesmerised untill i was within 3 feet then on release flushed them.Quote:
Originally Posted by EeeBees
i managed 5 shots with no result on covey flush and late departers.
the look he gave after running around finding nothing to retrieve would have shamed trump.
Had the old fella been alive youd have probably got a verbal or two as well.Ive never forgotten a couple of my goose misses at NATO and the sound of a big black rotweiller swede giving a bloody dismissive grunt !!!!.GSP at least had a modicum of sympathy as he sat his wet arse on my pack after you two had finished with him!Quote:
Originally Posted by gsp follower
and GSP probably never forgiven you for sending him over to retrieve that goose I bloody near dropped into me cuppa tea that day on three shot pond.the only saving grace was you dropping the grizzling old bitch of a goose that harassed my bastard until he flew into my steel barrage.
I have many pleasant wonderful memories of two real canine characters the likes of which i doubt i'll see again and tragically for them and you both taken too early!!
You have to be careful what you say about a man's wife and kids but you had better be DAMN careful what you say about his bird dog! From a US hunting forum ...
Last day of pheasant season today. Missed a cagey rooster after he doubled back on us and the dog over run it.
I don't normally report much on unsuccessful days but today was such a nice day to be out and about I am moved to words... Anyway till next year...
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