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:D hardcase mate :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dundee
Two Mallards yesterday morning, bugger all flying full moon certainly doesn't help.
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My first outing this season with a gun and no pansy padding.Havent pulled a trigger since the Big Bore shoot. Up until now it's been supervising jr and not shooting.
2 up and 2 down so far:thumbsup:
Stug's ex-decoys doing the biz again.
Nice looking pond you have there @oraki !Quote:
Originally Posted by oraki
No bugger is shooting in our district to keep the birds moving.I don't get home from work till 1730hrs sometimes later.Last two nights hooned to a couple local ponds and no birds seen or heard at each pond. Shot a couple pigeons while at the river during the day but couldn't retreive them as they fell in and it was bloody swift.Got 4 weeks left in the Wellington region.
@Dundee same for us opening. We had a cracker but there wasn't really that many out going by the shooting.
Just as well I had a good one-doubt I'll get out again in Canterbury.
Cheers. It's on our place and been 40 yrs in the making. Always produces something, but has been attracting some attention lately by trespassers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sideshow
And I still haven't pulled the trigger yet. To slow and the boy is beating me to the bird. Next week.....
Summer looks to be finally here in the UK had a spare afternoon yesterday so took my next door neighbour out for a crack at the local Pegion population. Haven’t been out all year due to work load:O_O:
Bill doesn’t get out much either as his wife Has Alzheimer’s so he’s her full time carer. But his kids were visiting so he got a free pass:thumbsup:
Started around 2pm and finished up at 7pm.
I set us up in a beech hedge standing back to back so we could call the out what was in coming to each other.
If you cocked the shot up our the bird went just out of range put was vectoring into Bills position then he could have a crack and vice versa. Some of the language was a bit ripe:ORLY: as we missed a few sitters, but good fun all round.
I even managed to get two left right crosses and one really long range crossing screamer that was paced out at 51strides.
41 picked and a few in the hedges that we could not get.
Best laugh of the day was Bills call of “Incomer straight going over you”! Bang! Im looking up for the bird and it hits me clean in the back of the head:D
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a 3 man waikato limit and a very ugly stag shot last weekend
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Just a lone drake tonight, got a few possums on the walk out too.
@PerazziSC3 . Is that a rusa?
No - looks like a Marlborough Sounds Trophy :ORLY:Quote:
Originally Posted by Woody
Nope just a deformed redQuote:
Originally Posted by Woody
Young fella and a i smacked a few down river this am , could of shot alot more if had dog https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...33bce19961.jpg
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be glad it wasnt a canada goose sideshow:thumbsup:Quote:
Best laugh of the day was Bills call of “Incomer straight going over you”! Bang! Im looking up for the bird and it hits me clean in the back of the head
two black swan off the Waikato over the weekend....too wet for ducks (!!!??)....weather came right on dusk for swans.....gotta love those white wing flashes.....
@gsp follower been hit by a duck:O_O: that was bad enough also side steeped a few phesant sheer in the uk. Have seen a few dropped on people usually happens when your neighbouring gun takes a crosser that then drops onto your line. People have been knocked clean out.Quote:
Originally Posted by gsp follower
On our shoot one guys stuck two partridge through the roofing tiles on a house off the back of one of our drives (idiot should have known better especially after the first one went through)
But the class act would be a swan:XD: Now that would be like being hit by a blunt guillotine :XD:
Apart from opening weekend I have only heard a couple of shots when hunting the lower half of the Kaipara during the season.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dundee
Headed out in the boat solo sunday week ago when we had that major storm. 1.hr 45mins later I was back at the ramp with my limit. Not another shot heard anywhere.
Got out for the final day monday. Heard 2 shots about 2 k inland . Got 4 drakes. Would have had much more but took a disabled shooter out with me to get him back into the sport. He managed to get 4 birds for the season in 2 outings after 8 years of not shooting. THAT was worth gold in my book.
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Originally Posted by Sideshow
true i nearly took out a maimai at wolfs road/yarrs flat with a swan.
didnt look that big when i killed it coming straight across the maimai south to north.:sick:jesus when it smashed into the pozzie all wings feet and bloody head i thought it knocked it off the foundations.
also nearly killed the nephew with a 14 pound canada down the river took him a minute to realise how lucky he /i was :O_O:
that was before they fucked up the pass shooting by smashing the hell out of them.well that and changing crop plantings.
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New spot. Tonight I hopefully break my duck. The seas rough and I can hear abit of shooting around the place to move them on....
Shots fired,birds in hand, shoulder still intact.
3 came in and all dispatched. Got dark quickly, and when packing up more came in and landed right beside us. Could've reached out and grabbed its neck....let them go for another day.
@oraki any chance you can do some work on your new spot? Maybe change your standing so your looking into the last light? Or drop some of those trees in front to give you better flight lines:)
It's a tricky one, houses near by, and horses. Basically got to shoot that way to keep them happy, plus once birds are committed there's only one way out and that's right to left. With a westerly blowing, they drop in over the trees into us, cup up with landing gear down........
Got a nice fat drake from here this morning.
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His girlfriend was lucky.
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just screams ducky nightspot oraki a beauty.Quote:
Originally Posted by oraki
maybe bung some peas or feed in it and encorage them in earlier??
Trying to teach my too neighbors the finer points of hide building for Pegion shooting.
Guess the teaching standards have gone a miss:ORLY:
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After one weeks training my pup is on the real thing.
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Probably my last shoot for the Manawatu season, birds decoyed nicely and the dog worked well too. The blonde hen was a bit of a bonus and dropped another one on the walk out. Pretty happy with 5 for the morning.
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What a terrible season for me! Been out many evenings on ponds, but not even a shot fired. Went to my mate's "guaranteed" pond. He's been feeding them all season and watching them arrive every evening, and still nothing. He thinks I'm cursed!
:D
My night shoot ponds haven't been flash lately.Day time stalk shud get a few bfore our seasoin ends!
First parry for the season
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Bo retrieving mallard drake from the creek
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Got another mallard drake,sky full of feathers.
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Drake was munted.But good feed off yesterdays birds.
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Took Bo over to the big pond,shot a double on the eel infested pond.
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Finished work early Bo and I made it to the big pond before dark.He retrieved another drake just on dark.
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Redemption!
Last night of the season with my duck hunting buddy. We planned to walk up a creek, then sit and wait on a puddle at sunset.
After a quad bike ride and a long walk, we got to the creek. Not much happened for a while, then I saw my mate shoulder his shotgun and got ready. He took a shot at a fast moving duck 50 metres away. He's a good shot, but it was a bit ambitious and he missed. Strangely the duck came around a second time. I got two shots off, the first missed, the second resulted in a puff of feathers, but the bird kept on going. Always annoying, but at least we had some action.
After that, we settled by the puddle. There were a lot of birds in the sky and mate did a great job of calling them in without a caller. First bird came in hard and fast and I got him, a fat mallard drake, my first. A little while later, a pair of greys came in, I took the hen and my mate took the drake.
We had plenty of opportunities to shoot paradise shelducks, but we agreed to leave them alone and concentrate on our target species. Good end to the season!
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What a blast! The end of 2018 duck season has finished.New pup Bo joined me for the last week.Next year he will be fully trained.
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My youngest son and I were out for the final frontier.
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Another drake for the table.
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Dog on the quad is "Ace"
Think there were only three birds this season that went to the eels.
Finished the last weekend of the north canterbury duck season as i started it with my 5yr old side kick, our peg close to home has been queit so far this year but a bit of action turned up for the last morning in a flurry, downed 3 in two separate flights but regrettably lost a woundy ( never a nice feeling), kept the boy interested with snacks and assigning him jerk line duty, also explaining why you don't shoot birds on the water led to a long description of his up in the air decoy set up :ORLY: , (entertaining)
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Dog has come on good and was impressive last weekend on a couple of longer retrieves with bigger bird on my one trip to Ellesmere for the season pretty happy.
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Bring on next season, although i still have a month to crack the Quail code ( the fast little feckers) :XD:
15 mallards on saturday and thats all she wrote for this year . Average season
pretty crap i gave it away without a dog.
i on;y hunted places i was 100 % sure i could recover any shot birds from.
which left out most places but a new dog will nbe on the cards in september october and like mcarthur we will return.
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