Multi tasking at its best @Dundee nice fish too :thumbsup:
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Multi tasking at its best @Dundee nice fish too :thumbsup:
No ducks seen tonight but he looked the part and enjoyed himself all the same.Attachment 141485
Two fat drakes and a hen tonight. Right on last light.
Set my decoys at another location on the Manawatu River its flooded and flowing fast will get a better pic at daybreak.
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Had the moonlight upstream from my spread and two swans came straight in.Both heavy birds were retrieived by Bo.
The second one had floated almost 200mtres before he caught up.Very strong dog.
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One drake parry drake near creek.
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River dropped since last night nothing came in tonight and never heard a shot in the district.
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A better pic of the retrieve.
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Quick early morning run out on the Kaipara today. 8 Mallards/greys and one swan. Pulled the pin at 10am as the wind was starting to get up and the tide was dropping.
And the first banded bird for the season...........
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Picked up two tonight at home. The drake must have been close as I shot his head clean off. Made a mess but plucked him anyway :thumbsup:
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heading out on the prowl to lake ellesmere shortly .forecast is for a shagnasty wee southerly mid morning and from our obs in the proposed area those feathered buggers get on the wing very quickly,often in large mobs.
mates boat motor is fixed so this could be a little ripper trip.
Big pond had a break for 4 days as stock were in paddocks.
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Few parries squawking on the hills,Bo got a retreive when they came over pond.
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Light fog here this morning. Ducks were slow to appear. Shot a goose out of a pair about 7.30am and after that things slowly picked up until the fog dissapeared about 10.30am. Carried out three each of canadas and mallards and parries so pup and I pretty happy.
Oke dokey ive returned to the keyboard after sorting wee gear for miles -draped over my late dads trailer makes garage look like a shanghai laundry.Quote:
Originally Posted by kotuku
bloody great outing -no ducks but ive fired 4 shots(PPs ...P.poor shooting !!)
settled into mai mai around 0945 -quite a few shots going off around ellesemere with occasional flights of ducks well out of range overhead.
about30min later Ilooked south and wow weird ..Acloud formation like a tube of wool was headed our way.sure enough the wind got up ,but this bloody thing swung through 90'and headed for the port hills!we we both gobsmacked at natures display!
In the 15=yrs ive visted that lake i have never ever seen a cloud formation like this.
shortly after ans with sights and sounds of other shooters heading home -the southerly introduced herself !!!!!!!!
Oh Boy-from ripples to 2' waves decoys being dragged away by wind of 20kmh or more ,and heels bells "we wanna feel like flyin"
at one point we had teal bombarding us from all points of the compass.
heres the highlight of my day _its bloody true i kid you not .
mate was out stopping decoys going AWOL-me on sentry ;thinks poor bugger a brews called for -after watching a mob of mallards zoom over him (but out of range)I set to
make me cuupa T put it on maimai ledge ,start making R a strong coffee....hold onwhats that
SPIN around an bugger me about 15m away at eye level is one bloody cheeky mallard drake ..heading for me cuppa i reckon
Oh fuck me no you dont
I scramble for the baikal ,he cut in all afterburners in a vertical climb which should have had his beak poking out his arsre and ..he won the race!!!!!! the bloody look of suprise on that ducks face is embedded in my memory-who says duckshootin aint fun!! Im still giggling.
now to get serious
In the latter stages we had a mob of about 20 or so Teal literally bombard us.-their flight antic would have made the former RNZAF Kiwi Red skyhawk aerobatic team sit up and look,for a lot of approaches to our decoys Im bloody sure were borrowed from them!
we had mob approaches -flights of three ,flights of four and one very very quick but precise acrobatic pair all coming in NNE but flaring at the edge of the decoy line. this display went on for over 30min. those two birds were breath taking .theyd climb way above the rest and hurtle down literally 2'above the water heading at us full tilt then flaring away
my question -Is this typical Teal behaviour in stormy southerly weather?.A lot of these wee buggers on acheiving some height were despite their best efforts literally standing still in the teeth of the southerly.
for a bird so small flying in shitty weather Im totally in awe of them .
can anyone give me some clues to this behaviour??-does weather change stimulate their energy levels -are they agitated??
what i will say is its similar to behaviours one (in our game) sees in persons with severe mood elevation-relentless activity -no rest constantly driven -no apparent sense or purpose to the activity.
I await your answers .
would i do today again
yep in a heartbeat-a day out with a good mates ,amazing scenery ,and wild fowl -Ya cant beat it!
my question is...why did they flare and not commit to landing??? we had black teal/scaup land and swin amoung our decoys a couple or three times opening weekend. they did a fly by with spoonie in tow,who got two barrel salute and kept going...shouldve been a 7 barrel salute but the others were being ID cautious...
got me buggered too mickey .years ago also at ellesmere i had(and again this is 100%true)a mob of teal land amongst my decoys and one stroppy wee bugga decide to do a review of the fleet!(maybe a reincarnation of the Queen mother)FFS I couldnt believe my eyes when the bloody thing climbed on one of my goose floaters and gave it a ream out .ever pissed yaself in waders!!Again the memory reduces my to fits of laughter -the buggers knee high to a grasshopper but game as Ned Kelly.Quote:
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This to me is something people overlook today too busy running around "doing our thing"aka living up to other bastards expectations rather than taking timelike we do to gfo do a little harvesting but also enjoy ma natures free and eternal comedy act!
I can wake up feeling like hell on wheels-go out for a day on ducks and i inevitably return laughing my tits off -its either something Ive seen or done or even better where the ducks put one over me!
Never seen so many teal where.i Shoot as this opening morning,gong to target the geese tomorrow with a bunch of decoys and the camo boat with new motor setup,loookin forward to it just need a good wind to kick in.
Went out this morning and got nothing. Went out tonight and got a a dozen. All mallards. Go figure
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Just out there doing it again.Two pooks early in the day but nothing tonight.
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I DO love the simplicity of your decoy set up.....guess if it works why bother changing it......you COULD try a V of #8 wire about 2 metres long so dekes would be in a triangle....or not LOL.
me Id pinch that lab in a heartbeat !every photo makes me want another dog like my late great mate JJ-exquisite bloodline "by Roaming Catholic x Opportunity with a touch of D8 dozer thrown In"
He loved water and GSPF! because hed never been trained to rettrieve whereas GSPFs mighty Elvis and Red had I never had him on hand if we were shooting .feeding maimais laying dekes etc he loved comin out to the lake .
He also had a penchant for sneakin outta my workshop qwith the largest lump of timber hed find in his moosh-"oops fuck it dont fit through the door was often the look i got before hed bugger off to destroy yet another coke bottle.
A friend of mine who had some dog experience reckoned he had retriever/xhuntaway blood lines -possibly even a bit of german shepherd somewhere in the mix!
the couple of times He did lock horns with sons staffy "Munter" were truly bloody scary .I broke a hammer handle as i tried to get him off and also my big toe on his rib cage but it took sons mate whose a proverbial man mountain to choke the staffy to release his grip.
alas i lost him to the big CA at 10yrs old
and "mr muntowsky"
the staffy and me -we's da boys these days .which alas i feel aint gonna go much longer,.
seriously guys -if anyone out there has a lab or lab x wanting a good home Let us know we are in the market GSPF especially -his forte is training gundogs and we need one now!
Today's effort bloody piss poor but still good fun
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Finally had a chance to go for a decent pheasant and was great day out.
One bird was a real great effort by the dog, i only slightly clipped it and glided down a couple hundred meters away, went over and worked area till picked up scent, we followed it and I spotted it running over dune about 100m in front of us, but by the time got there dog still had to track it about another 200m before finally caught up, could run well but not but got there in end
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Kotuku my son just sold 9 lab pups fur $1000 each witin 24hours of listing them.
That pissed off look from Bo when all that came in were teal. Training has worked wonders on this young dog,no leash required he will
just plonk his black ass next to me and watch and listen till a command is given.He even stayed dry tonight.
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mighty ,bloody mighty is all i can say .from when you first showed him on here as a pu ptill now hes one top gun.happy hunting to you all.
Went out past two evenings seen a couple of pairs but no birds in range.
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So far so good comes with a good selection of chokes but no shims, luckily it fits me pretty well, but wouldn't be hard to make shims if need be.
my only criticism would be the recoil pad is a bit hard, I'm going to fit a decent limbsaver, other than that I'm pretty pleased with it have run a slab through it so far and haven't had a single issue.
3" chamber, 5+1 capacity, cerekoted and much lighter than my old faithful winny. I could've done a lot worse :thumbsup:
Sunday.
2 roosters, a pook and a hat full of mushrooms. Living the good life.
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Is the one on the left a lab/pointer cross?nice looking dogs,I miss my old pointer.
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No, it is a proper DK (GSP) - her mum was brought in pregnant from Germany by a guy near Te Awamutu. R93 has a litter-mate.
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Dropped a swan it needed its neck broken.
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Parries have a habit of sitting in flat paddocks and no way to stalk.
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Managed one.
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Down at the river again tonight landed a trout while waiting for the gamebirds.
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One swan came straight in at my decoys.
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Had my headlamp on charge down one end of the house when Bo came wandering up with it in his gob,he pulled it straight out of the socket.
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Evening shoot on one of our ponds tonight with Mr Four. Never shot this pond before, we started feeding it last week to give the boys something to kill a bit of time each day. Bit quiet early on, but once twilight set in a few birds decoyed easily. 8 in about 10 minutes. Little fella was stoked.
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Had a good day . Up early and by 9am had 4 parries and a mallard drake (banded).
Went out again at 3.30pm. Luckliy scored a double of canadas, another mallard drake and a double of parries. Young dog Thor really staring to sort himself out now. Hunted down one of the geese which winged and challenged him in the stream and a great hunt through dense deeply flooded willow and blackberry for nearly an hour to hunt and retrieve a winged parry. So young dog had 10 for the day and sound asleep now; sleeping the sleep of the just :)
Set up on this top pond today.
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Ready for the night shoot had teal landing and buzzing the sky giving the dog great dicipline.
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A pair of mallards came in.
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Cold start in Southland this morning but limited out by 9:30 am.
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Another frosty night east of Dannevegas.
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Got a few birds from work to deal with tomorrow.
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Looks like you guys are having a nice run of it:thumbsup:
We had 22 here today and I was feeding the ducklings in the river at the back:)
article on stuff tonight-CHCh apparently troubled by"big birds ;;;your average commonsense individual hunter recognises them as the species canada goose.
anyone for a 9mm/.223 shoot in royal blue camo and mini AOS wagons-might as well get some value for wasted taxpayer funds!
Had a good day out on the weekend. Should have had more but mate missed some easy ones as the classic mistake as shooting while they were too close, one just about flew into him so was still great fun
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