Aaahhh. A labour of love!!!Quote:
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Aaahhh. A labour of love!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Nathan F
Went for a quick walk today and picked up a nice rooster, big old bird with 35 bars. But the best part was the pups first retrieved and he brought it right to me, so was stoked with that https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...02d614161a.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...19f19116ee.jpg
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Bloody awesome! Good sign for the futureQuote:
Originally Posted by hillclima
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is he fetchin it or eaten it:huh::ninj:Quote:
Originally Posted by hillclima
By the look inbhis eyes he's thinking; "Arrrfffkk; like the smell but not the feathers boss; ya got a biscuit?".
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If this image works I will post more about my wildfowling.
Yep he's showing a lot of potential for a young pupQuote:
Originally Posted by Wildman
He was pretty happy to get it and didn't actually chew it up too muchQuote:
Originally Posted by gsp follower
Seems like we have been shooting the wrong birds [emoji3]
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Would have been a good event [emoji106]
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oh well on the brightside not much pluckin left to do.Quote:
Originally Posted by hillclima
managed to vocaly bully five canadas into range wensday evening forgot that sxs.shave twin triggers
felt good to line up a gooseagain thp
Well, two more sleeps then hope for the best. Limit is only 6 ducks in Reporoa this season and there ate not many birds evident. This has not bee helped by Contact Energy's mass spraying and wipeout of the habitat in one of the major wildfowl breeding wetlands on Deep Creek. (Done under rc from Waikato Tegional council without consultation with DoC, Nz F&G or local hunters who have been develiping ponds there for decades.
Anyway, I set my decoys and both Thor and I hope a few ducks .igrate our way opening weekend.
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Good luck everybody :)
lovely looking spot. best of luck.lets hope for a bit wilder weather than in the photos.
fed wee farm pond again tonight no mallards,just the same pair of parries.....if they have managed to eat 15liter bucket of grain in four days alone...they shouldnt be able to lift fat arses off ground...fed out another 30 liters worth today.
Forecast here is fine clear and light sw. May need longer barrels. Using 12ga bismuth this year. Gonna miss my 20 & 28 gauge guns.
looks like there is SOME 20 ga ammunition around.....
Im going to sit on a small pond...been 20 years on big water so its going to be weird.... put most of my ammunition away and have changed chokes to something more open....
Yes, times have changed since I was a kid very rear to get a wet foggy or windblown opening day in the far north these days. maybe I should just put my speedos and take up sunbathing instead:O_O:
Great photos woody, after opening I'm usually on a Waikato river backwash up or down river from you but shoot down in Wellington region for opening.Here's my ammo for this season...
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Went from 3 inch falcon 36 gram load of #4 to the 2 3/4 35 gram loading. Cut open one of each and the 3 inch had 243 pellets if I counted correctly and the 2 3/4 had 226. Can't wait to fold some greenheads.
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Good luck then. I don't own any 12 guns proofed for steel and for the few years left to me I figure to just use bismuth in my elderly guns; the youngest being 50 years and the others over 70 and 80; so they are sort of appropriate for me :)
It's going to be my first season for 3 years. Just spent a couple of hours getting my gear ready. I don't have high expectations, but the farmer was moaning about the number of parries on the property, so should get a few of those at least.
good ammo BUT for us the #3 wins hands down...the #2 is very good stuff too,less pellets to be sure ,but you need less to drop birds.
that kent is very good stuff,the pellets stay bright n shiney even after cooking LOL.
if you on a pond that #4 should be great,it seems to have big following,why we bought a slab of it.....tried and yeah nah back to #3s .
I bought a slab of Eley #4 five years ago and slowly working through it. I didn't feel that it had enough knock down power, so bought some 3 inch #2 shells which do a good job. Having said that, I don't do enough duck hunting to come to any firm conclusions.
the dog is horribly confused.....we went out and set our decoys,got some stuff in the maimai AND THEN WENT HOME ......this isnt right you can almost see her thinking,NORMALLY we would have set up camp underthe pinetrees and be sitting back enjoying a cool beer or two,just chilling out waiting for day to pass....
have to admit its kind of nice to be in comfy chair beside the fire with hot cuppa tea and fresh baking all the same. the good wifey will crack into making B&E pie soon.... one more restless sleep guys n gals
May your steel shot fly true, going to shoot 20g with 3" steel, will have the 12g handy if I let the 20g down.
Used steel this morning for first time in 20G with 1/4 choke, will use skeet next time, at times lot of feathers but ducks flew on, won't make judgement on first attempt.
Great walk this morning. Managed a double on quail and to cap it off one was retrieved to hand by my wee girl and the other was retrieved by her sister. Absolutely stoked I was
8 waterfowl after some hard work.
Used Eley bismuth 6 in cyl choked 70 yr old shotgun first two or three hours and no problem killing mallards and parries out to 30 metres. The switched to my 82 year old S2 beretta choked half and full. Used Eley #5 and home made #4 bismuth. No difficulty out to 40 metres.
So we are happy here apart from the scarcity of birds. Also unusual was to TOTAL absence of canada geese. This was weird.
Great day. Used a 20gauge for first time. The 3" number 2 steel are killing way better than number 4 steel.
and you will probably find #3 is best of both worlds.
we had SLOW day ,but relaxing all the same. there were no ducks,then a pair would simply drop in.... then no ducks again...then another pair.... finished day with 9 mallards...only 2 after lunch and we stayed till dark...first time on seldom used farm pond.
might I suggest you try modified instead???? it seems to work best for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by tetawa
After a accident at the start of the year i am unable to shoot this year, so i wasn't able to do any pond prep or didn't really have the money to buy maize.
Have shot here the last 7 years.
Any how a plan for my ten year old to shoot fell through at 8 o'clock last night, so of to my pond this morning chuck out a handful of decoys and waited. few teal turned up, then a pair of greys, young fella up with his single 410 took one of those. Nothing much flying and the first opening in 7 years it was damp with a bit of wind. Tried stalking the river but it was hard work been fenced of with meter high rank grass, tried staking a few ponds but big lack of ducks. Its been pretty dry in the area and still have a lot of dry ponds and creeks the usually hold a few ducks have no water.
Then sitting at home my boy spotted a cat next to the pond so that got dispatched by the 7mm08.
It wasn't even worth going out for a night shoot with the lack of ducks around
1x duck
1x cat
Had a blank morning with a few dozen flying of the big pond before our start.I'm nackered so is the dog.0330 to get to work in the morn.Night shoots always give the goods.Here is a few pics of todays efforts.
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What did that pilot taste like @Dundee :thumbsup:
Looks like you only winged that last one @Dundee .....gunna be a long retrieve for Bo:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Dundee
I had good weekend got 20 parries,8 mallards,1 spoonie and a sawn. My young lab worked well but the sawn's size was a shock for him :ORLY:
I'm glad to see everyone had a fun time:thumbsup:
We battled away for 12 yesterday and we were all commenting on the lack of birds and even the lack of birds in the sky. Didn't really hear too many shots either. Chalked up a few sundries to keep the spirits up.
And on a side note the mates boy cooked up some pukeko breast in the pan and it was delicious. Couldn't believe it:wtfsmilie:
Great weekend ducks were slow for us over the coast ,me and the boy ended with 4 each 3 mallards and 5 greys apparently he shot all the mallards. :ORLY: dog went well and didn’t want to come home although a bit hard on the 1st bird ( as excited as the 8yr old)
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Have said if he heads back to school without fuss tomorrow we’ll go for a evening shot at our pond over this side ..... so he better as I can’t wait to get back out there. :thumbsup:
Good morning for our crew, kids shooting well, they all managed a honker each, even the 28gauge dropped one.Attachment 166597
Very quiet in the district Sunday.Bo managed a few retrieves.
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Great opening 2021 for me limit bags Saturday on Greylards & Swans birds for Africa so I manipulated the 6 bag limit so only decoying birds flaps down wings out were shot no pass shooting.
Mack couldn't have been better an absolute pleasure to have, no breaking only when bid and ever bird retrieved from heavy raupo and cover
