Well - you have two choices on pheasants. Slow the dog down, or speed yourself up.Quote:
Originally Posted by slk12
Sometimes I amaze myself with these little pearls of wisdom!!
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Well - you have two choices on pheasants. Slow the dog down, or speed yourself up.Quote:
Originally Posted by slk12
Sometimes I amaze myself with these little pearls of wisdom!!
Took Bo to a river catchment today looking for the elusive pheasant,we heard one crow but never saw it.We will be back!
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Pheasant are a tough ask for a dog that’s never been on them. Try and get your dog to cross backwards and fords in front of you as you walk forward left right left right. No more that 10 yards. It take lots of practice to get them working like that.
Pays off. And is worth it. You nearly need someone else to shoot while you run the dog.
You and do it on a whistle. Had The Dude turning on 2 peeps.
I let the dog go find them then she waits there till I find her. I miss and she gives me the "wtf" look, then goes looking for another.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lentil
If he goes past 10 yards you won’t have time to take a safe sporting shot when they flush. They get up quick and are out past 25 before you have sorted out what’s going on. Good fun when it’s done right. Did a couple of days field trails here shooting over trailing dogs. Interesting to take part in. (Very stop start day as there scoring the dogs, not something if you want to just shoot, but shows how it should be done).Quote:
Originally Posted by Sideshow
Have a look at this. This dog actually has some of Dudes bloody in it Country ways. Mind the commentary lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkKjikwmNpk
A parry retrieve for Seans dog Ace.
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Like has been said slow down the dog or walk faster. Unless its a pointing type dog, you are better with the walk faster idea, this works because it doesnt give the bird time to figure out what to do ( works good with no dog too) It puts the bird under pressure to fly, Flying is a last resort tool for a pheasant, as it burns up energy. Main tip birds run up hill and fly down hill.Quote:
Originally Posted by slk12
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This mornings good hunt.
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Bo and I looking for a pheasant again,not many in our area but saw one last week while fishing and no gun.
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Thor snoring by the fire after this mornings hunt. 1 parry in the fog and frost. Called to mobs of geese but the wind was nil and I had set the decoys for a strong NW which caused the birds to approach and land just out of practical shooting range. Frustrating but thats the way the cookie crumbles sometimes.
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Woke up at 6am today....decided to head out for a shot. By the time I had loaded the boat grabbed some lunch and drove to the ramp it was 8.30am.
Cruised down the river to find the Kaipara was like glass. Figured out ( based on years of experience) where the birds were likely to be hanging out and by 9.15am had the dekes set and was sitting in the mangroves all camo'ed up.
First pair arrived short;y after, so I shot the drake and let the hen go......then decided I would only shoot drakes......It was difficult to pick some of the drakes out of the birds that came in as not many had their full colours yet but I ended up with a limit of 7 drakes and one hen.
For your viewing pleasure
Taken standing up looking out over the decoys
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Same position sitting down behind the camo
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The limit...You can see that some of the drakes have barely 'colored up'
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Back at the ramp.....11.35
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Shouldnt have bothered taking lunch as I was home by 1pm :P
Dont think I will head out tomorrow, season has been good, 4 days shooting 32 birds in the freezer.....I am content.
( unless I wake up early tomorrow of course):D
Edit: Got back to the ramp and when I pulled the boat out and was tying it down etc, a Police car pulled into the parking area. ( It is a good place to check speeds from while staying out of sight)
When I removed the 1187 from the boat and checked it by removing it from its gun bag, the officer was about 20m away from me. Now, in view of the promise to make us safer re firearms, I expected him to at, at the minimum approach me and check my licence, firearm and ammunition and how I stored them in the vehicle etc. Nope, he watched me for about 10 mins while operating his radar/laser, then took off after a vehicle that ( in my estimation as an ex cop) was travelling about 5 to 8 k over the limit....
he looked you over..saw you were a good bugger and was happy to leave you alone....as it should be
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Originally Posted by Micky Duck
Thats what I figured.......However the cynical bit in the back of my brain thought that it would probably go into the statistics as another 'Police confronted by firearms' incident.......
took young poppy out yesterday..only her 3rd trip out for ducks..we came home with a hare 2 pukekos and 7 mallards..she looks like going to be really good if I dont cock it up...
Pheasant for me today, 1 shot fired. Not like yesterday 4 for no result.
Dog is awesome as usual.
A quick walk after work had a couple of quail in the bag and a well missed rooster give me the finger
Score 1 to the pheasant this morning. Dog tracked a running bird nearly 300m thru the scrub along the edge of a creek and it flushed just in an un-shootable position.
It was a great chase with multiple points and then repositioning as the Wiley bird made its escape.
Sometimes its not about killing the bird!!
One last crack at the ducks last night. A fair few of them sporting blue bills. Is it a hybrid of some sort?
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Waiting for some fine weather before we go after the wily rooster.
greylard I think..or eclipse plumage....
Oh well, still fun to shoot and tasty to eat.:thumbsup:
Greylards. Pure greys have nil white speculum on the wings.
30 May, 2 mallards
02 June, good shoot with @stagstalker we managed 16 for the morning.
04 June, 1 parry 2 greys
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I came home with three ducks tonight and my daughter Taylor was like what the heck are you doing Dad, we got 16 when I went with you!!Quote:
Originally Posted by mawzer308
Son and I got 5 Saturday, 3 Sunday morning, and 7 on our last day of the season - Monday. Pic shows what it's all about.
Had a rooster dead to rights at 20 metres, but dogs were on the other side of the knob, so couldn't safely shoot. I saw where it went, and got my son to follow it up. Bugger me if he had exactly the same thing happen. Is this the newest technique from pheasants to try and get rid of dogs??
Anyway. Pic of Mondays haul. Fattest ducks we have had for years this season.
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great to see Lentil. Had one of our mallards in a crockpot cookup last night -bloody mighty -fat wee bugger too! Great see your kids out on the job. Gotta feel for Stagstalker though ,bugger there goes me goes me white hunter image eh!! young lass didnt miss a beat!!!
Lentil....thats a great plucking job..really got them clean....couple of snips with secateurs and wee bit of knife work and job done..mine will look like that if out jumpshooting and can pluck as I walk along... maybe not quite so well done though LOL.
@stagstalker
that wouldn't be public land near Tokomaru would it? those cabbage trees look a lot like the ones I was sitting under not that long ago
Yep - had the gas cooker for a cookup of porridge for breakfast, so used the cooker to singe the birds up nice and clean. Aged for a couple of days in the fridge, then vac packed and into the freezer today.Quote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
Went out last night looking for a rooster, and just ended up with a limit of parries.
Maybe next time.
A solo duck flew off the pond. Paddocks have been grazed so might try up there tonight if I finish work early enough.
Bo on the retrieve.
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Our duck season finished 5th June, and every day since, there have been flocks of ducks flying over my house, quacking their fool heads off. Ah well - not long to go until next season:oh noes:
You could always jump the boundary?Quote:
Originally Posted by Lentil
Banded at Takapau 23rd January 2023,shot 7km East of Dannevirke on the 8th of May.Adult male mallard 71km from banding sight in a straight line.
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Just a sightseeing hop for him. They fly at near 60mph sometimes. Had some flying paralell to the road one time and I was amazed when I matched their spedd with my car.
Akld/Waikato is closest, and they also closed 5th June, with parries closing this Sunday. Need to shift to CSI I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dundee
A few in the boot tonight! Just before dark.
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A fat parry drake downed with two shots of #7 sport steel,out of 4s and only a few days to go.
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All over for the Wgton region.
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Got this fella on Saturday. Saw a couple of others, but they were very spooky, and flushing a couple of hundred metres away.
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Snuck out on Saturday with a bloke from out of town, managed to dodge some of the rain. Didn't manage to dodge much of it though...
Still, a couple of roosters made the trip home with us, and any day out with a mate and the dogs is a good one.
