The Bastille day massacre.
Not completely sure they are game birds, but the mince is already in the freezer.
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The Bastille day massacre.
Not completely sure they are game birds, but the mince is already in the freezer.
Protein central at yours for a while then
out on sunday with a shooting mate to revisit one of our hunting sites from years ago .I remembered it for some crazy goose hunts(ferals).goin in met a shooter coming out -hed managed a couple of ducks but in typicalEllesmere style hed chad to work for them .
actually on the way out wed been graced with the sight of a young cock pheasent strolling home from sunday church ???????maybe welL he didnt seem in any hurry.
anyhow we arrived onsite to find the river in full flood with a lot of our track under water .spotted a mob of ????ducks overhead flying in the familiar v canad formation and a few way out on a flooded paddock but no nshootable.a leaisurely amble in waders sees us eyewing up yest more bloody willows earmarked for poison /removal .stuff the duck habitat etcetc all that seems to fall on deaf ears these days ,anyhow were only bloody duckshooters what would we know???out to the mouth -a few swans on the lake 4-500mout a mob of ?ferals but ducks zero.we had a good discussion on this walking back as it seems quite common in last couple of years.
great to be out on my favourite bit of country and wait for it arrive home with dry arse and dry waders!
A few seasons ago---
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You are cutting a fine figure in that photo Woody. Interesting that you kept your rifle bullets on your holster belt instead of the breast pocket of your waist coat.
I think the breast pocket ammo was all used up trying to head shoot that gobbler :)
Late post, but getting there in the end.
I ended up having an incredible first duck season out on my own. The pup Bruce and I got out of Auckland into the Kaipara every fortnight to chase the birds around. After some suspect shooting and calling attempts, we only ended up with two pari's on our first day out. However, by season's end, we had sorted ourselves a better strategy of setting up at a likely spot for mallards in the morning and then getting some sweat chasing birds around jump-shooting. This proved much more successful, and we managed eight mallards and a handful of pari's one Sunday in early June (grateful for the extra time on our licence in Northland). I plucked the mallards and breasted the pari's, which became a more tedious task the more birds that went down. My girlfriend made this problem worse by shooting a gobbler that flew past one weekend after missing a couple of ducks hurt her confidence. Turkeys are big and smelly birds I tell ya.
Being the only one to eat duck in the house, I offloaded most of the birds to my old hospitality teacher from college who cooked the birds for both students and teachers to enjoy. As you can imagine, most students in an Auckland college hadn't been exposed to wild duck before, which was a treat. Sidenote: Mallard breast schnitzel and orange is my new favourite duck dish.
Bruce was excellent, and it was great fun having him work out we could work together. Still working on holding the duck all the way to hand when retrieving out of the water, so there is plenty of work to get to before next year. Any tips on dog training would be appreciated. I kept a couple of sets of wings for training and have been using them as bumpers and hiding them around the backyard for him to find and retrieve recently.
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Cheers to Mark M from the forum for donating me a set of decoys and a mallard call last summer. It all got put to good use.
Cheers
I picked Woody as being older than that!
Cheeky boy :)
Photo taken as a teenager.Quote:
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Yep
A good use of a rainy afternoon
Awesome to see given the weekend I have had! Go Dash :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Ross Nolan
Browning Pump?
Sure is, 16 gauge.
Keep smiling Mike, eventually you'll mean it.
You are surely having a good end to your season.Quote:
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Not a lot of hunting this season, but nice to finish it off with a couple of BOP quail.
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Stick a fork in it, the season is done. One last rooster for Dash.
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This is beautiful as well your side by side. The feather is good material for making flies and the quill is nice. Do you or kiwi enjoy eat them? If so, usually how you will cook it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ross Nolan
I just treat it like tasty, slightly dry chicken.
Mostly I schnitzel the breasts, coat in panko and very lightly fry them.
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Thank you. I like your picture, very sharp and your gears. Yeah and your birds :pacman: Btw, all your activities were done in public land or some how is a private place, a forestry land with permit only for example?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ross Nolan
another side by side :redbullsmiley: and nice birdsQuote:
Originally Posted by EmpireSafaris
There is almost no public land pheasant hunting in the North Island, but a permit for Kaiangiroa is easy to get, and I hunt on a handful of local farms also.
Thank you for let me to know for sure.Quote:
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Good evening gents on our duck shooting eve for 2024.
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Only pond left that they won't belly out on the landing.
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Big pond that i shot on for 28 years has been sold so will try our half empty pond.
The other night shoot pond is dry.
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Bugger about the lack of water. Down to the river? Good luck for tomorrow.
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Right now it is perfect for the duck shooters down on the Kaipara river with shot guns blasting away but when that mist lifts it will be a different story.
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Eight for the morning here in Hawkes Bay. Definitely down on other years.
Kids still love it though and the bismuth is so expensive that I am probably fortunate we weren't inundated with ducks :ORLY:
I used to love opening day when I was meat hunting. I knew all of the cockies would be busy in their mai mai’s … :)
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Very cunning.
I'm not very old in the scheme of things but even in my lifetime in this district that I shoot went from hearing multiple shooters around the place, getting fewer each year to absolutely zero this opening.
Seems to be a dying hobby in a few places.
Sad really because it is a very easy way to introduce kids to the outdoors as you can often bring plenty of gear and it usually isn't too strenuous.
8 ducks today but frosty and foggy. Appears many less ducks this opening, zero geese seen but parries ok. Another frost and more fog tomorrow so we'll see. Thor did a retrieve of a double this arfo. Wish I had the camera as he swum back woth both mallards in his mouth. Nice one Thor :)
Probably only 10% of the ducks we'd normally see in the sky over Northern Southland. 22 mallards for the pond but that's well down on previous years.
Quiet opening for us today here in Eastern. We both got our 6 bird limits, but took most of the day. Normally limit out by 8:30. On a positive note, there was plenty of time to talk bullshit, and cook a mean feed. Going to go out most days next week, so should pick up a few good feeds.
