Good luck everyone heading out. Safe travels hot barrels. About to start our drive south waikato. Enjoy
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Good luck everyone heading out. Safe travels hot barrels. About to start our drive south waikato. Enjoy
Lets have a safe one. Good luck send some birds my way.
Went to a F&G duck night last week and they were pushing the new transport laws. So lets all remember gun and game license, trigger locks, ammo separate locked box, leave alcohol at home ect. My son was told that the police will be out in force checking this stuff. Pretty easy for them as most out on the road pre dawn will be hunters. They are looking for fit and proper and if you are not following the law you are not fit and proper.
QUACK QUACK QUACK quack quack have fun guys
Good luck to everyone. Thanks to a mate, I have a spot in a maimai on public land. We'll see how it goes, couple of ducks and I'll be happy. As chindit says, if the police are going to check compliance, now will be the time. Whatever you think of the new legislation, it's best to avoid trouble.
Yes, good luck and straight shooting to all!
I'm heading over to the family farm in the Waikato for the annual opening weekend get together and looking forward to getting amongst it!
Query how does one lock away a couple slabs of 12g ? I certainly don't have a lock box anywhere near that size. ....or a glove box that size for that matter. ....got everything else sussed as far as transport is concerned
I joined two duck seasons before Covid-19. Besides the bigger chance of getting ducks on the first daylight, is there any other reasons? Thanks
Yeah I'll probably use half a slab maybe less but there's always someone who "forgets to buy ammo" still would be nice to know how one is supposed to comply surely I'm not expected to buy a massive steel lock box to lock my ammo in whilst I'm in my vehicle whic is basically a big steel lock box on wheels. To be clear I'm not talking about leaving it unattended just for my road trip down to where I'm shooting where it will be locked up in his safe till the morning.
Lock the car doors perhaps then all your ammo is in a big steel box
Trigger lock on the semi auto and all good you would think................or perhaps not its all down to interpretation
Likewise, hot barrels everyone.
Have a goodie fellas!!
Weather up here looks too good hope its raining and blowing somewhere [emoji41]
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good luck and be proud your continuing a 100 year old tradition
Well it’s nearly 5 and I’ve been awake with jet lag but finally back after 23 years for a opening weekend.
Ponds looking good here’s a photo from yesterday before we stuck out the decoys. Good luck guys & girls.
Good boy
How did everyone go yesterday?
We got 25 mallards between us in the evening and will be going back again this arvo.
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@dannyb Checked this morning, the square grenade boxes hold 14 x boxes of 25 shells. They are only about a foot square. Have a fold down carry handle each end. All my shotty ammo is in one.
The normal double wide type ammo box holds six.
Get them at GC or army surplus
57 for the day yesterday.
23 today.
3 parries.
Fairly even numbers of drakes to hens.
Doggo got a good work out that is for sure
We got 144 ducks and 10 geese on Saturday and another 55 ducks on Sunday, I think about 33 parries in the duck count and 1 spoon hen.
All in all a great weekend but a lot of work :D
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I felt bad for the old girl missing out so I bought her along this opening after missing a few now . 4 dogs 2 golden labs my Brittany and the old heading dog. This heading dog use to be a bloody machine on the ducks I left her in the Ute for the morning and went and got her at 10am when the birds slowed bought here down to the lake for lunch and she disappeared setting about collecting the missed birds from the young bucks 17 years old and still eager to please. Excuse the average photo it’s a screen shot from the video and cropped to get the file size down
4 yesterday and 1 this morning. We missed a few including a couple of B-52's.
There are some new idiots occupying a maimai at the end of the lake, starting to shoot at 6.20 in the morning and taking shots at anything that flies between 50 and 80 m ruining it for every body else. Not impressed at all.
Just nowhere near those numbers (!), but a good day out. First time shooting on public land and first time shooting from a maimai. Luxury!
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2mallards,2 geese yesterday on public lake in hunly ,1 mallard from raglan this morning,banded to boot,way down on last years total but fog didn’t lift till 10.45 on Saturday making for hard going.
Low duck numbers for us as well but made up for it with some good shooting.
Went 8 birds from 8 shots ( 6 mallards a puke and a magpie )between the young lad and myself on Saturday before missing a couple on late evening.
Sunday the lad smoked a parry I missed its mate then went 5 from 5 shots with 2 parry’s 2 pukes and 1 mallard on last light
Second season using only 410 bore and wouldn’t have shot any more birds if using 12ga over the weekend
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@dannyb Holy crap, that'd be a lot of work alright. What's the plan for all the meat?
A bit better than average for us. Limit of 140 for mallards on Saturday plus a few parries. Another 40 odd yesterday but we hadn't had a tally up when I headed home. Probably lost 10 to hawks out in the paddocks. They were on them bloody quick this year, must be hungry.
A few numpties around, according to Stuff - I mean leaving a couple of semi's unattended in a maimai? Come on - that doesn't do our cause any good whatsoever.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/crime...s-and-burnouts
Waikato islands, NO ducks, started off thick, thick fog, ended up with 3 Black Swan....but a good time had by all......
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We ended on 21 for the weekend. 4 parrys and a lonesome goose we plucked out of a mob.. Missed about 20 easy ones last night and this morning.
Took the 2 kids in so was a bit of a family outlying. Fun times
just back from the coast and finished cleaning up the kit, sadly the lake has been shooting progressively fewer ducks for a number of years now, opening morning i grabbed by far the biggest bag, ten and there were seven shooting the lake, i don't think the remaining hunters combined surpassed my lot, no one bagged anything sunday. But still a great occasion with family and new friends