Opening week-rather good

Here's a brief summary of Opening week

Opening Day- New spot just on side of river, not fed but got limit by 8am, never even got limit before on opening!
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Dog worked great, some hard retrieves on lively ducks, esp when I hit 2 with 1 shot which left one rather lively in the willows
http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/v...a/04ed834b.jpg

Sunday
Shot a few more ducks in Morning, headed to forests in arvo for pheasant, missed an easy one, then mate clipped a high one which locked wings and glided for 400m (roughly, it was a bloody long way), then Dog managed to find it! I was stoked with that find!!
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Then had to work till Wed, on thurs headed to a mates Maimai on Lake Wairarapa for when the storm hit, but only got 1 but had a few more stuffed up opportunities

Friday- Rangitikei- 2 Pheasants within 200m, again stoked
http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/v...a/42687aa1.jpg

Saturday- Hit the forest for pheasants, hunted hard for most of day with no luck, then on circuit back to car picked up 2 cocks-again stoked!!
http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/v...a/55a88689.jpg

So pretty happy with how the week went :)

Cool report mate, well done. Awesome looking GSP as well. How much does he weigh? Looks rather big in your photo's

Rather good week indeed.

Nice one.

Good stuff Mike :cool:


I could make a joke about that pic of you with a cock in each hand, but I won't :XD::ORLY:

Awesome start to the year bro:)

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Originally Posted by R93

Cool report mate, well done. Awesome looking GSP as well. How much does he weigh? Looks rather big in your photo's

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Cheers, he averages around the 38kg mark so is rather large for a GSP. It's quite neat watching him stalk in on pheasants, this massive dog sneaking along in a crouch, must video it sometime

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Originally Posted by Philipo

Good stuff Mike :cool:


I could make a joke about that pic of you with a cock in each hand, but I won't :XD::ORLY:

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:D:D Dodgy bugger

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Originally Posted by hillclima

Cheers, he averages around the 38kg mark so is rather large for a GSP. It's quite neat watching him stalk in on pheasants, this massive dog sneaking along in a crouch, must video it sometime

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That would be good to see.
My old mate weighed the same.
He passed in July after 15 yrs. He had mobility problems in his last 2 yrs I think due to his size. Lucky my best mate is a vet. He suggested putting him on mussel extract for his joints. It seemed to help him a bit. I should have had him on it sooner. Keep an eye on him mate. When he takes longer to recover after a hard day, get onto a vet.


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Where were you shoting on the Lake on the Thursday? A hunter was in the Maimai with a dog just on the south side of the spilway(read this & wondered), I was with a mate south of there with two laydown boats, we had an ok shoot, 8 Mallards & 3 Spoonies

BTW looks like a good week...