Thread: Over duck shooting

A lot depends on what they have been eating. 20 years ago around here a lot of the ducks were sitting on cockys effluent ponds and they literally tasted like shit.

These days that isn't the case, and if you can get ones that have been feeding on grain maize paddocks it's next level.

I agree that it can be hard justifying the cost of a license for opening morning if that's all you do, and I think the 4 weeks we get here in the Waikato is very short.

There is however a much longer upland game season and spending a cool clear winters day hunting scruby gullies with 2 or 3 mates is a very enjoyable day out and well worth the effort.