Walker and I had a real quiet opening morning, not a single duck on the pond and just a few shots at passing parries for one shelduck the hawk is enjoying.
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Walker and I had a real quiet opening morning, not a single duck on the pond and just a few shots at passing parries for one shelduck the hawk is enjoying.
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At least you're doing better than the 3, so far, munters who have shot themselves this morning.
Well my tally is 100% better than last year; one lovely mallard this morning. Sounded like the battle of the Somme on the farms around me so someone's doing even better than me lol
Our issue is the proximity to the coast and flat sea conditions. Driving back all the mangrove estuaries were full of ducks.
Plenty of ducks out past 5 miles :D
No wind, and nice sky, ducks flying high. Still managed to get 2 perries, and 4 ducks with my mate . Unbelievable how warm it was, mosquitos were flying around us!! ( south of Ham)
Funny looking parrie.
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Was 20something degrees and very little cloud etc in Nth Otago today,
Not many shots around me. Managed 7 and called it a day.
Didnt hear a single shot here... Drought is kicking in
I shot one parry so far. Rather quiet here.
Seen a few flyin up high.
I have Walker missing a mob of paddock parries on video.
Quiet alright, even the Wirehair got sick of waiting for the action.
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only 4 goats for me this morning :) no ducks were harmed in the process either
Do we get to see it?
With this lack of action on the ducks, I 'spose the poor old Pukes are going to get hammered.
Pukes and my dog are weird, for some reason he points pukes but will only wind ducks.
Guess that actually makes sense now that I've written it as the ducks are on water where the pukes aren't.
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I'm with you Mikee how can you shoot those beautiful little fluffy ducks? :ORLY:
Property we lived on a few years back the pukes where kings of the joint. They killed everything, rats, mice, baby ducks, steel the fruit of the trees. They where like gangsters.
Parry couple used to nest in a hole in the old man pine across from the house about 12 feet in the air. Thought I was seeing things when I seen a parry squeeze out of this hole on to a branch and fly off. They kicked the chicks out once they where born, pukes still managed to nail them.
Two Hawks lived near by, they used to hover above the pukes in a head wind and try and dive in and get their babies, pukes used to leap into the air throwing there feet up trying to grab the hawk and pull them to the ground. Staunch birds the puke. Mini raptors.
We got 4 turkeys and 4 parries in the end. Left the pukes and missed out on the peacocks and mallards in the end, not for lack of numbers, just no chance for a shot.
Managed 6 ducks and a sun tan for the day. Hard work with high ducks. Hope tomorrow is better
Got 21 mallards & 1 unlucky parrie this morning (Waikato). Bloody hard work with the calm clear weather. Could see tons of ducks up high but not dropping in like usual. Hard work to get the numbers we got. Normally bag at least double that on opening morning.
The local shooters are popping off already and it is still semi dark.
Cleaned up just out of Hamilton yesterday put 30 of birds on the deck
You can spit the hook now Rushy hahahahahahaha
10 Mallards. 6 Parries and a Swan for Saturday.
We managed 1/2 a duck an hour over 12 hours for two shooters ........ worst opening morning in my shooting career.
How do you shoot half a duck?
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we shot 46 ducks this weekend not the best weather .fine and hot ..but they are talking rain and a bit of wind Monday so will give it another go ..there are plenty of ducks in the air ..but we always have lots of birds in southland
Worst opening in a long time. Many factors including drought didn't help. 26 mallards and 2 pretend ducks ( parries ).
80 odd mallards and half dozen parries for us - 6 shooters. Less than half we normally get for the weekend on our pond, last year we limited on mallards both days, and limited on parries by 830-ish both days as well! Same recipe/routine as past years too. This opening we shot at least 90% of what circled in on the pond, so decoys and calling was on point, shooting was ok. Fine weather, less birds flying, less shooters in our area, etc all contributing to smaller bag. Dog worked brilliantly - best she's ever done - I was stoked. A great weekend nonetheless, looking forward to rest of the season. Our crew has been shooting together for ten years now, we started off hunting together as keen students, now it's a weekend for catching up with best mates and our families, how times have changed!!
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Pretty sure my little guy has this duck calling business all worked out. :cool:
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