Thread: Ten more sleeps

Originally Posted by sikaduk

Rotonaro?

On Saturday yep,Sunday local honey hole.

Limited out on ducks both sat and sunday on the Kaipara despite the clear fine weather. And despite receiving a text that one of my best mates passed away on saturday resulting in a high speed dash across mudflats on a dropping tide. Got back to his private ramp, walked up to his house just on dark to find him sitting the house watching tv. Some idiot got their wires crossed.
Also managed 3 canada's 1 parry. Got a possum with the jeep driving home on sunday.

Originally Posted by Allgood

Limited out on ducks both sat and sunday on the Kaipara despite the clear fine weather. And despite receiving a text that one of my best mates passed away on saturday resulting in a high speed dash across mudflats on a dropping tide. Got back to his private ramp, walked up to his house just on dark to find him sitting the house watching tv. Some idiot got their wires crossed.
Also managed 3 canada's 1 parry. Got a possum with the jeep driving home on sunday.

bloody good going squire!

We got 21 in our pond and a parry
Sunday qe only picked up 2 before we headed home. Could have shot alot more but my daughters first full year so she was given the 1st shot in alot of birds which the rest of us could have shot . Credit to the boys for allowing her to be able to do that . And refraining from pulling the trigger. Wasn't about the numbers shot for us .

Good on you @Quackers that's the spirit,the other thing we found helpful was making it the you guns job to finish off any woundies on water,that also means you can give them different loads,some clay target loads work well for water swatting heads,you can get steel in #7-8s now which should work well in range for that job,it probably won't have enough oomph to pepper body.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

Good on you @Quackers that's the spirit,the other thing we found helpful was making it the you guns job to finish off any woundies on water,that also means you can give them different loads,some clay target loads work well for water swatting heads,you can get steel in #7-8s now which should work well in range for that job,it probably won't have enough oomph to pepper body.

I tried a box of falcon ultra steel 5s this year.

For decoying birds the 5s worked a treat. I'm also tempted to try 6s now that the 5s have proven themselves

Yeah she was shooting 7s 28 gram of fast steel fiochi. Trap loads. I imagine if she was using big boy bullets the outcome would have been different . But for the experience you want to build on it being a good one and getting gun confidence and safety. Reaction times were slow and she missed seeing the absolute sitters but that's all part of it. Looking forward to some paddock shooting where we can sit there and enjoy

Lovely day down here on the Catlins coast. Had a wee service job to do at Kaka Point and about a 100m of the beach was literally hundreds of ducks. Can imagine it’ll be like that all the way to Stewart Is. Same at the head of Catlins Lake. The swan population has exploded there over the last couple of seasons. Needs to be no limit, open season on them.

We got showered in pellets from another shooter, how common is this? Cant say im surprised given the number of maimais in the area.

Originally Posted by Old_School

We got showered in pellets from another shooter, how common is this? Cant say im surprised given the number of maimais in the area.

Often unknown fact. Our shooting laws for gamebirds have two interlocked/ interesting wee things. No shot more powerful than lead #BB and no person may set up and shoot closer than 90 yards of another shooter without Thier permission..... How and why are they interlocking you may ask??? Well a lead BB becomes non fatal at about 90 yards. Anytime your closer than a couple or five hundy yards from someone else it's possible...bad form to shoot in each other's direction...you KNOW your shot will lob that far,wearing eye protection isn't stupid in such situations. We used to get peppered if fishing in Wanganui river below the echolands gun club if they were using certain stations. Was never an issue.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

Often unknown fact. Our shooting laws for gamebirds have two interlocked/ interesting wee things. No shot more powerful than lead #BB and no person may set up and shoot closer than 90 yards of another shooter without Thier permission..... How and why are they interlocking you may ask??? Well a lead BB becomes non fatal at about 90 yards. Anytime your closer than a couple or five hundy yards from someone else it's possible...bad form to shoot in each other's direction...you KNOW your shot will lob that far,wearing eye protection isn't stupid in such situations. We used to get peppered if fishing in Wanganui river below the echolands gun club if they were using certain stations. Was never an issue.

The roof sheltered us from the majority of it anyway, but was a bit of a fright when it happened!
We heard the shot behind us, and it sounded rather close.

A rather loud yell of something like" oih noddy,that showered us" will let neighbours know your not impressed. Being that close to another stand might have contributed to your lack of shooting if they had something flaring ducks...or were in spot X and you not quite.