Thread: Beginners guide to choosing shot sizes

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

useless bit of info for the morning -paradise are not in the duck family like mallards -they are in the shelduck family- yup more closly related to geese than ducks - and a lot of kiwis dont know they are an endemic bird of NZ - only place that has them - greys are native and also occur in Australia - mallards of course introduced - ya learn something usefull every day

and just to add to that ,the mallard drake is the biggest rapist in the avian world -theyll gangbang greys and domestic breed hens with gay abandon if chance presents .indeed my first duck ever taken was shot as he was hard up a screaming parrie hen in midflight!Ive also seen the reverse when a couple of mallard drakes (young dum fulla cum variety )dropped in on a mob of mallard hens .oh dearie me ,the sisters mallard beat the living shit out of both of them, and actually tried to drown one .
their exit VTOL at warp 5 wondering WTF happened there? .me Id be all for a moratorium on our wee grey duck just to allow them to increase numbers put teal on the shooting list albeit 1-2pe wr person per day.