the harvest rate from released mallards can be in the high 90%, from a commercial angle they offer great returns, unlike pheasants. I would say a private release would in fact return well over the...
Liked On: 02-12-2013, 07:55 PM
You bird shooting guys are as weird as those dog guys.....oh wait you are those dog guys :P
Liked On: 23-11-2013, 12:41 PM
The rule book states that the terms of engagement for the QC are: that the dog will hunt and find game as is expected of its breed, that it will set or point, that it is not gunshy, that it obtains...
Liked On: 20-11-2013, 08:37 PM
16621 400 little fluffy bundles of joy. (photo courtesy Craig Carey).
Liked On: 20-11-2013, 07:04 PM
16610 Sorry for sideways pic, they never come out the rite way up wen using my phone
Liked On: 19-11-2013, 09:37 PM
Oh UU, having Falco's loss still so very much on my mind and heart, I truly know how awful it all can be. ...
Liked On: 15-11-2013, 10:30 PM
Still haven’t seen any chicks – either quail or pheasant but the hawks are flying very low – so I guess they are onto it Plenty of cock pheasant scrapping going on – often two cocks after one hen -...
Liked On: 13-11-2013, 08:27 PM
After replying to the thread help for a newbe hunter William made contact with me and a tentative plan was hatched. The idea being trying to get him his first deer. The idea of two heads being better...
Liked On: 10-11-2013, 07:49 PM
I have dogs. Just pets. I love them but they are good for bugger all. The dog sports interest me. My uncle had (locally) very well regarded gun dogs for fur and feather. My father bred dogs...
Liked On: 06-11-2013, 08:20 PM
fuck it, im getting a pointer pup to train up for trialling, im starting a new trend and im going to wear a onesie
Liked On: 06-11-2013, 08:11 PM
No dweebs oh i mean tweed (sorry ElB im a shit stirrer)
Liked On: 06-11-2013, 06:03 PM
Peasants the lot of them. Why aren't they dressed up as someone they aren't?
Liked On: 06-11-2013, 05:53 PM
As an outside observer someone in traditional nz outdoors wear preferably well worn looks like someone i would like to talk to and maybe learn from. Wearing your granddads gears including dog chewed...
Liked On: 06-11-2013, 04:29 PM
Yeah, Spaniel Trials run both during the season and outside it, so they shoot gamebirds when in season and rabbits / hares etc when outside of the season. So the retrieve is on hot, freshly shot (and...
Liked On: 01-11-2013, 09:45 AM
It was farken windy! The mutts were copping a snout full of 100km gusts all day long and the birds didn't last long heading into the wind that's for sure. No weather for the cheese cutter El B, a few...
Liked On: 31-10-2013, 09:01 PM