Not only Easter... Opening morning especially, but usually all duck shooting season, as a kid I was always wary about rabbit shooting near our back dam. It was only 200m from the Patea river and there were always spent shotgun shells scattered around it. Even as a youngster I knew it was too dangerous due to the poachers (esp weekend mornings) who would sneak onto the farm to that dam. It was lower in the gully and it would be only too easy to walk over the bank from the paddock and be behind a mob of ducks some loser was blasting at....
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