Thread: Game bird diary for all

the usually coupla inches deep gravel pit pond
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Originally Posted by gsp follower

the usually coupla inches deep gravel pit pond
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sat on pond sunday evening had two mallards come in but let fly 5 metres to soon i reckon,
oh well quail still open and parries and swans untill the end of september and geese all the time.

went out for last hunt of 2017 today -another farm up the grey valley.bugger all about-had one mob of parries in sight but just settin up to do a stalk when a hua of a domestic broke out about 6 in a scrap screamin and divin at each other before headin everywhere.
had another pair come in a little later but farmstaff had a mob of cows in the adjacent race and courtesy &commonsense ruled.mind you id have been hard pressed to clean em up anyhowcause on sighting these bellowing shitting things and short fat man with long hollow stick,they soon figures out fuckofski was their saviour.
beautiful day to be out and about though over here in grey,and its duck for tea tonight so I cant complain.
thanks to darryl &suzanne for hosting me,indeed to all those farmers who selflessly allow us duckshooters to hunt on their farms. may your generosity repay you 6 fold.

Today's walk

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Visited the family in Te muka last few days.....few social visits to a few farms I got permission to shoot on last time I was down and they were disappointed I never bought a gun down, ducks for Africa, what a magic place reminds me how it used to be in the waikato.
As per the norm seen a few pheasants around Ashburton on the road side.

know what you mean kawhia but without a dog i restrict myself to game and places i know i can recover .
mallards closed sunday last but plenty to keep bird hunter happy dog or no.

had a day on pigeon's today with a mate to work her dog,a lot of work for a little dog

Nice haul there @nightshooter how many you get? Also what where they coming in on?

@Sideshow we ended up with 79 pigeon's.i'm not sure what they where coming in for but i think it was water or grit,i had mostly 1 and 2 coming in all day with no big mob's it was good because i was the only one shooting

Year @nightshooter don't bomb up the big mobs get out of your hide and wave them off. They then come back in ones and twos.
Give it 10 days and you will be good to go again. Not before as that time is there memory span. Once that is up they have either forgotten our once more think that it's safe.
Good luck
Oh open up a few crops and find out what they have been eating you might then get another wack at them on there food source

@Sideshow hoping to get back at them about the end of the month,the farmer feed's a lot of grain to his sheep so they are alway's on his farm

kotuku wood pidgeons aint gamebirds.
yes they tasty yes they have feathers but no notty allowed to eatty.

BAD KOTUKU BAD,BAD KOTUKU

Originally Posted by gsp follower

kotuku wood pidgeons aint gamebirds.
yes they tasty yes they have feathers but no notty allowed to eatty.

BAD KOTUKU BAD,BAD KOTUKU

ha fucking ha-about as much chance of me shootin one of those fat bastards as there is me extracting gold nuggets from cowshit.
read the report -carcasses left in a camping area near moana-any local or kiwis would realise just how bloody easy it would be to chuck em in the lake or one of the rivers -bloody big eels right through there so a coupla pigeons would be dealt to quick smart.this reeks of hungry tourists lookin for a feed and being ignorant of regulations.
????hi powered airrifle used.maybe disturbed by someone so they shot through before gettin caught.
cant imagine any locals being this fucking dumb

they aint that fuckin tasty anyway.
but yes if your innocent then it must be ze germans

Originally Posted by gsp follower

they aint that fuckin tasty anyway.
but yes if your innocent then it must be ze germans

I really cant imagine they would be at this time of year .certainly in the spring when theyre gutsing up large on miro berries(theres god knows how much of that round the edges of lake brunner)and theyre either that fat or pissed on fermented miro in the gut ,then yeah could understand someone yeilding to temptation -but this appears(being my operative word)to be all out of kilter .a -feed??looks like there'd be bugger all meat on either-in fact that last duckshooting outing i went on im sure i saw a kereru get blown backwards by a parrie fart!
we all know what guts's parries are in a wet grassy paddock-even the hen i nailed wasnt that meaty.
better still any of you blokes out there familiar with maori customs and food gathering-when did the ancestors traditionally harvest kereru and how did they process them.