Thread: Game bird diary for all

those geese are still about the,re feeding quite close to town .
feels great to hear geese calling again and to call at them.
quite impressed with the ease of use of the power clucker.

This morning on our deck

This morning on our deck
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12 days to parrie time with hopefuly a side order of geese.

Driving to work on Sunday, a pair of Callies crossed the road ... only three bumblebee chicks ... I wonder just how many may have been lost due to the rain and coolth!!!

thats exactly what my missus calls them to
there are heaps of pairs with little,uns
so tiny its no wonder they lose them probaly almost daily.
the long wet grass is aparticular killer where we go not to mention cats hawks.
the only thing i havent seen are the weasel clan but they must be there somewhere.
see how many there are when they creche up

right the 20 gauge steels finaly here.
managed to get 4 boxes each of the federal 20 gauge upland steel load with fs [flightstopper] pellets.
ita a 7/8s ounce load in 3,s and 4,s doing 1500 feet per second.
hopefuly theres some parries and geese to try it and the 2,s ive got on.
cos the 3 inch 28 gram 2,s were shite on parries.
for the life of me i dont get why the seasons so early [13th of jan] given f&g wont even do there moult counts untill the end of january.

found parries flying
bar murphy and huey sticking thier oars in.
our small limit of 5 each should be a piece of cake

That is hardly sporting of f&g to open the season so early ...

Originally Posted by EeeBees

That is hardly sporting of f&g to open the season so early ...

its in responce to crop damage in the early harvest areas of nth canterbury and supposedly so younger gunners can get out with dad/mum over the holidays.

even with 20 gauge rifled slugs i might be nervy running into the owner of this.

Good evening fellow game bird hunters and the fucken (KEY BOARD WARRIORS)
Today started off pretty slow with fine weather and nothing happening.Two black labs sucking up to ya every time the thermos or food came out!
Late morning we shifted and got a meal for the table.Ace the black lab did her buisness.
Ace and Sean buggered off for a night shoot elsewhere so had the old yapper mate and his hairy useless mutt with us for the night shoot.
Todays pics.

This morning, 1 shot, 1 bird, started raining, back in bed.

13 Mallards 2 parries and a Pukeko for Saturday's efforts. 3 Mallards and 2 turkeys this morning. Shot a new spot this opening, displays​ good potential with a bit of work.

great saturday plenty of chances through out the day more mallards than ever but less parries about.??
bit somber tho had to take a diversion or two cos of big accident on leeston coes ford road.