Thread: Game bird diary for all

Trying to teach my too neighbors the finer points of hide building for Pegion shooting.
Guess the teaching standards have gone a miss

After one weeks training my pup is on the real thing.

Probably my last shoot for the Manawatu season, birds decoyed nicely and the dog worked well too. The blonde hen was a bit of a bonus and dropped another one on the walk out. Pretty happy with 5 for the morning.

What a terrible season for me! Been out many evenings on ponds, but not even a shot fired. Went to my mate's "guaranteed" pond. He's been feeding them all season and watching them arrive every evening, and still nothing. He thinks I'm cursed!

My night shoot ponds haven't been flash lately.Day time stalk shud get a few bfore our seasoin ends!

First parry for the season

Bo retrieving mallard drake from the creek

Got another mallard drake,sky full of feathers.

Drake was munted.But good feed off yesterdays birds.

Took Bo over to the big pond,shot a double on the eel infested pond.

Finished work early Bo and I made it to the big pond before dark.He retrieved another drake just on dark.

Redemption!

Last night of the season with my duck hunting buddy. We planned to walk up a creek, then sit and wait on a puddle at sunset.

After a quad bike ride and a long walk, we got to the creek. Not much happened for a while, then I saw my mate shoulder his shotgun and got ready. He took a shot at a fast moving duck 50 metres away. He's a good shot, but it was a bit ambitious and he missed. Strangely the duck came around a second time. I got two shots off, the first missed, the second resulted in a puff of feathers, but the bird kept on going. Always annoying, but at least we had some action.

After that, we settled by the puddle. There were a lot of birds in the sky and mate did a great job of calling them in without a caller. First bird came in hard and fast and I got him, a fat mallard drake, my first. A little while later, a pair of greys came in, I took the hen and my mate took the drake.

We had plenty of opportunities to shoot paradise shelducks, but we agreed to leave them alone and concentrate on our target species. Good end to the season!

What a blast! The end of 2018 duck season has finished.New pup Bo joined me for the last week.Next year he will be fully trained.

My youngest son and I were out for the final frontier.

Another drake for the table.

Dog on the quad is "Ace"
Think there were only three birds this season that went to the eels.

Finished the last weekend of the north canterbury duck season as i started it with my 5yr old side kick, our peg close to home has been queit so far this year but a bit of action turned up for the last morning in a flurry, downed 3 in two separate flights but regrettably lost a woundy ( never a nice feeling), kept the boy interested with snacks and assigning him jerk line duty, also explaining why you don't shoot birds on the water led to a long description of his up in the air decoy set up , (entertaining)



Dog has come on good and was impressive last weekend on a couple of longer retrieves with bigger bird on my one trip to Ellesmere for the season pretty happy.


Bring on next season, although i still have a month to crack the Quail code ( the fast little feckers)

Originally Posted by Sparrow

Finished the last weekend of the north canterbury duck season as i started it with my 5yr old side kick, our peg close to home has been queit so far this year but a bit of action turned up for the last morning in a flurry, downed 3 in two separate flights but regrettably lost a woundy ( never a nice feeling), kept the boy interested with snacks and assigning him jerk line duty, also explaining why you don't shoot birds on the water led to a long description of his up in the air decoy set up , (entertaining)
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Dog has come on good and was impressive last weekend on a couple of longer retrieves with bigger bird on my one trip to Ellesmere for the season pretty happy.
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Bring on next season, although i still have a month to crack the Quail code ( the fast little feckers)

Awesome!

15 mallards on saturday and thats all she wrote for this year . Average season

pretty crap i gave it away without a dog.
i on;y hunted places i was 100 % sure i could recover any shot birds from.
which left out most places but a new dog will nbe on the cards in september october and like mcarthur we will return.