Thread: Game bird diary for all

We had an awesome shoot for the first time in say 5 years. Lots of birds flyin around. Dog went perfect. Retrieved everything. Had a run in with a possum for a bit but was well pleased with his efforts today. He is actually a bit buggered. Been sleeping since we got home.
I started off with a hiss and a roar shooting wise. New extreme killed a bird with first ever shot out of it.

Shot well for the first 6-7 birds then went to shit.
I was well in front of a few and could see that on the shotkam footage.

Enjoyable morning just about to head out for an evening shot. May be a quick one as we only need a half dozen for both of us to have our limit.

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Well after a sleepless night of excitement was a very good morning on the Waikato river, me and my old man both limited out on mallards the birds worked beautifully and wanted to land right in with the six decoys. Dog worked very well but was a little too excited at the start but so was I. Good luck for your avo shoots and here's to Sunday morning

We are currently sitting on about 100 ducks for the day, will be in the blinds till dark, got 2 swans this morning too.

Got another 4 the evening very slow going.

We finished the day with 143 ducks and 2 swans which is not too bad considering we didn't feed the pond as early because of the unknown start date for opening day.
I bought a brand new shotty and christened it on opening day, very pleased with it not a single issue.

Lucky buggers good to see you out and enjoying this after the past few months

Best opening ever. 160 from two ponds. Southland

good to see everyone getting amongst it .heard some cracking bags taken on the coast too,as it seems parries are become a major infestation!!

great afternoon watching big decoy set and spinners draw all the ducks.
nah we had our chances tho some locals turning up to set flounder nets postponed them when a lot of birds were flying.
I wouldn't mind but seemed oblivious to the fact theyd parked 20 feet from the maimai and when I informed them it was duckshooting season
''what whats that''anway they were gone in 30 minutes so say lavi
anyway bit of fun and fuck it got cold quick at lake edge at 5 ish.
sold on the decoy spreaders just gotta figure a better way of carrying them.
ps waders were a bit tight for some reason.
what you done to my waders kotuku.

Back in the blind this morning managed a few more total for opening weekend 180 including 3 canada geese and 2 swans.
Ripper weekend.

Fog hampered the first few hours on the public lake I shoot ,ended up with 9mallards,4 Canada geese and 4parrys on Saturday,coulda easily had a limit of parry’s but were waiting on the mallards.3more mallards this morning.boat blind worked mint but first opening in 40yrs I have shot without a dog at my side,gotta say I don’t like it,retrieved all the birds with the canoe and made sure of finishing shot as soon as they hit the water.

What a way to finish up opening day me and my mates brother went out look for a late afternoon pheasant.
We flushed a few hens and saw one rooster as he ran through the fence to the neighbour's but we did manage our first quails which was pretty cool.

Did ok here 20 bird's for the weekend, my young dog worked well on his first opening . I'm glad to see all guy's all having a good weekend as well

Low numbers of birds in the manawatu, with the majority paired up. Still a bloody good weekend witha mixed bag of 17 for our efforts.

had another duckshooting virgin with us this year.....first time out in dingy with me we picked up /shot 2 woundie canadas and a few mallards...he is HOOKED
between the four of us shooting ended up with
2 camp possums
2 canadas
1 spoonie drake
1 grey
11parries (mostly pickups off lake)
18 mallards
awesome time had by all even without a breath of wind all weekend,only wind was during decoy setup on Friday...oh the sweet promise that had.