Thread: Game bird diary for all

Strangelook8n drathaar

good line up....and I see you ALSO line up the sex's seperately...good to see you are 2/1ish like most folk are seeming to be. some nice fat looking drakes there,enjoy the eating.

Thats a nice looking hound, I tried getting into duck shooting last year but bugger me I couldn't hit the buggers! lol

Originally Posted by Woody

Strangelook8n drathaar

We have all sorts... not just the bearded wonders

should be very interesting atelly today the southerlies a comin.

Gonna take the canoe with newly developed layout blind fitted to the upper reaches of the raglan harbour over the weekend,hopefully have a good report to post later.

@stagstalker I've run the jj lares and Jeff Foiles for the last 4 years they go good ay. Only other I wanted to try was the Zinc calls but havent got there yet

Drew a blank this morning but got a pair tonight. Not much flying around here at present though.

southwerly my sisters black cats arse grrrrrr

Nice fourth weekend shoot, the maize has finally started being harvested after a very wet season. Couple of prior evenings scouting with binos, takeaway and a beer got us in the right location. It’s amazing the flight paths and numbers you’ll see early evening when the birds start to travel to feed.





We got setup early and knocked over a few feral pigeons for the landowner before settling in for the mallards.



Was interesting to note that any mallards that turned up early were very very shy, we had a few turn up round 2:30 - 3:00 and they wouldn’t commit to the spread at all. We’ve had it happen a few times and all we can put it down to is the shadow cast by the blinds at that time of day.
Can see in the photos the blinds are near invisible except for the shadows they cast.

Once the sun had dropped a bit and light faded it was all on and we were done by 4:45. Nice to be packed up before dark for once.

parrie breast meat,marinated in soy sauce,garlic and barkers peach n mango then chucked in dehydrater for 9 hrs make the most awesome jerky....almost too good.

We leave the parries alone these days. They get shot in excess in our region. Pretty normal to hear of people shooting two to three times their limit. Used to send them up to Basecamp for salami.

different set up few locations,great time with Bo ...saving ammo nothing to shoot but still out there!

Strong winds here in waikato today,3 ducks,one goose this morning till had to pull pin due to tides,was setup a bit off from where birds wanted to be though,be back in couple of weeks for closing weekend when tidessuit again.