Thread: Game bird diary for all

@Toby that is a good haul, you'll probably shoot more ducks than me and I've still got 2 months left.

You need to get out more Stug!

Originally Posted by Nathan F

Some of you "keener types" need to get down here for a duck hunt

I have thought about that Nathan, but imagine the letdown the next season back home!

I was more worried about shooting over 20 ducks. Think of all the plucking!!! Took me and dad about 3-4 hours to do 13 ducks and have them hanging back up to dry out.

Originally Posted by Toby

I was more worried about shooting over 20 ducks. Think of all the plucking!!! Took me and dad about 3-4 hours to do 13 ducks and have them hanging back up to dry out.

Jeez Toby - you need more practice!

I'm slow at plucking!!

Originally Posted by Lentil

Jeez Toby - you need more practice!

you could just go for the breasts...
but that's just too much effort for little return I say. stick to the plucking....the more the merrier....

Originally Posted by mikee

Finally after putting in a bit of preseason recon (well a lot really) My mate got his pheasant 3.5 minutes after leaving the vehicle and I finally managed to shoot one over my own dog and which my dog , actually pointed). Stoked would be the understatement of the day.
Since the limit is one each we ended up back at the car for coffee. All very civilized and a bloody good show, what!
Please excuse the poor photo
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Awesome mikee,
I managed one for the weekend as well

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possibly the shortest bird dog out there in the weekend and I think he may have been more interested in looking for rabbits but he put this one up and then a hen the next day.
Not real flash on the retrieve though...

Lost a bird today, which always annoys me. I'm sure he was dead in the air as the wings stopped and head down he started to curl under him self in a tumbling motion, surely stone dead. Landed in a sea of gorse about 12 ft High. He isn't on the ground as I crawled through most of it. and two dogs failed to find him. I'm sure he is hung up in the top of the gorse above my head so will go back with machete tomorrow. Pisses me off

Originally Posted by Pointer

Lost a bird today, which always annoys me. I'm sure he was dead in the air as the wings stopped and head down he started to curl under him self in a tumbling motion, surely stone dead. Landed in a sea of gorse about 12 ft High. He isn't on the ground as I crawled through most of it. and two dogs failed to find him. I'm sure he is hung up in the top of the gorse above my head so will go back with machete tomorrow. Pisses me off

Can't win em all even with the best dogs,i know the feeling.

Nothing happened tonight not a sound

Only the dog snoring

Originally Posted by Dundee

Nothing happened tonight not a sound

Only the dog snoring
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Prod the bugger

Originally Posted by 308jase

Awesome mikee,
I managed one for the weekend as well

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possibly the shortest bird dog out there in the weekend and I think he may have been more interested in looking for rabbits but he put this one up and then a hen the next day.
Not real flash on the retrieve though...

You are not alone with the poor retrieve. I never taught "fetch" and rue'd the day on Sat. Went point, flush, bang, splash..................... then look at dad with the hope YOU like swiming "look".

Haha,

Sounded like what happened to me............bloody cold wasn't it! My 10yr old son thought it was hilarious watching me go get the bird while him and the dog sat on the bank ( didn't help when he remarked how clever other peoples dogs were compared to ours)

Originally Posted by Pointer

Lost a bird today, which always annoys me. I'm sure he was dead in the air as the wings stopped and head down he started to curl under him self in a tumbling motion, surely stone dead. Landed in a sea of gorse about 12 ft High. He isn't on the ground as I crawled through most of it. and two dogs failed to find him. I'm sure he is hung up in the top of the gorse above my head so will go back with machete tomorrow. Pisses me off

yea thats a share bastard [pointer the top of a gorse patch can be as dence as a roof.
down here we got the opposite problem in places scrub like crap so low and thick a foxy would struggle to crawl thru it.
blackberry and gorse is bad enough but chuck in this shoite and matagouri and you really appreciate what your dogs put up with for you.