Thread: Game bird diary for all

Quite alimentary that, Gibo!!!!

Originally Posted by Gibo

I flush brownies each day. I must give this bird shooting a go on day too

DO YOU THRIVE ON FRUSTRATION STRESS AND DISSAPOINTMENT GIBO
i jest all of the above just makes the successes all the sweeter.

Originally Posted by gsp follower

DO YOU THRIVE ON FRUSTRATION STRESS AND DISSAPOINTMENT GIBO
i jest all of the above just makes the successes all the sweeter.

Well I am married Ha ha

The other day I missed 3 of the easiest shots
That you will ever get on Cali's only to knock over
An absolute Hail Mary on the way back to the ute.
They are very easy to miss sometimes.
And the more time they give me The more I seem
To miss them

Originally Posted by gsp follower

DO YOU THRIVE ON FRUSTRATION STRESS AND DISSAPOINTMENT GIBO
i jest all of the above just makes the successes all the sweeter.

sounds like a cocker owner.

Originally Posted by hamstring

The other day I missed 3 of the easiest shots
That you will ever get on Cali's only to knock over
An absolute Hail Mary on the way back to the ute.
They are very easy to miss sometimes.
And the more time they give me The more I seem
To miss them

shit i wish 3 was all id missed but yes i get the point you can overthink this shotgunning game

sounds like a cocker owner.

you leave my COCKer out of this

Well I am married Ha ha

nuff said

From an article in the magazine produced by the Brittany Club, Victoria, Australia, dated May 1988, the editor ran an article written by Durwood Hollis on the Western Quail of the USA...of the Cali he writes...'these birds are very gregarious, often mixing several family groups together in a 'super-covey' of immense proportions. California quail will hold for the hunter if they are well scattered at the initial flush. Preferring to run or flush well out of range, California quail can be difficult to hunt if conditions are not favourable'.

Hollis states 'Even though these spunky birds would just as soon run as fly, I still find hunting them a consummate challenge'. And so say all of us

Mallard hen with 15 ducklings spotted crossing a paddock this morning. Sadly the neighbour feeds the hawks and feral cats so she will probably settle down somewhere tonight with ten ...or less

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Originally Posted by hamstring

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that goes on my desktop background....
Awesome photo ....

Originally Posted by Petros_mk

that goes on my desktop background....
Awesome photo ....

+1 brilliant photo mate....says it all

Originally Posted by hamstring

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awesme in everyway

Originally Posted by teFerrarri

Mallard hen with 15 ducklings spotted crossing a paddock this morning. Sadly the neighbour feeds the hawks and feral cats so she will probably settle down somewhere tonight with ten ...or less

So you know what to bait you traps with then...

Originally Posted by Wildman

So you know what to bait you traps with then...

i hear lead shot is bad for them do what the only nz study on waterfowl did and force feed it to them

Since I've started posting summaries I'll do one for today even though I wasn't into it 100%. Not sure why really, just woke up on the wrong side of the bed... Screw it, I decided to go anyway.
Conditions weren't great to start off with, fog everywhere, sun was about to come out and boil the living shit out of us, there was no wind whatsoever, so I just went with it. Let the dog do its thing I'll just follow...

First 40 minutes or so, we worked some thick young pines with heavy cover underneath... Aki was pulling away from me more than usual and a bell may have been useful but it was still manageable...we worked the side of the hill up to the ridgeline and I saw 2 hens burst out from my left (nothing to do with the dog). Aki moves in and stops on point where the hens were. Not a big deal i thought, just some cold scent, but where there are hens there are cocks. Nah, not really, a 3rd hen bursts out...
Aki fairly steady gets a pat and we take a 10mins break.


A nice breeze developed in the mean time, so upwards and onwards. Well in this case it was downwards and onwards. 20 or so minutes in the game I see a hen fly out far in the distance, eventually we get there and Aki stops. I take a photo and we roaded in for a while but no birds (definitely cold scent of the hen). Damn, I needed another break.

I had enough of tripping over and bruising my legs so we hunted some open cover for the next hour... Towards the very end Aki stops on point on top of a log, I had to menuver through the rubble to take a proper shot and that didn't even work, 4 quail up while my legs were spread wide open climbing through this shit, 2 shots nothing down. I saw the 5th bird running on the ground so I gave Aki the "go ahead", he does few loops and the bird is up in the air, by that time I had reloaded only 1 barrel, took a shot and missed again. F*CK!!!!!!!

Not much to do afterwards really, it was scorching hot. I decided to walk the beaten track and let the dog work the outskirts, if he picks up any scent we'll investigate further, if not we'll just go for a walk around areas where I haven't been before just to see what I can hunt next time I'm there.

A solid 1 hour walk and Aki stops on point of the 3rd time, much like the photo above, he was standing on a log. By the time I got to him I can't believe how much noise I made. There were 2 roosters on the other end of the logs hiding in ink-weed, they didn't move at all. Aki moves in for the flush, both take off in opposite directions. Dog wasn't quite steady here, things got a bit too much for him but 2 shots - no kills.... Seriously - if I had an e-collar I'd be better off putting it around my neck and giving the remote to the dog, the number of birds missed is ridiculous...
Did my walk back to the truck and off home.... I've got a whole week off work so there will be few hunting missions to come in the next few days....