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    4 (l to r) across, six up??? Cool foto!!
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    It must take a few birds to get a decent feed from quail.
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    Surprizingly enough, Dundee, they are remarkably filling...two is probably enough!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by EeeBees View Post
    Surprizingly enough, Dundee, they are remarkably filling...two is probably enough!!
    thats just as well thats all i got left unless i find a good csi spot for this last week

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    What a great season its been, went out with a bang up on pooks and phezzies and managed a few by-catch species as well.

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    Roll on next season.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Snuffit View Post
    What a great season its been, went out with a bang up on pooks and phezzies and managed a few by-catch species as well.

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    Roll on next season.....
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    Brilliant .
    It takes 43 muscle's to frown and 17 to smile, but only 3 for proper trigger pull.
    What more do we need? If we are above ground and breathing the rest is up to us!
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    Im just about to leave for a 4 day pheasant hunt in rotorua -leaving with a slight bit of gout ..bugger it
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    Saw heaps of ducks flying into the Tutaekuri today...greys and mallies...it was fantastic...lots of chuckling going on so I guess they may be thinking about brooding
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    Last day of season for me, all we saw was 1 rabbit and a wild cat.

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    I hope you shot them both unless you only had one shell left in which case I hope you messed up the moggy.
    It takes 43 muscle's to frown and 17 to smile, but only 3 for proper trigger pull.
    What more do we need? If we are above ground and breathing the rest is up to us!
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    Oh woe!! One more day to go...

    Went and collected Harry and off we went to revisit a covey we had had an eye on, Dionee again team leader...



    The upstream wind was as mean as the proverbial dastardly mother-inlaw which probably explained why the covey was reticent in exposing itself...once the sun leaves the gorge, naturally enough the temperature drops markedly. Harry is getting to understand the little birds more and he is thinking about the outcomes...ie too close a shot on a small bird, and why shoot a bird if it cannot be retrieved and to think about the birds roosting times etc.

    Dionee worked the ground and the huge blackberry spreads like a demon but to no avail...



    All was not lost...two rabbits were shot on the way home.

    Again saw some Greys, and a couple of spawning trout.

    As I edit this, the rain has come in and it is teeming...grrrrrrrrr...
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    Good results getting the bunnys. Roll on next season
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    Yes, seems a long way off...but there is tomorrow
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    Awoke to teeming rain and instantly thought...well, of course it would be a bad weather day!...but all was not lost...by 11hr00 the rain had abated and the sun actually forced itself to break on through...so it was off to Harry's for corn fritters and venison sausages (I supplied the sausages...bartered for pancetta) for lunch and then down the river.

    Decided to take the young dog Jarlou...we have wandered about the farm but I wanted to do some shot work...birds allowing. And allow it did...a greylag was brought down, the dog steady...then a shot was fired at rock pigeons but they were so fidgety they were not going to take any risks...again the pup was steady to shot. He worked the ground like a machine...the covey we had in mind to revisit were not in the locale...





    Harry and Jarlou on the way back to the vehicle...greylag in hand!!



    So, that is it, Gamebird 2014 is over...
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