Thread: Geese and swan

Originally Posted by lophortyx

Attachment 34479 a pleasant way to spend a work day.nth. canterbury yesterday.

if theres a more fun filled avo gunning than summer parries and geese im yet to find it

swans under permit is pretty good.

parrie season has finished here,I only smashed two but my young fella and his accomplice got 20

theres a hint of clint eastwood in your stroll lophortyx. bloody nice work though.was out at ellesmere last night again and those bloody parries are thick ,everywhere we went buzzed by em and saw two paddocks crawling with em. sadly we saw at least three attempting to swim on the lake having obviously been wounded.due to distance we couldnt put them out of their misery.some flights of geese homeward bound from feeding .later passed a crew who looked like they'd been bombing up the goose feeding paddock!
shes a great life at present.

Originally Posted by lophortyx

swans under permit is pretty good.

true and all three is even better but swans usually become a pest later in the year

kotuku, i am the person with the camera.the person in the picture is BJ. a gun in his paw looks diminished.he just shoots solely with his 391, and is desirous of no other.i was an invited guest on this shoot,there were 5 other guns.the best shooting was on the irrigation pond which was the place returning birds wanted to land.the majority of birds were shot by lunchtime.the tally of recovered parries was in the mid-nineties,but the hawks also got a few who went down into the paddocks and 15 geese were also shot.the 1st picture shows the geese under the irrigaters on a reccie a couple of days before,the 2nd photo is T and B discussing decoy tactics.all in all a good day.

Canada meat pie...oh yes!!!

my mistake -apologies tendered my firend.