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Thread: Good Opening Day in Canterbury

  1. 06-05-2013, 11:20 AM #1
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    Good Opening Day in Canterbury

    Shot all day Saturday for 3 limits on mallards with half a dozen painful parries thrown in.

    Shot half a dozen on Sunday morning then home for brekky and 6 hours of hand plucking \

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  3. 06-05-2013, 11:29 AM #2
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    Well done
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  4. 06-05-2013, 11:30 AM #3
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    Way to go Nathan
    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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  5. 06-05-2013, 01:36 PM #4
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    Good work Nathan. Could make a few Duck Down Dovey's with all that mess!!
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    sweet as........nice one Nathan
    While I might not be as good as I once was, Im as good once as I ever was!

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    Nice work. Think we will use the left over embers from our hangi fire next year to.get rid of all the feathers. We ended up with a scene the same as yours lol
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  8. 06-05-2013, 05:57 PM #7
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    We didnt have a Hangi like you fellas Horihunter but had a pretty mean pot of boil up brewing in the back of the mai mai. It was fourth day come Saturday!!
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    you do realise that fly anglers will give you half a dozen beer for a reasonable bag of the CDC feathers from the ass of those ducks? Shame.
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    [QUOTE=Nathan F;113392]Shot all day Saturday for 3 limits on mallards with half a dozen painful parries thrown in.


    Gee ya pond looks pretty civilised
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    nice bag, looks good.
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  12. 08-05-2013, 10:31 AM #11
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    nowt wrong with that haul me old china,what sort of terrain did you shoot over??bet theres some primo eating in the haul.
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  13. 08-05-2013, 12:08 PM #12
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    Quote Originally Posted by kotuku View Post
    nowt wrong with that haul me old china,what sort of terrain did you shoot over??bet theres some primo eating in the haul.
    Just a small pond . 50 m X 20 m . We have been feeding reguarly . Out of 75 mallards there were only 3 that were breasted due to gunshot wounds. Very fat birds.

    Great eating.
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  14. 10-05-2013, 11:13 AM #13
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    I breasted all mine only really 2 or three that would have been worth plucking 30 odd ducks is a big task on your own.
    I'm well set up to breat out at the maimai - ply cutting work board and hole dug for offal
    Any other birds shot htis season will be plucked
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