Big feed for the pond at midday today. And feeder is filled up again. Bring it on
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Big feed for the pond at midday today. And feeder is filled up again. Bring it on
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Built a Maimai for next week when the real hunting starts
thank god
you had me reading all the regulations for our region, 3 shots would make it a hard day on the lake. takes 4 to get my eye in haha
Yeah sorry about that I didn't even know till I read the local rag and it said 3 shell limit for "the Rodney district" but it actually meant Auckland/Waikato region. Got it all sorted anyway, ready to go blasting!
I was talking to some other guys at the Warkworth H&F and some of them were completely unaware of this rule. Rule sucks, but what can ya do.
Shit it is looking good at the park:D:yaeh am not durnk:
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Got licence ammo and the free cap,the ladies of the men that shop at our fine H&F store also get some make up not that they need it.:D
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Mai mai looking much the same as last year as the owner leaves the power off and all our planting goes to cattle and sheep:oh noes:
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Put some hooks on the 3 floaters,as there will be only 3 blokes and one lab,set on Sat morning:D
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13 floaters out there as I won't be back till Friday to set the silloughettes up:pissed off:
Don't forget the hand wash.
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whats the hand wash for?
haha, by the time i eat i dont really care if i have dirty hands. were setting a net in front of the maimai this year so hopefully we'll have some tasty flounders for breaky/lunch
All good to go Dundee. If you camo your face and hands don't make the rookie mistake that would have got you a kick in the arse from your platoon sergeant.
took an assortment of decoys and me DIYswan&wind powered mojo into the forensic unit where i work this pm.weve had a pond in the courtyard so i did it up.
went down a bloody treat ,with boss taking phots of all rersidents and me with the mojopon his pole etc.
cheif psychiatrist walks in as im carting gear out to the wagon ,asks if hes missed something ,and walks away bemoaning always missing the interesting bits.
a jolly good show all round it was.
these people thought it was my full spread -nup about 25%of it.
No food as been fed out on this pond this year.Plenty of sign of ducks thou. Here's hoping it will be a blast!:D
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Got the silhouettes out today.Next visit 0630 hot barrels Saturday morning.:thumbsup:
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Been and done the mai mai today. Sorted the decoys out. Going to be shooting with my dad and granddad. A bunch of things I'd change but you know how it is. Young buck can tell the old dog new tricks :) Shooting over 15 decoys when theres 50 all up in the shed between us (shooting on a big lake btw) Oh well we'll see how it goes
You're right happy. Though the ways they hunt are old and out dated I dont think theres anything better then being in a mai mai with them.
Who here shoots at the whangamarino swap
What is the best Spot around Auckland for Duck Hunting???????
Cool Photos!!!
Chucked a few more decoys out on the ponds today. This one is a good night shooting pond.:D
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a couple of big white ducks walking along the track top right corner.:wtfsmilie:
This is the run off water supply pond,small pond f all water so threw in small decoys.
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good read this will do some pond prep this weekend weed eating and get in the pond and pull out all the sticks and round up some black berrys.
hopefully i wont disturb a wasp nest:(
Haven't done any prep this year but no dog. Might hit the river with @Sean and his new dog Ace.Will be Aces first duckshooting. Got my eye on a couple of khaki ducks that I've seen while fishing.
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@Dundee have u stared colecting acorns yet heres mine so far
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Na probably won't bother.Plenty of birds around.
you got them eels in training for the decoy towing yet dundee.hope they aint got too fat whilst theyve been lazing round in the off season.:P
Done some pond prep today. Dad weedeated wile i set 7 traps ( 1. doc 200 3. modified snap traps 2. Timms 1. Kbl tunnel timms trap). Dad found 4 wasp nest with weedeater. Some how we didn't get stung :thumbs:
Went over to pond for a look haven't been near it since last season.
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About 30 ducks took off. Looks like cattle have been in again.Volt tester read 6.6kv so we didn't go any further,that should keep the cattle out.
I have a small irragation pond next to my house, there is 5 white geese living there at the moment. Is it worth having a go at shooting it? Never been shot before, you get the odd duck come and go. Would the geese scare them off? Also being close to the house (100m away). Keen to have a crack, maybe get a few decoys and a feeder, will just get one of them portable blinds?
my pond is 50m away from my house and it shoots no worse then the rest of the ponds. trying to keep my young fella quiet when playing outside the week leading up to duck shooting is the hard bit.
Some of the best ponds I've ever shot was 40 m from a house and it made no difference. Another 80m from the cow shed.
All my prep was done in Jan /feb. feeders are out now. Just stay away until opening morning. Put the ducks off quietly at 6:15 , get the decoys out in the dark then wait.
Oh and stay away in the meantime.
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Pond check yesterday avo, last minute tidy up and drop off last of our grain. Looking good. Only about 50 ducks on it when we went there yesterday...most years there are a lot more. Word is duck numbers down here are back down to numbers similar to ‘14-15...which is interesting, they were a couple of our best years. Be interesting to see what happens this weekend. Starting to get excited.
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Nice to see it fenced off @JoshC where's the Maimai situated?
Looking ok , well thats before the torential rains https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...40980424b3.jpg
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man thats a heap of sea gulls on your pond:D