Thread: Mai Mai talk/advice/showing off

Originally Posted by 7mm Rem Mag

The best mai mai I ever saw was up a tree, the guy used to limmit up every opening day.

He was up high and the ducks didn't suspect a thing until it was too late.

First blind I ever shot from as a young fella was in a massive tree along the Waḻpa river ,learned a lot about how much to lead a duck by as sometimes was shooting down on them and could see how far behind I was by the pellets hitting the water away behind the birds,getting up the tree was a bit scetchy in the dark ,was just an old pallet with basic frame but we shot alotof ducks from it,the old man did retriever duty and cleanup from a small dinghy so we didn’t have to climb up and down all the time ,I was 14 and am 53 this year so along time ago,area surrounded by a subdivision now.

Originally Posted by slk12

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Does the smell of bacon scare the birds..?

well there is a school of thought that suggests it ATTACTS them.....cause you no sooner heat up your wifes world famous bacon n egg pie to the nearly burning stage and a flight of mallards pop in....this is unless of course your Swedish mate has already eaten said pie!!!!
there is NOTHING quite like either reheated bacon n egg pie or bacon butties to make it really feel like opening weekend.

Originally Posted by Quackers

Yeah boat loads of dead ducks being picked up atm around falls rd to Ropeway bridge ... such a shame.we were talking amongst our hut and thought we might just shoot the morning and give the ducks a chance or some how limit the amount we shoot.they raised limits to 10 this year but I'd be happy to shoot 5 a day in conditions like this .it's a bit like fishing limit your catch not catch your limit

Fish and game estimate that 10,000 ducks have died in the greater Whangamarino swamp area.

Originally Posted by Got-ya

Fish and game estimate that 10,000 ducks have died in the greater Whangamarino swamp area.

Yea mate i was one of the guys out there fishing them out wasnt very nice
Seems to All right down there now thou was there last weekend and saw nothing dead

Originally Posted by Dynastar27

Yea mate i was one of the guys out there fishing them out wasnt very nice
Seems to All right down there now thou was there last weekend and saw nothing dead

Good effort in helping out @Dynastar27 . Hope you have a good season for your efforts.

Originally Posted by Got-ya

Fish and game estimate that 10,000 ducks have died in the greater Whangamarino swamp area.

Shit that's alot .where's that info

Has there been any reasons given as to what caused the botulism?

Originally Posted by Lentil

Good effort in helping out @Dynastar27 . Hope you have a good season for your efforts.

Yea thats if Tainui Let us up the Causeway ( Bucket Line ) still heaps of birds flying around

What was the end result of this caper?get a few birds in the end?