Thread: not the greatest start to the season yesterday...

for us anyway!
My first time out duck shooting and there was not much flying around first thing in the morning.
We did hear some ducks in the pond in the early hours of the morning but nothing around at first light, everything that was flying around was either too far away or out of range and what i tried to shoot i was unable to hit.
I had been hoping to get in some target practice prior to the opening, my only experience has been trap shooting clay targets some time back which seemed pretty easy to hit i felt at the time.
Not sure what range you get out of steel shot, but would assume 50 metres is maximum depending on choke?
What I do know was there was a hell of a ton of guns going off all over the place at first light, so other maimais must have had a good amount of ducks flying overhead.
After speaking to some nearby shooters in the adjacent maimai, was told that last season was much better, also bumped into another shooter who managed to hit 6 ducks and said that the warm weather was putting them off landing and they like to land in the ponds when its wet.
Perhaps we need to wait until we get a patch of drizzle and try again?