Thread: Opening 2022

Low duck numbers for us as well but made up for it with some good shooting.
Went 8 birds from 8 shots ( 6 mallards a puke and a magpie )between the young lad and myself on Saturday before missing a couple on late evening.
Sunday the lad smoked a parry I missed its mate then went 5 from 5 shots with 2 parry’s 2 pukes and 1 mallard on last light
Second season using only 410 bore and wouldn’t have shot any more birds if using 12ga over the weekend

Originally Posted by dannyb

We got 144 ducks and 10 geese on Saturday and another 55 ducks on Sunday, I think about 33 parries in the duck count and 1 spoon hen.
All in all a great weekend but a lot of work

@dannyb Holy crap, that'd be a lot of work alright. What's the plan for all the meat?

Originally Posted by Louie

@dannyb Holy crap, that'd be a lot of work alright. What's the plan for all the meat?

Lots of duck nuggets but mostly sausages and salami and a few fat roasters. Lots of meat will be shared with family and friends
It sure is a lot of work

Originally Posted by dannyb

We got 144 ducks and 10 geese on Saturday and another 55 ducks on Sunday, I think about 33 parries in the duck count and 1 spoon hen.
All in all a great weekend but a lot of work

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Oh My... How would do about those docks?

A bit better than average for us. Limit of 140 for mallards on Saturday plus a few parries. Another 40 odd yesterday but we hadn't had a tally up when I headed home. Probably lost 10 to hawks out in the paddocks. They were on them bloody quick this year, must be hungry.

A few numpties around, according to Stuff - I mean leaving a couple of semi's unattended in a maimai? Come on - that doesn't do our cause any good whatsoever.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/crime...s-and-burnouts

Waikato islands, NO ducks, started off thick, thick fog, ended up with 3 Black Swan....but a good time had by all......

We ended on 21 for the weekend. 4 parrys and a lonesome goose we plucked out of a mob.. Missed about 20 easy ones last night and this morning.
Took the 2 kids in so was a bit of a family outlying. Fun times

just back from the coast and finished cleaning up the kit, sadly the lake has been shooting progressively fewer ducks for a number of years now, opening morning i grabbed by far the biggest bag, ten and there were seven shooting the lake, i don't think the remaining hunters combined surpassed my lot, no one bagged anything sunday. But still a great occasion with family and new friends

Originally Posted by Tertle

just back from the coast and finished cleaning up the kit, sadly the lake has been shooting progressively fewer ducks for a number of years now, opening morning i grabbed by far the biggest bag, ten and there were seven shooting the lake, i don't think the remaining hunters combined surpassed my lot, no one bagged anything sunday. But still a great occasion with family and new friends

Birds must be somewhere else then ? My mate from Hokitika had his best opening weekend in memory and he's been shooting for quite a lot of years. Sorry your weekend wasn't better.

Anyone on here shoot the firth of Thames this year?

Originally Posted by The bomb

2mallards,2 geese yesterday on public lake in hunly ,1 mallard from raglan this morning,banded to boot,way down on last years total but fog didn’t lift till 10.45 on Saturday making for hard going.

Hopefully be able to shoot a lot straighter this weekend,worked out I had the cast shim in the wrong way around after playing around with it couple of weeks ago,..doh

Originally Posted by Ross Nolan

Good boy

nice 1 bro, colour and breed of your dog is bang on @Pointer

Had one of my best opening in HB. Great morning with one of my good mates.





Ended up with 15 between us after shooting the main pond then jump shooting a few others around. Will do a few evening shoots over the next few weeks.

Originally Posted by Scouser

Waikato islands, NO ducks, started off thick, thick fog, ended up with 3 Black Swan....but a good time had by all......

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Aha! I know where you are, (Know the river pretty well). Up stream around the elbow actually shot pretty well this year. The elbow boat ramp is closed for work and I think the lack of boat traffic has made a big difference.