Opening for us consists of shooting ducks till mid morning then hunting upland before and after lunch then back to the maimai around 4.
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Opening for us consists of shooting ducks till mid morning then hunting upland before and after lunch then back to the maimai around 4.
I think mine may be exactly the same?
Have you booked your bus ticket to Tauranga yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Toby
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Originally Posted by upnorth uplander
I better get round to doing that. Save me a seat in the wagon @Pointer :)
You might find the dog rides shotgun for such an important trip, shotgun on the back seat, leaving you the . . . :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Toby
Leaving him to catch the bus to Kaitaia.
We are shooting number one pond all day Saturday and Sunday. Will shoot number two pond Monday and Tuesday. Will spend Wednesday cleaning up then back to work Thursday.
The bus would throw him off at the turnoff to Karikari wouldn't they?Quote:
Originally Posted by upnorth uplander
Fuckin hope so.
Four days off work, shoot possie, morning and evenings Saturday, Sunday, Monday throw in a game of rugby to referee Saturday afternoon and hunt for some venison on the Sunday.
I will need to go back to work to recover.....
You are so spoilt !! :thumbsup:
Bright and early...ham sandwich, flask of coffee, Old Grouse with Stones in hipflask, whistle, gun, ammo and male dog and off to my usual Opening Day haunts, then go and look see in another area in the afternoon...cannot wait...just got to go easy until then and not hurt myself before the 3rd...taking the whole week off...so hopefully nine days of happiness...:) Poor Harry, neighbours son and my shooting companion, had an incident involving a bike, dust and a big hole with him the worst off, so he is not available on Opening Day...
off in a week, chase some stags then ducks til mid june....... don't hunt upland til later on in the season but may have to get into them earlier as most of the easy birds must get shot by lab owners..
shots fired
If big pond has water in it there for Saturday and maybe river Sunday.
Friday, drink piss while setting up shop. Then pub
Saturday. Kill shit till lunch. Then go kill more shit till dark. Drink piss.
Shot till 10-11 then pack up and fuckoff.
No upland down here till queens birthday. But the .223 or something will be handy, been a few pigs around the pond of late they tell me....
A good mate will be over Friday arvo to help set up on our willow choked creek possie, shoot there most of Saturday. Riverbed hunt on the Sunday then a big pack up and clean up Sunday arvo.
We've both shot that amount of ducks where another one in the bag doesn't mean much, it's more about just being there with ya dog and ya mate having a good time. We do always do better than most around here though. This year it will be about the dog work and getting good video.
Saturday Opening day pond till lunch . Big BBQ and beers , Sunday same . Opening week I hope to go south chuckars and quails (dependent on a mate to jack it up )
Off to the mighty Waikato the day before, maimai already pegged and 'gardening' done, meet the other 7 in the crew, one fly's over from OZ (he's kiwi) every year for it!!!! shoot the shit and catch up with a few yarns...and then hopefully 'hot barrels'
Yup were going to go and check the swamp out on the saturday if its crap and there no water were packing up camp and
going to shoot paries over in whitianga
Arrive Friday morning, get dekes set on the ponds, settle in, meet lads & hanger-ons for pre season bevvies/dinner. Shoot ducks Sat & Sun. Most of party go home Sun night, so a few lads arriving for a couple days hunting. Shoot ducks Monday 7 Tuesday, go home and say hi to family Tuesday night. Back to Swamp Weds morning, shoot ducks until Friday, head home, grab pheasanty gear and go pheasanting saturday. Home Saturday night - Sunday is Mother's Day.... ;)
@Toby dont think the are, check in with JimQuote:
Originally Posted by Toby
I plan to shoot some ducks. Also a five parries, a couple of sawns, hopefully a goose and a spoonie.
Yeah just saw his message, sweet asQuote:
Originally Posted by upnorth uplander
Was away at a tangi so.now.have the fun task of going to see if somebody else has tagged my maimai :XD:
Bugger , you should have said something ! One of us could have stole it :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by distant stalker
Haha you would love it too @Munsey
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Got out tonight and got the maimai tagged. Nobody had tagged it so.im a happy man
hopefully the lake puts on a good show for us this year, the last couple of years have been a bit of a dud with the weather being too good and the ducks sitting a mile away laughing at us all day long. was scrubbing up the maimai the other day and saw a few flocks of ducks/swans/parries floating around so im hoping theyll hang around for another look on opening weekend.
knock off work on thursday prior -friday down to Gsp followers to begin operation mallards arse and for the next four weeks its holidays&mayhem ,be it duck goose pigeon ,or rabbit ,i'llhunt the bloody lot.suspect i may get a wee recall to hospital though for the cardiology crew to unblock a blocked cardiac artery -altho theyre happy to fit in with my hunting(well its a form of bloody rehab aint it???):P
WELL ,ITS ALL GO FOLKS.truck is packed Im ready ,just gavemate C404 a call.he cant shoot presently -recovering from some hefty surgery and cant mount the 12g. however hes there in spirit ,thats essential in our crew!
well im back to see the doc on 12 mayso willsee then when they want to put a culvert in me blocked coranry artery!every rreckons i wont know meself -running about like a two yr old.mrs reckons ima big enough pain in the ....as is (hehe mum).
good luck to you all wherever you shoot and lookinforward to the results.
Duck on the pond in the morning and some quail lunch and hopefully grab a pheasant a little further south and back to the pond for the last light.
Trying to get a chukar in the next week or three
Was going hunting until this afternoon when I was asked to work in the morning.
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Keep it safe guys. Expect a full head count at the end of the season
VC - that's not cool mate :(
Good luck bros