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  1. 23-04-2025, 08:41 AM #1
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    Ten more sleeps

    Getting keen now.Name: IMG_20250422_121516.jpg Views: 183 Size: 1.90 MB
    75/15/10 black powder matters
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  2. 23-04-2025, 09:34 AM #2
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    This just got me keen all over again !
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  3. 23-04-2025, 09:35 AM #3
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    New spot for us this year. Excited would be a massive understatement ! Just did the first full strip on my Beretta 1301 comp and then function tested it with some lead at the range. Decoys rigged, just need to wait till the Friday morning to bang on a big roast of mutton leg for Fri and Saturday night. Then also put on a leg of lamb for lamb baps. Just about there!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Micky Duck View Post
    Getting keen now.Attachment 273432
    WRONG.....Only 9 more for me. I never sleep the night before.....
    The Only Thing Not Delivered By Truck Are Babies...
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    Quote Originally Posted by oraki View Post
    WRONG.....Only 9 more for me. I never sleep the night before.....
    Sleep is overrated anyway
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  6. 23-04-2025, 12:35 PM #6
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    Yeah well I have a few nightshifts to do before the big day too,so will be two if not three sleeps per day with them.... But you knew what I meant. Beautiful sunny day up here beside lake ruataniwha right now.life is great.
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    Only thing left is to grab 2 box's of 2s for the geese.

    I'll just grab some gamebore magnum steel 32gr 2s.

    That'll do the trick I reckon.
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    Not long now, birds have been absent around our district few numbers starting to build on the manawatu, hopefully back for the season!
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  9. 23-04-2025, 08:05 PM #9
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    My spirit will be with you , duck shooting for 62yrs but not now able but still get excited for the 1st weekend in May .
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    Good luck to you all.
    First duckshooting since I moved back in 2016 that I'm missing.
    Just not getting out enough for the price of the license.
    Last couple have been opening only.
    Basically a camping trip with good people and a little shooting but costs me an extra 100 odd bucks for the privilege
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    Yeah,just opening weekend makes price per duck a lot. I try to get out often over season really intend to do lots more this season.elesmere has always interested me and fine fellow has made invite. My old dog is past retrieving duties so I shall plonk her in canoe and paddle her around wainono for a day as I did for our old cocker spaniel. Poppy is three so she needs lots of work. Game on.
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    Eight more sleeps yah ha ha ha( in best count homogenised voice)
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    Started when I was 5, sitting in a Mai Mai with my father, picking up his spent paper CAC cartidges and sniffing them. Havent missed an opening day since (turned 71 this year). Still shoot in the same spot over 'big water ' on the Kaipara.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Allgood View Post
    Started when I was 5, sitting in a Mai Mai with my father, picking up his spent paper CAC cartidges and sniffing them. Havent missed an opening day since (turned 71 this year). Still shoot in the same spot over 'big water ' on the Kaipara.
    A smell all to itself. Plastic doesn't come close
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    Seven. Fed pond again today,no birds exited but all grain eaten. Dozen parries were in flight by main farm pond.not sure where mallards are today.
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