Thread: Who's getting ready for the duck shooting season?

23 mallards,5 parries and 2 spoonies....3 camp possums..... so it was a typical season for us.
we all had plenty of chances and had a great weekend. my daughter spent weekend with me which was awesome,she turned 21 the other week and its the first time she has wanted to come along...already talking about "next opening"

Well as promised some pics from our weekend 225 birds in total including 1 spoon can't wait to tuck into some great tucker all birds processed and in the freezer.

Originally Posted by dannyb

Well as promised some pics from our weekend 225 birds in total including 1 spoon can't wait to tuck into some great tucker all birds processed and in the freezer.
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damn is that a spooonard??

Originally Posted by gsp follower

damn is that a spooonard??

No she was a little spoon hen

Some young fellas downstream of me were skybusting tonight and stuffed up my decying ducks; however just on dark I heard geese and managed to call in a small group of five. Dropped one bird as they came in and watched my young dog do a beaut retrieve on his first goose Old dog stood in shallow water and supervised while the young dog did the hard yards in the stream. Very happy.

Originally Posted by Woody

Some young fellas downstream of me were skybusting tonight and stuffed up my decying ducks; however just on dark I heard geese and managed to call in a small group of five. Dropped one bird as they came in and watched my young dog do a beaut retrieve on his first goose Old dog stood in shallow water and supervised while the young dog did the hard yards in the stream. Very happy.

Plenty of sky busting going on down Rakaia way shit there was some shooting going on, pleased to have a private pond to shoot on even still occasionally decoying birds would pull out and bugger off if some bugger on the next farm was mag dumping on a few birds. Guess it happens

That's a bloody good lineup you have there danny well done .

I'm not a duck shooter but has anyone else noticed that this year there hasn't been any media reports on opening day. Most years there is a big story with the odd group of protesters chucked in saying how appalling the sport is. A nice change.

Originally Posted by RUMPY

I'm not a duck shooter but has anyone else noticed that this year there hasn't been any media reports on opening day. Most years there is a big story with the odd group of protesters chucked in saying how appalling the sport is. A nice change.

i suspectrecent events made for better ratings .howver last week the CHCH PUSS had a headline with typical plod dangling and over&under repeating the time honoured homily.
was visitng after shooting yesterday -someone commented -A plod in the group,himself a shooter, just raised an eyebrow!
anyhow the next royal filly .mvver of nations engagement make for much better print than boring middleaged men with rambo guns

surprised we never saw the rangers or plod or any other bugger

No she was a little spoon hen

I shot a couple years ago but now only take drakes.
still that bill speckling I don't re,member

Originally Posted by gsp follower

surprised we never saw the rangers or plod or any other bugger


I shot a couple years ago but now only take drakes.
still that bill speckling I don't re,member

One of our crew is a fish and game ranger so we saw one