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

I'm in
Me and the dog.

Bit more feed ready to go out.

47 mallards took off this little pond today.

Originally Posted by Nathan F

My ten cents for what its worth - Dumping bulk lots of feed into a pond is hit or miss at best . Experience has taught me an electronic feeder is the way to go . Slip on in after dark and top it up if need be . Mine holds roughly 80-90kg of duck tucker. Put it on 2 or 3 morning feeds 5-10 sec intervals. This keeps the ducks coming in bringing new mates and creates competition for the food. As opposed to dumping in bulk where when the foods gone they just bugger off elsewhere. I like getting mine into a routine. No afternoon or night feeding as the crafty ones know they can just drop in after dark in the cover of safety and eat away .

Put mine on a couple 15 sec burst a bout 730 and do a feed at 3pm maize is all gone time the ducks come in on dark.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

the years we have fed we get a night shoot...only get half dozen birds at most but really enjoy it ...the years we havent fed we see stuff all. big public water.

I think that was half our problem how huge the pozzy is.
to big to many places to go after eating our grub or just sit out in the middle till its safe swim in eat your heart out.
our pozzy was at best a takeaway withmaybe a few redeeming roosting possiblities athnd e odd resting feature in the right wheather.
not somewhere you could leave a feeder and it still be there for long.
to exposed to the southerly good in the nor easter but just one part of a huge lake where everybody with a pond and a farmlands card is feeding half a tonne of maize or peas at a time
.beautiful on a clear or even overcast still day but cold as a well diggers arse first thing and very sensitive to people buggering about to much.

Morning fed ponds

Not long now Fellas, just the finishing touches to go and then the big day

I went put today for a last recce
I go through the neighbours to access where i shoot, the pond below the gate that he shoots had a least 60 Plus, mine had nine.
Never mind.

Originally Posted by jakewire

I went put today for a last recce
I go through the neighbours to access where i shoot, the pond below the gate that he shoots had a least 60 Plus, mine had nine.
Never mind.

That's good, mine has none on it

All sorted just got to get a new battery for the quad now

50 odd ducks on saturday lunch when i went down to check the feeder and spreed around a few buckets of maize. will scrub up tomorrow arvo after we move all the ewes out of the paddock and dump bit more maize. Decoys just about sorted, bit of silicon on few older decoys this week.

Ive been getting ready for the last 360ish days...... got dekes out today,wrote out gear list.

Checked my pond today. Hasnt been shot for 360 days.
Somewhere around 1000 mallards and 1000 parries on it. Always gets me excited... trouble is you fire one mag full and they all fly away

DONT fire that mag......chase them off in morning and any time more than 20 arrive spook them off....HOPEFULLY they will come back in smaller easy to handle numbers and you will get your 50 by days end.

I checked the battery in my mojo today, ran it for over 4 hours and it was still going strong so put it back on the charger and it should be all good for the big day

my one cooked the charger and fuse in stove last year.....didnt have time to get replacement....sorted this year,but the quiver magnet has died...will dry it out by fire and see if it comes back to life...if not oh dear how sad too bad..excuse to buy some more stuff LOL.