I just watched it. Was ok. Saw a few enzos haha
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I just watched it. Was ok. Saw a few enzos haha
Yeah, one was Enzos mum, The other was Enzos grandfatherQuote:
Originally Posted by Toby
Ka pai te vid...he tino tumeki nga kuri whaiwhai manu!!!!! He nui hoha nga paihamu!!!! Engari, he aha te raruraru mo Ryen...aue!!!!
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Originally Posted by EeeBees
Copy that Eeebees yeah rite:wtfsmilie:
Sorry, Dundee, just keeping with the theme:)
Bonjour we cava merci:yaeh am not durnk:Quote:
Originally Posted by EeeBees
Chur sister
You should have heard all the fucked up questions I got from Uzbeki prior to opening, Matua has nothing on the UzbekiQuote:
Originally Posted by TeRei
Bring back Howie I say. I enjoyed his humour. Matua seems to be trying to make a name for himself. Always seems to be hunting behind the wire or on private land.
I think the whole thing was positive. Robyn and co. represented the sport well
As someone that's never seen the sport before I was entertained ., If I lived up north I'd consider doing it . Got to be good for your dog . Wouldn't bother in the south on pigeons . Any one know if theve done trails on phessey preserves in south island ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pointer
just returned from a south island hunting trip, to be honest you guys have trial grounds and natural game by the truck load including pheasants compared to the north, sounds like you lack a core group of like minded bird hunters to kick it off, but why would ya when ya can do the real thing so easily.
Umm, where are these pheasants in the SI in any numbers?Quote:
Originally Posted by kawhia
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what sort of numbers are you after ?
dogs put up some in the nelson and chch region, found a few release points round timaru and seem quite a few birds on the road side, had farmers tell me they have them around, and hunted huge area's ground that would easily hold and support pheasants....... no excuse for them not to be encouraged to spread around.
Did you hunt public land?Quote:
Originally Posted by kawhia
I agree there should be good numbers when you look at the country.
I only hunted pheasants around the major rivers and some private land within reach of chch and fluked one every time on the one day season that i hunted but never seen them in any substantial numbers.
And sometimes went all day before I put one up. Took a lot of effort in scouting and time.
To much poison and preds maybe back then.
I hunted around taupo with a forum member and the sign and numbers were amazing in contrast to Crusader country. We got pheasants with a pot licking lab as well!
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yeah public land, was the second time I have driven to darfield and both times had a rooster run across the road too.
the braided river systems are ready made pheasant turf, maybe balloted hunting pressure and liberations would see the area change, however the quail are just as good for a pointing dog.
there are pockets of res pheasants up here but you are hardly tripping over them, i do plenty of blank days too.
Kawhia, I have asked and asked the question on another forum of P & S people in the South Island...they say there are no birds down there but the span'l guys hold wild game trials down there so why not the P & S...apparently there are too many rabbits or something like that...well up here there are heaps and possums, hedgehogs etc etc etc to distract the distractable so I do not see the rationale.
I like your thinking but I doubt we will ever see F&G doing anything in that regard.Quote:
Originally Posted by kawhia
I used to chase quail with my dog at least once a week when I lived there in the season.
Limit was 10 only managed it a handful of times.
Maybe there are a few more around these days.
I hope so.
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if ya want decent pheasant hunting forget fish and game, a group of mates and some land can produce far more.
syndicate shoots are the future you blokes in the south just need to have a go.
Because a trillion rabbits in an area holding five pheasants is not equivalent to a few hedgehogs and possums. The spaniel guys do well down there because rabbits are the primary quarry of a spaniel. The bird dogs do not hunt fur at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by EeeBees
Having said that, i agree there is plenty of ground to hold trials on quail etc that is not over run with rabbits. It seems many modern day triallers who were not around in the formation days of live game trialling are unaware of how well we did on wild populations pre preserves and syndicates, there is another argument that could be made that high game areas are detrimental to producing better dogs for the average hunter...
Kawhia is correct, the only missing ingredient is people with the drive to make something happen. that's what started it up here. If we possessed the drive our dogs do the world would be our oyster.
Make that 99.01% now, el borracho. I got out duck shooting with my two this season and have a couple of invites to go out on pheasants soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by el borracho
(The ducks were very safe with my shooting abilities although my shooter partner didn't let many get away! The first 2 over the pond on the last weekend were downed with one shot:))
Food for thought, definitely. I need to get a new pup first before I can worry about it to much.Quote:
Originally Posted by kawhia
If I could release a few on the family farms it would be good. Tons of good country.
DO IT. When Im a bit older and have better idea of where Im staying thats my plan. I would release some now but dont want to if I get a job and move.Quote:
Originally Posted by R93
Don't think our region will allow it. No upland game were we are.Quote:
Originally Posted by Toby
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Dont tell them. well its a bit late for that now I guess
...Fish and game have made an effort to bring pheasant numbers up in Canterbury . Some will argue not enough , but we now have two days hunting as opposed to the one we had for years . At a glance it may appear a lot of country to hold birds , but our braided river fringes are in decline because of the dairy conversions . What seems to be left is tiger country . I doubt you could trail in that , yes you can or will put out a bird but its not pretty. On the rabbits I've been told there is a parallel , high numbers rabbits = good numbers of quail .Quote:
Originally Posted by Ruff
I did more than glance at the country, and that tiger country you mention is ideal pheasant habitat, and it's not even that tight compared to the blackberry we have up here. the highland country was awesome, didn't really get into any decent rabbits however, only shot one and that was while spotlighting a crop for deer.
just a shame I got rained off but did partake in some excellent duck shooting.
Can someone enlighten me on what is required to set up a syndicate shoot ?
I believe that some preserves offer a shoot where you can shoot over your own dog (last price I heard quoted was $500.00 a gun with a limit of 10 birds shot).
Would 10 birds shot provide enough opportunities for 5 braces of dogs to get a result in a live game trial? If that number of birds shot would work, then how many of you would want to pay an entry fee of $50.00 per dog just to cover the cost of the birds?
There are a few pheasants in the Selwyn River/Darfield area but who wants to run a dog though a herd of 1000 dairy cows, cowshit up to your knees and an electric fence every 100 metres. Because other than the gorse and willow choked edges of the Selwyn the dairy farms are where you will come across the Canterbury pheasants.
What sort of hunter are YOU spot lighting deer - thought that was illegal??? What happened to identifing your target and landing zone of the bullet - pretty hard when there's no background!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by kawhia
what sort of dip shit are you ?
private land with the owners blessing and instruction to get rid of them out of a crop, maybe you should work out what is illegal and legal before posting.
permits to release pheasant are obtained from doc, depending on your fish and game region the amount released can be as low as 400 and up to 1000 min, bag limits for pheasants around timaru was 4 per day to reflect the work put in by syndicates and a few shoots with unlimited and hens to be shot permits.Quote:
Originally Posted by Smallfry
most trials held on preserves are free or min charge as most preserves like to encourage the gundog clubs, some shoots do provide the guns on the day, and numbers of birds shot is very low, the spaniel guys are just as happy to shoot a bunny on a preserve.
the Selwyn darfield dairy country is similar to most parts of the Waikato, cows and electric fences included.
If I was fishing I would rather catch a "Kawhai" than a "Smallfry":D:D
Your taking the piss surely? If not you can't be called smallfry. Should be called 2 dicks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Smallfry
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Dundee you would rather catch a big arsed mother fucker of a troutQuote:
Originally Posted by Dundee
Oooooo, Rushy...Sunday morning and all!!!
If I was you I'd do chukar hunting as much as I could...I doubt there will be any bunnies on the high slopes up there...Quote:
Originally Posted by Munsey
and if i were you petros i would be getting that irish out more
From what I hear, from the "Queen of the Irish", he's doing pretty bloody well with it..... :PQuote:
Originally Posted by upnorth uplander
She didn't have to spend a week up north with it :P Sorry pete winding ya up
As if you didn't enjoy shooting Aki's pheasant... You were doing my quail dance as much as I was :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pointer