I have made some rock pigeon decoys. This is how I made my first one, plus a full-size template for you to use. I brought a single decoy from Guncity during their sale to use as a starting point. These decoys are painted as the European wood-pigeon, not the rock pigeon found in New Zealand. These […]
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After another season of hunting ducks on Boggy Pond and Lake Wairarapa, I am thinking of building of a sneak boat for the 2019 duck hunting season. Especially around Boggy Pond, we were never quite where the birds were. The water is too deep to safely wade to the areas the birds were. A small
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It is time to look back at my 2018 duck hunting season, it can be summed up with ups and downs, with my main focus on trying to get Ace as much work as I could and to re-enforce the off-season training. Even after 20 plus years of actively hunting ducks, I am still learning
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Only two weeks to go until the opening weekend of duck hunting 2018 season, I think I am ready to go. Been trying to do more with Ace even got some water training done over in the Wairarapa. Hopefully he is ready for our trip down to North Canterbury. Here is a tease to the
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I am now a published author with a small article published in the latest issue of Rod & Rifle magazine. It features a couple of stories of duck hunting on Lake Wairarapa both on the main lake and at Boggy Pond. Go, check it out and let me know what you think. I find it
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What a great duck hunting 2017 season is turning into. It all started with a 7-man limit of mallards with 60 parries on Saturday in North Canterbury. This was a first for us to limit out. We tried to hunt some geese but in their typical style, they changed plans on us and only got
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With only a week to go till the religious holiday that is the opening of the 2017 Duck Hunting season, I thought it would be a good time to put out my goals for this season. My main one is to give Ace the best possible chance of retrieving ducks in different situations and continuing his
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Well, Duck Hunting 2016 has been a very different season for me. The weather has been really warm and in Wellington, we have had Northerly winds for most weekends. Opening Weekend The season started off good with another successful opening down south. We had fine clear weather and we had to work to get the
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Well, the 2016 duck hunting season has finished for me this was the final duck hunt of 2016. There is another weekend to go in the Wellington region but I will be on call. Should be a good chance to get some of the chores done around the home that I have let slip the last
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Queens Birthday is the last long weekend for a while and the weather probably played ball for most other people it was not productive for duck hunting with clear skies and zero wind. House Work It did help in getting some work done around the house, including repairing the perimeter fencing that we had installed
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