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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So it has been a while since I have posted here. Been quite busy looking after our little one but I will shortly be back to work after a few months off on Paternal Leave. Over this time I have been lucky to get out a couple of times fishing with Alex and I think
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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What a week leading up to the NI & NZ Compak Championships with earthquakes and flooding thrown into the area. These were held at my local club the Hutt Valley Clay Target Club. I did not shoot the Trophy Shoot on Thursday but spent the day getting ready and doing some housework since I was
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After seeing some terrarium’s online and then some very cool Star Wars ones depicting different scenes like Luke’s downed X-Wing at Dagobah, or crashed Star Destroyers on Jakku I wanted to make one. There is plenty of resources online on how to make a terrarium, Californian Gardens have a web resource here. I did not
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Over the weekend of the 17th and 18th of September, the Hutt Valley Clay Target Club hosted the North Island South Zone Sporting Clays Championship. As good preparation for the Compak nationals in November, I headed along for my first competition sporting shoot since 2010. Saturday Saturday morning broke with heavy rain and I
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With the upcoming start to the Sports Fishing season 2016. I thought it would be a good time to think about what I want to get out of this year. Over the previous year, I have not been out as much as I would have liked. I was only able to get out for a
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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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