My god, NZ is beautiful. I have to admit that I had never been to Andy & Christa's part of the world, which is kinda shameful to admit. Flown over and gazed down a ton of times. And only 2 and a bit hours from the big smoke…. Andy & Christa’s place is a wee chunk of paradise. Matt and I were there at Andy’s invitation to hunt Canada geese. In my wildest dreams I couldn’t have imagined the sheer beauty of the region, so the hunting inadvertently took a back seat to lapping up the peace and quiet.
Our hunt was quite exciting even if the shooting part was over all too soon as the geese had ideas other than alighting with a few mates in a paddock. Those that came to us from the west were decoyed, but the majority of birds wanted to join their several thousand other compadres in locations other than where we were. The birds are definitely mobbed up and consequently hard to hunt. However a few nice flocks came in none the less, and we took a few ranging from young birds to a couple of wizened old campaigners.
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Thanks Andy, Christa and Matt, for a glorious day in paradise.
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Good job, mate or how we say it in California-dude! I hope your season continues to be a good one. Our waterfowl season was a joke. Absolutely no birds came down as we had an extremely hot winter.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure how our main duck season will pan out, as tens of thousands of birds were killed by an outbreak of botulism in February very near our main hunting location. Our birds are residents in that they don't migrate as yours do, so we're very much dependent on a solid local population. Fingers crossed!
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