Death and Destruction Down Under

[Paul "from NZ" Stenning]

Have not posted for a while as a virus ate up my computer! Although a little poorer I now have a new computer and thought I better share a few pics from hunts last week.

Last Wednesday we made the call at 4.30am that it was on for a goose hunt We were targeting a flock that had been given a fair hammering this season and they had smarted up some and had a couple of victories over us on recent hunts. We wanted to have everything in our favour so dug deep into our bag of tricks to make sure we did it right!

It was a really windy day with heavy rain at times so the GHG FFD dekes were worth there weight ingold once again...NO SHINE WHEN WET!!!!
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The end result was a hunt that Shane and I will remenber for a long time. July is a difficult month to hunt geese here in NZ and our bag of 114 giant honkers between the two of us was a really good morning Hunt!!!
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All that was left was to load them up and go do all the breasting
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The next day there was a big spring tide and also a good westerly windforecast. So my mate Murray took the day of work so we could go for a tidal water duck hunt, I had a heap of gear to dry and pack away from the goose hunt the previous day so we did not head out to hunt till 11 am, the wind picked up which made the tide even higher than normal. water does not normally get anywhere near the floor of our blind
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But the hunting was surpreme big water Mallard decoying over my Oversize GHG Mallards and black duck dekes with limits of 30 Mallards by 2.30pm for Murray and I!
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Once again a big mess of fat southern NZ Mallards to go home and clean.
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[Joe Fladeland]

unbelievable.......

[Eric Larsgaard]

What a hunt. Glad to have you back and running...

[Eric Wolf]

Wow, thats amazing.

[Rick Frisch]

Knowing you as I do. I am not sure you have ANY bad hunts. I think the NZ birds just give up when they know you are hunting. They must draw straws to see who has to go into the spread so you get your limit and go home.

[Ryan Kleinschmidt]

Thats a dream Honker hunt!!

[duhker]

Just curious, but what are your daily limits over there? That is an incredible amount of birds in one day for 2 guys!!!:eek: :D

[OutForBlood87]

:eek: Good lord........thats a pile

[Stephen Pitt]

Wow what an outstanding hunt. I'm sure that will set the bar pretty high for future hunts for you.

[chad belding]

Man I love the thought of getting after the Canadas in June and July. It looks like you guys got into them pretty good. Are they responding to your calling? I am very envious.

Chad Belding
Avery Outdoors

[John Walls]

Man 114 honkers:eek: man that would be awesome to hunt in June and July! Great job man, nice pics

[Watch em fall]

Amazing!!! Do you eat all thoes birds??

[Paul "from NZ" Stenning]

Just curious, but what are your daily limits over there? That is an incredible amount of birds in one day for 2 guys!!!:eek: :D
No limit on geese and hunt for 11 months, our Mallard limit is 20 for opening and 15 for the rest of the 3 month season

[Paul "from NZ" Stenning]

Man I love the thought of getting after the Canadas in June and July. It looks like you guys got into them pretty good. Are they responding to your calling? I am very envious.

Chad Belding
Avery Outdoors

Chad, I am no expert on the call but find that less is more at this time of year! I hardly blew the call on this last goose hunt and they worked the dekes something that you would have to see to believe!!!

[wbfowler777]

wow you guys smacked em. way to go

[Cory Johnson]

Looks like some outstanding hunts!

[Rhett Riddle]

Paul, how many geese do you have using the area, and specifically using the field that you are targeting to kill such a large number of birds?

[Wayne Radcliffe]

Unbelievable!!! That is down right awesome!!!

[Paul "from NZ" Stenning]

Paul, how many geese do you have using the area, and specifically using the field that you are targeting to kill such a large number of birds?


Rhett

We had 400 birds locked into that feild with a population of about 2500 in the general area.

[olemissduckhunter]

are ya'll running magazine extensions on your guns for those goose hunts?

[James Staten]

114 honkers on one hunt is unbelievable!!! We would consider that a great SEASON here. All I can say is wow and I am envious.

James

[Curt Wilson]

That is a great looking spread. How far did you dig the blinds in? The results are absolutely amazing. Keep us posted on the great hunts.

[Tyler Stolz]

Thats a lot of geese! Nice spread.

[duhker]

Wow, How much does it cost for us Yanks to come to your neck o'the woods?? If you could give us a breakdown I might just move that hunt to the top of my bucket list.:D

[Jeff Kreit]

Another great looking hunt. Thanks for the post.

[Paul "from NZ" Stenning]

Wow, How much does it cost for us Yanks to come to your neck o'the woods?? If you could give us a breakdown I might just move that hunt to the top of my bucket list.:D

Just your airfares and acomadation. Buy a $80 licence and it is all on!

[Brian Rhodes-The Swampers]

Awesome!

NZ is on my list of places to go for sure!:cool:

Thanks for sharing!

[dckhunter83]

Awsome hunts and photos. What kind of bird numbers do you guys have to be able to shoot that many birds a day and not destroy the population. That would be absolutely amazeing. What do non-residence have to do to hunt there.

[Jason Mears]

Great hunt!

[Paul "from NZ" Stenning]

Awsome hunts and photos. What kind of bird numbers do you guys have to be able to shoot that many birds a day and not destroy the population. That would be absolutely amazeing. What do non-residence have to do to hunt there.


There is no risk over over harvest of geese in NZ at this stage. Unfortunatley not enough are shot so culls are undertaken with 1000s being shot from helicopters each year. Non residents just have to buy a licence like the rest of us kiwis, but be warned our resident geese can at times be very hard to hunt and local knowledge and contacts are all important!

[popphunter]

I could not imagine what would happen if people did that around my neck of the woods. But thats awesome what is the weather like down there at this time of year?

[Paul "from NZ" Stenning]

I could not imagine what would happen if people did that around my neck of the woods. But thats awesome what is the weather like down there at this time of year?
we do get frosts which will put the temps to below freezing but generally around the 8 to 12 degree celcius

[Ramie Denzel]

WOW that is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!

[popphunter]

thats pretty freaking sweet

[Thráinn E. Skúlason]

Way to go Paul.

[hunter5]

one word NICE

[David Harper]

Hey Paul, nice hunt bro. I'm way jealous of ya right now. Here I am working away in the heat with wildfires and you're killing birds. lucky. Anyway great hunt, keep them coming. and that looks like an awesome location for those geese.

[emcee]

Paul - looks like you and Shane wore them out! I thought that field looked familiar. ;) Heck of a shoot for smart birds, that had to be sweet. Looking forward to big fish pics next.

[Richie L.]

Your kidding me.....................Did you really turn that new Toyota into a flatbed?

[Paul "from NZ" Stenning]

Paul - looks like you and Shane wore them out! I thought that field looked familiar. ;) Heck of a shoot for smart birds, that had to be sweet. Looking forward to big fish pics next.

Mike

It would have been another 150 shoot had of you been with us again!

Bring on the trout!!!!!

[Paul "from NZ" Stenning]

Your kidding me.....................Did you really turn that new Toyota into a flatbed?

Typical farm truck, come from the factory like that!

[Travis Mueller]

I guess I'm kinda speechless.

[Dusty Darbin]

Honestly.... I'm jealous...;)

[Rempump]

Wow great hunt! Thanks for the story and pics. It is killing me, sitting in the office waiting for Sept. 1.

[Kent Contreras]

Nice pile of geese, looks like your doing your best to"cull out" a fair share of the population!
Curious though on how they eradicate birds from a helicopter?

[GrizzDaddy]

Ummmmmmmmmmmmm......road trip anyone????

[Paul "from NZ" Stenning]

Nice pile of geese, looks like your doing your best to"cull out" a fair share of the population!
Curious though on how they eradicate birds from a helicopter?


Kent send me your e mail and I will send some picks of a helicopter cull. To upsetting to post on public forum

[AJG]

Nice!

[Dallas W Branch]

Man...I'm jealous. Way to get after them.