With half a day to go until the 1994 opening morning, the three hunters sat in the small cosy crib grasping their callers. Chris had been teaching young Jim the calls he would need to challenge some of the 20 shooters on the oval lake.
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On a cold Saturday morning, a couple of well-dressed hunters stroll across a paddock; a large, perfectly conditioned Labrador criss-crosses ahead, tracking the lines hares had run the night before.
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It’s a cool winter morning … that one weekend you managed to dodge the work around the yard to go and have a bit of fun at the end of a long, hard week.
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I sat tight as the shadows grew bigger; overhead appeared two mallards, landing in front of my father.
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Before we start with any new pup, to be totally successful, there are some basic principles we must accept.
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An article in the Jan/Feb issue of NZRod&Rifle contains the results of some simple testing I’d done to evaluate the performance of several 20-gauge steel shot loads for duck hunters.
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Franchi’s Affinity family of inertia-operated autoloading shotguns is a comprehensive one.
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Every year it’s the same question from different people – what, why, when and how do I go about finding a game-bird haven?
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If you’re a duck hunter who’s been taking advantage of the non-toxic shot exemption for sub-gauges to shoot your ducks with 20-gauge lead, you’ll be acutely aware that time is running out for this option.
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I’ve always had an appreciation of Canada geese and the challenge they provide to successfully hunt them.
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