Before the opening weekend in May, when Duck shooting season starts,
Duck shooting fever sets in. You clean the guns, you buy the ammo, you grab
the decoys you see if you can still get into last years cammo gear.
Before the opening weekend in May, when Duck shooting season starts,
Duck shooting fever sets in. You clean the guns, you buy the ammo, you grab
the decoys you see if you can still get into last years cammo gear.
You ring around the local farmers to try and get all the best spots. The exciting dreams and the loud sleep talking as you watch the ducks coming over the hill. Build your maimais, practice your duck calls and do everything over again. But its not only us that knows, the duck dogs start leaping around in their kennels with their tails wagging at the sound of nearby ducks. They are just as excited as us.
Even when there is so much excitement there is always the other people in the world who think that shooting Ducks is mean and that it shouldn't be allowed.
But, I think they are wrong !!!!!!
Because every Spring Ducks mate. In the end there are more than 2000 ducks in Kaitieke alone. Is there enough natural New Zealand predators to kill them off to their normal numbers? NO, there isn't, therefore if they banned Duck shooting, ducks would die from diseases because there are too many of them.
If there are too many ducks they will run out of food and die of starvation and will die slowly and in a lot of pain. I think that is far crueler than shooting them quickly and painlessly.
In other countries there are enough predators to keep ducks to a natural number, but not in New Zealand, so if they are not kept to natural numbers they will die out completely. So, all New Zealand Duck shooters are doing is giving NATURE a Boost.!!!!!!!!!!!