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Both Barrels July 2022
If you’ve been driving through the country recently, keeping an eye on likely spots, you will have noticed just how many mallard pairs there are.
Both Barrels June 2022
Hunters in this region were somewhat divided in our phone surveys as to whether there were more, the same or less mallard ducks this year.
Both Barrels May 2022
Opening Weekend started well with more shooting than we have heard for years, perhaps as those hunters lucky enough to have water in their ponds capitalised on all the ducks...
Both Barrels April 2022
The past several years of drought have been a tough time for both ducks and duck-hunters, and one would have expected that it would take several years for waterfowl to...
Both Barrels March 2022
Both Barrels will start in earnest in April, giving all hunters access to some of the best minds in game bird hunting in New Zealand.
Both Barrels July 2021
The Special Paradise Shelduck Season North of the Harbour Bridge is Gazetted for 19 and 20 February 2022, mark it in your diaries now.
Both Barrels June 2021
The mallard, grey and shoveler dabbling-duck part of the season is now behind us, ending Queen’s Birthday Monday, June 7 in this region.
Both Barrels May 2021
Water, or rather the lack of it, was a major problem on opening throughout the region and for the second year running.
Both Barrels April 2021
Fingers and toes crossed that this year we have no Covid-19 delays, travel restrictions or other interruptions to our game bird season.
Both Barrels March 2021
With less than six weeks to go until the game bird season, we welcome our readers of Both Barrels for 2021, the place where we keep you up to date...
Both Barrels July 2020
We were lucky just to have a duck season this year, ask anyone who missed out on the deer roar in April.
Both Barrels June 2020
Please be aware of the new season dates that were adjusted after the Covid-19 lockdown.
Both Barrels May 2020
Covid-19 has not only taken the world by storm, but with it also the shooting community world-wide who have also been fully caught up in lockdowns just as we have.
Auckland/Waikato Both Barrels July 2019
In our recent phone survey of game bird hunters remarkably few took advantage of the extended season for paradise shelduck and swan, (which finished June 23rd), and only the hardy...
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Both Barrels South Island Roundup
The waterfowl 2017 season has been and gone. We hope you managed to get out on a few hunting adventures this year and filled the freezer with enough duck to...
Both Barrels North Island Roundup
Heath Worsfold’s truck with a nice pheasant and a happy pup named Sneak.
Auckland Waikato Both Barrels July 2017
At time of writing the weather is rubbish but upland game birds such as pheasants are still out there, and can be chased to almost the end of August.
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