Both Barrels
Auckland/Waikato
Both Barrels April 2024 - Auckland/Waikato
Hopes are high for a bumper duck season: Prospects: Climate in particular spring rainfall is a critical component to overall duck production and the last two breeding seasons have been great.…
- Auckland/Waikato
- 21/04/2024
Both Barrels July 2023 - Auckland/Waikato
Above Right: Improvised blinds and camo helped these two successful hunters. This is the last Both Barrels for 2023.
- Auckland/Waikato
- 17/07/2023
Both Barrels June 2023 - Auckland/Waikato
The dabbling duck (mallard/grey/shoveler) season is now past; parries finish on 25 June in this region.
- Auckland/Waikato
- 20/06/2023
Both Barrels May 2023 - Auckland/Waikato
Important new policy review affects you-Your chance to advocate for hunters The Freshwater Policy Review will set the management priorities for our wetlands, lakes and rivers for a generation.
- Auckland/Waikato
- 15/05/2023
Both Barrels April 2023
It’s no secret this has been one of the wettest years in this region.
- Auckland/Waikato
- 19/04/2023
Both Barrels March 2023
Welcome to our first Both Barrels of the 2023 hunting season.
- Auckland/Waikato
- 22/03/2023
- Richie Cosgrove
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.
- Auckland/Waikato
- 19/07/2022
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.
- Auckland/Waikato
- 19/06/2022
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…
- Auckland/Waikato
- 20/05/2022
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…
- Auckland/Waikato
- 14/04/2022