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Both Barrels June 2022
When you take up game bird hunting, you quickly realise that the weather has a large influence on success.
Both Barrels May 2022
It appears opening weekend brought mixed results across the region, with high levels of success predominantly favouring hunters that did their preseason preparation.
Both Barrels April 2022
The long wait until opening morning is nearing an end as the first Saturday of May rolls around.
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
Following a frosty start to the month the recent rain has the birds out moving.
Both Barrels May 2021
Excellent weather greeted game bird hunters for the opening weekend of the 2021 game season.
Both Barrels April 2021
Preseason counts have been completed by staff and it looks like we are in store for a great 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...
West Coast Both Barrels July 2020
The weather over the gamebird season has been very settled with long fine periods interspersed with shorter periods of rain and strong easterly winds.
Both Barrels June 2020
The long-awaited start to opening weekend on the West Coast seems to have come with a silver lining.
Both Barrels May 2020
While the delayed game bird season has taken some getting used to the good news is that under Alert level 2 hunters will be able to enjoy an almost normal...
West Coast Both Barrels July 2019
Following a very settled start the season, with blue skies, frosty mornings and mirror lakes, the weather has really taken a turn for the worst, the birds have become very...
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.
West Coast Both Barrels July 2017
Mainly settled weather has continued on the West Coast, with the long-range forecast indicating we'll get some rain between now and the end of the duck hunting season.
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