A WEEK OF WILY MALLARDS

It was one of those days that really tested the mettle of any keen waterfowler. There were near gale-force winds blowing freezing cold air off the nearby snowbound mountains and hills

COREY CARSTON

The rain was persistent with great big fat drops that managed to find any unprotected skin, and worse, wormed its way down the back of necks. As I glanced to my left, I could see that my two companions looked as miserable as I did. If we'd been in a maimai the wind and the rain wouldn't have posed a problem at all, but we weren't - we were lying exposed in the middle of a now very wet dairy paddock in layout blinds and the novelty had well and truly worn off. When Tom (who had to go to work after the hunt was over) suggested that maybe we call it a day, Gerald and I both pounced on his suggestion and were out of our blinds before he…

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