Hunting Blogs
Off-Season Clays: In Season Results
Written by James Mackie Many shooters can relate to the moment. You've just taken a beautiful bird. A single greenhead, sweeping right to left, dropping in fast.
- 13/05/2026
Duck Hunting Hacks
Written by John Meikle We all do it… hear and see things that we instinctively adopt to make our lives better and easier.
- 13/05/2026
Finding Freedom: How Wild Chix is Empowering Women Through Hunting and Fishing
When Isabell Zitzelsberger takes a group of women into the bush for the first time, she watches them arrive as nervous wrecks, riddled with self-doubt.
- 27/03/2026
- Maggie Tait
Pūkeko Burger
Written by - Angelo Georgalli Angelo Georgalli – Queenstown, aka ‘The Game Chef’, knows where to hunt and gather food and takes care to never over-harvest.
- 26/06/2025
Shooting for Satisfaction: 2024 NZ Duck Hunter Satisfaction Study
Written by: Matthew Garrick Worldwide, duck hunters have a long history as an important group for funding wetland habitat restoration and conservation A long-term decline in duck hunter numbers in North…
- 26/06/2025
Women Duck Hunters Find Their Mojo
Written by: Elle Scheele, Zania Barrett, Jen Moore and Olivia Hansen In a pursuit historically dominated by men, Jen Moore has carved out a unique and inspiring space for women in…
- 26/06/2025
- Roslyn Simmonds
Duck Hunting Ammo 2025 – steel is real 20 years on
Written by: Richie Cosgrove Almost all hunters have now accepted the reality that non-toxic/non lead ammunition is here to stay for waterfowling in New Zealand – right on down to the…
- 26/06/2025
Mobility Impaired - Angler and Hunter Access
Written by: Sally Wenley It was about ten thirty in the morning and I was bored after a morning spent sitting in a toetoe, reeds and camo net-lined maimai with my…
- 26/06/2025
Shotgun fit - The basics
Written by: Luke Care. Almost everyone reading this has fired a shotgun. But how much thought have you given to fitting it correctly?
- 8/04/2025
Where did all the ducks go?
Written by: Hamish Carnachan - How often does it happen that ahead of duck season the water on your pond or around your maimai is teeming with ducks, but after…
- 7/04/2025