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Kōrero: Duck shooting

Coffin blinds

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Coffin blinds

Hunters in the Maniototo make use of coffin blinds – designed so the hunter can lie down in them and remain camouflaged. When game birds fly by the hunters can sit up and shoot. Canada geese are being hunted here, but duck hunters also use coffin blinds.

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Fish and Game New Zealand

by Morgan Trotter

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Harvey C. Perkins rāua ko Bob Gidlow, Duck shooting – Equipment, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/17120/coffin-blinds (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Harvey C. Perkins rāua ko Bob Gidlow, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.