Hunting Information
Meet Leon Wright
Leon has been a duck hunter for nigh on 60 years and has hunted extensively in Australia and New Zealand.
He has written freelance articles for over 40 years for popular hunting magazines such as Sporting Shooter, Guns and Game, Australian Hunter, Australian Shooter and a number of others as well.
He has had published a number of duck hunting articles featuring himself and his Murray River Retriever, ‘Missy’.
Training your Murray Part 3 – 9th September 2020
Date: Wednesday 9th September 2020 By Leon Wright TRAINING: Not all training goes as planned and Cobber and I are no exceptions. Cobber has most things under control, except walking to heel, he is just full on and quite a handful. I had tried all the methods I knew,...
Hunting With Your Murray Part 3 – 9th September 2020
Date: Wednesday 9th September 2020 By Leon Wright HUNTING: We took Missy and Cobber out fox hunting at the weekend. We did a number of tree wind breaks but soon called a halt to the hunt when Missy jumped on a rather large brown snake. It’s moments like these when...
Hunting With Your Murray Part 2 – 10th August 2020
Date: Monday 10th August 2020 By Leon Wright HUNTING: Just recently Missy, Cobber, my brother Mick and l had a successful hunt after Sambar deer proving our Murray River Retrievers are indeed a versatile dog and can be used for hunting other species as well as ducks...
Training your Murray Part 2 – 8th August 2020
Date: Saturday 8th August 2020 By Leon Wright TRAINING. TEACHING PUPPY TO SIT: This is easily done by simply placing one hand under your puppy’s chin while pushing down firmly on its rear end and saying SIT. Your pup will quickly pick this up and, of course, you...
Hunting with your Murray – 27 July 2020
Date: Monday 27th July 2020 By Leon Wright Now that duck season is over those of us who wish to continue hunting over their Murrays have a number of choices to choose from. Our dogs are very versatile, and will hunt all sorts of game. My Missy loves a hunt out on the...
Training your Murray – 27 July 2020
So you have finally taken the plunge and bought yourself a Murrar river retriever for duck hunting and other forms of hunting,congratulations; l highly doubt you will be dissapointed. Duck hunting and Murray River retrievers have weathered the test of time and have...
Welcome to our hunting page
This page has been set up to help those of us in the Association who choose to hunt with their Murray River Retriever. Some members have hunted over their Murrays for generations, you only have to look at our history page to verify that.
The Murray River Retriever formerly known as the Murray River Curly Coated Retriever has one of the longest association with the duck hunting fraternity in this country, beaten by very few other breeds, if any. It was the dog for duck hunting right up to the 1960s when the introduction of other more versatile breeds were introduced into this country. However, the Murray River Retriever is still very popular amongst some duck hunting purists.
The Murray River Retriever is still a very versatile dog that will not only retrieve ducks but will flush quail, hunt foxes, rabbits and pheasant but it’s forte is working the swamps retrieving ducks. Over time we will cover all aspects of hunting that is associated with hunting over our dogs but first we will start with turning your Murray into a swamp dog which is what they really are. We will also endeavour to organize a club hunt during the next duck season. The one that was being organized this past season had to be abandoned from what has been going on.
Training your Murray Part 3
9th September 2020 TRAINING: Not all training goes as planned and Cobber and I are no exceptions. Cobber has most things under control, except walking to heel, he…
Hunting With Your Murray Part 3
9th September 2020 HUNTING: We took Missy and Cobber out fox hunting at the weekend. We did a number of tree wind breaks but soon called a halt to the hunt …
Hunting With Your Murray Part 2
10th August 2020 HUNTING: Just recently Missy, Cobber, my brother Mick and l had a successful hunt after Sambar deer proving our Murray River Retrievers are indee…
Training your Murray Part 2
8th August 2020 TRAINING. TEACHING PUPPY TO SIT: This is easily done by simply placing one hand under your puppy’s chin while pushing down firmly on its…
Hunting with your Murray
27th July 2020 Now that duck season is over those of us who wish to continue hunting over their Murrays have a number of choices to choose from. Our dogs are very ve..
Training your Murray
27th July 2020 So you have finally taken the plunge and bought yourself a Murrar river retriever for duck hunting and other forms of hunting,congratulations; l highl…
