Thread: BOP get together - take a young fella hunting weekend. ...

Originally Posted by Russian 22.

Bugger. I was going to go and go hunt them.

I will try aria or taumaranui. All of the north Waikato have been culled. North auckland is booked til new years. So has pirongia. Goats are looking thin on the ground.

Goats are almost getting harder than deer to hunt on public land these days...the new reality.. Good luck with Aria and Taumaranui..


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Originally Posted by tiroatedson

Goats are almost getting harder than deer to hunt on public land these days...the new reality.. Good luck with Aria and Taumaranui..


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Damn doc and their biodiversity drive. Shot 500 odd goats put from the vicinity of whangarei. And heaps more from the forests of northland.

Seems like it. I've cone across far more deer sign than anything that resembles goat and pig sign.

Thanks.

Originally Posted by tiroatedson

Goats are almost getting harder than deer to hunt on public land these days...the new reality.. Good luck with Aria and Taumaranui..


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Drive between Awakino and Marokopa regular and see heaps of goats on DOC land. Has had the green crap spread there but still see heaps.

Originally Posted by tetawa

Drive between Awakino and Marokopa regular and see heaps of goats on DOC land. Has had the green crap spread there but still see heaps.

And maybe not culled as hard..? More extensive country to hide in..?


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Originally Posted by tiroatedson

And maybe not culled as hard..? More extensive country to hide in..?


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I drove that road a lot between 1998 and 2006 and never saw many goats, but the cullers were working that whole area pretty hard in the 90s. They got huge numbers in the Moeatoa reserve. There is a lot of private land through there that may be feeding the DOC land with goats too. When I was growing up in that area it was all about chasing pigs or possums, no-one cared about goats (except for that brief period when nannies were worth $100 each!).

Originally Posted by tetawa

Drive between Awakino and Marokopa regular and see heaps of goats on DOC land. Has had the green crap spread there but still see heaps.

Thanks. Now know where I'm going when the deer stump me one time too many haha.