Thread: Current South Island WARO Activity

Originally Posted by woods223

Was in DOC Renwick office yesterday checking up on a few things. They were mildly surprised 70 deer got shot over that area. Their monitoring and local pilot suggests numbers aren’t particularly high for WARO, much easier private land around. Luck on the day I guess.

Definitely surprising, up until recently I would frequent one of those rivers and could normally find 20 or 30 deer but that is over a substantial area. The pilot I spoke to has been doing plenty of venison recovery but as you say @woods223 it is almost exclusively easy access private land with efficiency being the focus, generally shooting from a small machine and stockpiling groups of carcasses for a larger machine to whip through and pick up.