Thread: Deer on the side of the road

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

There's a bit more of a story to it. There was pig skins hanging there before our time here and at one stage they left a heap of offal just laying there beside the road so I put a post on the local buy sell group asking people to stop doing it and then the games began, gutbags left in our gateway just down the road from it etc, we started padlocking the gate and the chain got cut off it a couple times. There's a paddock just before it and we've found gutbags and heads laying in there several times where they've been shot from the road and we find ute tracks through the grass on a regular basis. There's been a pile of piglets all torn up by dogs left there and several early velvet bucks heads left hanging on the fence last year too, I probably should have just left it alone but since I put that post up it's like a fun game for whoever it is that does it

We had 'trouble' with trespassing / illegal hunting on our Murchison farm. Gave the pig hunting rights to a bloke who was feared by all, on the condition that he kept the poachers off. No more problems. One day he gave three blokes a hiding, threw them in the river and took the pig they had. Others were tracked down at the pub and found somewhere else to hunt

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

There's a bit more of a story to it. There was pig skins hanging there before our time here and at one stage they left a heap of offal just laying there beside the road so I put a post on the local buy sell group asking people to stop doing it and then the games began, gutbags left in our gateway just down the road from it etc, we started padlocking the gate and the chain got cut off it a couple times. There's a paddock just before it and we've found gutbags and heads laying in there several times where they've been shot from the road and we find ute tracks through the grass on a regular basis. There's been a pile of piglets all torn up by dogs left there and several early velvet bucks heads left hanging on the fence last year too, I probably should have just left it alone but since I put that post up it's like a fun game for whoever it is that does it

What total c…ts !? What arseholes do this shit & think it’s ok ? Or funny ?!

Saw a (small) sow and 5 piglets beside SH1 just before the Aitamuri Gull station last week - just taking it easy on the short grass.

I wonder how many of the dozens of people that drove past saw them.

Saw quite a few pig skins on the fence about 5ks past the Stanley's pub at Macraes towards Middlemarch
Also used to to see them in the rural areas with wild dog skins in aussie

More Roadside wildlife... I will/intend to put up some photos from the past on this thread for forum members enjoyment



What I'm trying to do is to get get a photo of a wild deer standing in the middle of a public road.

Perhaps in the future with a bit of luck, I might be able to achive this. Has anyone got any tips?

Feel free to post your roadside deer photos in this post

You could also do the blank cartridge set up on trip wires.
People get don't like thinking they are being shot at either, though that could cause retaliation.

Had a colleague drive through Haast around 2am during the roar 3 years ago, he came across a mob of hinds in the middle of the road. I've seen a couple of yearlings in McKenzie county late at night beside the road.

Dogs being allowed to rip up pigletS,not nice.I dont mind watching a sow mooching around with her familly at foot.I wouldnt shoot her,gota give the familly some pleasure in life befor they are tipped over.

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

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Hot wire the fence from under ground electric fence.

it would almost be funny to find out where these jokers live and pay visit in wee small hours on your tractor with the effluent tank in tow.let gravity do its thing and return in time to start milking...but I guess at least its not a cow hide on the fence.

Camera - must be skinning at home and coming back with the skins, perhaps going past on the way to work

the same sort of people that think its ok to cross private land without permission to get a wild animal

Reminds me of issues my father-in-law had many years ago.
He brought a rough block at the end of a dead-end road which gave access to the harbour and many people used this access point to get flounder.
He had no issue with people crossing his farm but expected if he was there, they had the decency to ask.
He had a few issues as he developed the place but nothing too serious until he built and new cowshed and barn. People believed the content of his fuel tanks was theirs and that used the hay barn for parties, almost burning it down. They then cut fences so that they could drive down to the shore.
After he build the house and lived on the farm, he had a few issued but most were sorted out without any incidents, however he had 2 guys who he trespassed as they were semi commercial as he caught them with 15 dozen flounder, and they almost end up in a fist fight.
These guys continued to sneak onto the farm and again cut the fences to get down to the large haul of flounder they had caught.
He started to wait out for these guys and after a few long nights when the tide was right, they visited again.
They parked their car on the side of the hill and headed off, he got the tractor and used the front-end loader to roll the car down off the side of the hill, parked the tractor and went home.
3 in the morning there was knock on the door and the 2 guys were there, as you can imagine there was a bit of discussion, with the father-in-law telling them to fu*k off and refused to let them use the phone as he was the only house on the road. It was a 5 mile walk to the main road for them to hitch hike home
The dragged the car up the next morning and left it on the road side.
After this they got the message.

These guys here were having a good look for one.