Thread: DOC land - The real Hunters bragging rights?

I don't know what makes a "true hunter" and not really interested either, but the OP makes a valid point. There is a gap between how hunting is portrayed on social media which is often relatively long range shooting on open farmland and bashing through the bush on DOC land. It can be disheartening for the beginner without access to the former.

For my own part, it takes me a day of travel by road to get anywhere near a good hunting area, then there's the walk in and out. I just don't have time to spend 3 days getting into a position where I might get a chance at an animal, so it's going to be a helicopter ride or paid access to private land a couple of times a year for me. That plus chasing goats around Northland bush (DOC) is just about enough. More would be good, but that's not the reality at the moment.

EDIT: I should add that we are fortunate in global terms. There's not many places in the world that you can go for a hunt on public land.