Thread: FWF Ban for Non Attendance

Anyone on social media see the Bloke that got banned for 4 years for pulling out of his ballot due to weather.
I figured it's an interesting one to discuss (and I mean discuss not through a shit fit when some of us inevitably disagree) on here.

Here's a copy paste of the post.

"Was lucky enough to draw a wapiti block for this year's bugle. A life long dream! Was absolute fizzing to get in there. Come our period, the weather forecast was next level terrible.

Long story short, BEST case scenario was going to cost us 2k each for 48 hours of hunting(not even consecutive hours) , WORSE case was going to be 4k.

As some of you could understand, it's very hard to justify that sort of money for so little hunting.

We pulled out as the forecast was that terrible you would be putting yourself at danger camping out in that sort of weather.

Roger Foote gave us a 4 year ban for this.

I told him what I thought of his desicion and he gave me a 10 year ban and hung up on me.

What I cant get my head round is why we get punished?

I would have thought putting yourself in danger is the last thing you want to be doing in fiordland. Duley wouldnt even go in those conditions. So we get punished for being sensible hunters.

Also if we don't go in, is that not better for the wapiti herd as that's less people hunting them?

Am I being unreasonable or is this the real life of a wapiti ballot. No excuses allowed to not go, even if it's for the safety of human lifes!

Very proud of what the Wapiti Foundation do and are a great example of Game management. Pretty disappointed to know they expect you to put yourself at danger or be prepared to get a ban."

I have mixed opinions on this as its clearly stated that if you pull out after the 20th of Feb you will face a ban and weather is an well known risk of any hunting ballot. But without knowing how the discussion went I think the 10 year ban seems quite harsh however if it was a heated argument I can see how it happened.

Whats everyone thoughts? Fair enough? Not fair?

I don't think they were saying that anyone had to go in to be honest more that they should be waiting for if the weather cleared like many other parties do.