Thread: Going for a walk

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

close but WRONG....

No firearm shall be discharged:
In the vicinity of huts, tracks, campsites, road-ends or other public places.
Within 500 m of a Great Walk Hut or track. See Great Walks.

the track mentioned is not a great walk..like milford track etc
which begs the question how does a person now hunt the greenstone/caples???? 500meters from the walkway is a 1km wide strip...

One stupid question, please ignore my ignorance. So no firearm but can one shoot with a bow?

Originally Posted by Inder

One stupid question, please ignore my ignorance. So no firearm but can one shoot with a bow?

Asking the real questions Based on how it's written and also how the law is generally enforced here, my guess is that you're fine legally to discharge a bow wherever hunting is allowed, but if someone got a bug up their butt over it, they would find something else to charge you with and make the legal fight the actual punishment.

The only way it would be enforceable would be if there's some bizarre legal precedent or definition that makes a bow a firearm under certain conditions, but I don't know of it.