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    Helicopter dropping dead deer into forest.

    We're about a month after the 1080 drop. Just witnessed a helicopter picking up 3 dead deer from a neighbours farm about a km down hill from here and just "dropping" them into the Herbert forest close by. Seams sus.


    Is this the standard operating procedure?

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    Like you said. Very suspect.
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    Contact whoever did the drop (DOC or AHB) and ask them. That way you might get to the truth.

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    Was watching with a pair of 8x32s, probably about 1km away.

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    13:00 got back from checking the fencelines for lunch and spotted the chopper veering around our place.

    It then lands and a guy wearing blaze orange hops out and is bending over picking up or putting down (?) stuff on the ground.

    Somebody (There was a motor bike and some others appeared) then hooks up a deer (possibly a calf but the legs were very thin, dark brown shoulders, lighter flanks and grey belly) on a long cable by the head and it flies over to the forest with the deer, decends and comes out with no swinger.

    Does another pick up but it looked like the next one fell off too soon. Chopper picks it up and drops off in what appeared to be a slightly different location.

    Then another deer is done.

    Guess it's possible there was a vehicle picking them up in the forest but you would wonder why they wouldn't fly to a more open drop off zone. I've shot a few pigs around the place so would sure think twice about eating them.

    I'll check with the neighbours next time I see them but was interested to know if poisoned animals around the country, that died outside of the forest, is normally disposed of by just dropping them back inside the zone.
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    I can see a series of conspiracy theories coming on

    bloody shit phone
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neckshot View Post
    I can see a series of conspiracy theories coming on

    bloody shit phone
    I reckon it's the man on the grassy knoll.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neckshot View Post
    I can see a series of conspiracy theories coming on

    bloody shit phone
    Didn't see any chemtrails coming out of the chooper.
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    Conspiracy theory 101 : Answer every question with "That's what they want you to think......"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rushy View Post
    I reckon it's the man on the grassy knoll.
    Wasn't me but a friend has a Carcano I might be able to borrow.
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    It was three assassins from Marseilles hired by the mafia to do the hit. They're now hiding in the forest waiting for the chopper to pick them up.

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    Even if poisoned deer were on your farm doesn't it make more sense to drag it away on the four wheeler or truck than a helicopter $$$$$

    Most farms must still have offal pits?

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    Quote Originally Posted by 10-Ring View Post
    It was three assassins from Marseilles hired by the mafia to do the hit. They're now hiding in the forest waiting for the chopper to pick them up.
    Instead they were re supd poison deer from there targets and have unwitenly eaten it thinking it was from there employer's.........................game over!!

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    Good observation.
    As far as I am aware, the conditions of use for 1080 poison require all possible effort to be taken to remove and burn or bury animals poisoned by 1080. This will be specified by Medical Officer of health as well as the Regional Council that issued the permit. This is also a condition laid down by the manufacturer of the poison, ACP LTD, which is a government owned SOE, which remanufactures and distributes the poison for profit. If you want a hand to follow this up along official channels, please feel free to PM me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chupacabra View Post
    We're about a month after the 1080 drop. Just witnessed a helicopter picking up 3 dead deer from a neighbours farm about a km down hill from here and just "dropping" them into the Herbert forest close by. Seams sus.


    Is this the standard operating procedure?
    No, it is Not.

 

 

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