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Thread: Illegal hunting..does it bother you?

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    Thanks otaku.

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    I think most of us break the law / rules on DOC by hunting past the half hour after sunset. It is hard not to if sitting watching a face and there is still shooting light so we have to be careful about being too righteous.

    I hate seeing shot up road signs and property like the farm water tank I saw on Sunday. I fully support better screening during licencing to detect dick heads. I can only hope that road signs are shot by unlicenced people with illegal firearms

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    I think that the relatively higher animal numbers these days has brought out a lot of people looking for an easy animal who wouldn’t bother if the hunting was harder.

    I was in my late teens to early twenties in the first half of the 1980’s when deer were recovering from the golden years of helicopter hunting. You would consider yourself lucky to see a deer, and shooting one was like winning lotto. The guys you ran into in those days were hard core hunters, not the opportunists you run into nowadays.

    In my experience, generally the best spots to hunt now are those that some effort is required to get into. If you can ride your motorbike there, or better still drive your 4WD, then there is likely to have been some opportunist in there.

    One spot my son and I hunt takes us 9-10 hours for the round trip, walking to the spot, a couple of hours hunting and then the walk out. You don’t get too many spot lighters or guys using thermals in a spot like that. I have seen another guy from this forum in there, but he is a true hunter, and not bothered by going home empty handed.

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    Note to self. Must read permit more carefully. Not that I have a thermal or want one anyway.
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    Yeah illegal hunting bothers me. When I'm in a private block, take an aimed shot at an animal and hear some poaching cunt yell out in panic from near by, that bothers me. Probably not as much as it bothered him going in front of the judge tho...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Allizdog View Post
    Note to self. Must read permit more carefully. Not that I have a thermal anyway.
    Yep same boat as me then


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    Quote Originally Posted by HOO View Post
    I see. Seems reasonable. Are they ineffective during daylight?


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    Very effective, I would say more than 50% of deer in the UK are shot after being spotted via thermal in daylight hours.

    Not long before the Scottish Government approves night shooting with thermal scopes under license.

    If Red deer were not a native species here the government would have already gone down the 1080 and heli gunner route.

    They want densities of 2-3 deer per square KM and no more, even if a grid square is in the middle of a lake!

    No public hunting allowed on National Nature Reserves etc... all contacted out.

    Madness!

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    Quote Originally Posted by mimms2 View Post
    That's your story and you're sticking to it, huh...
    Y'know... if they're dead there's only your side of the story...
    Well luckily this guy had the opportunity to present his evidence in court and be found guilty as a repeat offender. So yeah, I'll stick to my story with my witness, my permit and my evidence that got him prosecuted.

    Dick comment mate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by oraki View Post
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    I would say nope
    Pretty sure that a forum member who has a vested interest i Thermal gear ,managed to get DOC to agree to day time use
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    It used to be perfectly legal to use thermal on doc mismanaged land just not during the hours of darkness......where was the buyback on that? ������
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    "Hunting and fishing" fucking over licenced firearms owners since ages ago.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mimms2 View Post
    Take it as you will.
    I dont set out to piss anyone off, but my sense of humor might not translate too well on the interwebs.
    Fair enough, I read it that you were insinuating I might have taken a shot at the guy. Didn't see the funny side of that having been someone to tell a young lady her boyfriend had been shot and killed out hunting a few years back.

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    Do the people dissing thermals use dogs? If you want to go down the purist route .......
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pengy View Post
    Pretty sure that a forum member who has a vested interest i Thermal gear ,managed to get DOC to agree to day time use
    Just renewed my permit and read the conditions....quite clearly prohibited.
    "Hunting and fishing" fucking over licenced firearms owners since ages ago.

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    Yep, I just re read the conditions on mine too.
    Mr Pulsar was very vocal on here saying that DOC had agreed to daylight use of
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    Wonder how many thousands of dollars he got from sales after that
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