Just found put about this yesterday from a mate.
Neat Idea, so who's keen on a goat hunt [emoji106]
Competition runs from Aug 1st until Nov 26th.
https://www.doc.govt.nz/wild-goat-hu...on#nzda-branch
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Just found put about this yesterday from a mate.
Neat Idea, so who's keen on a goat hunt [emoji106]
Competition runs from Aug 1st until Nov 26th.
https://www.doc.govt.nz/wild-goat-hu...on#nzda-branch
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they are very thin on the ground in south canterbury LOL
Plenty in the Wairarapa bush. Problem is in some places the cunning sods hang out close to the DOC tracks. Wish I had a .223 though, feeding the 6.5CM quality rounds is expensive
Identify your target beyond all doubt because you never miss (right?) and I'll be missed.
plenty around Taranaki DOC blocks - but pays to know which ones receive regular culling efforts - some have no culling and numbers are up in those blocks
@Micky Duck Tell me about it, I haven't shot a goat in years. Few on the side of the road around cave but thats all ive see for a while.
I wonder if we might be allowed to offer up thar/chammy tails....oh and wallaby ones too. and while we are at it,how about paying a token bounty fee of say $5 per tail.....
Shoot a goat 1-200m across a gully, fight your way across through gorse to recover the tail for a chance at a prize.
I have better things to do I'm afraid.
Good luck though, to those that compete.
Planning on giving it a cack.
Might try and find a few myself to get an entry in. Last goat I shot was with a bow a couple of years ago.
Yip i here you I shot 13 and only managed 6 tails some were too far or in a shit place to get.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gamehunter
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Still 13 less goats than there was before you went out [emoji106]Quote:
Originally Posted by 25/08 IMP
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@kukuwai
I am keen on a goat hunt, but not just right now as my wife has a back injury and needs some tlc.
if you are still keen maybe next month?, I am all for it! :)
10 4. Flick me a PM in a month or so when you can [emoji106]
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Most definitely!
I would be keen if anyone up here wants a companion. Weekdays only though as I work Friday to Sunday each week.
After seeing what the bsatdrs have done to my shrubs in the last week while I have been at work, I welcome some help to cull them :oh noes:
Bugga @Pengy you live in the wrong area, or maybe I do?
Let me know when your around @Pengy, I don't work Monday to Thursday.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pengy
you might need to leave out some molasis coated rhody prunings for them to nibble on instead......Quote:
Originally Posted by Pengy
It doesn't look like there is anywhere in the Hawkes Bay to check in, unless am I missing something?
Such a great competition! I’m planning a mission to specifically target some goats. Might have to borrow my old .223 off my son. :-)
Grab one of your dads.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by craigc
About 1968 I took a big plastic bag of stinking goat tails into Dept. of Internal Affairs in Auckland city. "PHEW how many tails in there sonny?" I said nearly 200. "Hell I'm not counting them" He said and gave me 200 rounds of .303.
As I'd shot most of them with a .22, man I was on a win.
Could be one of the reasons I don't here sika squeal too good.
now.
Plenty of goats around Marlborough, doing a NZDA cull this weekend.
This isn't the first DOC Goat hunting comp.In the 90's the O/ C of Rimutaka State Forest Park in cohoots with Swazi's Davie Hughes put together 'The Great Wild Goat Hunt' run out of Wainuiomata but open to all in the lower Nth Is with a long duration of 6 odd months.Fantastic prizes particular if you snagged 'the tagged and released'feral goat bulldogged out of a machine.So every joker is out there snotting goats,trying to nail the one with the ear tag to snapture the No.1 generous prize, might have been a quad bike?.Every man & his dog was listening out on the grape vine during those 6 months if the big one had been claimed.Heres the rub.Ol mate cunningly forgot to mention the "tag" was in fact a micro chip inserted in the ear ,and you most probably wouldn't detect it while participating in the Great Goat Hunt.Cunning as a shit house rat,so of course the top prize was never claimed.Chances are that tagged animal did get boofed,and an even higher probability that one of us goat cullers operating in that area would have been responsible.The only way to confirm that you had shot the tagged goat would have been to bring the head with ears attached in to pass it across the reader! This fact was never mentioned from the outset.What a scam! Hope this latest DOC comp is more up front
Cool, where is the cull happening @tikka ?Quote:
Originally Posted by tikka
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South Marlborough Awatere Valley, just waiting for a mate now and we’re off.
Keen as mustard, just need to buy myself a bigger rifle and I'm away
Had a good couple of days on goats. Friday did a 5km bush hunt and got 18 goats. Took the Spaniel bitch for a walk yesterday up a local creek bed in replant forest and bit of doc. 12.3 km walk, bitch did 24km according to gps tracker. Kept coming across groups of 2-5 and one mob of 20+. Ended up with 40 down with 6 missed shots and two that needed 2 shots. Ran out of ammo but was a good day out. Tail tally of to a good start. Both taking it easy today tho.
Primo well done woods223 [emoji106]
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I wonder if DOC will do something similar with deer as a way to lower the numbers in areas where the population is excessive?
well letting people know WHERE they are excessive and most importantly ENSURING UNFETTERED ACCESS to said areas would help a great deal with that.
Call me cynical but it’s probably easier for them to do a possum control operation without deer repellent and go oops we didn’t expect the by-kill.Goats don’t seem to be so susceptible to 1080. Or do an aerial control operation with chopper/thermal gear and ground based follow up with an outfit like Trap and Trigger as they’ve done in Marlborough Sounds.Quote:
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don't give them ideasQuote:
Originally Posted by woods223
Should hand in deer tails in exchange for stamps/tokens.
Cash the tokens in for helo flight hours to get into better country.