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    Pirongia Forest Park

    Whenever I'm scooting around the web looking for likely spots, my eye always comes to rest on Pirongia...

    Has anyone hunted there much? Worth a wander?

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    Contact DoC Waikato.

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    Used to have lots of goats around a few years back, might have been culled now

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    Get's more than it's share of 1080 these days.

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    Pretty sure there was a thread similar on here a while ago and apparently not much around.

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    Hi davetapson,

    This thread from last year might help.
    https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co....st-park-58951/

    I might add that I've heard there's a few deer on the Kawhia / Aotea side but I don't have any proof of that, and that's probably around the farm edges if so. I have spent around 700+ hours working in there though, between Kaniwhaniwha, Bell Track, and everywhere south /south east and I've only ever seen 1 red deer (with the exception of the released deer mentioned in previous thread). There are goats, seem to be a few coming back, I shot a half dozen a couple of months ago while doing some work around the plateau area off Bell Track.

    Joel

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    Quote Originally Posted by joelhenton View Post
    Hi davetapson,

    This thread from last year might help.
    https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co....st-park-58951/

    I might add that I've heard there's a few deer on the Kawhia / Aotea side but I don't have any proof of that, and that's probably around the farm edges if so. I have spent around 700+ hours working in there though, between Kaniwhaniwha, Bell Track, and everywhere south /south east and I've only ever seen 1 red deer (with the exception of the released deer mentioned in previous thread). There are goats, seem to be a few coming back, I shot a half dozen a couple of months ago while doing some work around the plateau area off Bell Track.

    Joel
    Thanks Joel.

    There is a current alert that DOC are culling goats, so the few that are coming back probably won't be for long.

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    Yeah pretty sure it’s been bombed with 1080 recently.

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    I live on the edges of it - can confirm that it was poisoned with 1080 recently. There were a lot of goats there last year, however between poison and cull probably not that many.
    Any deer that might be around are supposedly over the Kawhia side, I think a few escaped end of last year from a farm on the Te Pahu side but not sure how many.
    Have spent some time in there on this side (TePahu side - never seen any deer sign, some pig sign about)

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    Goats don't actually eat poison pellets, so it's left up to hunters to control goat numbers.
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