Thread: Pureora 1080d yet ?

Originally Posted by No.3

You'd think that the date being pushed back so far would be counter-productive for their aims at supporting the reduction of deer numbers - it will stuff up the 'roar' hunt in terms of hunters willing to go in. The numbers of parties getting dropped in by air taxi will be down I'd think so those outfits will be pissed off too. My understanding is the initial whack to deer numbers is in the first month, then the baits are no longer palatable for deer and with the higher than usual numbers everywhere around that area the migration back in will probably make good any losses in the first few months. Followed by a roar period without the usual hunting pressure - things will be good for the deer I would think and not so for the forest???

i dont think DOC has any regard for hunters feelings ..... from memory the last time they did a drop like this in spring was around 10 years ago so long overdue in their eyes i was in there a week after the drop green shit everywhere . the birdlife had either gone or died or just shut the fuck up saw more deer in that weekend than on any other time down there. and saw plenty of rats .... we treated the weekend as a training weekend (only shoot a deer if it looked sick and give the healthy ones a crack at surviving) a DOC ranger(a few fingers short of the handfull ) was still harvesting deer for himself during the "do not harvest" period afterwards ......do as i say not as i do....
anyhoo point is it can still be a good time to be in there , whether you harvest or not (probably just dont take a dog )