Thread: Question - Shooting on Canterbury Rivers

Agree you can't go passed asking the local/neighbouring landowner. You may even get the nod to go for a shoot if you're not a knuckle dragger...

That said, if you want to try and identify public land, go to wams.org.nz

If the river bed shows up as a colour, it's generally public land: pink/light blue = esplanade reserve (sort of like Queens chain); dark green and light green are public reserves or DOC land.

If you locate these coloured areas, and they're overlapping where you hope to hunt, right click your mouse over the area and a pop up box should appear with land title info. It will say if it's administered by DOC or your local council etc - and that should give you a steer on who to contact and ask about hunting permission.

Hope that sort of makes sense... and helps.

Good luck.