Thread: Shooting to waste

Originally Posted by Flyblown

When venison prices are so low, the cash & effort invested to recover animals is low.

Recovery of venison from ground based night shooting on anything other than flat paddock country is a total nightmare.

The only economic way to to this is helicopter shooting, and that’s a tough ask in this low venison price cycle.

We couldn’t even get a pet food venison contract over the line recently. Costs too high, revenues too low. Simple economics.

The good work you are doing with your pest control is obviously in the same vein as this, but at least you spoke about harvesting prime cuts. It seems a shame that there is not some way that either private hunters can utilise this pest population (which is within an hours drive of a population of 150,000 people including some enthusiastic hunters), or that there could be some mechanism for distributing meat like the great stuff @Tahr does.