Thread: Shooting to waste

I heard the other day a Canterbury station put a chopper thru on S&D, 500 pigs and 268 deer, another station had 700 deer shot off it, all left to rot. Unfortunately recreational hunters aren’t going to smack that many even if they were allowed on.

Originally Posted by outdoorlad

I heard the other day a Canterbury station put a chopper thru on S&D, 500 pigs and 268 deer, another station had 700 deer shot off it, all left to rot. Unfortunately recreational hunters aren’t going to smack that many even if they were allowed on.

but thats the thing...IF they are let on,numbers dont get that big to begin with or build up that quickly again.....

said it before,the reason deer numbers got so big early on was they were in isolation,the back of big stations was a two day horse ride and wouldnt see person for months...now its hour on motorbike/quad/4wd and 5 mins in chopper...so they arent all hidden and breeding up overniight,the numbers have been slowly building up,if recreational hunters were given fair whack....those 20 deer breed 20 more so its not a huge number needed to be shot... those 700 deer make another 700 =1400 deer a LOT to be shot...its all about balance.....
let enough people in and instruct to shoot X amount and keep coming back or else access will not be granted Vs pay for chopper.....
I saw 17 deer and 12 pigs on station 2 years ago..shot one of each as allowed,havent been back yet as its a hassle to get access.

Originally Posted by outdoorlad

I heard the other day a Canterbury station put a chopper thru on S&D, 500 pigs and 268 deer, another station had 700 deer shot off it, all left to rot. Unfortunately recreational hunters aren’t going to smack that many even if they were allowed on.

Yeah culling jobs are getting more common even up here the neighbours had a chopper in and cleaned up a couple hundred.
I think before the finger gets pointed at farmers for not letting people we need to look at the forest parks the Ruahines are absolutely crawling with deer that are coming out onto the farms.
The recreational hunters simply arnt shooting enough animals.

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Im heading out to a spot in a couple of days where the farm manager told me 1000 deer were taken off a neigbouring block.