Thread: Soon there will be nothing to hunt....sell ya rifles

The animal health board recently did a couple of drops down here in southland surprisingly they used deer repellent so I went for a wonder at 1 area didn't find any dead deer and plenty if sign about I asked the health board bloke if they had any reports of dead deer he said they had 1 reported out in a paddock but it turned out to have a bullet in its side...he made the hunting prospects sound pretty promising.
Makes you wonder how bad the 1080 really is Iv heard of fallow deer taking big hits .

Boaraxa mate thats good that it didn't bowl over many there all I can think of is the deer are pretty hungry here with the beech forests being fairly lean, I have noticed that there is a lot of new broadleaf etc on the Forrest floor and the animals I do see/shoot are well fed. With what I've experienced it seems to thin the numbers of animals( like you said the fallow get hammered) but hey that only helps to make me a better hunter right? That's a sweet animal in your avatar was that from down there? Cheers Blair