Thread: Tahr cull doc betrayal

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

yes its sustainable but if we are currently shooting MORE THAN 2000 then a lot of guys who currently shoot wont have anything to shoot,or if we continue to shoot at current levels we will more than half population in one year..... that the issue NO ONE HAS A CLUE HOW MANY ARE BEING SHOT...we dont have kill returns on permits because people dont trust doc enough to fill them in...eg back when we had them a nice man from doc came to a deerstalkers meeting in Timaru...I looked at the kill return figures for my local block for previous year and I personally had shot 3/4 of the deer and ALL the chammy for that year....yeah right...pointed that fact out and next year no more kill returns on permits,its now electronic so no effort made at all to gather info.

I agree with what your saying, who knows where they get the numbers from, educated idiots making un educated decisions

I havnt really been hard into tahr hunting for the last 3 years but the numbers I was seeing back then were big, and that last 2 trips I've done in the last 2 years seen big numbers also. I don't have a problem with the numbers being thinned out, I don't even have a problem with the bulls being shot to be honest, when you see a mob of 12 bulls in the rutt you know something isn't right.
Thin the lot out to 10,000 providing there numbers are right.
It will be far from th end of tahr hunting, instead of seeing over 100 for a week we will be seeing 20 or 30, still plenty


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