Thread: Venison meat hunting in NZ in the past

Originally Posted by XR500

This thread is why I have dragged out my copy of 'The Venison Hunters' and am re re rereading it. An awesome commentary on an awesome part of our rural history.

Haha me too , actually nearly finished it , it’s probably the best book on that era with the details as he was there doing it , I really like the way Mike Bennet has written that book as well

spotlighting FROM helicopters was common place around lewis pass area too Im told ,and the main highway wasnt immune to being done from the air either.

Fitted a number of light kits to 500’s. As things got harder in the eighties, operators were constantly looking for an edge and the law enforcement style lights fitted underneath the machine and remote operated from the cyclic were the ducks nuts.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

spotlighting FROM helicopters was common place around lewis pass area too Im told ,and the main highway wasnt immune to being done from the air either.

The main culprit was a dude called Noel Boyd. The chopper boys would do an evening run and pack a hand held spottie to pick up any stragglers on the way home.

you can only imagine the carnage/slaughter that would occur now with thermals added to that mix,....