Thread: West Coast Thar Ballot.

Dave, while I hold with your opinion on the guided hunts in the ballot area, I do wonder how objecting to international hunters taking a punt in our ballot blocks is any different to the attitude of certain locals in Whirinaki ...

http://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co.n...s-mates-12404/

Surely we're not that hypocritical?

Originally Posted by ishoot10s

Dave, while I hold with your opinion on the guided hunts in the ballot area, I do wonder how objecting to international hunters taking a punt in our ballot blocks is any different to the attitude of certain locals in Whirinaki ...

http://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co.n...s-mates-12404/

Surely we're not that hypocritical?

FFS. I have nothing against anyone hunting anywhere.
I do have an issue with a ballot for an area I live and play being flooded with overseas applications and preventing Kiwi hunters a fair whack at hunting their back yard. It is literally flooded with Australian applicants.
I haven't painted any signs.
Maybe if a few more people had their favourite hunting areas balloted and missed out to overseas hunters all the time they would view it differently.

Try and hunt in Canada or the Us as a foreigner. They have it right.

We do it all wrong in NZ. We literally give away access and rights to our animals in NZ when we can't really afford to. Our guiding fraternity is allowed to undercut each other killing any value in the industry. We are simply to cheap compared to the rest of the world.
If the Aussies had a ballot system I bet ya a thousand they would not allow applications from overseas.
Especially from Kiwis.



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Originally Posted by R93

If the Aussies had a ballot system I bet ya a thousand they would not allow applications from overseas.
Especially from Kiwis.

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+1, look how many years it took to get our apples sold over there! It's not too much to ask that we get first crack at hunting "our" land.