Thread: World Record Red Deer!!!!......according to an American

Originally Posted by ebf

Welcome to the forum BL.

Are you sure you are talking about the right island ? Maybe you are confusing it with West Island (aka Australia) ? If you look carefully at a map of the upper part of the south island of New Zealand, you will notice that the sea is never more than a maximum of 100km from any point...

"True free range" for most of us on here means public land - NO fences...

Having hunted Australia as well, I'm pretty sure I was hunting NZ. The plane did land in Christchurch and we drove north, but there are no land bridges from NZ to Aussie that I'm aware of? If you call that much acreage of cattle and sheep stations "high fence" then it might be you're a bit vertically challenged? Just because it's on private land, does not mean it is not "free range". By definition, free range animals can be taken on public or private land. The bottom line is that those red deer where I hunted can leave the station any time they want. They are not "fenced in". That is the definition of high fenced hunting - if the animal can leave the property on its own, it is "free range". Any fences on that place for the cattle and sheep can definitely be cleared by a red deer. You may have personal opinions to the contrary, and I will respect that, but for the books and professionally this defines free range vs. high fence.

Now, let's all be friends and play nice. I hope some of you are Barnes fans???