Thread: NZDA requires FAL number

Originally Posted by grandpamac

Greetings All,
IT IS ILLEGAL. Comprehension does not seem to be strong today. As I stated in an earlier post Your permit allows you to enter with a rifle, hunt and kill game with some exceptions. It does allow you to sight in a rifle. The Range Manual give the conditions for casual sighting in not on a range first of which is the permission of the landowner for the activity which a hunting permit does not provide.
Please read this carefully and regards GPM.

Former DOC conservator, Canty attended our NZDA branch meeting and advised it is illegal to be using public land with a Doc Permit, for purposes of sighting in a rifle. Of course in the process of hunting that you dropped the rifle and needed to check its sighting, it would not be a big deal, but turning up on public land with a bunch of targets, and ammo specifically to use it as a range would be considered illegal and he said they would prosecute. This was in response to all the muppets banging away at targets behing lake lyndon.