Thread: Bow Hunting permitting clarifications please.

Originally Posted by MarkN

A wee update, that should put to rest any fears, the board members have had, about me shooting on the side of roads etc.

In November I took advantage of the lack of tourists in our beautiful country and hired a camper-van for a three week trip around the South Island.

I took the bow.

First I may say, that I've yet to blood an arrow. Several times, by millimetres, I missed.

I loosed an arrow at two rabbits at Lake Pukaki car park at the south end, and missed, as I was aiming high and right by about 2 inches, because before I left Auckland, I was grouping low and left a little. I took a couple of target shots and discovered that I must have adjusted the sigts already, because I was spot on now, so I could aim spot on, from then on.

Later, two rabbits I missed were in the grass next to the Hampden campground just north of Moeraki. I'd lined up the shot at ~20 yds and was confident of success when a backpacker stomped along the gravel path behind me, spooking the rabbit just as I released. Twice!

I entertained thoughts of, foreign national with arrow wounds.

I saw plenty of opportunities to stop and ping, Turkeys, Hares, Rabbits a couple of feral Goats and even some wild/abandoned Chickens. But with a van full of millennials glued to their cellphones, I didn't actually get much time.

The only kill I think I got, was as follows: On the road to Jackson Bay, a place I like for it's remoteness, I saw and I think I got, a stoat, with the van, not the bow...

I was driving along and you know when you see something, on the road ahead and you can't quite make it out, but it appears to be moving, possibly a wounded bird flapping a wing?

And then just before you run it over, your mind gives you a clear snap shot, of what it is? I saw a stoat grappling with, what I can only describe as a 15 " or so, Eel, on the road. Pretty sure my left front wheel got them.

Did it taste good?