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Argh munged up my links. Here you go

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stopping-the-latest-outbreak-threat-chronic-wasting-disease/
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reckon you have it backwards. I know a fair number of conservationists and they all want dead deer. They like hunting and hunters. Some even hunt themselves both for meat and happy bush.

Anyway,...

With wheels or not? I shoot between 50-70lb longbows and recurves, but wouldn't recommend starting so heavy. Best to start at 30lb or so. All about the holding weight. If you're talking wheel bows,...

Finally caved and got the Crispi Valdres. Thanks for the Crispi recomendations. Seems great so far, well thought out boot, but only taken on short walk on track so can't say yet. Hard in the heel but...

Thanks a lot for the reco's all. I'm going through these awesome options. Should've known to ask hard yakka types here before trusting posh foreign websites and Amazon reviews.

Looking into them, thanks! See I can get them at Dwights.

After burning through an old set of boots over 10 years, no longer made, I went and read a ton of reviews. I ended up with the "best" and "most rugged" hard hiking boots, rated across a lot of...

I'd get a Black Hunter from Stick Shooter Supplies or on TradeMe. Cannot go wrong with these bows, tried and true in our rugged country. I know because I've gone on some insane grunts with my hunting...

Bareshaft tune with field points so that your bareshafts group with fletched out to your effective range. If they do, broadheads (fletched) will almost certainly shoot very nicely, grouping with...

Sika are not large. Even as low as 400 grain would do, 40lbs+ if trad kit. The most important thing above basic momentum is a great tune. A well tuned sufficiently heavy arrow from a 40lb recurve is...

For those of us shooting trad kit (my goto is currently a 56lb recurve) we can have really quick shot cycles but less effective range than the wheel bows. This can make it harder. But you can slow...

Been there. I was waiting in a blind overlooking a trail my hunting buddy and I had made. I was well concealed, just eyes peaking out from a face covering. Wind was good, arrow nocked on my recurve....

Sucks, but makes sense.

Can't help you with 3-blades, don't use them. Only 2 blade and preferably solid.

For my BH's with the spring steel, like the Tuskers, I use a steel file, quick run on a stone and strop. For all...

Thanks a lot for all the comments. A lot of good suggestions. The bow-fishing reel and rig is something we thought of in fact, and still has me thinking. But big long arrows, tiny possum up a tree......

Looking for any feedback as to bolt and point selection for hitting possums with a 90-150lb recurve crossbow. Yes, a .22 is better, did that heaps when younger, but the quiet and advantages of a...

Problem with the wheel bows is they get bashed around too much in the bush. Always have to go back to the bow press to get them sorted out. Alignment out and you're screwed. All the parts too, wear...

My pleasure. You might as well also bookmark https://archerydirect.co.nz. For anything fancy you can't get locally, you can have it shipped in from Oz at https://abbeyarchery.com.au

I reckon get the MK I Black Hunter. Mandarin Duck are only selling the MK II now, which has the square limb butts. The MK II is a good riser, but I did see 2 reports of riser failure. Two is nothing...

I have a lot of Hybrids:

30lb Bodnik Slick Stick for training
50lb Bodnik Slick Stick
55lb Black Hunter (57lb on the fingers, hunting with this but for boar not deer)
2x 60lb Black Hunter (63lb...

Nice taste on the bows. Super Kodiak everyone knows is a classic, but tbh the Black Hunter is a phenomenal bow, even at 4x the price. A bloody talented bowyer came up with that design. I have 3, but...

Keen to give apples a try. They may indeed like it from the get-go. What I've found reading around though is that what works on deer in some locations doesn't in others. In some states in the US,...

Cites that 10-50% of animals shot abroad had traces of lead in it, encourages going with lead free ammo
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Just want to confirm that red and fallow deer don't seem to give a toss about turnips, at least this time of year. Juicy, huge heads of leaf, and they still just ignore them. This is observed on...

Good info. News to me 1080's being used for deer. They are high doses. Got a current link for that DoC proposal?

Sucks to resort to poison but if it means saving that bush and all that've called...