Thread: Night shooting on private (rural) land: notifying District Police HQ

@Flyblown guess the Toby shoot is at your place next then
Can just see Rushy on the BBQ frying up lentils

Well then if they turn up for spot lighting on private land, you would think they could at least turn up when my Ute gets robbed.... An actual crime.

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

They already refer to suspects as clients.

And your SIR Marty!

Originally Posted by Flyblown

I’m the only shooter in our valley and if there are shots, the old neighbours will say “oh that’s him again” as they all know me, I have their permission, I always phone ahead and in the past they’ve only been too grateful for the removal of the rabbits, cats, hares, pigs, possums, peacocks, turkeys, the odd stray Kaimai deer, even some dumped milking goats once. (I mean, who the hell dumps their unwanted stock on someone else’s farm? Cock heads, that’s who.)

Problem now is that since we came back to the valley from Aus, a neighbouring farm has been subdivided, and now we have six new neighbours, half of whom are sensible, the half of whom are complete fuckwits. Hippy dippy alternative lifestyle vegan mofos. They’re as pakeha as the driven snow, some are even foreign, and yet they try to talk using Maori words and phrases with awful pronunciation, live in yurts, claim to own “their” valley, “their” mountain, wear pounamu bought at the airport and try and greet you with a hongi. They campaign against the wind farm, gold exploration, dairy, they hold mung bean festivals and dress like Jimi Hendrix’s curtains.

Ranting! Anyway, these lentil munching knobs are dead against our pest control efforts and we’ve had a couple of run ins about shooting rabbits and hares on neighbouring properties. Luckily our local police sergeant is a good bloke and one of his constables lives in the next valley over, so I’m well covered and the only time (that I know of) that there was a call to the local cop shop, the tofu princess was put firmly back in her place. And that was daytime shooting, I hardly ever spotlight. But it is infuriating that after so many years of sensible, seasonal pest control and a common understanding of what needs to be done to manage the land, these tie dye blow ins seem to think they have a Zen given right to try and stop anything and everything around them that doesn’t conform to their minority alternative views.

James Hetfield had it right in his interview with Rogan, about why he moved out of the Bay to Colorado.

Sorry @SiB, rant over.

Shit I’d be ringing the police and reporting druggies!

I took a black powder cannon up to Muriwai beach and told the cops I wanted to see how far the projectile would go (coke can full of concrete) they did the job number thing and no prob, i thought they would have told me to get stuffed as its a public road.

Originally Posted by Maca49

And your SIR Marty!

No "this way Sir" was when I came back into the country once. Ive got a bro in law who was high up in customs, he stitched me up years ago coming back from a sporting do in Australia. Pulled out of the group and escorted to a interview booth while the team looked on. Genuinely shitting myself till he walked in and said he just wanted to congratulate me on how well we had done. We still get on really well, and I dont think he knows the bout of the shits he had 6 months later after his birthday was not caused by bad shellfish.

Was it eye drops in his coffee

eye drops in the coffee: amateur !

years ago after I started in mining and was made aware of adult crackers, we blew a couple of trees over at the mates place but did do the right thing by informing the police of the occurrence. we were only 500m from the rural main drag.
Just as well, as while we loaded up the tree stump after the first failed attempt, my helpers were being very generous with the anfo when I wasn't looking.
What I thought to be a very surgical strike was a bit more spectacular. Shook the picture frames off houses 2k's away and was heard 10k away up the valley.
never heard boo from the coppers but.

Every year at Armistice Day they fire 4 or 5 black powder cannons. Would love to see them load them with a lump of concrete just to see how far over the Manukau they would get

Originally Posted by Sideshow

Was it eye drops in his coffee

No phenolphthalen in a serving of "special icecream"

FFS. The police do not oversee your life. You are doing nothing illegal.

Some of the situations I do goat control it's easier to ring cops and get a job order done before-hand.Saves being greeted by armed officers and/or armed offenders squad. No hassle and saves awkward conversations.

Originally Posted by TeRei

FFS. The police do not oversee your life. You are doing nothing illegal.

Very much this. I would much rather use a suppressor if I thought people would call the cops. Also unless you are shooting along the road edge how are they to get to you to even interrupt your shooting? Fairly certain they need probable cause to enter private property and a .22 or shotgun going off periodically on a rural property is hardly a valid reason.

In my opinion I’d rather enable the boys in blue, or more specifically police comms to be able to respond intelligently to those occasional calls they receive from so called concerned citizens

If Police Comms can respond to said citizen with “yes we are aware there are pest control activities on a property about 2km away from you” it allows them to ensure police resources remain focussed on dealing with the real bad-guys, and not waste time and resources on a legal and legitimate use of firearms!

I do not imply or state any need for permission or suchlike from the Police; this is simply good community-focussed communication, and a responsible attitude to firearms use.