Thread: small game permits being made available for DOC land

Stumbled upon this while browsing through the DOC website that you can now get permits for hunting small game on DOC land. Would be interesting to find out what areas they are allowing permits to be issued.

Small game hunting permit: Permits and licences

These have been available for quite a long time from the DOC offices. I've been getting them for the past couple of years for the Otago region.

They used to be called rimfire permits, but seem to have been revamped and renamed.

I enquired...theyre only for certain areas around the country

Ive tried to get one for Auckland or waikato areas, unfortunatley according to DOC they have no suitable areas for small game hunting within either Auckland or Waikato. Peeves me off somewhat you would think they would encourage someone out there busting bunnies and also would be Ideal for taking out our younger hunters for some practice with cheap ammo. So my search for a spot for nailing the little furry critters continues.....

Just got off the phone with Welly area office.

Sounds like none available for pretty much the whole lower NI. He reckons only really applies to Otago rabbits.

Originally Posted by ebf

Just got off the phone with Welly area office.

Sounds like none available for pretty much the whole lower NI. He reckons only really applies to Otago rabbits.

bummer......a day's bunny bashing with a 22LR would be neat...

lots of farms around, just ask

or use a 223 on doc land...

Originally Posted by Garry W

Ive tried to get one for Auckland or waikato areas, unfortunatley according to DOC they have no suitable areas for small game hunting within either Auckland or Waikato. Peeves me off somewhat you would think they would encourage someone out there busting bunnies and also would be Ideal for taking out our younger hunters for some practice with cheap ammo. So my search for a spot for nailing the little furry critters continues.....

Thanks for heads up on that one Garry, supposed there had to be a down side to living in Auckland :/
Back to ball greasing friends for farmland.

Originally Posted by Tussock

The hare numbers in the Southern Alps are ridiculous. Anyone who has had anything to do with planting trees know they are devastating. They will just go along and take the tip out of every seedling.

And that is THE BEST THING that could happen to those pines up higher. They will end up costing more than the gorse in a very few years.

Like the wild pine destruction?

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[QUOTE=ebf;101261]lots of farms around, just ask

Need a couple of properties have cleaned out the rabbit population on the 2 I was doing .
Do gets bored with it when nothing to retrieve,time to do some door knocking I guess.